Famous People with Name Tetsuo

Tetsuo Shinohara            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tetsuo Shinohara: a Japanese film director.

Tetsuo Sakurai            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tetsuo Sakurai: a Japanese bassist. To date, he has released a total of 37 albums as a member of Casiopea and Jimsaku and solo artist, and has also made 3 bass instructional videos.In 1976, Sakurai, with Issei Noro, founded jazz fusion band Casiopea in 1976. He released 19 albums while in Casiopea but later left the band with Akira Jimbo in 1989 over musical differences. Both of them then went on to form a new jazz fusion supergroup, Jimsaku. Jimsaku was active for nine years, until 1998, when it was disbanded and both Sakurai and Jimbo went on to pursue individual solo careers.

Tetsuo Hamuro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tetsuo Hamuro: was a Japanese Olympic champion swimmer. During the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, he won the gold medal in the Men's 200m Breaststroke event, with an Olympic record of 2:41.5. In 1990, Hamuro was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

Tetsuo Kanno            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tetsuo Kanno: a Japanese politician of the Social Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).A native of Kesennuma, Miyagi and high school graduate, he joined Toshiba in 1968. After having served for four terms in the city assembly of Kesennuma since 1985, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives in February 2000. He ran again in June of the same year and was elected for the first time. Losing his seat in 2003, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Councilors in the Diet in 2004. He was re-elected to the House of Representatives in 2005.

Tetsuo Morimoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tetsuo Morimoto: a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Iinan, Shimane and graduate of Tsu City College, he worked at the government of the town of Iinan from 1968 to 1998. He was elected to the first of his two terms in the assembly of Mie Prefecture in 1999 and to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005.

Tochitsukasa Tetsuo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tochitsukasa Tetsuo: is a former sumo wrestler from Nakagawa, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. His highest rank was sekiwake. He is now the head coach of Irumagawa stable. He became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name Irumagawa Oyakata, and established Iruma