Japanese Famous Names Starting with Letter S

A Japanese football player. He is a central defender and plays for J. League side Kawasaki Frontale.

A Japanese football player. He is a central defender and plays for J. League side Kawasaki Frontale.He started playing football at the junior youth setup of Japan Soccer League side Nissan F.C. (current Yokohama F. Marinos). Then he played for and was educated at Kanagawa Prefectural Yokosuka High School and Tokai University. At the university, he contribute to the Japan team winning the 18th Universiade football competition held in Fukuoka in 1995. After the graduation, he nearly signed with Yokohama Marinos but the club pulled out when a problem was found in his neck at the medical check.

Is a Japanese footballer who plays for Ehime F.C..

Is a Japanese footballer who plays for Ehime F.C..

Is a Japanese footballer who plays for F.C. Tokyo. Gonda made his full international debut for Japan

Is a Japanese footballer who plays for F.C. Tokyo. Gonda made his full international debut for Japan on January 6, 2010 in a 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualifier against Yemen.

A Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (na

A Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Tanno, Hokkaido, he graduated from Kitami Institute of Technology and received a Ph.D from Hokkaido University. He was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1995 as a member of the New Frontier Party.

A third baseman for the Yokohama BayStars.Murata led the Central League in home runs in both 2007 an

A third baseman for the Yokohama BayStars.Murata led the Central League in home runs in both 2007 and 2008 and is one of the few pure home run hitters in Japanese professional baseball today. He played in the 2008 Beijing Olympics[1] as well as the 2009 World Baseball Classic[2] as a member of the Japanese national team and hit cleanup for much of the latter tournament.

A Japanese economist from Tsuruoka, Yamagata and a graduate of Tokyo Keizai University. He is a prof

A Japanese economist from Tsuruoka, Yamagata and a graduate of Tokyo Keizai University. He is a professor and lecturer at both Chiba Keizai University and Tokyo Keizai University. His specialities are economic policy and the history of economic thought.

A Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as

A Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Joetsu, Niigata he was elected for the first time in 2005.

A Japanese novelist.Shuichi Yoshida was born in Nagasaki, and studied Business Administration at Hos

A Japanese novelist.Shuichi Yoshida was born in Nagasaki, and studied Business Administration at Hosei University. He won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers in 1997 for his story "Saigo no Musuko", and the Akutagawa Prize in 2002 (the fifth time he'd been nominated for the prize) for "Park Life". In 2002 he also won the Yamamoto Prize for Parade, and for winning both literary and popular prizes Yoshida was seen as a crossover writer, like Amy Yamada or Masahiko Shimada. In 2003 he wrote lyrics for the song "Great Escape" on Tomoyasu Hotei's album, 'Doberman'. His 2007 novel, Akunin, won the Osaragi Jiro Prize and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award.

A Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in

A Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Oita, Oita and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of Oita Prefecture in 2003. In the same year, he ran for the House of Representatives as an independent and was elected for the first time.

Is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for All Japan Pro Wrestling. Prior to becomi

Is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for All Japan Pro Wrestling. Prior to becoming a pro wrestler, he played rugby. Kondo was part of the T2P class in Toryumon. At first he was a face in the Toryumon Seikegun. He would turn heel and jo

Was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, writer, director, and photographer. According to many c

Was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, writer, director, and photographer. According to many critics and supporters[1], he was one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan. He was born December 10, 1935, the only son of Hachiro and Hatsu Terayama in Hirosaki city in the northern Japanese prefecture of Aomori. His father died at the end of Pacific War in Indonesia in September 1945. At the age of nine, his mother moved to Kyushu to work at an American military base while he himself went to live with relatives in the city of Misawa, also in Aomori. At this same time, Terayama lived through the Aomori air raids that killed more than 30,000 people.

Is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Hisamitsu Springs.She came to Japan for the nursing of

Is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Hisamitsu Springs.She came to Japan for the nursing of her grandmother in 1996.

An anime director and animator.A member of the renowned studio Sunrise, he is noted for contributing

An anime director and animator.A member of the renowned studio Sunrise, he is noted for contributing the character designs and key animation to New Mobile Report Gundam Wing and Argento Soma. In 2000, he contributed the main character designs to Final Fantasy IX. He made his directorial debut in 2002 with Witch Hunter ROBIN.

Was a Japanese nationalist, Pan-Asian writer and Islamic scholar.Okawa was born in Sakata, Yamagata,

Was a Japanese nationalist, Pan-Asian writer and Islamic scholar.Okawa was born in Sakata, Yamagata, Japan in 1886. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1911, where he had studied Vedic literature and classical Indian philosophy. After graduation, Okawa worked for the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff doing translation work. He had a sound knowledge of German, French, English, Sanskrit and Pali. [1]

Is a Japanese football player currently playing for Kyoto Sanga F.C..

Is a Japanese football player currently playing for Kyoto Sanga F.C..

A Japanese professional football player currently playing for J1 team Shimizu S-Pulse. After working

A Japanese professional football player currently playing for J1 team Shimizu S-Pulse. After working his way through the S-Pulse youth system, he signed full professional terms in 2007.

A Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Central League.

A Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Central League.

A Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Yokohama BayStars in Japan's Central League.

A Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Yokohama BayStars in Japan's Central League.

A Japanese manga artist, novelist, essayist, actress, and singer.Her father left the family when she

A Japanese manga artist, novelist, essayist, actress, and singer.Her father left the family when she and her younger sister were in primary school. Her mother was a dance teacher and bar hostess, who soon began living with another dance instructor, and la

Was a Japanese baseball manager for the Chunichi Dragons.[1] He is a member of the Japanese Baseball

Was a Japanese baseball manager for the Chunichi Dragons.[1] He is a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.

Is a Japanese sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1960s. He was eliminted in the semifinals of the

Is a Japanese sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1960s. He was eliminted in the semifinals of the C-2 1000 m event at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

A Japanese musical artist and voice actor. He is noted for having performed several songs for the an

A Japanese musical artist and voice actor. He is noted for having performed several songs for the anime adaptation of D.N.Angel.Miyamoto started playing the piano at the age of four. Later, he enrolled to a vocal school around the same time he entered high school. He made his singing debut with the single "Byakuya ~True Light~", opening theme song for the anime D.N.Angel. His first mini-album, Anges (meaning "angels" in French) contains the songs that were used in said anime, namely "Guide or 'Roadsigns'" (English version of "Michishirube") and live versions of "Byakuya ~True Light~" and "Caged Bird".

A Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the

A Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Takeno, Hyogo and graduate of Nara University of Education, he was elected for the first time in 2004.

A Japanese film director and screenwriter.

A Japanese film director and screenwriter.

A Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives as a member of the Liberal Democratic

A Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Iwate Prefecture and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected for the first time in 1990.Suzuki served as Minister of the Environment from 2002 to 2003 under Junichiro Koizumi. He is the son of former Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki, and brother-in-law to current PM Taro Aso.