Japanese Famous Names Starting with Letter Y

A retired female butterfly swimmer from Japan, who competed for her native countryi at the 1992 Summ

A retired female butterfly swimmer from Japan, who competed for her native countryi at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Some of Yoko Kanno's most famous soundtrack themes include "Kiseki no Umi" (Lodoss War), "Voices" (M

Some of Yoko Kanno's most famous soundtrack themes include "Kiseki no Umi" (Lodoss War), "Voices" (Macross Plus), "Tank!" (Cowboy Bebop), "Yakusoku wa Iranai" (Escaflowne), "Gravity" (Wolf's Rain), "Inner Universe" (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Is a female Japanese former volleyball player who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Is a female Japanese former volleyball player who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics.

A retired female backstroke swimmer, who represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics

A retired female backstroke swimmer, who represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She is best known for winning the gold medal in the Women's 200m Backstroke event at the 1995 Summer Universiade in her hometown Fukuoka.

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 Shibuya, Tokyo and graduate of Seijo University, she worked at the public broadcaster NHK from 1972 to 1998. She was elected to the House of Councilors for the first time in 1998 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in April 2003.

A Japanese enka singer, former J-pop singer, and actress.Nagayama continued singing and performing t

A Japanese enka singer, former J-pop singer, and actress.Nagayama continued singing and performing through her junior high school years. Her plan was to become a professional enka singer after finishing junior high school. However, when she was sixteen, h

One of her television roles was Osono, a ninja in the jidaigeki series Yoshimune Hyobanki: Abarenbo

One of her television roles was Osono, a ninja in the jidaigeki series Yoshimune Hyobanki: Abarenbo Shogun. She was also a regular star in Abare Hasshu Goyo Tabi.

A Japanese actress. She graduated from St. Paul's University in Tokyo.

A Japanese actress. She graduated from St. Paul's University in Tokyo.

A Japanese writer.She was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and

A Japanese writer.She was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya with her husband and son. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Equation has been made into a movie. In 2006 she co-authored "An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics" with Masahiko Fujiwara, a mathematician, as a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers.

A singer, actress and seiyu born on 1968-12-10 in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.[1] Oginome spent

A singer, actress and seiyu born on 1968-12-10 in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.[1] Oginome spent most of her elementary and junior high years living in the town of Ranzan in Saitama Prefecture, though she attended school in the city of Sakura. She gra

Is a Japanese artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician,

Is a Japanese artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon.Yoko Ono's mother was Isoko Ono, of the Yasuda banking family, and her father was Eisuke Ono, who worked for the Yokohama Specie Bank. Two weeks before she was born, her father was transferred to San Francisco. The rest of the family followed soon after. In 1937, her father was transferred back to Japan and Ono was enrolled at Tokyo's Gakushuin University, the most exclusive school in Japan, open only to those descended from aristocrats (in the House of Peers) or the imperial family.

A Japanese video game composer and musician.While working for Capcom, she was a member of the compan

A Japanese video game composer and musician.While working for Capcom, she was a member of the company's in-house jazz band Alph Lyla, and composed the soundtrack of Street Fighter II.In 1993, Shimomura transferred to another game company, Squaresoft (now Square Enix). Her first project at the company was the score for the console role-playing game (RPG) Live A Live in 1994. Afterwards, she was paired with more experienced composers for a time. For example, she teamed with Noriko Matsueda on the strategy/RPG Front Mission in 1995, and in 1996, she composed and arranged the music in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, arranging music from Koji Kondo's Mario series music, and three tracks from Final Fantasy IV by Nobuo Uematsu.

Is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion.She was a member of the Japanese winning team a

Is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion.She was a member of the Japanese winning team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

A Japanese singer, perhaps best known for performing A Cruel Angel's Thesis (????????? ,Zankoku na T

A Japanese singer, perhaps best known for performing A Cruel Angel's Thesis (????????? ,Zankoku na Tenshi no Teze?), the opening theme song of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. She also performs the closing theme, an "acid bossa" version of "Fly M

A Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany.Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergr

A Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany.Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master's degree in contemporary German literature. She received her doctorate in German literature at the University of Zurich. In 1987 she published Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts—Anata no iru tokoro dake nani mo nai (A Void Only Where You Are), a collection of poems in a German and Japanese bilingual edition.

A Japanese recording artist. She has performed in the bands, Oranges & Lemons, Vita Nova, Marsh-Mall

A Japanese recording artist. She has performed in the bands, Oranges & Lemons, Vita Nova, Marsh-Mallow, and Zabadak. She is also a notable musical composer, having written music for several anime series, most prominent being .hack//Legend of the Twilight,

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 Fukuoka, Fukuoka and graduate of Soka Women's College, she was elected for the first time in 2004.

Was a Bakumatsu and early Meiji period scholar and political reformer in Japan, influential around t

Was a Bakumatsu and early Meiji period scholar and political reformer in Japan, influential around the fall of the Tokugawa bakufu. His real name was Yokoi Tokiari.Yokoi was a samurai born in Kumamoto, Higo Province (present-day Kumamoto Prefecture), and a distant descendant of Hojo Takatoki. He was sent by the domain to Edo in 1839 for studies, and developed contacts with pro-reform members of the Mito domain. After his return to Kumamoto, he started a group to promote the reform of domain administration along Neo-Confucianism lines, opening a domain school called Shonan-do.

Was a pioneering Japanese photographer, artist, lithographer and teacher.Early in his life, Yokoyama

Was a pioneering Japanese photographer, artist, lithographer and teacher.Early in his life, Yokoyama and his family moved to Hakodate, where in 1854 he was first exposed to photography on seeing daguerreotypes by Eliphalet Brown, Jr. and A. F. Mozhaiskii.

The eldest member of the Konami-produced J-Pop group BeForU. Komatsu was born in Tokyo, Japan on Dec

The eldest member of the Konami-produced J-Pop group BeForU. Komatsu was born in Tokyo, Japan on December 30, 1975. Komatsu has released four songs as a solo artist, Dance Dance Revolution's "Ever Snow", Eternal on the album BeForU II, Izayoi on BeForU III and on 6Notes she sang "????" [Furenzu/Friends].

Was an influential writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Jap

Was an influential writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He is also remembered as the father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi.From 1900 to 1904, Noguchi's primarily base was New York City. There, with the help of Leonie Gilmour, he completed work on his first novel, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl, and a sequel, The American Letters of a Japanese Parlor-Maid. He then sailed to England, where he self-published and promoted his third book of poetry, From the Eastern Sea, and formed connections with leading literary figures like William Michael Rossetti, Laurence Binyon,

A Japanese vocalist and actor currently part of the J-pop group Run&Gun. He was born in Osaka.He was

A Japanese vocalist and actor currently part of the J-pop group Run&Gun. He was born in Osaka.He was part of the cast of Musical Air Gear with his fellow band members. In the first musical he played the part of Team Bacchus' member Hamlet, but in the second installment he took over the role of Romeo from Ryuji Kamiyama after he had replaced Kenta Kamakari (who had fallen ill) as Ikki.He also starred in the movie 'The Kabocha Wine -Another-' and played a small supporting role in the Jdrama 'Yama Onna Kabe Onna'.

Was a Japanese photographer and editor.Natori studied at Keio normal school but upon graduation went

Was a Japanese photographer and editor.Natori studied at Keio normal school but upon graduation went with his mother to Munich, where he studied at a school of arts and crafts. He became interested in photography and in 1931 obtained a Leica, later that year getting a contract to work as a photographer for Ullstein, which in 1933 sent him to Manchuria to cover the Mukden Incident.

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 Kamoto District, Kumamoto and graduate of Keio University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000 after an unsuccessful run in 1998.

A Japanese politician. She was born in Tokyo. She holds a B.A. in international relations from the U

A Japanese politician. She was born in Tokyo. She holds a B.A. in international relations from the University of Tokyo, and a master's in economics from Yale University. She was the minister of the environment of Japan from 2000 until 2002 and the foreign minister of Japan from February 2002 until September 2004. She was reappointed to the post of foreign minister after a cabinet reshuffle in September 2003, but lost the post in the September 2004 cabinet reshuffle.