Famous People with Name Inoue

Inoue Kaoru            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Inoue Kaoru: was a Japanese statesman and a member of the Meiji oligarchy that ruled Japan during the Meiji period (1868–1912).Born Yakichi (??) to a lower-ranked samurai family in Hagi, Choshu Domain (present day Yamaguchi Prefecture), Inoue attended the Meirinkan Domain school with his brother Ikutaro (???). He was a close boyhood friend of Ito Hirobumi who later became Japan's first prime minister, and he played an active part in the sonno joi movement. In 1858, he studied rangaku, artillery and swordsmanship in Edo.

Inoue Kowashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Inoue Kowashi: was a statesman in Meiji period Japan.Inoue was born into a samurai family in Higo Province (present-day Kumamoto Prefecture), as the third son of Karo Iida Gongobei. In 1866 Kowashi was adopted by Inoue Shigesaburo, another retainer of the Nagaoka daimyo. Known as a highly intelligent child, Inoue entered the domain's Confucian academy, eventually becoming one of the academy's resident students. He fought on the imperial side in the Boshin War to overthrow the Tokugawa bakufu.

Junichi Inoue            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Junichi Inoue: is a Japanese speed skater who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics and in the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Marina Inoue            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Marina Inoue: a female seiyu and singer. She is signed onto Sony Music Japan's Aniplex division. As for voice acting career, she's employed by Sigma Seven. She is 162 cm tall and has AB-type blood.Inoue made her debut as a voice actor and singer after she was chosen ou

Minako Inoue            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minako Inoue: a Ryukyuan J-pop singer from Okinawa, Japan, and the youngest original member of the group Super Monkey's. After the group disbanded, she joined the group MAX with other Super Monkey's members. She left the band in 2002 during her pregnancy and returned t

Kenkabo Inoue            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kenkabo Inoue: was the pen-name of a journalist and writer of senryu (short, humorous verse) in late Meiji, Taisho and early Showa period Japan. His real name was Inoue Koichi.In 1905, Kenkabo founded a poetry group called Ryusonji Senryu Kai, which brought out its own short-lived literary magazine called Senryu. After retiring from working as an employee of the Nihon Shimbun newspaper, Kenkabo continued to manage the senryu columns of the Kokumin Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun newspapers and later resurrected Senryu in 1912, renaming it Taisho Senryu, to mark the beginning of the new Taisho period.

Yasushi Inoue            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yasushi Inoue: was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels. He was originally from Asahikawa, Hokkaido.Inoue is famous for his serious historical fiction of ancient Japan and the Asian continent, including Wind and Waves, Tun-huang, and Confucius, but his work also included semi-autobiographical novels and short fiction of great humor, pathos, and wisdom like Shirobamba and Asunaro Monogatari, which depicted the setting of the author's own life--Japan of the early to mid twentieth century--in revealing perspective.