Famous People with Name Tanaka

Tanaka Hisashige            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tanaka Hisashige: was a Japanese engineer and inventor during the late Edo and Meiji period Japan. He is one of the founders of what later became Toshiba Corporation. He has been called the "Thomas Edison of Japan" or " Karakuri Giemon". [1]Tanaka was born in Kurume, Chikugo province (present day Fukuoka prefecture) as the eldest son of a tortoise shell craftsman. A gifted artisan, in his youth he studied the design and construction of karakuri dolls, mechanical automatons capable of relatively complex movements, which were then much in demand by the aristocrats of Kyoto, daimyo in various feudal domains, and by the Shogun’s court in Edo. At the age of twenty-one, he performing around the country at festivals with clockwork dolls he constructed himself.

Tanaka Giichi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tanaka Giichi: was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, politician, and the 26th Prime Minister of Japan from 20 April 1927 to 2 July 1929.Tanaka was born to a samurai family in Hagi, Nagato Province (modern day Yamaguchi Prefecture), Japan. He graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and the Army War College in 1892, and served in the First Sino-Japanese War, and later in the Russo-Japanese War, as aide to General Kodama Gentaro. In 1906, he helped draft a defense plan which was so highly regarded by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff that it was adopted by as basic policy until World War I.

Hiroshi Tanaka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hiroshi Tanaka: a Japanese figure skater who is now a coach. He competed in Ice Dancing with Aya Kawai and Kayo Shirahata. Tanaka and Kawai placed 23rd in the 1998 Winter Olympic Games. They were two-time Japanese national champions.

Tomoko Tanaka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tomoko Tanaka: a Japanese figure skater. She competed in ice dancing with Hiroyuki Suzuki. They placed 18th in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games. They are three-time Japanese National Champions.

Satoko Tanaka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Satoko Tanaka: a Japanese backstroke swimmer.

Kazunori Tanaka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazunori Tanaka: 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 Toyoura District, Yamaguchi and graduate of Hosei University he was elected for the first time in 1996 after serving in local assemblies.

Makiko Tanaka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Makiko Tanaka: a Japanese politician, the daughter of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.Tanaka attended high school at Germantown Friends School in the United States and graduated from Waseda University. She spent most of her early adulthood working with her father's political machine Etsuzankai organization, and was the first lady to her father since her mother, Hana, was absent due to long-standing illness. She was elected to the Lower House in 1993, shortly after her father's death.