Famous People with Name Shigeo

Shigeo Nagashima            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shigeo Nagashima: is a former professional baseball player and manager.Nagashima was by far the most popular figure in Japanese baseball during his career. His contributions to the development of the sport in Japan are immeasurable, but his competence as a manager is often called into question.

Shigeo Yaegashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shigeo Yaegashi: a former Japanese football player who won the bronze medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Shigeo Maruyama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shigeo Maruyama: the founder of Epic Sony Record, former chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment and former CEO of Sony Music Entertainment. He is known for discovering artists such as Motoharu Sano and Tetsuya Komuro.[1]

Shigeo Hirose            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shigeo Hirose: an award winning [1] pioneer of robotics technology[2][3] and a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.His work includes designs for robots capable of various types of movement such as walking, crawling, swimming and slithering.[4] Specific designs include a "ninja-robot" capable of climbing buildings and a seven-ton robot capable of climbing mountainous slopes with the aim of installing bolts in the ground so as to prevent landslides.[5] Hirose is also involved in work with the United Nations to develop a remotely controlled robot capable of clearing landmines.[6]

Shigeo Shingo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shigeo Shingo: was a Japanese industrial engineer who distinguished himself as one of the world’s leading experts on manufacturing practices and The Toyota Production System. Shingo is known far more in the West than in Japan, as a result of his meeting Norman Bodek, an American entrepreneur and founder of Productivity Inc in the USA. In 1981 Bodek had travelled to Japan to learn about the Toyota Production System, and came across books by Shingo, who as an external consultant had been teaching Industrial Engineering courses at Toyota since 1955. Shingo had written his Study of The Toyota Production System in Japanese and had it translated, very poorly, into English in 1980. Norman Bodek took as many copies of this book as he could to the USA and arranged to translate Shingo's other books into English, eventually having his original study re-translated. Bodek also brought Shingo to lecture in the USA and developed one of the first Western lean manufacturing consultancy practices with Shingo's support.

Matsunobori Shigeo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Matsunobori Shigeo: was a sumo wrestler from Chiba Prefecture, Japan. He fought for the now defunct Oyama stable, joining in 1941. He reached the top makuuchi division in 1951 and made the second highest ozeki rank (alongside Wakanohana) in 1956, after finishing as a runner-