Famous People with Name Shinji

Shinji Ono            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shinji Ono: a Japanese football player, who plays as a midfielder for VfL Bochum in Germany.Known as Tensai, Japanese for "Genius", from his youth days, Ono is one of the biggest stars in Asian football, known for his vision, technique and superb passing. Although his primary position is attacking midfielder, he can play anywhere in the midfield, including defensive midfield and either wing.Ono grew up in the Japanese soccer hotbed of Shizuoka Prefecture and began his professional career with Urawa Red Diamonds of the J. League in 1998. The same year, he became the youngest member of Japan's 1998 FIFA World Cup team at age 18 and made one appearance as a substitute.

Shinji Tsujio            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shinji Tsujio: a Japanese football player currently playing for J1 team Shimizu S-Pulse. Tsujio was a member of F.C. Tokyo’s youth program, and after graduating from Chuo University he joined S-Pulse in 2008.

Shinji Aoyama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shinji Aoyama: a Japanese film director and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka.Shinji Aoyama was born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, where he attended Kitakyushu Midorigaoka public junior/senior high school. He graduated in 1989 from Rikkyo University, where he majored in film studies in the department of British and American Studies. While he was a student, he was deeply influenced by the theorist and film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, from whom he took classes.

Shinji Higuchi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shinji Higuchi: a storyboard artist (especially in anime) and is one of the top special effects wizards in Japan, best known for his work on the Heisei Gamera Trilogy. He works on both anime and tokusatsu projects.As a teenager fan, he started out as one of the four founders of Daicon Films (now Gainax), along with Hideaki Anno, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Takami Akai. A highly talented artist, he worked on many of their early anime and tokusatsu productions, doing storyboarding as well as special effects. Soon, he got to help out special effects director Teruyoshi Nakano as an uncredited assistant for The Return of Godzilla (1984). But his first major FX credit came with Daicon's 1985 low-budget daikaiju epic-comedy, The Eight-Headed Giant Serpent Strikes Back. He continued to be a storyboarder for anime such as Gunbuster (1988) and Otaku no Video (1991), and was the special effects director for Toho/Tsuburaya Productions' 1991 SF-thriller, Mikadoroid.

Shinji Harada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shinji Harada: a famous pop music artist in Japan, born in Hiroshima, on December 5, 1958.Harada became musical sensation in Japan when he released his debut single Teen's Blues on October 25, 1977 when he was 18 years old. He released two more singles, Candy in November and Shadow Boxer in December same year. All three singles ranked top 20 in Oricon chart simultaneously, which had never happened before in Japanese music history. The debut album Feel Happy was to become number one in the first week of release in Japan in 1978. A documentary film about him, Our Song, was made in 1978. Harada has been prolific, releasing more than 70 singles.