Famous People with Name Yasuhiko

Yasuhiko Okudera            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yasuhiko Okudera: a former Japanese footballer, and is currently the president of two clubs; the J. League Division 2 club Yokohama FC and the English Football League Championship side Plymouth Argyle FC. Okudera was the first Japanese footballer to play professionally in Europe,[1] as well as being the first Asian football player to score in the European Cup, in the semi-final match against Nottingham Forest F.C. and made 32 appearances - scoring 9 goals - with the Japanese national team.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko: a well-known animator and mangaka in the anime industry.Yasuhiko dropped out of Hirosaki University and was hired by Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Productions in 1970 as an animator. He later went freelance and worked on various animation productions for film and television. In 1981 he won the Seiun Award in Art category. He began working as a manga artist in 1988. In 1992 he won the Nippon Mangaka Kyokai (Japan Cartoonists Society) Award, and in 2000, an Excellence Prize in manga for Odo no Inu at the Japan Media Arts Festival. He is also known as a novelist and science fiction illustrator. Some of his most notable works as character designer and director are Brave Reideen, Combattler V, and Mobile Suit Gundam. Less well known is the fact that he was the original character designer for the Dirty Pair, long before their first anime or manga appearance, when he was illustrating the Haruka Takachiho short stories that became the 1980 fixup novel Great Adventures of the Dirty Pair.