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Gentarō Inoue
Gentarō (源太郎) is a Japanese male personal name, and may refer to: *, Imperial Japanese Army general and Meiji era government official *, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral *, Japanese business executive *, Japanese actor and voice actor *, Japanese professional wrestler {{DEFAULTSORT:Gentaro Japanese masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kodama Gentarō
Viscount was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army and a government minister during the Meiji period. He was instrumental in establishing the modern Imperial Japanese military. Early life Kodama was born on March 16, 1852, in Tokuyama, Tsuno, Suō Province, the first son of the samurai Kodama Hankurō. His father was a mid-ranking samurai with a 100 ''koku'' landholding. At the time, the Kodama family had two daughters, Hisako and then Nobuko, and since Kodama was the first male member of the family, his birth was greatly appreciated by the whole family. When Kodama was born, his father, Hankurō, was at the house of his friend Shimada Mitsune, a scholar of Chinese poetry, who lived across the street and was enjoying poetry with four or five other people. When a family member hurriedly arrived to announce the birth of a son, Hankurō was overjoyed and rushed straight home to raise a toast. Military career Kodama began his military career by fighting in the Boshin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamashita Gentarō
Baron was an admiral in the early Imperial Japanese Navy. Biography Early career Yamashita was the second son of a samurai in the service of the Yonezawa Domain and was born in the castle town of Yonezawa, Dewa Province (present day Yamagata prefecture). Yamashita graduated from the 10th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1883, ranked 4th out of 27 cadets. His classmates included Katō Sadakichi. His midshipman service was aboard the ironclad warship during its long-distance navigational training voyage to Wellington, Valparaíso, Callao and Honolulu in 1886. After his return to Japan, he was assigned to a number of ships in the early navy as gunnery officer, including the ironclad , gunboat (1889), corvettes (1891), (1892) and (1893). During the First Sino-Japanese War, Yamashita served as the chief gunnery officer on the corvette , followed by the cruiser In 1896, Yamashita was sent to the United Kingdom to oversee warship construction and to study th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentaro Kawase
was a Japanese business executive, former president of Nippon Life Insurance, and conferred the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure. Career Gentaro Kawase was born in Ōmihachiman, Shiga Prefecture. He graduated from Hikone Commercial College (later, Shiga University), entered Nippon Life Insurance in 1937 and moved up through the ranks to the level of manager of securities department, chief treasurer in Tokyo, manager of related business. In 1981, he became the vice president of Nippon Life Insurance and the president of Nippon Life Insurance in 1982. He led Nippon Life Insurance to the largest in the world in all 4 indicators, namely insurance premium income, total assets, total amount of new contracts and total amount of insurance in force, as the full year business result of 1987–88. In 1989, he became the chairman of the board of directors of Nippon Life Insurance. From 1996 to 1998, he was the senior adviser and honorary chairman of Nippon Life Insurance. Fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarō Ishida
, born , was a Japanese actor, voice actor and Shin Buddhist priest from the city of Kyoto. He was affiliated with Granpapa Production. Biography Ishida was born in Kyoto, Japan on March 16, 1944, the son of actor Shigeki Ishida. He attended the Foreign Language Department (Spanish) of Sophia University, but quit without graduating. Ishida was also a chief priest at the Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist temple ''Jōkei-ji'' at Kanazawa, Ishikawa. He was married to actress Fusako Tachibana until her death in 2006. Ishida died on September 21, 2013 from myocardial infarction.Taro Ishida's obituary Filmography Films *'' |
Gentaro Takahashi
is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Gentaro (stylized in all capital letters). Though officially affiliated with the Pro Wrestling Freedoms promotion, Gentaro also works for several other independent promotions, including DDT Pro-Wrestling, Kaientai Dojo and women's wrestling promotion Ice Ribbon, where he works mainly as the lead play-by-play announcer. Takahashi also makes sporadic appearances as the masked character Benten (also stylized in all capital letters). Professional wrestling career Trained by the Wrestle Dream Factory (WDF) promotion, Takahashi made his professional wrestling debut on May 8, 1999, at a WDF event in Tokorozawa, Saitama. While also making appearances for Kageki Pro as the masked character Nasty Black Panther, Takahashi remained with WDF for two years, before becoming a freelancer in 2001. Dramatic Dream Team / DDT Pro-Wrestling (2000–2012, 2014) On November 30, 2000, Gentaro made his debut for Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
