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Yamaguchi (surname)
Yamaguchi (wikt:山口, 山口, "mountain entrance/gateway") is the 14th most common Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adam Yamaguchi, American television correspondent and producer *, Japanese badminton player *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese artist *Atsushi Yamaguchi (other), multiple people *, Japanese Noh mask carver *Eri Yamaguchi (other), multiple people *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese gravure idol *, Japanese karateka *, Japanese shakuhachi musician *, Japanese mob boss *Hatsuye Yamaguchi (1911-2005), Japanese-American artist and dollmaker *Hideko Yamaguchi, plaintiff foster mother in ''Sweden v. Yamaguchi'', a famous international family law trial *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese novelist and essayist *, Japanese painter *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese musician *, Japanese actress *, Japanese composer *Junya Yamaguchi, Japanese musician *, Japanese judoka *, Japanese actor and voice actor *, Japanese painter *, Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitomi Yamaguchi
was a novelist and essayist in Shōwa period Japan. Early life Yamaguchi was born in the Azabu district of Tokyo to a working-class family. He was forced to support himself through college, attending the Kokugakuin University. After graduation, he went to work for the publishing company Kawade Shobō, but that company went bankrupt a couple of years later. He then found employment as the editor of a wine magazine published by Kotobukiya (the forerunner of Suntory); his colleagues at the same magazine included Kaikō Ken and Yanagihara Ryōhei. The advertising campaign he mounted popularized Hawaii as a tourist destination as well as promoting Suntory whiskey. Literary career Yamaguchi's true literary career started in 1954, when he began contributing works to the magazine of literary criticism, ''Gendai Hyoron'' ("Contemporary Criticism"). Yamaguchi won the 1963 Naoki Prize for his novel, ("The Refined Lifestyle of Mr. Everyman"), which appeared serialized in the women's m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuo Yamaguchi
is a Japanese sociologist and is the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. Selected bibliography Books * Journal article * * Papers * Honours *Person of Cultural Merit is an official Japanese recognition and honor which is awarded annually to select people who have made outstanding cultural contributions. This distinction is intended to play a role as a part of a system of support measures for the promotion of ... (2020) References External links Profile Page: Kazuo YamaguchiThe University of Chicago CV Japanese sociologists University of Chicago alumni University of Chicago faculty Columbia University faculty 1946 births Living people Persons of Cultural Merit {{Asia-sociologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuma Yamaguchi
is a Japanese football player for FC Machida Zelvia. Career After graduating at Hannan University, where he shone and he was one of the best players of Kansai Student Football League, Yamaguchi signed for Kashima Antlers in January 2018. The young striker even had the opportunity of a trial at Fortuna Düsseldorf. On the first game in J1 League against Nagoya Grampus (formerly known as ) is a Japanese association football club that plays in the J1 League, following promotion from the J2 League in 2017. Based in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture and founded as the company team of the Toyota Motor Corp. in 1939, the c ..., Yamaguchi even found an assist. Club statistics ''Updated to 1 January 2020''.Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社"J1&J2&J3選手名鑑ハンディ版 2018 (NSK MOOK)" 7 February 2018, Japan, (p. 18 out of 289) References External links * 1996 births Living people Hannan University alumni Association football people from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
is a Japanese film director. Career Born in Nagano Prefecture, Yamaguchi graduated from Waseda University and began working at the Tōei studios in Kyoto. He directed a number of action movie series in the 1970s and has also helmed many TV movies. Filmography * '' Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams'' (1970) * '' Wandering Ginza Butterfly'' (1972) * '' Gincho Nagaremono: Mesuneko Bakuchi'' (1972) * ''Sister Street Fighter'' (1974) * '' Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread'' (1974) * '' A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse'' (1975) * '' The Return of the Sister Street Fighter'' (1975) * ''Champion of Death'' (1975) * ''Karate Bearfighter'' (1975) * (1975) * ''G-Men '75 was a long-running prime-time popular television detective series in Japan. It aired on Saturday nights in the 9:00–9:54 p.m. time slot on the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) network from May 24, 1975 to April 3, 1982. A sequel, ''G-Men ' ...'' (1975-82) television series * '' Circuit no Ōk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kayo Yamaguchi
was a Japanese painter specializing in the '' Nihonga'' style of watercolour painting. Biography He was born in the Nakagyo ward of Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the ci .... Kayo studied under Nishimura Go'un. He supervised the . With a sketch-based painting style, he specialized in representations of animals. In 1981 he was awarded the Japanese order of culture. His real name was "Yamaguchi Yonejiro(山口米次郎)." He participated in Takeuchi Seho's study group because of Goun's recommendation. In 1927 and 1928, he was awarded special prize for the exhibition of the imperial art academy. He painted not only animals but also flowers and plants very well. He also worked at art school (in Nagaoka joshi art school and Kyoto city specialist school of pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaori Yamaguchi
is a retired judoka. Yamaguchi won the All-Japan Judo Championships 10 consecutive times from 1978–1987 (twice in the -50 kg division, seven times in the -52 kg division) and won her first medal at the 1980 World Judo Championships. She went on to win 4 silver medals and one gold medal at the World Judo Championships. She also won a bronze medal in the -52 kg division at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where women's judo was held as a demonstration sport. She retired from competitive judo in 1989 when she graduated from the University of Tsukuba. She worked as an instructor for the University of Tsukuba and Musashi University since retiring. Yamaguchi is currently Associate professor of Tsukuba. She is the model for the protagonist in Naoki Urasawa's judo manga, '' Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl'', and makes a cameo appearance in the film version of the manga as well. See also * List of judoka * List of Olympic medalists in judo The followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junya Yamaguchi
Junya Yamaguchi (Producer name Juny Mag)山口潤也 is a Japanese keyboard player, pianist, composer, arranger and music producer based in Los Angeles and New York. Background Junya Yamaguchi (producer name JUNY MAG) is a Japanese composer, producer, arranger and keyboardist based in Los Angeles. He started his life as a musician from age of ten. He won several YAMAHA Electone competitions with his own arrangement and composition in his teens. From 2004, he formed his own band called ''ULANORI'', which released two albums in 2007 and 2008. Then he moved to New York City in the end of 2008. In NYC, Junya has worked with various musicians and producers. From 2011 Junya became main keyboardist of Andy Suzuki & The Method, played at Artpark 2014 opening for Ringo Starr (Beatles), with Andy Suzuki & The Method. In 2014, at the Metlife Stadium in NJ, he performed " America The Beautiful"with Queen Latifah Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), known professionally as Queen L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Yamaguchi
is a Japanese composer of contemporary music, pianist and musicologist. Biography Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1967, he studied piano from age 7. He left the Senzoku-Gakuen College of Music in 1993 before graduating. He studied composition and music theory with Tatsuhiko Nishioka, Yori-Aki Matsudaira and Chaya Czernowin. He has received several awards and prizes, including the Sixth Akiyoshidai International Composition Award (1996, II prize and the Governor's Prize of Yamaguchi Prefecture), the 13th JSCM (ISCM Japan Division) Composition Award (1996, finalist), the 20th IRINO Prize (1999, I prize), ISCM World Music Days 2001 Yokohama (2001, selection) and the 72nd Japan Music Competition (2003, finalist). In July 2001, he came to the United States under a grant from the Asian Cultural Council and remained in New York City until June 2002. In April 2006 he matriculated in the Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University (science of sound culture studies in acoustic design progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izumi Yamaguchi
is a Japanese actress. She is represented with F Road (Full House Group). Her son is actor Kento Yamaguchi. Biography After dropping out from high school, she joined Watanabe Productions. By the time she was in elementary school, she belonged to the theatre company "Kojika" (her first drama appearance is ''The Human Condition'' in the role of a Chinese child). In 1972, she made her debut in the entertainment world with ''Zoku Ōoku no Onna-tachi''. In April of that year, she debuted her musical career with "Midori no Kisetsu", but soon turned into an actress. She appeared on television dramas such as ''Zakkyo Jidai'' and ''Ōedo Sōsamō''. In 1982, she married a securities company employee. They gave birth to two boys. On 1 September 2010, she moved to F Road from Office PSC that she belonged to. Knowing the song "Četri stađuna" sung by Croatian national singer Meri Cetinić, she performed in live shows with her Croatian singing. Through videos published on the Internet, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |