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Yoshimura (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese novelist *, Japanese sculptor *, Japanese politician *, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese politician *, Japanese musician and composer *, Japanese architect *, Japanese table tennis player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese film director *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese motorcycle tuner and race team owner *, Japanese long-distance runner *, Japanese archaeologist *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese singer {{surname Japanese-language surnames ...
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Akira Yoshimura
was an award-winning Japanese writer. Internationally he is best known for his novels ''Shipwrecks'' and ''On Parole (novel), On Parole''. Life and work Yoshimura was the president of the Japanese writers' union and a International PEN, PEN member. He published over 20 novels, of which ''On Parole'' and ''Shipwrecks'' are internationally known and have been translated into several languages. In 1984 he received the Yomiuri Prize for his novel ''Hagoku'' (, ''On Parole'') based on the true story of Yoshie Shiratori. After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Yoshimura's nonfiction chronicle of three previous tsunamis on the Sanriku Coast, coast of Sanriku, ''Sanriku Kaigan Otsunami'' received an influx of orders, requiring a reprint of 150,000 copies. Yoshimura's wife and author in her own right, Tsumura Setsuko, Setsuko Tsumura donated the royalties from the book to the village of Tanohata, Iwate, Tanohata, which was heavily impacted by ...
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Koji Yoshimura
is a former Japanese football player. His younger brother Keiji is also a former footballer. Playing career Yoshimura was born in Sakawa, Kochi on April 13, 1976. After graduating from high school, he joined Sanfrecce Hiroshima in 1995. However he could not play at all in the match until 1996. In 1997, he moved to newly was promoted to J1 League club, Vissel Kobe. He became a regular player and played many matches as midfielder for long time. In 2004, he moved to Oita Trinita and played many matches as side back. In 2006, he moved to newly was promoted to J1 League club, Avispa Fukuoka. Although he played many matches as side back, the club was relegated to J2 League. In 2007, he moved to Yokohama F. Marinos. However he could not play at all in the match. In 2008, he moved to newly was promoted to J2 League club, FC Gifu Football Club Gifu (フットボールクラブ岐阜, ''Futtobōrukurabu Gifu''), abbreviated as is a Japanese football club based in Gifu, capital of ...
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Shiho Yoshimura
is a former Japanese volleyball player. She played for Ageo Medics in the V Premier League. Early life and career Yoshimura was born in Isehara City, Kanagawa Prefecture. In the third year of elementary school, she started playing volleyball under the influence of her sister. At Kawasaki Tachibana High School, she was active in the 2007 Saga Inter High (Best 4). In 2008, Yoshimura attended Tokai University and joined Akari Omi and Kaname Yamaguchi as first-year quartet ace spikers to win second place in the second league in the spring of the same year. In July 2011, Yoshimura was elected as the 26th Universiade's representative. In December of the same year, she became the driving force of the victory at All Japan Incare and won the Best Scorer Award. In December 2011, her transfer to Challenge League Ageo Medics was decided. In the 2012/13 V.Challenge League, Yoshimura made a significant contribution to the team's second victory as an ace and won the Best New Face ...
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Sakuji Yoshimura
is a Japanese Egyptologist. He currently is Japan International University of Tokyo , He is a university president, professor emeritus at Waseda University Waseda University (Japanese: ), abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the fifth Prime Minister of Japan, prime ministe ..., and visiting professor at Cyber University and TV personality. In 1978, Yoshimura and his team built a miniature pyramid for a Nippon Television documentary series. They originally planned to build a scaled-down model of the Cheops Pyramid, but the cost of limestone forced them to reduce the size. He was the first president of an online college Cyber University. Publications *''Non-destructive pyramid investigation,'' 1987 References 1943 births Living people Japanese Egyptologists Waseda University alumni Academic staff of Waseda University {{Japan-acade ...
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Reimi Yoshimura
is a Japanese athlete. She competed in the women's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global sport of athletics, athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athleti .... References External links * 2000 births Living people Japanese female middle-distance runners Japanese female steeplechase runners Place of birth missing (living people) World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan Japan Championships in Athletics winners Asian Athletics Championships medalists 21st-century Japanese sportswomen {{Japan-middledistance-athletics-bio-stub ...
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Pops Yoshimura
was a Japanese motorcycle tuner, race team owner, and manufacturer of specialty motorcycle accessories. He is remembered for his ties to the beginnings of Superbike racing and the Yoshimura factory racing team. __TOC__ Motorcycling career Born in Fukuoka City, Japan, Yoshimura was called into military service during the Second World War where he was trained as an aircraft mechanic. After the war, he began tuning motorcycles for American servicemen stationed in Japan and in 1954, he opened his first shop, with his wife and children helping him. In 1971, he moved his business to Los Angeles at the beginning of the four-cylinder superbike era. He gained a reputation as an excellent motorcycle tuner. In 1976 the AMA introduced a racing class for production based bikes and Yoshimura established himself by entering fast, reliable Kawasaki Z1 bikes. In 1978 he switched to Suzuki bikes and began winning races. Steve McLaughlin won the 1978 Daytona Superbike race while Wes Cooley and M ...
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Naomi Yoshimura
is a Japan, Japanese professional wrestler, working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Dramatic Dream Team (DDT). Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2016-present) Yoshimura is known for his matches from the Professional wrestling in Japan, japanese independent scene, working for various promotions such as All Japan Pro Wrestling, where at ''AJPW Zeus Festival 2017'', an event which portrited eleven years since the debut of Zeus (Japanese wrestler), Zeus on November 11, he teamed up with Katsumi Oribe and Yasutaka Oosera in a losing effort to NEXTREAM (Kento Miyahara, Naoya Nomura and Yuma Aoyagi). He competed for a brief period of time in the Professional wrestling in the United States, american independent scene, working a couple of matches for IWA Mid-South, one of them taking place at the 22nd anniversary of the promotion from October 18, 2018, where he teamed up with Rekka in a losing effort to The Gym Nasty Boyz (Timmy Lou Retton and White Mike) ...
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Kōzaburō Yoshimura
was a Japanese film director. Biography Born in Shiga Prefecture, he joined the Shōchiku studio in 1929. He debuted as director with a short film in 1934, but, after being denied a promotion by head of the studio Shirō Kido, continued working as an assistant director for filmmakers Yasujirō Ozu and Yasujirō Shimazu on films like ''Our Neighbor, Miss Yae'' and ''What Did the Lady Forget?'' It was the 1939 film ''Warm Current'' that established his status as a director. During the Second Sino-Japanese war, Sino-Japanese war he directed a number of military dramas such as ''The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi'' (1940), for which he toured the actual battlefields in China. Yoshimura's 1947 ''The Ball at the Anjo House'', starring Setsuko Hara, was named the best picture of the year by film magazine ''Kinema Junpo'' and is regarded as one of his major works. The film marked the start of a long relationship with screenwriter and film director Kaneto Shindō. In 1950, the two of ...
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Keiji Yoshimura
is a former Japanese football player. His elder brother Koji is also a former footballer. Playing career Yoshimura was born in Sakawa, Kochi on August 8, 1979. After graduating from Aichi Gakuin University, he joined J1 League club Nagoya Grampus Eight (later ''Nagoya Grampus'') in 2002. He became a regular player as defensive midfielder in 2003 and played many matches for a long time. In 2009, Grampus won the 2nd place in Emperor's Cup. Although his opportunity to play decreased from 2010, Grampus won the champions in 2010 J1 League first J1 League champions in the club history. In 2013, he moved to J2 League club Ehime FC commonly known as Ehime FC (愛媛FC, ''Ehime Efu Shī'') is a professional Association football, football club based in Matsuyama, Ehime, Matsuyama, the capital city of Ehime Prefecture of Japan. The club currently compete in J2 League, the s ... which he played for the youth team. He played many matches as defensive midfielder. However he could not ...
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Fumio Yoshimura
was a Japanese and American sculptor. He was known for his wooden replicas of everyday objects such as plants and machines. Life and work Fumio Yoshimura studied painting at Tokyo University of the Arts, graduating in 1949. He came to Manhattan in the early 1960s. He was married to Kate Millett, who dedicated her book ''Sexual Politics'' to him. In 1985, the couple divorced. In New York he taught himself to work wood with various knives, chisels and drills and developed a virtuoso technique. He started with forms of plants and vegetables. He used white unpainted basswood, which gave a ghostly pallor to his sculptures of everyday objects such as typewriters, sewing machines, bicycles, or a hot-dog stand. His style is often associated with hyperrealism, but he has described his works as embodying the "ghost" of objects. Objects used for human activity were often the subject of his art, but he never depicted humans. "Three Bicycles" was the central work in an exhibition at the Mu ...
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Kazuhiro Yoshimura
is a Japanese table tennis player. He is the younger brother of Maharu Yoshimura is a Japanese table tennis player. Life and career 1993–2010: Early life and background Yoshimura was born in Ibaraki Prefecture to a Filipina mother and a Japanese father. He has two younger brothers, namely Kazuhiro and Tomohisa, who are .... He was the singles winner of the 2018 Hong Kong Open. References 1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Ibaraki Prefecture Japanese people of Filipino descent Japanese male table tennis players Summer World University Games medalists in table tennis FISU World University Games silver medalists for Japan Okayama Rivets players Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade Aichi Institute of Technology alumni 21st-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub ...
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Junzō Yoshimura
was a Japanese architect. Early career Yoshimura dated his desire to become an architect to the day he first entered Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, shortly after the Kanto earthquake of 1923. "“It was the first time that I felt emotional when faced with architecture. I said to my myself, this really shows the power of space. I felt that architecture was something extraordinary. It’s certainly the main reason I became an architect.” In December 1928, while a student at Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo's Fine Arts College, Yoshimura began part-time work at the architectural office of Antonin Raymond. After his graduation in 1931 he became a full-time member of the staff. Among other work, he performed on-site supervision for the Akaboshi Cottage (1931) for Japanese golfer Shiro Akaboshi, a house for Kisuke Akaboshi (1932), and the Kawasaki House (1934). In May 1940, he travelled to Antonin's home in New Hope, Pennsylvania, spending ...
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