Hanamaki, Iwate: 20 people
Jumpei Kawarada (川原田 純平, Kawarada Jumpei; born May 21, 2002) is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the…
Jumpei Kawarada (川原田 純平, Kawarada Jumpei; born May 21, 2002) is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB).
Kenshin Hotta (堀田 賢慎, Hotta Kenshin; born May 21, 2001) is a professional Japanese baseball player. He is a pitcher for…
Kenshin Hotta (堀田 賢慎, Hotta Kenshin; born May 21, 2001) is a professional Japanese baseball player. He is a pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Shinji Nakano (中野慎詞, Nakano Shinji; born 8 June 1999) is a Japanese track cyclist. He is also active in Japan as a…
Shinji Nakano (中野慎詞, Nakano Shinji; born 8 June 1999) is a Japanese track cyclist. He is also active in Japan as a keirin cyclist. He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the Men's keirin in Paris on 11 August 2024. He is not to be confused with the ex-Formula 1 driver of the same name or the similar named ex-MotoGP rider Shinya Nakano
Eiki Takahashi (高橋 英輝, Takahashi Eiki; born 19 November 1992) is a male Japanese racewalker. He competed in the 20…
Eiki Takahashi (高橋 英輝, Takahashi Eiki; born 19 November 1992) is a male Japanese racewalker. He competed in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China. On 13 December 2015, he set the Asian record for the 10,000m race walk on a track. In 2016, he was the #1 ranked walker in the world for 20 km. As a result of his fast time in February, he was considered Japan's next great walking hope, replacing teammate world record holder Yusuke Suzuki. He walked in the 2016 Olympics where he walked with the lead (chase) pack until almost 14 km when eventual winner Cai Zelin broke the race open. Takahashi eventually finished 42nd.
Takeshi Hasegawa (長谷川 武, Hasegawa Takeshi; born August 1, 1984) is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays…
Takeshi Hasegawa (長谷川 武, Hasegawa Takeshi; born August 1, 1984) is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for the Koshigaya Alphas of the B.League in Japan. He played for Japan national 3x3 team in 2013.
Satoru Kamada (鎌田 悟, Kamada Satoru; born 11 January 1984) is a Japanese motorcycle racer.
Kazuhiro Hatakeyama (畠山 和洋, Hatakeyama Kazuhiro; born September 13, 1982) is a Japanese former professional baseball…
Kazuhiro Hatakeyama (畠山 和洋, Hatakeyama Kazuhiro; born September 13, 1982) is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder and current hitting coach for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He played in NPB for the Swallows from 2001 to 2019. Hatakeyama was the 2015 Central League leader in runs batted in, with 105. His retirement ceremony was conducted on September 21, 2019.
Satoshi Taira (平 聡, Taira Satoshi; born July 16, 1970) is a former Japanese football player.
Kazuaki Sasaki (佐々木 一昭, Sasaki Kazuaki; born 17 July 1967) is a Japanese former cyclist. He competed in the team…
Kazuaki Sasaki (佐々木 一昭, Sasaki Kazuaki; born 17 July 1967) is a Japanese former cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He later became a professional keirin cyclist with over 200 wins.
Matazō Mimata (三又 又三, Mimata Matazō; born 27 May 1967, in Hanamaki, Iwate) is a Japanese comedian, tarento and actor.…
Matazō Mimata (三又 又三, Mimata Matazō; born 27 May 1967, in Hanamaki, Iwate) is a Japanese comedian, tarento and actor. He is represented with Office Kitano. From 1992 to 2007, he acted as a Boke of the comedy duo Jordans with Masaya Yamazaki. His former stage name and real name is Tadahisa Mimata (三又 忠久, Mimata Tadahisa). A former highschool amateur wrestler, Mimata has been a host to professional wrestling and combat sports shows. He has worked as a color commentator in shootboxing events, WWE tours and Pro Wrestling Zero1. On May 24, 2018, Mimata debuted as a professional wrestler in an "Electric Current Blast Death Match" in Zero1, wrestling against Taru in a losing effort.
Osamu Matsuda (松田 納, Matsuda Osamu) (born April 19, 1966) is a Japanese professional wrestler who is best known for his…
Osamu Matsuda (松田 納, Matsuda Osamu) (born April 19, 1966) is a Japanese professional wrestler who is best known for his work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and is better known by his stage name El Samurai.
Eiji Kidoguchi is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Councillors of Japan, serving for the Iwate…
Eiji Kidoguchi is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Councillors of Japan, serving for the Iwate at-large district as a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. Kidoguchi was first elected in 2016, but lost the seat in 2022. Kidoguchi won the seat back in by-election in 2024 after the resignation of the incumbent, Megumi Hirose.
Koi Ikeno (池野 恋, Ikeno Koi; born April 16, 1959) is a manga author and illustrator. She was born April 16, 1959, in…
Koi Ikeno (池野 恋, Ikeno Koi; born April 16, 1959) is a manga author and illustrator. She was born April 16, 1959, in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. She created Tokimeki Tonight in the 1980s and Nurse Angel Ririka in the 1990s, two manga series which received anime adaptations that ran while the manga was ongoing.
Masanori Ito (伊藤 政則, Itō Masanori; born July 10, 1953) is a Japanese music critic and radio personality, also known as…
Masanori Ito (伊藤 政則, Itō Masanori; born July 10, 1953) is a Japanese music critic and radio personality, also known as Seisoku Ito and Masa Ito. His work is specialized in heavy metal and hard rock, and he is known as the leading music critic of Japan. He has been quick to introduce new heavy metal bands to Japan, through writing for magazines such as Burrn! and putting them on the air. Ito wrote the initial story draft of the 2022 film Hagane Iro no Sora no Kanata he (鋼音色の空の彼方へ), based on the story of Japanese thrash metal band Outrage.
Wakanoumi Masateru II (born Akio Matsuda; October 25, 1945 – March 31, 1995) was a sumo wrestler from Ōhasama, Iwate…
Wakanoumi Masateru II (born Akio Matsuda; October 25, 1945 – March 31, 1995) was a sumo wrestler from Ōhasama, Iwate, Japan.
Shigeo Yaegashi (八重樫 茂生, Yaegashi Shigeo; March 24, 1933 – May 2, 2011) was a Japanese football player and manager. He…
Shigeo Yaegashi (八重樫 茂生, Yaegashi Shigeo; March 24, 1933 – May 2, 2011) was a Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.
Motoo Fujii (藤井 基男, Fujii Motoo) is a former international table tennis player from Japan. He won a bronze medal at the…
Motoo Fujii (藤井 基男, Fujii Motoo) is a former international table tennis player from Japan. He won a bronze medal at the 1956 World Table Tennis Championships in the mixed doubles with Yoshiko Tanaka.
Shunkichi Kikuchi (菊池 俊吉, Kikuchi Shunkichi; 1 May 1916 – 5 November 1990) was a Japanese photographer best known for…
Shunkichi Kikuchi (菊池 俊吉, Kikuchi Shunkichi; 1 May 1916 – 5 November 1990) was a Japanese photographer best known for his documentation of Hiroshima and Tokyo immediately after the war. Kikuchi was born in Hanamaki, Iwate on 1 May 1916. After graduating from the Oriental School of Photography, Kikuchi was employed in the Photography Division of Tokyo Kōgeisha and began his career as a news photographer. In 1941 he worked in the photography division of Tōhōsha, a company established by Sōzō Okada and in 1942 was a member of the photographic staff of the magazine Front. His work took him to China, "Manchukuo" and the Philippines. In 1945, the Ministry of Education organized the "Science Council of Japan Special Committee on the Damage Caused by the Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima/Nagasaki Survey Group", and commissioned Nippon Eiga-sha as its Documentary Film Division. Kikuchi served as a still photographer attached to the division and was hired to shoot for medical purposes. He recorded post-atomic bomb Hiroshima from 30 September to 22 October 1945. In November he was back photographing Tokyo, particularly a home for vagrant children. Kikuchi also helped establish a new magazine where he became involved in scientific photography for the first time. From 1951 Kikuchi's photographs were published in such prominent magazines as Sekai, Chūōkōron, and Fujin Kōron. Kikuchi died on 5 November 1990 aged 74 from leukemia, which many have attributed to his extensive work in irradiated Hiroshima.
Kōzō Satō (佐藤 皐蔵, Satō Kōzō; May 15, 1871 – March 23, 1948) was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during…
Kōzō Satō (佐藤 皐蔵, Satō Kōzō; May 15, 1871 – March 23, 1948) was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I.
Kenji Miyazawa (宮沢 賢治, Miyazawa Kenji; Japanese: [mʲi.ja.(d)za.wa keꜜɲ.dʑi]; 27 August 1896 – 21 September 1933) was a…
Kenji Miyazawa (宮沢 賢治, Miyazawa Kenji; Japanese: [mʲi.ja.(d)za.wa keꜜɲ.dʑi]; 27 August 1896 – 21 September 1933) was a Japanese novelist, poet, and children's literature writer from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, vegetarian, cellist, devout Buddhist, and utopian social activist. Some of his major works include Night on the Galactic Railroad, Kaze no Matasaburō, Gauche the Cellist, and The Night of Taneyamagahara. Miyazawa converted to Nichiren Buddhism after reading the Lotus Sutra, and joined the Kokuchūkai, a Nichiren Buddhist organization. His religious and social beliefs created a rift between him and his wealthy family, especially his father, though after his death his family eventually followed him in converting to Nichiren Buddhism. Miyazawa founded the Rasu Farmers Association to improve the lives of peasants in Iwate Prefecture. He was also interested in Esperanto and translated some of his poems into it. He died of pneumonia in 1933. Almost totally unknown as a poet in his lifetime, Miyazawa's work gained its reputation posthumously, and enjoyed a boom by the mid-1990s on his centenary. A museum dedicated to his life and works was opened in 1982 in his hometown. Many of his children's stories have been adapted into anime, most notably Night on the Galactic Railroad. Many of his tanka and free verse poetry, translated into many languages, are still popular today.