Rin Mende (面手 凛, Mende Rin; born 31 December 2007) is a Japanese table tennis player. She was part of her country's…
Rin Mende (面手 凛, Mende Rin; born 31 December 2007) is a Japanese table tennis player. She was part of her country's team at the 2026 World Team Table Tennis Championships, winning a silver medal.
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Famous People from Tamano, Okayama Prefecture
Tamano, Okayama Prefecture: 12 people
Takuya Kuwahara (鍬原 拓也, Kuwahara Takuya; born March 26, 1996) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the…
Takuya Kuwahara (鍬原 拓也, Kuwahara Takuya; born March 26, 1996) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played for the Yomiuri Giants.
Koji Bonishi (坊西 浩嗣, Bōnishi Kōji) (born December 30, 1968) is a former baseball player based in Japan. He played for…
Koji Bonishi (坊西 浩嗣, Bōnishi Kōji) (born December 30, 1968) is a former baseball player based in Japan. He played for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks in the Japan Pacific League.
🏫 Okayama Minami High School📅 Born December 30🎂 Born 1968📍 From Tamano, Okayama Prefecture💼 Baseball
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Hiroshi Yagi (八木 裕; born June 8, 1965) is a retired Japanese baseball player for the Hanshin Tigers. He was an All-Star…
Hiroshi Yagi (八木 裕; born June 8, 1965) is a retired Japanese baseball player for the Hanshin Tigers. He was an All-Star in 1990 and a member of the Tigers' 2003 championship team. In the later years of his career, he was known as the team's "God of Pinch Hitting". After retiring at the end of the 2004 season, he spent some time in the media before becoming a hitting coach for Hanshin in 2009. He was named as the hitting coach for the club's second team for the 2015 season. Yagi was hospitalized with swelling and bleeding on the brain after being hit in the head by a broken bat while in the dugout during a game on September 9, 2025.
🏫 Okayama Higashi Commercial High School📅 Born June 8🎂 Born 1965📍 From Tamano, Okayama Prefecture💼 Baseball
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Katsuya Terada (寺田 克也, Terada Katsuya; born December 7, 1963), is a Japanese illustrator and cartoonist from the town…
Katsuya Terada (寺田 克也, Terada Katsuya; born December 7, 1963), is a Japanese illustrator and cartoonist from the town of Tamano, Okayama. His alias is the portmanteau Rakugakingu (ラクガキング, "Doodle King"). Terada's prolific visual arts practice uniquely straddles the lines between manga, fine art, and digital design. His work ranges widely from highly detailed comics and novel illustrations to expressive, futuristic character designs for video games and anime. Terada posts actively on Facebook as Katsuya "t e r r a" Terada, as well as on his web blog terra's book.
Yukari Ichijo (一条ゆかり, Ichijō Yukari; born 19 September 1949 in Okayama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese shōjo and josei…
Yukari Ichijo (一条ゆかり, Ichijō Yukari; born 19 September 1949 in Okayama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese shōjo and josei manga artist. She made her debut as a professional manga artist in 1968 with Yuki no Serenade. In 1986 she received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Yūkan Club, and in 2007, she received an Excellence Prize in manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Pride. Several of her series have been dramatized, including Yūkan Club as an anime OVA and Designer and Tadashii Ren'ai no Susume as high-rated live-action television dramas. A live-action film based on her work Pride was released in 2009. Yoshimi Uchida worked for her as an assistant in the 1970s.
Tetsuo Takashima (高嶋 哲夫 Takashima Tetsuo, born July 7, 1949) is a contemporary Japanese author active in a number of…
Tetsuo Takashima (高嶋 哲夫 Takashima Tetsuo, born July 7, 1949) is a contemporary Japanese author active in a number of genres that include science fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, social commentary, and juvenile fiction.
🎓 Keio University🏫 Tamano High School📅 Born July 7🎂 Born 1949📍 From Tamano, Okayama Prefecture💼 Writer・Novelist
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Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa; March 31, 1932 – January 15, 2013) was a Japanese film director, writer, and…
Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa; March 31, 1932 – January 15, 2013) was a Japanese film director, writer, and left-wing activist who is best known for his fiction films, of which he directed 23 features in a career spanning from 1959 to 1999. He is regarded as one of the greatest Japanese directors of all time, and as one of the most important figures of the Japanese New Wave (Nūberu bāgu), alongside Shōhei Imamura. His film style was bold, innovative and provocative. Common themes in his work include youthful rebellion, class and racial discrimination and taboo sexuality. His first major film was his second feature, Cruel Story of Youth (1960), one of the first Japanese New Wave films, a youth-oriented film with an earnest portrayal of the sexual lives and criminal activities of its young protagonists. He came to greater international renown after Death By Hanging (1968), a film on the theme of capital punishment and anti-Korean sentiment, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968. His most controversial film is In the Realm of the Senses (1976), a sexually explicit film set in 1930s Japan.
🎓 Kyoto University🏫 Toba High School📅 Born March 31🎂 Born 1932📍 From Tamano, Okayama Prefecture💼 Film Director💼 Screenwriter💼 Stage Director💼 Writer
Michiko Fujiwara (藤原 道子, Fujiwara Michiko; 26 May 1900 – 26 April 1983) was a Japanese nurse and politician. She…
Michiko Fujiwara (藤原 道子, Fujiwara Michiko; 26 May 1900 – 26 April 1983) was a Japanese nurse and politician. She initially campaigned for her husband, the politician Kenji Yamazaki, but when he returned from the war with a new wife and child she ran against him. She defeated him as a candidate from the Socialist Party of Japan. She would become concerned with fighting child prostitution.
Ogino Dokuon (荻野 独園; 1819–1895) was a Rinzai rōshi remembered for his daring resistance to religious oppression…
Ogino Dokuon (荻野 独園; 1819–1895) was a Rinzai rōshi remembered for his daring resistance to religious oppression directed toward Buddhists during the late Tokugawa period and Meiji period of Japan.
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Taiyo Sugiura (杉浦 太陽, Sugiura Taiyō) (born March 10, 1981) is a Japanese actor.
Akemi Yamada (山田 朱未, Yamada Akemi; born May 18, 1980) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2-dan.
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