Yūko Ōtsubaki (Japanese: 大椿 裕子, Hepburn: Ōtsubaki Yūko; born August 14, 1973) is a Japanese politician and labor…
Yūko Ōtsubaki (Japanese: 大椿 裕子, Hepburn: Ōtsubaki Yūko; born August 14, 1973) is a Japanese politician and labor activist. She was a member of the House of Councillors from 2023 to 2025, representing the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and served as a vice-chair of the party until 2026. She previously served as the chairperson of the Osaka Educational Workers' Union. She is married; her spouse is a Catalan from Barcelona.
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Famous People from Takahashi, Okayama
Takahashi, Okayama: 15 people
Shinji Hiramatsu (Japanese: 平松 伸二, Hepburn: Hiramatsu Shinji, born August 22, 1955) is a Japanese manga artist. He…
Shinji Hiramatsu (Japanese: 平松 伸二, Hepburn: Hiramatsu Shinji, born August 22, 1955) is a Japanese manga artist. He hails from Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, and currently resides in Shibamata, Katsushika Ward, Tokyo. He is best known for works such as Doberman Deka, Black Angels, and Murder License Kiba. His wife is manga scriptwriter Uni Yasue. He serves as a councilor of the Japan Cartoonists Association.
Hiroyuki Shimatani (Japanese: 島谷 弘幸, Shimatani Hiroyuki; born November 26, 1953) is a Japanese scholar of antique art.…
Hiroyuki Shimatani (Japanese: 島谷 弘幸, Shimatani Hiroyuki; born November 26, 1953) is a Japanese scholar of antique art. After serving as the director of the Kyushu National Museum, he became the president of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage. He is from Okayama Prefecture.
🎓 University of Tsukuba🏫 Okayama Prefectural Takahashi High School📅 Born November 26🎂 Born 1953📍 From Takahashi, Okayama💼 Researcher
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Masaji Hiramatsu (平松 政次, Hiramatsu Masaji; born September 19, 1947) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher…
Masaji Hiramatsu (平松 政次, Hiramatsu Masaji; born September 19, 1947) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He played for the Taiyo Whales / Yokohama Taiyo Whales from 1967 to 1984. He won the Eiji Sawamura Award in 1970. In his career, he had 2,045 strikeouts (in 3,360.2 innings), which is currently 22nd among all NPB players in history. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2017.
Akiko Fukai (Japanese: 深井 晃子, Fukai Akiko, born September 10, 1943) is a Japanese curator of fashion and textile arts.…
Akiko Fukai (Japanese: 深井 晃子, Fukai Akiko, born September 10, 1943) is a Japanese curator of fashion and textile arts. She is a director and honorary curator of the Kyoto Costume Institute. Fukai is also an honorary doctor of Ochanomizu University. She has served as a professor at Kobe Women's University and Shizuoka University of Art and Culture. Her birth name is Akiko Takahashi (Japanese: 高橋 晃子). She is originally from Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture.
🎓 Ochanomizu University🏫 Okayama Prefectural Takahashi High School📅 Born September 10🎂 Born 1943📍 From Takahashi, Okayama💼 Researcher
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Masao Tachiki (Japanese: 立木 正夫, Hepburn: Tachiki Masao, March 31, 1941 – August 6, 2018) was a Japanese business…
Masao Tachiki (Japanese: 立木 正夫, Hepburn: Tachiki Masao, March 31, 1941 – August 6, 2018) was a Japanese business executive. After serving as a director at Suntory, he became the 7th president of the Japan Volleyball Association. He also served as a municipal advisor in his hometown. He was a native of Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture.
🎓 University of Tokyo🏫 Okayama Prefectural Takahashi High School📅 Born March 31🎂 Born 1941📍 From Takahashi, Okayama💼 Company President・Entrepreneur
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Masakata Mukai (Japanese: 向井 正剛, Hepburn: Mukai Masakata, born February 11, 1935) is a Japanese educator and former…
Masakata Mukai (Japanese: 向井 正剛, Hepburn: Mukai Masakata, born February 11, 1935) is a Japanese educator and former high school baseball manager. He is the only high school baseball manager from Okayama Prefecture to have won a national championship in either the spring or summer Koshien tournaments. While managing Okayama Higashi Commercial High School, he led the team—featuring ace pitcher Masaji Hiramatsu, also from his hometown—to victory in the Spring Koshien. He was born in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture.
🎓 Gunma University🏫 Okayama Prefectural Takahashi High School📅 Born February 11🎂 Born 1935📍 From Takahashi, Okayama💼 Educator
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Tadao Ogura (Japanese: 小倉 忠夫, Ogura Tadao, born March 22, 1929) is a Japanese art critic, known primarily for his work…
Tadao Ogura (Japanese: 小倉 忠夫, Ogura Tadao, born March 22, 1929) is a Japanese art critic, known primarily for his work in the fields of printmaking and Western-style painting. Active from the 1960s through the 1970s, he published numerous critiques that significantly influenced the postwar Japanese art scene. He was born in Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture. His father was Gyoka Ogura (Japanese: 小倉 魚禾, Ogura Gyoka), a painter.
🎓 University of Tokyo🏫 Okayama Prefectural Takahashi High School📅 Born March 22🎂 Born 1929📍 From Takahashi, Okayama💼 Critic
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Tadaichi Hirakawa (平川 唯一, February 13, 1902 – August 25, 1993) was a broadcaster and radio instructor of English…
Tadaichi Hirakawa (平川 唯一, February 13, 1902 – August 25, 1993) was a broadcaster and radio instructor of English conversation courses for the NHK. Nicknamed "Uncle Come Come," he was in charge of the popular radio program "English Conversation (Eikaiwa 英会話)" from 1946 to 1951. The program is also known as "Come Come English". He came from Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan and studied in the United States before World War II. In 2021, NHK produced a TV drama, Come Come Everybody, featured Hirakawa and his life and family.
Tōyō Mitsunobu (光延 東洋, Mitsunobu Tōyō; 9 October 1897 – 8 June 1944) was a captain of the Imperial Japanese Navy.…
Tōyō Mitsunobu (光延 東洋, Mitsunobu Tōyō; 9 October 1897 – 8 June 1944) was a captain of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Mitunobu worked in the Japanese naval command in China.
🎓 Imperial Japanese Naval War College🏫 Osaka Prefectural Kitano High School📅 Born October 9🎂 Born 1897📍 From Takahashi, Okayama💼 Military Officer
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Yukio Tomeoka (留岡 幸男, Tomeoka Yukio; 16 April 1894 – 3 May 1981) was a Japanese bureaucrat, police official, and later…
Yukio Tomeoka (留岡 幸男, Tomeoka Yukio; 16 April 1894 – 3 May 1981) was a Japanese bureaucrat, police official, and later lawyer. A career official of the Home Ministry, he served as Governor of Akita Prefecture, Director-General of the ministry's Local Affairs Bureau, Superintendent-General of the Metropolitan Police, and finally as Director-General of the Hokkaidō Agency.
Yu Yokoya (1891–1969) was a Japanese marine biologist. He worked at least after 1917 on Japanese decapod crustaceans…
Yu Yokoya (1891–1969) was a Japanese marine biologist. He worked at least after 1917 on Japanese decapod crustaceans for the Fisheries Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo Imperial University.
🎓 Nagasaki University🏫 Okayama Prefectural Takahashi High School📅 Born August 5🎂 Born 1891📍 From Takahashi, Okayama💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor
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Shigeru Nakajima (Japanese: 中島 重, Hepburn: Nakajima Shigeru; May 3, 1888 – May 29, 1946) was a Japanese legal scholar…
Shigeru Nakajima (Japanese: 中島 重, Hepburn: Nakajima Shigeru; May 3, 1888 – May 29, 1946) was a Japanese legal scholar, sociologist, and Christian thinker. His academic specialties were constitutional law, under the tutelage of Tatsukichi Minobe, and political sociology, with a focus on the theory of the state. He served as a professor at Doshisha University and Kwansei Gakuin University. Nakajima is known for introducing the concept of a pluralistic state into Japanese political science and sociology, and for promoting the idea of "Social Christianity" alongside Toyohiko Kagawa.
🎓 Tokyo Imperial University🏫 Okayama Prefectural Takahashi High School📅 Born May 3🎂 Born 1888📍 From Takahashi, Okayama💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor💼 Christianity
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Masato Sugi (杉 政人, Sugi Masato; August 13, 1880 – November 19, 1951) was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer who held the…
Masato Sugi (杉 政人, Sugi Masato; August 13, 1880 – November 19, 1951) was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer who held the final rank of Vice Admiral. He was born in Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture. As a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Engineering Academy, he was the first candidate for the rank of Admiral from that institution.
🏫 Okayama Prefectural Takahashi High School📅 Born August 13🎂 Born 1880📍 From Takahashi, Okayama💼 Military Officer
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Tsunashima Ryōsen (綱島 梁川, Tsunashima Ryōsen; May 27, 1873–September 14, 1907) was a Japanese author and philosopher. He…
Tsunashima Ryōsen (綱島 梁川, Tsunashima Ryōsen; May 27, 1873–September 14, 1907) was a Japanese author and philosopher. He was a graduate of Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō. He was originally a rationalist and then became a Christian. He is buried in Tokyo's Zōshigaya cemetery.