Seigō Tsuchida (Japanese: 土田正剛, romanized: Tsuchida Seigō; October 25, 1943 – April 16, 2026) was a Japanese…Seigō Tsuchida (Japanese: 土田正剛, romanized: Tsuchida Seigō; October 25, 1943 – April 16, 2026) was a Japanese politician. He served as the Mayor of Higashine, Yamagata Prefecture between 1998 and his death in 2026. Tsuchida was a member of the Yamagata Prefectural Assembly for four terms.
Kichijiro Hamada (浜田 吉次郎, Hamada Kichijirō; 25 October 1942 – 22 September 2013) was a Japanese boxer. He competed in…Kichijiro Hamada (浜田 吉次郎, Hamada Kichijirō; 25 October 1942 – 22 September 2013) was a Japanese boxer. He competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Tadayuki Inoue (井上 忠行, Inoue Tadayuki; October 25, 1935 – December 15, 2007) was a Japanese baseball player who played…Tadayuki Inoue (井上 忠行, Inoue Tadayuki; October 25, 1935 – December 15, 2007) was a Japanese baseball player who played for the Nishitetsu Lions from 1957 to 1964. His career on-base plus slugging was .506, with a high of .586 for 1962 and a low of .299 for 1957. After retiring, he became a professional baseball umpire.
Kenkichi Sonogashira (薗頭 健吉, Sonogashira Kenkichi; born 25 October 1931) is a Japanese chemist and was a professor of…Kenkichi Sonogashira (薗頭 健吉, Sonogashira Kenkichi; born 25 October 1931) is a Japanese chemist and was a professor of chemistry at Osaka University in Japan. He discovered the Sonogashira coupling in 1975. Sonogashira was later a professor at Osaka City University and retired in 2004.
Kazuo Ikehiro (池広一夫, Ikehiro Kazuo; 25 October 1929 – 15 October 2025) was a Japanese film director. He is known for…Kazuo Ikehiro (池広一夫, Ikehiro Kazuo; 25 October 1929 – 15 October 2025) was a Japanese film director. He is known for directing Zatoichi series and the highly acclaimed film Onna Gokuakuchō. In 1950, he joined the Daiei Film and started working as an assistant director under Kenji Mizoguchi etc. In 1960, he was promoted to director and debuted with Bara Daimyo. Ikehiro died of a heart attack in Tokyo, on 15 October 2025, at the age of 95.
Hosei Norota (野呂田 芳成, Norota Hōsei; 25 October 1929 – 23 May 2019) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic…Hosei Norota (野呂田 芳成, Norota Hōsei; 25 October 1929 – 23 May 2019) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Noshiro, Akita and graduate of Chuo University he joined the Ministry of Construction in 1953. Leaving the ministry, he was elected to the House of Councillors in the Diet for the first time in 1977. In 1983 he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time. From 1995 to 1996 he served as the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Tomiichi Murayama's cabinet. In 1998 he served briefly as Director General of the Japan Defense Agency. In 2001, Norota received the civilian honor Padma Vibhushan from the President of India. Norota died of bladder cancer on 23 May 2019 at a Tokyo hospital, aged 89.
Shinji Kawasaki (川崎 真治, Kawasaki Shinji) (1921-2007) was a Japanese archaeologist. An expert in petroglyphs and ancient…Shinji Kawasaki (川崎 真治, Kawasaki Shinji) (1921-2007) was a Japanese archaeologist. An expert in petroglyphs and ancient Japanese languages and characters, he has authored a number of books on the origin of the Japanese people and proposed a number of theories. In 1976 he authored a book on the Imperial Family of the Japanese, and another three years later, The Wajin Hozuma Legend of the Silk Road (1979). His 1980 book explored the ancient links of the Japanese with the Jōmon people.
Dogen Handa (半田 道玄, Handa Dōgen; October 25, 1915 – April 13, 1974) also known as Hayami Handa, was a professional Go…Dogen Handa (半田 道玄, Handa Dōgen; October 25, 1915 – April 13, 1974) also known as Hayami Handa, was a professional Go player.
Major Shizuo Fukui (福井 静夫, Fukui Shizuo; 1913-1993) was a Japanese author, photographer, editor, and Imperial Japanese…Major Shizuo Fukui (福井 静夫, Fukui Shizuo; 1913-1993) was a Japanese author, photographer, editor, and Imperial Japanese Naval and Japanese Coast Guard officer with the rank of lieutenant commander. He was most famous for his comprehensive books of all combatant vessels and minor miscellaneous vessels in the Japanese Navy during World War II and postwar Japan. His third son Takeo Fukui was President of Honda R&D and Honda.
Yasuo Kazuki (Japanese: 香月泰男, October 25, 1911 – 8 March 1974) was a Japanese artist known for his paintings depicting…Yasuo Kazuki (Japanese: 香月泰男, October 25, 1911 – 8 March 1974) was a Japanese artist known for his paintings depicting life as a prisoner of war in Siberia. This set of paintings, known as the Siberian Series, was derived from his experiences in concentration camps after being taken as a prisoner of war in 1945 following World War II. After returning to Japan, he continued to paint until his death at age 62.
Ken Domon (土門 拳, Domon Ken; 25 October 1909 – 15 September 1990) was a celebrated Japanese photographer known for his…Ken Domon (土門 拳, Domon Ken; 25 October 1909 – 15 September 1990) was a celebrated Japanese photographer known for his work as a photojournalist and as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary. Domon, who began his career in the 1930s contributing photo reportages to magazines that supported the increasingly militaristic Japanese state and its imperial policies, later criticized propaganda photography. His subsequent termination from the government agency he worked for spurred his career as a freelance photographer. As photojournalists grappled with how to depict the new social reality of the post-WWII period, Domon forged the realistic photography movement (Riarizumu Shashin Undō). He embraced the idea of snapshot photography (sunappu), in which images could be captured with "absolute unstagedness". Domon documented the aftermath of the war, focusing on society and the lives of ordinary people. He received national acclaim for his portraits of children in exploitative labor conditions and Hiroshima bomb survivors (hibakusha). Domon was forced to abandon sunappu photography after he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1958. His major project until the end of his career was photographing temples across Japan, a much-beloved subject that he had first begun to document in 1940. These images constituted the monumental series Pilgrimage to Ancient Temples (Koji Junrei), published in five volumes from 1963 to 1975.
Mitsuo Miura (三浦光雄, Miura Mitsuo; 25 October 1902 – 24 October 1956) was a Japanese cinematographer who photographed…Mitsuo Miura (三浦光雄, Miura Mitsuo; 25 October 1902 – 24 October 1956) was a Japanese cinematographer who photographed more than 100 films in a career that spanned 30 years. He worked for film directors such as Shirō Toyoda, Heinosuke Gosho, Mikio Naruse, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, and Kajirō Yamamoto. An award for new cinematographers was named after him in his memory.
Huang Chao-chin (黃朝琴, Taiwanese: N̂g Tiâu-khîm, October 25, 1897 – July 5, 1972), known by the courtesy name Lan-ting…Huang Chao-chin (黃朝琴, Taiwanese: N̂g Tiâu-khîm, October 25, 1897 – July 5, 1972), known by the courtesy name Lan-ting and pen name Chao Jin or Nien-tai, was a Taiwanese diplomat and politician. Born in Yanshui Port, Chiayi County, Taiwan under Japanese rule (now Yanshuei District, Tainan), he pursued his early education in Japan and later studied public international law in the United States. Upon completion of his studies, he went to the Republic of China to serve in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist government. He held various positions including Provincial Speaker and member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, and presided over the Taiwan Provincial Assembly for nearly two decades.
Katsukiyo Kubomatsu (久保松勝喜代; 25 October 1894 – 15 December 1941) was a Japanese professional go player. Nicknamed the…Katsukiyo Kubomatsu (久保松勝喜代; 25 October 1894 – 15 December 1941) was a Japanese professional go player. Nicknamed the Great Amateur, Kubomatsu was responsible for sending Utaro Hashimoto and Minoru Kitani to Kensaku Segoe and Tamejiro Suzuki respectively and also taught Nobuaki Maeda. Kubomatsu was known as one of the earliest innovators of the shin-fuseki, a revolution in Go theory pioneered by his student Minoru Kitani and Go Seigen in the 1930s. Kubomatsu was known for starting on the tengen, the center point of the board. He was posthumously promoted to 9 dan by the Nihon Ki-in and Kansai Ki-in in 2009, 67 years after his death.
Kōtarō Tanaka (田中耕太郎; 25 October 1890 – 1 March 1974) was a Japanese jurist, professor of law and politician who served…Kōtarō Tanaka (田中耕太郎; 25 October 1890 – 1 March 1974) was a Japanese jurist, professor of law and politician who served as the last Minister of Education of the Empire of Japan and the second postwar Chief Justice of Japan.
Shigenori Kuroda (黒田 重徳, Kuroda Shigenori; October 25, 1887 – April 30, 1952) was a Japanese lieutenant general of the…Shigenori Kuroda (黒田 重徳, Kuroda Shigenori; October 25, 1887 – April 30, 1952) was a Japanese lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Japanese Governor-General of the Philippines during World War II.
Motonori Matsuyama (松山 基範, Matsuyama Motonori; October 25, 1884 – January 27, 1958) was a Japanese geophysicist who was…Motonori Matsuyama (松山 基範, Matsuyama Motonori; October 25, 1884 – January 27, 1958) was a Japanese geophysicist who was (in the late 1920s) the first to provide systematic evidence that the Earth's magnetic field had been reversed in the early Pleistocene and to suggest that long periods existed in the past in which the polarity was reversed. He remarked that the Earth's field had later changed to the present polarity. The era of reversed polarity preceding the current Brunhes Chron of normal polarity is now called the Matuyama Reversed Chron; and the transition between them is called the Brunhes–Matuyama or Matuyama-Brunhes reversal.
Ichita Kobashi (小橋 一太; 25 October 1870 – 2 October 1939) was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who served as the…Ichita Kobashi (小橋 一太; 25 October 1870 – 2 October 1939) was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who served as the Minister of Education in 1929 and as the 16th mayor of Tokyo from 1937 to 1939.
Baron Kiichirō Hiranuma (平沼 騏一郎; 28 September 1867 – 22 August 1952) was a Japanese lawyer and politician who served as…Baron Kiichirō Hiranuma (平沼 騏一郎; 28 September 1867 – 22 August 1952) was a Japanese lawyer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1939. Hiranuma rose to prominence as a prosecutor and official in the Ministry of Justice. He served as minister of Justice under Prime Minister Yamamoto Gonnohyōe and later became a privy counsellor. After serving as president of the privy council, he became prime minister in 1939, but resigned later the same year. He later returned to cabinet under Fumimaro Konoe. After the Japanese surrender, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for his role in World War II.
