Hisato Ichimada (一萬田 尚登, Ichimada Hisato; 12 August 1893 – 22 January 1984) was a Japanese banker and politician who…
Hisato Ichimada (一萬田 尚登, Ichimada Hisato; 12 August 1893 – 22 January 1984) was a Japanese banker and politician who served as Minister of Finance from 1954 to 1956 and 1957 to 1958, and as Governor of the Bank of Japan from 1946 to 1954. Ichimada was an important figure in the post-war revival of the Japanese economy.
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Famous People from Oita Prefecture
Oita Prefecture: 239 people
Jitsuzo Hinago (24 October 1892 – 25 April 1945) was a Japanese sculptor. His work was part of the art competitions at…
Jitsuzo Hinago (24 October 1892 – 25 April 1945) was a Japanese sculptor. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Heihachirō Fukuda (福田平八郎, Fukuda Heihachirō; February 28, 1892 – March 22, 1974) was a Japanese Nihonga painter and…
Heihachirō Fukuda (福田平八郎, Fukuda Heihachirō; February 28, 1892 – March 22, 1974) was a Japanese Nihonga painter and designer. He received a commission to decorate the Take-no-ma audience room of the Tokyo Imperial Palace, a hall that has an area of 182 square meters, or 55 tsubo. The piece “Take” depicts bamboo. The hall also features works by Tatsuaki Kuroda and Hajime Kato. His work is a part of the collection of the Menard Art Museum, the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
Hisashi Asō (麻生 久, Asō Hisashi; 24 May 1891 – 6 September 1940), pen name Asayama Kaikei (麻山 改介), was a Japanese…
Hisashi Asō (麻生 久, Asō Hisashi; 24 May 1891 – 6 September 1940), pen name Asayama Kaikei (麻山 改介), was a Japanese socialist politician and trade unionist active in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods. A graduate of Tokyo Imperial University, he rose in the labour movement through the Yūaikai and as founder of the All Japan Miners' Federation, leading major strikes before helping establish successive centrist proletarian parties. He served as secretary-general and later chairman of the Social Mass Party (Shakai Taishūtō), was elected to the House of Representatives for Tokyo's 5th district in 1936 and 1937, and subsequently advocated collaboration with right-wing renovationist elements and the military, dissolving the party in July 1940 to support Fumimaro Konoe's New Order movement. He was a mentor to Inejirō Asanuma, the future chairman of the Japan Socialist Party.
Fujio Yoshida (吉田 ふじを, Yoshida Fujio; October 5, 1887 – May 1, 1987) was a Japanese artist. She was the first female…
Fujio Yoshida (吉田 ふじを, Yoshida Fujio; October 5, 1887 – May 1, 1987) was a Japanese artist. She was the first female artist among the Yoshida family artists.
Mamoru Shigemitsu (重光 葵, Shigemitsu Mamoru; July 29, 1887 – January 26, 1957) was a Japanese diplomat and politician…
Mamoru Shigemitsu (重光 葵, Shigemitsu Mamoru; July 29, 1887 – January 26, 1957) was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs three times during and after World War II and as Deputy Prime Minister. As a civilian plenipotentiary representing the Japanese government, Shigemitsu cosigned the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on board the battleship USS Missouri on September 2, 1945.
🎓 University of Tokyo🏫 Kitsuki High School📅 Born July 29🎂 Born 1887📍 From Oita Prefecture💼 Diplomat💼 Politician・Legislator
Soemu Toyoda (豊田 副武, Toyoda Soemu; 22 May 1885 – 22 September 1957) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in…
Soemu Toyoda (豊田 副武, Toyoda Soemu; 22 May 1885 – 22 September 1957) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II.
🎓 Imperial Japanese Naval Academy🏫 Kitsuki High School📅 Born May 22🎂 Born 1885📍 From Oita Prefecture💼 Military Officer
Yaeko Nogami (野上 弥生子, Nogami Yaeko; 6 May 1885 – 30 March 1985) was the pen-name of a novelist of the Shōwa period…
Yaeko Nogami (野上 弥生子, Nogami Yaeko; 6 May 1885 – 30 March 1985) was the pen-name of a novelist of the Shōwa period Japan. Her maiden name was Kotegawa Yae.
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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.
🎓 Kyoto Imperial University🏫 Toyora High School📅 Born October 25🎂 Born 1884📍 From Usa, Ōita💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor
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Fumio Gotō (後藤 文夫, Gotō Fumio; 7 March 1884 – 13 May 1980) was a Japanese politician and bureaucrat, and briefly served…
Fumio Gotō (後藤 文夫, Gotō Fumio; 7 March 1884 – 13 May 1980) was a Japanese politician and bureaucrat, and briefly served as interim Prime Minister of Japan in 1936.
🎓 University of Tokyo🏫 Shibukawa High School📅 Born March 7🎂 Born 1884📍 From Oita Prefecture💼 Bureaucrat💼 Politician・Legislator
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Teikichi Hori (堀 悌吉, Hori Teikichi; August 16, 1883 – May 12, 1959) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during…
Teikichi Hori (堀 悌吉, Hori Teikichi; August 16, 1883 – May 12, 1959) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the early twentieth century. During the interwar period, Hori was a prominent member of the Treaty Faction of the Navy, and opposed war against the United States and the United Kingdom. Hori and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto were close lifelong friends.
🎓 Imperial Japanese Naval Academy🏫 Kitsuki High School📅 Born August 16🎂 Born 1883📍 From Kitsuki, Ōita💼 Military Officer💼 Company President・Entrepreneur
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Kesago Nakajima (中島 今朝吾, Nakajima Kesago; 15 June 1881 – 28 October 1945) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial…
Kesago Nakajima (中島 今朝吾, Nakajima Kesago; 15 June 1881 – 28 October 1945) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese forces under Nakajima's command committed the 1937 Nanjing Massacre.
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Tsuneo Kanemitsu (金光 庸夫, Kanemitsu Tsuneo; also as known as Kanemitsu Yasuo; March 13, 1877 – March 5, 1955), was an…
Tsuneo Kanemitsu (金光 庸夫, Kanemitsu Tsuneo; also as known as Kanemitsu Yasuo; March 13, 1877 – March 5, 1955), was an entrepreneur, politician and cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan, serving eight terms as a member of the Lower House of the Diet of Japan, and twice times as a cabinet minister. He also served twice in the post-war Lower House of the Diet.
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Jirō Minami (南 次郎, Minami Jirō; 10 August 1874 – 5 December 1955) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and…
Jirō Minami (南 次郎, Minami Jirō; 10 August 1874 – 5 December 1955) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and Governor-General of Korea between 1936 and 1942. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment.
🎓 Imperial Japanese Army Academy🏫 Seijo High School📅 Born August 10🎂 Born 1874📍 From Bungotakada, Ōita💼 Military Officer
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Kurushima Takehiko (久留島 武彦; June 19, 1874 – June 27, 1960) was a children's literature author known as "the Japanese…
Kurushima Takehiko (久留島 武彦; June 19, 1874 – June 27, 1960) was a children's literature author known as "the Japanese Hans Christian Andersen". He was one of the three great Japanese authors of children's stories for public performance. One of Takehiko's most celebrated works is the nursery rhyme "Yūyake Koyake".
Naka Nakane (中根中, Nakane Naka; 1870–1954), a.k.a. Satokata Takahashi, was a Japanese-born businessman who became known…
Naka Nakane (中根中, Nakane Naka; 1870–1954), a.k.a. Satokata Takahashi, was a Japanese-born businessman who became known as a pro-Japanese agitator among Midwestern African-Americans in the 1930s and early 1940s. Nakane was born to a well-off family in Kitsuki and set out to become a Methodist pastor, but immigrated to Canada in 1903 following personal and professional setbacks. Settling in Moose Jaw, he raised a family, opened multiple businesses, and became an occasional advocate for Japanese Canadian rights. He moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1921 and disappeared in 1926, only to reemerge under a new name in Detroit in the early 1930s, where he became an agitator and activist in the city's black community. Affiliated with the Black Dragon Society, he worked with leaders of the Nation of Islam and other black organizations to promote Japan as an ally of the black cause in the United States. He also founded and exercised influence over several pro-Japanese organizations, including the Pacific Movement of the Eastern World, and married black activist Pearl Sherrod. Nakane's activities attracted FBI scrutiny; he was deported in 1934 and arrested in 1939 after returning to Detroit. Following internment during World War II, he died in Detroit in 1954.
Hirose Takeo (廣瀨 武夫, Takeo Hirose; May 27, 1868 – March 27, 1904) was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy.…
Hirose Takeo (廣瀨 武夫, Takeo Hirose; May 27, 1868 – March 27, 1904) was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He commanded the cargo vessel Fukui Maru during the Battle of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War. The ship was hit by coastal artillery, and despite being wounded, he was killed while looking for other survivors of the sinking, going down with his ship. His selfless sacrifice elevated him to the status of a deified national hero.
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Baron Yamamoto Tatsuo (山本 達雄; 7 April 1856 – 2 November 1947) was a Japanese banker and politician who was Governor of…
Baron Yamamoto Tatsuo (山本 達雄; 7 April 1856 – 2 November 1947) was a Japanese banker and politician who was Governor of the Bank of Japan from 1898 to 1903. He was also a member of the House of Peers and served as a cabinet minister in the pre-war government of the Empire of Japan.
Minoura Katsundo (箕浦 勝人; 13 March 1854 – 30 August 1929) was a journalist, entrepreneur, politician and cabinet…
Minoura Katsundo (箕浦 勝人; 13 March 1854 – 30 August 1929) was a journalist, entrepreneur, politician and cabinet minister in the pre-World War II Empire of Japan.
📅 Born March 13🎂 Born 1854📍 From Usuki, Ōita💼 Newspaper Reporter💼 Company President・Entrepreneur💼 Politician・Legislator
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Tanomura Chikuden (田能村 竹田; Japanese pronunciation: [tɕi̥.kɯꜜ.deɴ], July 14, 1777 – October 20, 1835) was an artist and…
Tanomura Chikuden (田能村 竹田; Japanese pronunciation: [tɕi̥.kɯꜜ.deɴ], July 14, 1777 – October 20, 1835) was an artist and Confucian scholar of Edo period Japan.
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Peter Kasui Kibe, SJ (Japanese: ペトロ・カスイ岐部, romanized: Petoro Kasui Kibe; born Kibe Shigekatsu, 岐部 茂勝; 1587 – 4 July…
Peter Kasui Kibe, SJ (Japanese: ペトロ・カスイ岐部, romanized: Petoro Kasui Kibe; born Kibe Shigekatsu, 岐部 茂勝; 1587 – 4 July 1639) was a Jesuit who was one of the first Japanese people to visit major cities west of his native Japan, such as Rome and Jerusalem. He was killed in 1639 and beatified as a martyr in 2008.
Kiyoshi Odawara (小田原 潔, Odawara Kiyoshi; born 23 May 1964) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party…
Kiyoshi Odawara (小田原 潔, Odawara Kiyoshi; born 23 May 1964) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who serves as a member of the House of Representatives.
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Mahoto Watanabe (ワタナベマホト, Watanabe Mahoto; born December 8, 1992) is a former Japanese YouTuber and rapper. He was part…
Mahoto Watanabe (ワタナベマホト, Watanabe Mahoto; born December 8, 1992) is a former Japanese YouTuber and rapper. He was part of the hip hop group Kaiware Hummer, releasing music under the stage name Bema. Watanabe first began posting videos on Nico Douga in 2007 and transitioned to YouTube in 2010, becoming one of the first YouTube personalities on YouTube Japan. He gained popularity with his radical video style, but he was also known for his caring personality for his junior YouTubers, who called him "Oyakata". He is famous for having trained up popular YouTubers such as Tokai On Air, Avntis, and Hekitora House. In January 2021, Watanabe allegedly solicited nude photos from an underage fan, which subsequently caused his agency Uuum to drop him as an act and YouTube to permanently ban his channel. In March 2021, he announced he was retiring from YouTube.
Teiya Ichiryusai (一龍斎 貞弥, Ichiryūsai Teiya; born February 2, 1968) is a Japanese voice actress from Ōita Prefecture…
Teiya Ichiryusai (一龍斎 貞弥, Ichiryūsai Teiya; born February 2, 1968) is a Japanese voice actress from Ōita Prefecture affiliated with Aoni Production. Her former stage name is Aya Hara (原 亜弥, Hara Aya).
Nana Mori (森 七菜, Mori Nana; born August 31, 2001) is a Japanese actress.
Ayaka Araki (荒木 彩花, Araki Ayaka; born 2 September 2001) is a Japanese professional volleyball player. She plays in the…
Ayaka Araki (荒木 彩花, Araki Ayaka; born 2 September 2001) is a Japanese professional volleyball player. She plays in the SV.League for Saga Hisamitsu Springs.
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Misa Etō (衛藤 美彩, Etō Misa; born 4 January 1993) is a Japanese gravure model. Former member of the idol groups…
Misa Etō (衛藤 美彩, Etō Misa; born 4 January 1993) is a Japanese gravure model. Former member of the idol groups Nogizaka46 and Chimo. On February 14, 2019, Etō announced that she would be graduating from Nogizaka46, that her graduation concert would be held at Ryōgoku Kokugikan the following month, and that her official group activities would conclude at the end of March. In April 2019, she became a regular co-host for the CS Fuji TV ONE Professional Baseball News 2019 program.
Hiroaki Nakamura (中村 博昭, Nakamura Hiroaki), better known by the stage name of Hiroshi Naka (中 博史, Naka Hiroshi), is a…
Hiroaki Nakamura (中村 博昭, Nakamura Hiroaki), better known by the stage name of Hiroshi Naka (中 博史, Naka Hiroshi), is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator affiliated with Ken Production. He is originally from Ōita Prefecture.
Shinya Fujiwara (藤原 新也, Fujiwara Shin'ya; born March 4, 1944 in Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū) is a Japanese photographer.
Kihachirō Uemura (植村 喜八郎, Uemura Kihachirō) (born September 5, 1960) is a Japanese actor and voice actor.…
Kihachirō Uemura (植村 喜八郎, Uemura Kihachirō) (born September 5, 1960) is a Japanese actor and voice actor. Doraemon（1990）Nobi kasusasibi
Yasuei Yakushiji (薬師寺保栄, Yakushiji Yasuei; born July 22, 1968) is a former professional boxer who fought in the…
Yasuei Yakushiji (薬師寺保栄, Yakushiji Yasuei; born July 22, 1968) is a former professional boxer who fought in the bantamweight division. He successfully defended the WBC bantamweight title four times during his career.
Mika Sugisaki (杉崎 美香, Sugisaki Mika; born October 31, 1978, in Ōita, Ōita, Japan) is a Japanese announcer, radio…
Mika Sugisaki (杉崎 美香, Sugisaki Mika; born October 31, 1978, in Ōita, Ōita, Japan) is a Japanese announcer, radio personality, entertainer, and actress who is represented by the talent agency, Cent Force.
Mao Abe (阿部 真央, Abe Mao; born 24 January 1990) is a Japanese singer-songwriter.
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Seiichi Uchikawa (内川 聖一, Uchikawa Seiichi; born August 4, 1982) is a Japanese former professional baseball first…
Seiichi Uchikawa (内川 聖一, Uchikawa Seiichi; born August 4, 1982) is a Japanese former professional baseball first baseman and outfielder. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama BayStars, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, and Tokyo Yakult Swallows from 2001 to 2022.
Otoya Kawano (かわの をとや, Kawano Otoya; born August 18, 1965) is a Japanese voice actor who was born in Taketa, Ōita.
Yūsuke Nakayama (中山 裕介, Nakayama Yūsuke; born 12 March 1971), better known by his stage name Yūsuke Santamaria…
Yūsuke Nakayama (中山 裕介, Nakayama Yūsuke; born 12 March 1971), better known by his stage name Yūsuke Santamaria (ユースケ・サンタマリア), is a Japanese actor and singer.
Yuki Kawai (河合 由貴, Kawai Yuki; born January 22, 1990) is a former Japanese volleyball player.
Satoko Suetsuna (末綱 聡子, Suetsuna Satoko; born 30 January 1981) is a badminton player from Japan. Born in Ōita, Ōita…
Satoko Suetsuna (末綱 聡子, Suetsuna Satoko; born 30 January 1981) is a badminton player from Japan. Born in Ōita, Ōita Prefecture, she joined Renesas badminton club and later affiliated with Saishunkan team. She was a bronze medalist at the 2011 BWF World Championships with her partner Miyuki Maeda.
Takeshi Iwaya (岩屋 毅, Iwaya Takeshi; born 24 August 1957) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. He…
Takeshi Iwaya (岩屋 毅, Iwaya Takeshi; born 24 August 1957) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. He is a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet, or national legislature, and was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2024 to 2025. He served as the Minister of Defense from 2 October 2018 to 11 September 2019.
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