55 Notable alumni of
Doshisha University
Doshisha University is 160th in the world, 27th in Asia, and 15th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 55 notable alumni from Doshisha University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Kazlaser
- Occupations
- owarai tarentotelevision presenter
- Biography
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Kazlaser is a Japanese comedian. He performs boke in the comedy duo Maple Chogoukin. His real name is Kazunori Kaneko (金子 和令, Kaneko Kazunori). He is represented with Sun Music Production.
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Misato Ugaki
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- announcer
- Biography
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Misato Ugaki is a Japanese freelance announcer. Previously she was a Tokyo Broadcasting System Television announcer.
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Seiji Kobayashi
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Seiji Kobayashi is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
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Shinji Mikami
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- video game producer
- Biography
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Shinji Mikami is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer. Starting his career at Capcom in 1990, he has worked on many of the company's most successful games. He directed the first installment of the Resident Evil series in 1996 and the first installment of the Dino Crisis series in 1999, both survival horror games. He returned to Resident Evil to direct the remake of the first game in 2002 and the third-person shooter Resident Evil 4 in 2005. In 2006, he directed his final Capcom game God Hand, a beat 'em up action game. Mikami worked at PlatinumGames to direct the third-person shooter Vanquish in 2010. The same year, he founded his own studio Tango Gameworks which has since been acquired by the American company ZeniMax Media. Under his studio, he directed the third-person horror game The Evil Within in 2014. He has also served the roles of producer and executive producer for many games.
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Tetsuro Fukuyama
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tetsuro Fukuyama is a politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). He is currently the secretary general of the CDP. A native of Tokyo, he graduated from Doshisha University and received a master's degree from Kyoto University. After running unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives in 1996, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1998.
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Masaki Sumitani
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- comedianprofessional wrestlerowarai tarentotarento
- Biography
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Masaki Sumitani is a Japanese comedian, retired professional wrestler, and tarento ("talent") also known under his performing name of Razor Ramon Hard Gay (レイザーラモンＨＧ, Reizā Ramon HG, occasionally HG, Razor Ramon Sumitani or just Hard Gay), which he adopted from Razor Ramon. His act was featured on the Bakusho Mondai no Bakuten! (Daibakuten) Saturday variety show on TBS Television in Japan, in 2005.
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Atsushi Kataoka
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- tarentobaseball player
- Biography
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Atsushi Kataoka is a former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder. He is the current farm manager for the Chunichi Dragons.
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Takahiro Tamura
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- narratoractorfilm actor
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Takahiro Tamura was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1954 and 2005. He and his younger brothers Masakazu and Ryō were known as the three Tamura brothers. They were sons of actor Tsumasaburo Bando.
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Shinya Miyamoto
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Shinya Miyamoto is a former professional baseball player from Suita, Osaka, Japan. He played shortstop.
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Yōsuke Hiraishi
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Yōsuke Hiraishi is a former Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player.
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Takako Doi
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- legal counselpolitician
- Biography
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Takako Doi was a prominent Japanese politician from 1980 until her retirement in 2005. She was the first female Lower House Speaker in Japan, the highest position a female politician has ever held in the country's modern history, as well as the country's first female Opposition Leader.
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Yun Dong-ju
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- poet
- Biography
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Yun Dong-ju or Yoon Dong-joo was a Korean poet born in Longing, Jilin, China, who was known for his lyric poetries as well as the resistance poetries against the Japanese colonialism during Japan's occupation of Korea, longing for Korea's liberation.
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Yūki Ōta
- Occupations
- fencer
- Biography
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Yuki Ota is a Japanese foil fencer, gold medallist at the 2006 Asian Games, silver medallist at the 2008 Summer Olympics, team silver medallist at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and individual gold medallist at the 2015 World Fencing Championships. He is a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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Mie Hamada
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- figure skating coachfigure skater
- Biography
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Mie Hamada is a Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor.
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Tetsuo Nakanishi
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Tetsuo Nakanishi is a former Japanese football player. He currently works on television as a football commentator.
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Hideaki Nitani
- Occupations
- announceractor
- Biography
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Hideaki Nitani was a Japanese actor.
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Nobuharu Asahara
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- sprinterathletics competitor
- Biography
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Nobuharu Asahara is a former Japanese athlete who specialized in the 100 meters and long jump. He won the 100 m at the Japanese national championship on five occasions in 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2002, and he took part in the Olympics four times in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008. He represented Japan six times at the World Championships in Athletics.
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Kanako Otsuji
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- politiciantaekwondo athlete
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Kanako Otsuji is a Japanese LGBT rights activist, member of the House of Representatives for the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and retired karateka and taekwondoin. She is also former member of the House of Councilors, and a former member of the Osaka Prefectural Assembly (April 2003–April 2007). One of only seven women in the 110-member Osaka Assembly, Otsuji represented the Sakai-ku, Sakai City constituency. In May 2013, after her party member of the House resigned, Otsuji became the nation's first openly gay member of the Diet, but her term in office expired in July. She won a seat in the 2017 general election and became the first openly gay member of the House of Representatives.
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Kazuki Tomono
- Occupations
- figure skater
- Biography
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Kazuki Tomono is a Japanese figure skater. He is the 2022 Four Continents silver medalist and a three-time Grand Prix medalist. He has represented Japan at the World Championships, achieving his best placement, fifth, at the 2018 World Championships. On the junior level, he is the 2016–17 Japan Junior national champion.
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Hansō Sōshitsu
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- tea masterpainterkamikaze
- Biography
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Sen Sōshitsu XV is the 15th-generation Grand Master (iemoto) of Urasenke, which is one of the most widely known schools of Japanese tea, and served in official capacity from 1964 to 2002. In 1949, he received the Zen title Hōunsai (鵬雲斎). Following his retirement, he has adopted the name Sen Genshitsu (玄室), with the honorary title Daisosho, in order to distinguish him from his son and successor, Sen Sōshitsu XVI. For over seven decades, Dr. Sen Genshitsu has traveled across the world in order to promote the ethos of "Peacefulness through a Bowl of Tea".
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Masaaki Toma
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- association football referee
- Biography
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Masaaki Toma, born Masaaki Iemoto (家本 政明, Iemoto Masaaki), is a professional Japanese football referee. He has been refereeing in the J-League since 2008 and has officiated a number of international club and country matches.
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Yū Fujiki
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- television actoractor
- Biography
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Yū Fujiki, born Yūzō Suzuki (鈴木 悠蔵, Suzuki Yūzō), was a Japanese film and television actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1954 to 2005.
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Jumpei Kusukami
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Jumpei Kusukami is a Japanese footballer currently playing for Nankatsu SC.
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Kunio Hiramatsu
- Occupations
- politicianannouncer
- Biography
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Kunio Hiramatsu was the mayor of Osaka in Japan. He was elected in 2007 with centre-left support from the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), People's New Party and the Social Democratic Party, defeating the centre-right supported incumbent Jun'ichi Seki by 50,000 votes.
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Tomie Ohtake
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- paintersculptorartist
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Tomie Ohtake was a Japanese Brazilian visual artist. Her work includes paintings, prints and sculptures. She was one of the main representatives of informal abstractionism in Brazil.
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Uchida Kosai
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Count Uchida Kōsai was a statesman, diplomat and interim prime minister, active in Meiji, Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. He was also known as Uchida Yasuya.
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Yukina Ōta
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- figure skating choreographerfigure skater
- Biography
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Yukina Ōta is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2003 World Junior champion and the 2004 Four Continents champion. She announced her retirement from competitive skating in November 2008, due to injury.
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Makoto Uchida
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Makoto Uchida is a Japanese businessman who is the current CEO of the Nissan Motor Company, Ltd.
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Ryo Watanabe
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Ryo Watanabe is a retired Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher who spent 10 years with the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Central League.
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Abe Isoo
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- politicianuniversity teachersociologist
- Biography
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Abe Isoo was a Japanese Christian socialist, parliamentarian and pacifist. He largely contributed to development of baseball in Japan, and was called "Father of Japanese baseball." He created a baseball club of Waseda University.
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Tosanoumi Toshio
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- rikishi
- Biography
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Tosanoumi Toshio, is a former sumo wrestler. He first reached the top division of professional sumo in 1995, winning 13 special prizes and earning 11 kinboshi or gold stars for defeating yokozuna over his long career. The highest rank he reached was sekiwake. He retired in 2010 to become a coach at his stable, Isenoumi stable under the name of Tatekawa.
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Hayato Aoki
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Hayato Aoki is a Nippon Professional Baseball player. He is currently with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Japan's Central League.
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Jeong Ji-yong
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- poet
- Biography
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Jeong Ji-yong, often romanized in literature as Cheong Chi-yong, was a Korean poet and translator of English poetry who "opened a new horizon of poetic possibilities through chiselled expression, tempered sentiments, and precise visual imagery" according to the scholar of Korean poetry, Brother Anthony.
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Toshiyuki Hayashi
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- rugby union player
- Biography
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Toshiyuki Hayashi, (born 8 February 1960 in Tokushima) was a Japanese rugby union player. He played as a prop and as a lock. He was educated at Tokushima Prefectural Johoku High School and was graduated in economics at Doshisha University. He was nicknamed Destroyer (壊し屋, Kowashiya) and Daimaru (ダイマル, Daimaru).
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Hitoshi Yamakawa
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Hitoshi Yamakawa was a Japanese revolutionary socialist who played a leading role in founding the Japanese Communist Party in 1922. He was also a founding member of the Rono-ha (Labour-Farmer Faction), a group of Marxist thinkers opposed to the Comintern.
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Yae Ibuka
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- nurse
- Biography
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Yae Ibuka was a Japanese nurse who worked with patients suffering from leprosy. She was diagnosed as having leprosy, and hospitalized at Koyama Fukusei Hospital in 1919. It proved a misdiagnosis three years later, but she was deeply impressed by Drouart de Lézey, the director of the hospital, and was determined to work as a nurse with leprosy patients. In 1961, she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal.
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Yoshihiro Sakata
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- rugby union playeruniversity teacher
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Yoshihiro Sakata is a rugby union official and former player who gained sixteen full international caps with the Japan national rugby union team 1967–1973. He played as wing for Kintetsu and Canterbury RFU and was nicknamed Demi Sakata. He was the first Japanese player to be inducted into the International Rugby Board Hall of Fame.
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Ōikari Tsuyoshi
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- rikishi
- Biography
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Ōikari Tsuyoshi is a former sumo wrestler from Kyoto, Japan. He made his professional debut in March 1995, and reached the top division in November 1998. His highest rank was maegashira 11. He retired in November 2004, and as of 2016 he is an elder in the Japan Sumo Association under the name Kabutoyama.
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Jiro Ishimaru
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- journalist
- Biography
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Jiro Ishimaru is a Japanese journalist known for his work covering North Korea.
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Muneaki Murai
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Muneaki Murai is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
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Yokoi Tokio
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- teacherjournalistpastorpolitician
- Biography
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Tokio Yokoi was a Japanese pastor, journalist, bureaucrat, and member of the Japanese House of Representatives. He was also known as Tokio Ise(伊勢 時雄).
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Aki Kuroda
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- sculptorpainterpianistcontributing editorvisual artist
- Biography
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Aki Kuroda, real name Akihiko Kuroda (黒田 明比古, Kuroda Akihiko), is a Japanese painter based in Paris, France.
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Tomomi Abiko
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- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Tomomi Abiko is a Japanese track and field athlete who competes in the pole vault. She won at the 2012 Japan Championships. She is Japanese record holder in the Women's pole vault. She competed in the Women's pole vault at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Takeshi Hino
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- rugby union player
- Biography
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Takeshi Hino is a Japanese international rugby union player who plays as a hooker. He currently plays for Stade Toulousain in the French Top 14. On 20 August 2019, he was officially transferred to the French professional rugby team Stade Toulousain
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Kaoru Ikeya
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- film director
- Biography
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Kaoru Ikeya is a Japanese film director. He directed the documentary The Ants (2006).
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Masahiro Morioka
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- politician
- Biography
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Masahiro Morioka is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and a member of the Japanese House of Representatives. He was the secretary for the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare. He thinks that family is the foundation of securing the nation of Japan. He disputes the legitimacy of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, saying that the tribunal helped place a masochistic view of history in the Japanese people's minds.
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Malika Kishino
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- composer
- Biography
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Malika Kishino is a Japanese composer based in Cologne / Germany.
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Henrik Takkenberg
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- songwritersinger
- Biography
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Henrik Takkenberg was a lead singer, songwriter, composer and producer who developed a new musical style he named Flamenco Chill.
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Yoshinobu Miyake
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- kannushi
- Biography
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Yoshinobu Miyake is a Japanese Shinto priest and scholar. Rev. Miyake was appointed the Superior General of Konko Church of Izuo in 2006 and appointed Chair of the Board of International Shinto Studies Association in 2013.
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Masahiro Tabata
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- politician
- Biography
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Masahiro Tabata is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the New Komeito Party. A native of Wakayama, Wakayama and graduate of Doshisha University, he was elected for the first time in 1993 after working as a journalist.
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Yūma Koishi
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- sport cyclist
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Yūma Koishi is a Japanese cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Team Ukyo.
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Kurahara Korehiro
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- politicianeducator
- Biography
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Korehiro Kurahara was a Japanese educator and politician. He was the father of Korehito Kurahara.
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Tasuku Harada
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- professorpastoruniversity president
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Tasuku Harada was a Japanese pastor and the president of Doshisha University from 1907 to 1919. Harada started the University of Hawaii's Japanese Studies department in 1922.
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Kanae Ikehata
- Enrolled in Doshisha University
- Studied in 2005
- Occupations
- fencer
- Biography
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Kanae Ikehata is a Japanese female Foil fencer. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the individual event and the team event. In the individual event she was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Nam Hyun-Hee. In the team event the Japanese team was eliminated in the second round by Russia.
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Yasuo Watani
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 63)
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- harmonicist
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Yasuo Watani is a Japanese chromatic harmonica player. He was born in Kyoto, Japan and had his first harmonica lessons with Tadao Kobayashi in 1966. After graduating from Doshisha University (Faculty of Commerce) in 1984 with a degree in Economics, he studied the chromatic harmonica with Helmuth Herold at the Hohner-Konservatorium Trossingen in Germany from 1984 to 1988. He also learned the harmonica from the Canadian harmonica soloist Tommy Reilly. Watani was invited to stay on as a Lecturer at the Hohner-Konservatorium and taught from 1988 to 2002. Since 2005, he is a Music Professor for harmonica at Senzoku-Gakuen College of Music, Japan. He has been invited to judge at many harmonica competitions and festivals, including World Harmonica Festival and Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival.
