Famous People with Name Maeda

Maeda Atsuko            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maeda Atsuko: a member of the Japanese idol group AKB48 TeamA. Her nickname is Acchan.In 2007, Maeda played the sub-leading role in the movie "Ashita no Watashi no Tsukurikata" (????????????, "Ashita no Watashi no Tsukurikata"?) This is her first performance as an actress. She started shooting this film August 20th,2006 and finished it in the end of September. She had her hair cut short for creating her part. She auditioned for this film before she was elected this role.AKB48 released "AITAKATTA" from the major label "DefSTER Records Inc.". (Before this disk, two disks were released as indies disks.) In this song, 20 members are selected from the 36 members (in TeamA & TeamK). Maeda is one of this selected member, and she performed leading role in the promortion video in this song.

Maeda Genzo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maeda Genzo: was a Japanese photographer from northern Kyushu. In Nagasaki he studied photography under Jan Karel van den Broek and J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort. Neither of these teachers was an experienced photographer, and their attempts to produce photographs were largely failures. Nevertheless, in turn they taught wet-collodion process to Maeda and his fellow students, who included Furukawa Shumpei, Kawano Teizo, Ueno Hikoma, and Horie Kuwajiro, among others.

Maeda Nobuaki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maeda Nobuaki: was a Japanese professional go player, a disciple of Honinbo Shusai, and a member of the Nihon Ki-in, the main organizational body for go in Japan. His own disciples were Norio Kudo, Yusuke Oeda, Shiori Itsuzo, Nagahara Yoshiaki, and Morikawa Masao.Maeda reached the highest professional rank, 9 dan, in 1963, but never achieved the consistent record of tournament success that marks the truly elite player. Maeda is famous today principally for his series of tsume-go (problem) collections, which gained him the honorary nickname "god of tsume-go." It is said that he composed a problem a day for 40 years. Many of these problems are considered especially beautiful, ingenious, or instructive.[citation needed]

Maeda Gen'i            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maeda Gen'i: was a Buddhist priest from Mt. Hiei, and later one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Go-Bugyo (Five Elders). He entered the service of Oda Nobunaga sometime before 1570.Gen'i was appointed to be a deputy over Kyoto in 1582. After the death of Oda Nobunaga that same year, Gen'i went on to serve under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. At Takamai Domain in Tamba Province, Gen'i received a 50,000-koku fief. Ten years later, he was to lay the ground work for the Fushimi Castle. In 1595, Gen'i was named among the "Five Magistrates" by Hideyoshi. As a member of this council, Gen'i was "concerned with national affairs and subordinate only to Hideyoshi".[1] In addition to managing a great deal of other affairs, Maeda also oversaw the reception of the likes of the Emperor and representatives of the Jesuits to Hideyoshi's Jurakudai palace.

Maedayama Eigoro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maedayama Eigoro: was a sumo wrestler from Ehime Prefecture, Japan. He was the sport's 39th Yokozuna. He was born in Nishiuwa District. On his school excursion to Oita in the spring of 1926, he met future yokozuna Futabayama Sadaji, who had not yet joined Tatsunami stable,

Terunobu Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Terunobu Maeda: the president and chief executive officer of Mizuho Financial Group (2002-), and a former chairman of the Japanese Bankers Association (2005-2006).Maeda joined Fuji Bank in 1968. He became vice-president of Fuji Bank, the predecessor of the present Mizuho Financial Group, in 1999. The bank recorded a loss of 2.38 trillion JPY that fiscal year as it wrote off non-performing loans accrued during three recessions in a decade. Maeda returned it to profitability the next year after reducing bad assets and through gains on investments in Japanese stocks.

Naoki Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Naoki Maeda: a Japanese music composer and producer who works for Konami. Naoki's official title is Konami AM Internal Sound Team.Though Naoki worked on many different video game titles like Salamander, his most known contribution is to the Bemani series as the main composer for the Dance Dance Revolution games. Most of his songs are signed with a pseudonym. Little information on Naoki is revealed officially: for example, on an interview with several music producers released in the DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution booklet, Naoki's profile was the least complete, not revealing his age or how much time he's been working for Konami.

Jun Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Jun Maeda: a Japanese writer working for the software company Key; he has majorly contributed as a scenario writer, lyricist, and musical composer for the visual novels the company produces. His birth name in kanji was written as Maeda Jun (?? ??), though there is no change in pronunciation. Originally from Mie, Japan, he graduated from Kaisei high school and later went on to graduate from Chukyo University with a major in psychology. Before forming Key, Maeda worked for the company Tactics where he had a hand in the creation of two games for that company, Moon. and One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e. After forming Key, Maeda has put much work into such famous titles as Kanon, Air and Clannad. He is also the author of a manga series entitled Hibiki's Magic.

Tomonori Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tomonori Maeda: a Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in Japan's Central League.

Kenta Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kenta Maeda: a Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in Japan's Central League.