Famous People with Name Nakama

Yukie Nakama            Origin/Culture/Country: Ryukyuan

Yukie Nakama: is a Ryukyuan actress, singer and former idol. She was born in Urasoe, Okinawa, Japan the youngest of five siblings.She is one of the rare few young Japanese celebrities that have been able to break free from their teeny-bopper image and emerge as one of the country's most popular and well-respected actresses. She respects Shizuka Kud?. She is close to Hitomi Shimatani and went to Los Angeles for a trip together.She appeared in bit roles until she appeared in "Love & Pop (1998)". She was a 'gravure' (swimsuit photo book) idol for a few years until she got the lead role as Sadako for "Ring 0: Birthday (2000)", which gave her career a big break.

Kosuke Nakamachi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kosuke Nakamachi: Kosuke Nakamachi (born September 1, 1985 in Japan) is a Japanese football player.

Abe No Nakamaro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Abe No Nakamaro: was a scholar, administrator, and waka poet in the Nara period. Little is documented about his life except that he went to China in 717 and remained there until his death. In China he passed the civil-service examination and rose to the position of Governor-General, a post he held for six years until 767. Of his literary work he is famous for a poem filled with intense longing for his home in Nara.

Yoshiro Nakamatsu            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshiro Nakamatsu: also known as Dr. NakaMats, is a Japanese inventor claiming to hold the world record for number of inventions with over 3,000, including "PyonPyon" spring shoes and the basic technology for the floppy disk, the [[Compact Disc|CD, the DVD, the digital watch, CinemaScope, armchair "Cerebrex", sauce pump, and the taxicab meter.[1][2] Nakamatsu claims that he licensed about a dozen of his patents related to the floppy disk technology to IBM Corporation in 1979, but the details of the arrangement are confidential.[1] A spokesman for IBM said that the company has an "ongoing relationship" with Nakamatsu,[1] and, in another media report, said that the company owns the legal patent to the floppy disk and that it reached several nonexclusive patent agreements with Nakamatsu in the late 1970s to avoid conflicts.[3]

Jon Yasuhiro Nakamatsu            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Jon Yasuhiro Nakamatsu: a Japanese American classical pianist [1] who still resides in San Jose but mostly performs away from home. He is the son of David Y. Nakamatsu (San Jose engineer) and Karen F. Maeda Nakamatsu (city employee).In June 1997 Nakamatsu won the Gold Medal at the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. He is the first American to win this prize since 1981. Right after the competition, he quit his job as a high school German teacher to pursue a career as a classical pianist. Interestingly, he did not attend a music conservatory or major in music while he attended college and graduate school.