Famous People with Name Yasuko

Yasuko Namba            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yasuko Namba: was famous in her native Japan for becoming only the second Japanese woman (after Junko Tabei [1]) to reach all of the Seven Summits [2] including Everest, where she died. Namba worked as a businesswoman for Federal Express in Japan, but her hobby of moun

Yasuko Tajima            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yasuko Tajima: is a former medley swimmer from Japan, who won the silver medal in the 400m Individual Medley at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Yasuko Sawaguchi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yasuko Sawaguchi: a Japanese actress.In early 1984, the Japanese movie studio Toho Company Ltd. held their first Toho Cinderella beauty contest, and Yasuko, almost 19 at the time, was chosen as the first Toho Cinderella, beating out the other 30,000 contestants.Shortly after, she made her film debut in the film Karate Cop III: Song of the Sea, before co-starring as the heroine Naoko Okumura in The Return of Godzilla, which was the grand comeback film for the famous movie monster Godzilla. She appeared in the next Godzilla film 5 years later, 1989's Godzilla vs Biollante, but as another character (Erika Shiragami, who played a part in the creation of Godzilla's titular adversary). At the Toho Cinderella beauty contest that same year, she took place with the 2nd Toho Cinderella, 1987 winner Megumi Odaka (who was also in Biollante, starting her Miki Saegusa character).

Yasuko Ikenobo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yasuko Ikenobo: a Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Tokyo and dropout of Gakushuin University, she was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996 as a member of the New Frontier Party, which later split into several parties including the New Komeito Party .

Yasuko Komiyama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yasuko Komiyama: a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kawagoe, Saitama, she attended Keio University and received a master's degree from Nihon University. After having served in the assembly of Saitama Prefecture for two terms since 1995, she ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives in 2000 as an independent and in 2001 as a member of Ichiro Ozawa's Liberal Party. She ran once again in 2003, this time as a member of the DPJ, and was elected for the first time.