Famous People with Name Yuko

Yuko Obuchi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yuko Obuchi: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) and the current Minister of State in charge of the Declining Birthrate.A graduate of Seijo University, she worked at the broadcaster TBS from 1996 to 1998. She was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000. Her father is former prime minister Keizo Obuchi and her grandfather former member of the House of Representatives Mitsuhei Obuchi.

Yuko Arakida            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yuko Arakida: is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion.She was a member of the Japanese winning team at the 1976 Olympic games.

Yuko Fujimoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yuko Fujimoto: is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion.She was a member of the Japanese winning team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Yuko Maruyama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yuko Maruyama: is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for NEC Red Rockets.Her father was a volleyball player of NEC.

Yuko Mitsuya            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yuko Mitsuya: is a former volleyball player from Japan, who was a member of the Japan Women's National Team that won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Lie Yukou            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Lie Yukou: is considered the author of the Daoist book Liezi, which uses his honorific name Liezi (??; Lièzi; Lieh-tzu; "Master Lie"). The second Chinese character in Yukou is written kou ? "bandit; enemy"; the first is written yu ? "imprison", yu ? "resist; ward off", or occasionally yu ? "drive (carriage); ride (horse); control" (the Zhuangzi claims Liezi could yufeng ?? "ride the wind").There is little historical evidence of Lie Yukou as a Hundred Schools of Thought philosopher during the Warring States Period. This could be due to the burning of books and burying of scholars which occurred during the reign of Qin Shi Huang. However, some scholars believe that the Zhuangzi invented him as a Daoist exemplar. Frederic H. Balfour, who translated several Daoist texts, called Liezi "a philosopher who never lived" (1887:?) Lionel Giles expresses doubt in his Introduction: