Famous People with Name Daisuke

Daisuke Asakura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Daisuke Asakura: a male Japanese pop artist.Asakura began his career with landing a job at Yamaha right after high school. While under Yamaha, Asakura worked on the EOS synthesizer; he was also featured in the home-instructional video for the machine. His talent was discovered by Tetsuya Komuro of TM Network and Daisuke was pulled from Yamaha to work under Komuro as his protégé. Daisuke played Bass Synthesizer during TM Network's 1990-91 Rhythm Red tour. Then Asakura met Hiroyuki Takami in 1990 following Rhythm Red and eventually in 1992 broke away from TM Network and formed access (or AXS) with Takami on vocals and lyric.

Daisuke Watanabe            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Daisuke Watanabe: a scenario writer from Yokohama, Kanagawa who is currently working for Square Enix. He is well known for working on the scenario of Threads of Fate, Final Fantasy XII with Miwa Shoda, Kingdom Hearts with Jun Akiyama and Kazushige Nojima and Final Fantasy X-2 with Kazushige Nojima and the scenario planner on Final Fantasy X. Daisuke Watanabe is not to be confused by a game designer of the same name who happens to work at Nintendo.

Daisuke Hayakawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Daisuke Hayakawa: a professional baseball player for the Chiba Lotte Marines. He was the number 5 draft pick for the Orix BlueWave in 2002.

Daisuke Kusano            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Daisuke Kusano: a Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Pacific League.

Daisuke Miura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Daisuke Miura: a professional baseball player from Kashihara, Nara, Japan. He is a starting pitcher for the Yokohama BayStars.In 2005, he led the Central League in strikeouts (177) and ERA (2.52). Miura became a free agent after an injury-plagued 2008 season. Both the BayStars and the Hanshin Tigers, a team that Miura has seen great success against in his career, were bidding for his services. Miura decided to return to the BayStars, who offered him a 4-year contract worth 1 billion yen (about $10 million USD), as opposed to the Tigers, who were offering three years and 900 million yen. Miura's new contract ensures that the 34-year old pitcher will finish his career in Yokohama.