Famous People with Name Masahiko

Masahiko Nishimura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masahiko Nishimura: a Japanese theatre and film actor. He’s known best for his tendency to act comedy roles.Nishimura was born December 12, 1960 in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture Japan. He attended Toyo University to study photography, but never graduated, turning instead to theatre at the age of 21. After a short while he gave up and returned to Toyama, returning again at the age of 24. It was at this time he met a young Koki Mitani, who at the time was aspiring to become an actor while writing scripts for radio and theatre.

Masahiko Tsugawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masahiko Tsugawa: a Japanese actor and director.He made his debut at the age of 16 in the Ko Nakahira film Crazed Fruit in 1956. Tsugawa's family was heavily involved in the film industry since before his birth. Tsugawa attended school until dropping out of the Waseda University Graduate School to pursue acting alone.

Masahiko Inoha            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masahiko Inoha: a Japanese football player who plays for Kashima Antlers.[1] He plays as a defender or a holding midfielder.His good form in the Kansai university League was recoginised by Japan's youth team coach Kiyoshi Okuma who included him in the squad for the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship finals.He signed with F.C. Tokyo after a successful trial and he took a leave of absebce from the university with which he is still enrolled as of April 2008. Manager Alexandre Gallo immediately established him as a starting member in his midfield.

Masahiko "Happy" Harada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masahiko "Happy" Harada: a Japanese ski jumper. He is best remembered for a meltdown at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer and his subsequent redemption at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.At the 1994 games, the Japanese team had a nearly insurmountable lead heading into the last jump of the large hill. Harada, the team's anchor, had jumped 122 meters in his previous attempt and needed only 105 meters in his final jump to clinch gold for Japan. His jump was just shy of 98 meters and dropped Japan to second, with the gold going to the German team.

Masahiko Komura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masahiko Komura: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. He was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2007 to 2008, and he is a member of the House of Representatives for the First District of Yamaguchi Prefecture.[1]Komura was born in Ehime Prefecture and graduated from Chuo University. He later passed Japan's bar exam and then immediately entered politics. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in the June 1980 election, and has been re-elected in each election since then. He became Director-General of the Economic Planning Agency (as a Minister of State) in June 1994, Minister for Foreign Affairs in July 1998, and Minister of Justice in December 2000. In August 2007, under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, he became Minister of Defense.[1] Following Abe's resignation in September 2007, Komura became Minister for Foreign Affairs for a second time on September 26, 2007, in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.[2] He remained in that post until he was replaced by Hirofumi Nakasone in the Cabinet of Taro Aso, appointed on September 24, 2008.[3]