Famous People with Name Minoru

Minoru Mukaiya            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Mukaiya: a Japanese musician. He joined the jazz fusion band Casiopea in 1979 as keyboardist.He is also the producer of the train simulator game, Train Simulator and CEO of Ongakukan.

Minoru Iwata            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Iwata: japanese pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers. He is a member of the Japan in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.He was drafted by the Hanshin Tigers out of college. In his debut, Iwata allowed four runs in 3 innings of work and lost his only game in 2006. In 2007 , Iwata was 0-1 and a 5.40 ERA. In 2008 , he was third in voting for the 2008 Central League Rookie of the Year Award, trailing Tetsuya Yamaguchi and Hayato Sakamoto after going 10-10 with a 3.28 ERA and 101 strikeouts.

Minoru Murayama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Murayama: was a professional baseball player for the Osaka Tigers (later Hanshin Tigers) in Nippon Professional Baseball. His number 11 is retired with the Tigers.

Minoru Sano            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Sano: was a Japanese figure skater. He won the Japan Figure Skating Championships from 1972 to 1976[1] and represented Japan in the World Figure Skating Championships from 1973 to 1977.After winning the Bronze medal in the World Championships in 1977, he subsequently retired and became an instant national hero as it was the first time that a Japanese figure skater stood on a podium in that particular competition. No Japanese man re-achieved this feat until Takeshi Honda won the Bronze medal in the World Championships in 2002. [2]

Minoru Kitani            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Kitani: was one of the most celebrated professional Go players and teachers of the game of Go in the twentieth century in Japan.He earned the nickname "the Prodigy" after winning a knockout tournament. He defeated eight opponents from the Kiseisha in a row during 1928. He played a celebrated match with then retiring Honinbo Shusai. The Nobel Prize winning author Kawabata Yasunari used this game in his novel "The Master of Go". In 1954 he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, but soon recovered. His condition came back in 1964, in which he would practically retire. He was given the Okura Prize in 1967.