Famous People with Name Shuichi

Shuichi Nakamura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shuichi Nakamura: a Japanese economist from Tsuruoka, Yamagata and a graduate of Tokyo Keizai University. He is a professor and lecturer at both Chiba Keizai University and Tokyo Keizai University. His specialities are economic policy and the history of economic thought.

Shuichi Yoshida            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shuichi Yoshida: a Japanese novelist.Shuichi Yoshida was born in Nagasaki, and studied Business Administration at Hosei University. He won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers in 1997 for his story "Saigo no Musuko", and the Akutagawa Prize in 2002 (the fifth time he'd been nominated for the prize) for "Park Life". In 2002 he also won the Yamamoto Prize for Parade, and for winning both literary and popular prizes Yoshida was seen as a crossover writer, like Amy Yamada or Masahiko Shimada. In 2003 he wrote lyrics for the song "Great Escape" on Tomoyasu Hotei's album, 'Doberman'. His 2007 novel, Akunin, won the Osaragi Jiro Prize and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award.

Shuichi Murata            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shuichi Murata: a third baseman for the Yokohama BayStars.Murata led the Central League in home runs in both 2007 and 2008 and is one of the few pure home run hitters in Japanese professional baseball today. He played in the 2008 Beijing Olympics[1] as well as the 2009 World Baseball Classic[2] as a member of the Japanese national team and hit cleanup for much of the latter tournament.

Shuichi Kato            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shuichi Kato: a Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Tanno, Hokkaido, he graduated from Kitami Institute of Technology and received a Ph.D from Hokkaido University. He was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1995 as a member of the New Frontier Party.

Shuichi Takatori            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shuichi Takatori: a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Joetsu, Niigata he was elected for the first time in 2005.