Famous People with Name Takashi

Takashi Sekizuka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takashi Sekizuka: a Japanese football manager and a former player.

Takashi Shimoda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takashi Shimoda: a Japanese football goalkeeper who currently plays for Sanfrecce Hiroshima. He joined the team in 1994, became their first-choice goalkeeper in 1998 and has played there ever since.He represented Japan at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Takashi Kijima            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takashi Kijima: is a Japanese photographer best known for his photographs of nudes and of flowers.Kijima was born in Calexico,] California on 24 December 1920, the son of a Mr Watanabe, a shoe manufacturer who had immigrated in 1905, and his wife Sei (??). The boy's name as a US citizen was Ryu Watanabe.

Takashi Okamura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takashi Okamura: is a Japanese photographer who has specialized in the photography of art.He studied architecture at Nihon University from 1948. Okamura was a keen and proficient skiier (skiing as a representative of Japan in Chamonix in 1959), and a photographer of skiing. In 1960 he became a professional photographer, also writing about photography and skiing.

Takashi Yamamoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takashi Yamamoto: is an Olympic medal-winning swimmer from Japan, who won the silver medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He was also part of Japan's bronze medal-winning 4 x 100 m medley relay team.

Masuda Takashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masuda Takashi: was an entrepreneur in Meiji, Taisho and early Showa period Japan, responsible for transforming Mitsui into a zaibatsu through the creation of a general trading company, Mitsui Bussan. He also established a newspaper, the Chugai Shogyo Shimpo (???????), which was later renamed the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.Masuda accompanied Ikeda Nagaoki in the unsuccessful 1863 Second Japanese Embassy to Europe to negotiate the cancellation of the open-port status of Yokohama. On his return he studied English at the Hepburn School (the forerunner of Meiji Gakuin University).

Hara Takashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hara Takashi: was a Japanese politician and the 19th Prime Minister of Japan from 29 September 1918 to 4 November 1921. He was also called Hara Kei (or Hara Satoshi) informally. He was the first commoner appointed to the office of prime minister of Japan. His catch phrase as a politician was "commoner and prime minister" (????, heimin saisho?).

Tsujii Takashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tsujii Takashi: a Japanese author and poet, and the pen name of Tsutsumi Seiji, a major business leader.Tsujii is the son of Yasujiro Tsutsumi, founder of the Seibu Railway company and a long-serving member, and eventually speaker, of Japan's House of Representatives. He was born in Tokyo and, after receiving his degree in economics from the University of Tokyo in 1951, began work as a secretary to his father. He took on a series of executive roles, culminating in corporate leadership, including serving as chairman of the Saison group of companies, whose brands include Seibu Department Stores, Seiyu supermarket, Wave (a music shop), Parco (shopping complex) and Loft (a variety store).

Bushuyama Takashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Bushuyama Takashi: is a Japanese sumo wrestler from Aomori, Aomori Prefecture. He made his professional debut in January 1999. At the age of 32, he was promoted to the top makuuchi division in the November 2008 tournament. His highest rank has been maegashira 3. As his club