Famous People with Name Taro

Taro Kimura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Taro Kimura: a Japanese veteran journalist who provides commentary and analysis with Yuko Ando on Japan's Fuji Television SuperNews.[1] He is also the managing director of Shonan Beach FM, a community radio station. [2]After graduating from university, in 1964, Kimura started work as a journalist at NHK.

Taro Aso            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Taro Aso: the current Prime Minister of Japan, having taken office on September 24, 2008. He is also President[2] of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and has served in the House of Representatives since 1979.He was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2007, and was Secretary-General[2] of the LDP briefly in 2007 and in 2008.Aso, a Roman Catholic, was born in Iizuka, Fukuoka on September 20, 1940.[3] His father, Takakichi Aso, was the chairman of the Aso Cement Company and a close associate of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka; his mother Kazuko Aso was Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida's daughter. Taro is also a great-great-grandson of Toshimichi Okubo, and his current wife, Chikako is the third daughter of Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki. His younger sister, Nobuko, is the wife of Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, a first cousin of the Emperor Akihito.

Taro Kono            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Taro Kono: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Born in Hiratsuka, Odawara, Kanagawa and graduate of Keio University, he was elected for the first time in 1996.His father is Yohei Kono, only president of the Liberal Democratic Party who has not become a Prime Minister of Japan.

Taro Nakayama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Taro Nakayama: a Japanese doctor and politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Osaka, Osaka[1] he received a Ph.D in medicine from Osaka Medical College in 1960 for the study of infantile paralysis. After serving in the assembly of Osaka Prefecture he was elected to the Diet for the first time in 1968 as a member of the House of Councilors and to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1986. From 1989 to 1990 he served as Minister of Foreign affairs in Toshiki Kaifu's cabinet (1989 - 1991).

Taro Hasegawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Taro Hasegawa: is a Japanese footballer who currently plays for Giravanz Kitakyushu of J. League Division 2.

Nankairyu Taro            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Nankairyu Taro: is a former sumo wrestler from Samoa. His highest rank was maegashira 2. He was given the fighting name of Nankairyu, or "South Seas dragon." In November 1987 he became the third non Asian sumo wrestler, after Takamiyama and Konishiki, to reach the top ma