Famous People with Name Tomoyuki

Tomoyuki Arata            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tomoyuki Arata: a Japanese football player currently playing for Japanese club Mito HollyHock.

Tomoyuki Hirase            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tomoyuki Hirase: a Japanese football player who currently plays for Vegalta Sendai of the J-League. He was capped 2 times for the Japanese national team.

Tomoyuki Sakai            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tomoyuki Sakai: a Japanese football player who currently plays for Vissel Kobe of the J-League. He was capped 1 time for the Japanese national team.Sakai was a starter for Japan at the 2000 Olympics, who carried high hopes of the nation because Sakai's teammates included such household names as Hidetoshi Nakata, Shinji Ono and Naohiro Takahara. However, in the team's quarterfinal match, Sakai committed a foul inside his own box at the 90th minute, conceding the USA, Japan's opponents, a crucial penalty to make it 2-2. The Americans went on to win the penalty shootouts after 120 minutes of play could not separate the two teams.

Tomoyuki Hoshino            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tomoyuki Hoshino: a Japanese writer. He was born in Los Angeles in 1965 and his family returned to Japan before he was three years old. He attended Waseda University and worked for a while as a journalist after graduating in 1988. He spent the better part of the years 1990-5 living in Mexico. He returned to Japan and worked for a while translating from Spanish to Japanese. He published his first novel The Last Gasp in 1997, and it was awarded the Bungei Prize. He won the 13th Yukio Mishima Prize for his second novel The Mermaid Sings Wake Up, which was published in 2000. He won the Noma Literary New Face Prize for Fantasista in 2003. Other works include The Poisoned Singles Hot Springs (2002), Naburiai (2003), Lonely Hearts Killer (2004), Alkaloid Lovers (2005)

Tomoyuki Kubota            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tomoyuki Kubota: a pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He was selected as a member in the 2006 World Baseball Classic.