Famous People with Name Toru

Toru Aoyanagi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toru Aoyanagi: is a former ice speed skater from Japan, who represented his native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1988 in Calgary, Canada.

Toru Takasuka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toru Takasuka: a Japanese software entrepreneur.Takasuka founded Cybozu, one of Japan's first Web-based groupware products. In 1997 with a $200,000 loan and two partners, Takasuka left his position as Vice President of Matsushita Electric Works V-Internet Operations in Osaka, Japan for the small city of Matsuyama, where he went to work developing Cybozu[1]. Japanese for "cyber-kid",Cybozu held an Initial Public Offering within three years - at the time the fastest company rise to IPO in the history of Japan's Tosho 2 stock market. Today Cybozu is the number one groupware product in Japan[2]. In April 2005 Takasuka officially resigned his position as President and CEO at Cybozu to pursue his new vision for business collaboration on a more global level. In January 2006 Takasuka founded LUNARR, Inc. with his business partner, Hideshi Hamaguchi in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A[3]. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon and Tokyo, Japan[4]

Toru Sakai            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toru Sakai: a Japanese journalist. Since 2000, when he quit Kyodo News Agency, he has been living in Taiwan. He has published many books and articles about Asian politics, civil societies, foreign relations in newspapers and magazines in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. He also writes about Lebanese pop songs and religious culture. He speaks and writes well in Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese, Korean, and a little in Hakka.

Toru Hosokawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toru Hosokawa: a professional Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Saitama Seibu Lions in Japan's Pacific League.

Toru Iwaya            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toru Iwaya: a Japanese mezzotint engraver and painter.One of the main themes that dominates Toru Iwaya's work is a strong nihilism and the constant internal battle he has faced through his life in searching for answers to life's existential questions. His mezzotint technique "black technique", which is a method rarely in use today, expresses the deep world featured just beneath the motif that is floating on the black surface

Kakizoe Toru            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kakizoe Toru: is a sumo wrestler. A former amateur champion, he turned professional in 2001 and reached the top division in 2003. His highest rank has been komusubi, which he has held for just one tournament. He has one special prize, for Technique. Kakizoe is an oshi-

Wladyslaw Torun            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Wladyslaw Torun: was a Polish aviator and military pilot, one of the pioneers of the Polish aviation. Initially a military pilot in Austria-Hungary during the Great War, he was among the first pilots to join the Polish Air Force. He took part in the Battle of Lwów (1918) and the Battle of Lwów (1920). As a professional engineer, in 1922-1923 he was chief of Central Aircraft Workshops (Centralne Warsztaty Lotnicze - CWL) in Warsaw. He died in an air crash in 1924.