Famous People with Name Yoshio

Yoshio Hachiro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshio Hachiro: a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kabato District, Hokkaido and graduate of Hokkaido University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990 as an independent. He later joined first the Japan Socialist Party and then the DPJ. In 2003 he left the Diet to run for governorship of Hokkaido, which was unsuccessful. In the same year he ran for a seat in the House of Representatives and was elected.

Yoshio Kimura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshio Kimura: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Sanuki, Kagawa and graduate of Chuo University, he worked at Sumitomo Bank from 1972 to 1975. After serving in the assembly of Kagawa Prefecture for one term, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1986.

Yoshio Maki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshio Maki: a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Nagoya, Aichi and drop-out of Sophia University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000.

Yoshio Mochizuki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshio Mochizuki: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Shimizu, Shizuoka and graduate of Chuo University, he was elected to the first of his four terms in the city assembly of Shimizu in 1975 and to the first of his two terms in the assembly of Shizuoka Prefecture in 1991. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996 as an independent.

Yoshio Urushibara            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshio Urushibara: a Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Tsubame, Niigata and graduate of Meiji University, he was elected for the first time in 1996 as a member of the New Frontier Party, which later split into several parties including the New Komeito Party.

Yamada Yoshio            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yamada Yoshio: was a Japanese linguist. He founded the influential "Yamada grammar", and was the first to use the word "chinjutsu" as a linguistic term.

Shoji Yoshio            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shoji Yoshio: is a Japanese sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1960s. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the C-1 1000 m event.

Hidetaka Yoshioka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hidetaka Yoshioka: a Japanese actor known for his performance in several movies as a child and lately the award winning TV drama Dr. Koto Shinryojo. He notably played the part of Tora-san's little nephew in the "Tora-san" films serie, and he appeared in Akira Kurosawa's "Rhapsody in August" and "Madadayo". He won the Japan Academy Award Best Actor in 2006 for "Always - Sunset on Third Street".

Toshiki Yoshioka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toshiki Yoshioka: a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team DRoo-P and Yamasa.Even before he started drifting professionally he always used the Toyota AE86. He first competed in the D1 Grand Prix in the first round of 2002 and has always scored points in every season. He got his first victory in Round 4 of the 2005 season at Autopolis. His Toyota Sprinter Trueno is very fast as it is normally aspirated and uses nitrous oxide, this leads to him being feared by the other competitors and also many crashes. In 2007 he had an average season being best of the AE86 drivers, finishing in 8th place overall. In 2008 he has switched from his trusty AE86 to a Lexus SC430 prepared by renown tuning garage Tom's, now he just has to get used to the new machine.

Kazuya Yoshioka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazuya Yoshioka: a Japanese ski jumper.In the World Cup he finished twelve times among the top 10. He finished four times on the podium, and recorded one victory, from January 2001 in Park City, Utah.At the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships he finished 19th in the normal hill and 20th in the large hill. He placed 19th at the 1998 FIS Ski Flying World Championships.