Famous People with Name Yuji

Yuji Nakazawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yuji Nakazawa: a Japanese football (soccer) player who currently plays for J. League side Yokohama F. Marinos.[1] He is a center back. His nickname is "Bomber" because of his distinctive hairstyle.At his young age, Nakazawa was an obscure footballer who played for obscure school clubs. He was educated at and played for Yoshikawa Higashi Junior High School and Sango Technology High School, and attracted no scouts' eyes. Determined to be a pro, he decided to leave for Brazil to improve his football and trained with América Mineiro.

Yuji Sakakura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yuji Sakakura: a retired Japanese football (soccer) player. He was a defender.He was educated at and played for Yokkaichi Chuo Industrial High School and Juntendo University. After finishing the university, he joined Japan Soccer League side Furuawa Electric S.C. (current JEF United Ichihara Chiba). He moved to Nagoya Grampus Eight in 1995, then Japan Football League side Brummell Sendai (current Vegalta Sendai) in 1996. He finished his playing career in 1998 at his home town club Mind House TC, a Tokai Regional League side, after playing for them for one season.

Yuji Hyakutake            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yuji Hyakutake: was a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet Hyakutake on January 30, 1996 while using 25×150 binoculars.His only other discovery was comet C/1995 Y1. The media has stated that Hyakutake became interested in astronomy after seeing Comet Ikeya-Seki (C/1965 S1).

Yuji Tajiri            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yuji Tajiri: a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the group of pink film directors collectively known as the "Seven Lucky Gods of Pink" (??????, shichifukujin?).[1]Yuji Tajiri was born in a small town in Hokkaido in 1968. His main interest as a youth was watching movies, and he began writing his own film scripts and making 8mm films while a teenager. At this time he began sneaking into adult theaters, and was impressed by director Kichitaro Negishi's Roman Porno film Crazy Fruit (1981)-- a pink remake of Crazed Fruit (1956).[2]

Yuji Hayami            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yuji Hayami: a Japanese science fiction and fantasy writer.he started writing in 1982 for SF Izumu magazine. Afterwards he collaborated on a number of published works. In 1988 he published his first novel, Summer Road (Natsukaidô-Samârôdo), followed by various other fantasy books, often set in large cities or characterized by a surreal streak.Hayami also worked on a number of novelizations of science fiction or horror manga and anime. In the latter field, his work on the tie-ins for the anime series Vampire Princess Miyu became so popular that the original characters and situations were in later entries of the series modified to account for his personal additions to the canon.

Aida Yuji            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Aida Yuji: was a Japanese historian, and specialist on the Renaissance. He was very active throughout his career as a conservative thinker, commentator and major exponent of the Nihonjinron. he graduated from the history department of Kyoto University in 1940, and had his master degree interrupted when he was drafted into the armed forces in 1943. he fought on the Burmese front as an infantryman. He was captured at war's end by British forces and was detained at Ahlone Camp. His experiences, especially of suffering extreme mental torture in the hands of his captors by their cruel nonchalance towards him and other Japanese, are vividly described in his best-selling memoir, Aaron Shuyojo (1962)[1] On his repatriation in 1947, he taught at Kobe University, was appointed full professor at Kyoto University in 1952 where he taught in the Humanities Department until his retirement in 1979. Until his death, of pneumonia, he was emeritus professor at the same university.

Ryogoku Yujiro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Ryogoku Yujiro: was a Japanese sumo wrestler. His highest rank was sekiwake. He made a debut in June 1909. He reached the top makuuchi division in May 1914 and won the championship with a 9-0-1 record. He is the only wrestler since 1909 to win the top division championsh