Famous People with Name Goto

Goto Shinpei            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Goto Shinpei: was a Japanese statesman. He served as the head of civilian affairs of Taiwan under Japanese rule, the first director of the South Manchuria Railway, the seventh mayor of Tokyo, the first Chief Scout of Japan, the first director of NHK, the third principal of Takushoku University, and the Home Minister and Foreign Minister of Japan.

Goto Shojiro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Goto Shojiro: was a Japanese politician and leader of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement (???????, jiyu minken undo?).After the Meiji Restoration, Goto was appointed to a number of posts, including that of Governor of Osaka, and sangi (councillor), but later from the Meiji government in 1873 over disagreement with the government's policy of restraint toward Korea (i.e. the Seikanron debate) and, more generally, in opposition to the Choshu-Satsuma domination of the new government. Jointly with Itagaki Taisuke, he submitted a memorandum calling for the establishment of a popularly-elected parliament

Gotoku Sakai            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Gotoku Sakai: is a German-Japanese football player currently playing for Albirex Niigata.

Maki Goto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maki Goto: a J-pop singer currently signed to the sublabel Rhythm Zone under the Avex Trax label. Before joining Avex, she was a soloist of Hello! Project and member of Morning Musume. She has performed in numerous Hello! Project subgroups such as Petitmoni, Akagumi 4, 7-nin Matsuri, Sexy 8, Gomattou and Nochiura Natsumi.In 1999, Maki Goto was selected as the only member for the 3rd generation of Morning Musume. Their first single after Goto joined, "Love Machine" sold over a million copies, over nine times the amount of copies they had sold for their previous single. During her time in Morning Musume she was one of the founding members of Pucchi Moni and she started a solo singing career in 2001 with the single "Ai no Bakayaro" (???????, "Ai no Bakayaro"?)

Toru Goto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toru Goto: was a freestyle swimmer from Japan, who represented his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

Keita Goto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Keita Goto: was a Japanese businessman who built the Tokyu Group into one of the leading corporate groups in Japan.In 1920, Goto was offered the post of Director of the Musashi Railway, a struggling company in need of capital to finance its expansion. He accepted and by 1924 had acquired a controlling interest in the company, using the profits from other railway ventures in the Tokyo area. This was the first of many acquisitions in which Goto bought weak companies and transformed them into profitable members of a growing railway and real estate group. It was also around this time that he persuaded the Tokyo Institute of Technology to relocate along his railway from its former campus

Meisei Goto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Meisei Goto: was a Japanese author.Goto was born in North Korea, but fled with his family to Kyushu, Japan while in junior highschool. He studied Russian literature at Waseda University, with particular interest in Nikolai Gogol. He then worked at an advertising agency and a publishing house, before becoming a professional novelist in 1968.

Fumio Goto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Fumio Goto: was a Japanese politician and bureaucrat, and briefly served as interim Prime Minister of Japan in 1936.Goto was a graduate of the Law School of Tokyo Imperial University in 1908. During his early career in the 1920s, he worked in the Home Ministry, and was Director of Administration within the office of the Governor-General of Taiwan.In the 1930s, Goto was appointed to a seat in the House of Peers in the Diet of Japan. He served as Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries between 1932 and 1934 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Makoto Saito, and was later Home Minister in the cabinet of Keisuke Okada.