Famous People with Name Kaoru

Kaoru Yumi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kaoru Yumi: a Japanese actress.In junior high school, Kaoru joined the Nishino ballet group. She gained popularity with her appearance in the 1967 program Re Gaaruzu with Katsuko Kanai and Etsuko Nami in a mini-skirt number. In 1973, she did her first nude scene in the movie Dosei Jidai ~Kyoko to Jiro~ (???? -??????-?). In the same year, she also performed in the movie Shinanogawa (?????) which had a similar scene. There was criticism over the scene in the movie where the character lost her virginity.

Kaoru Kakizakai            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kaoru Kakizakai: an internationally renowned player and teacher of the shakuhachi, a traditional vertical bamboo flute of Japan.Kakizakai studied under and recorded with Yokoyama Katsuya. He graduated from the NHK Traditional Music Conservatory and was a past winner of the Kumamoto All Japan Hogaku competition. Kakizakai has performed widely in Japan and abroad, including as shakuhachi soloist in Toru Takemitsu's November Steps with the NHK Symphony Orchestra. As of 2006, he is a research fellow at the Tokyo College of Music. He is also full-time instructor for the International Shakuhachi Kenshukan and NHK Culture Centre, and President of the International Shakuhachi Kenshu-kan Chichibu School and Higashi Yamato School. [1] He is a member of the regular faculty of the Shakuhachi Summer Camp of the Rockies in Colorado (USA). [2]

Kaoru Okubo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kaoru Okubo: a male Japanese music arranger for music featured in anime.

Kaoru Yosano            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kaoru Yosano: a Japanese politician. He is a member of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and member of the House of Representatives, currently serving his ninth term in the Lower House representing Tokyo's first electoral district. Yosano was Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe from August 2007 to September 2007 and is currently State Minister in charge of Economic and Fiscal Policy.

Kaoru Matsumoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kaoru Matsumoto: is a semi-retired Japanese professional wrestler, known by her ringname Dump Matsumoto, who competed in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling as one of the leading female wrestlers during the 1980s. The longtime leader of the stable Gokuaku Domei—which included

Inoue Kaoru            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Inoue Kaoru: was a Japanese statesman and a member of the Meiji oligarchy that ruled Japan during the Meiji period (1868–1912).Born Yakichi (??) to a lower-ranked samurai family in Hagi, Choshu Domain (present day Yamaguchi Prefecture), Inoue attended the Meirinkan Domain school with his brother Ikutaro (???). He was a close boyhood friend of Ito Hirobumi who later became Japan's first prime minister, and he played an active part in the sonno joi movement. In 1858, he studied rangaku, artillery and swordsmanship in Edo.