Famous People with Name Kenji

Kenji Miyamoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kenji Miyamoto: was a Japanese politician who led the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) from 1958 until 1977.Kenji Miyamoto officially joined the Japanese Communist Party in 1931. Miyamoto was arrested by Japanese military police in 1933 and accused of conspiring to beat a policeman to death in a crackdown on Japanese Communists. He denied that he had committed the crime. Miyamoto was convicted of the conspiracy charges and sentenced to life in prison. He was released 12 years later after Japan surrendered, ending World War II in 1945. His prison sentence had been annulled following an imperial decree by Emperor Hirohito.

Kenji Anan            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kenji Anan: a Japanese stage and film actor.He began work with the Tokyo Sunshine Boys in 1983, and since then has performed in a variety of roles mostly in television dramas.

Kenji Matsuda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kenji Matsuda: a Japanese actor. Matsuda began acting in high school when a girl he had a crush on convinced him to join the theatre club. He later joined the sho-gekijo thratrical troupe Haiyu-Za. Nowadays known for roles such as Kagero in the low budget films Shinobi: The Law of Shinobi, 2002, and its sequel Shinobi: Runaway, 2005 (not related to the 2005 film Shinobi: Heart Under Blade). Probably best known in Japan as Zaoumaru Zaitsuhara/Kamen Rider Zanki in the Tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider Hibiki, 2005-2006 and as the Buddhist monk Kamen Rider Touki in the movie special.

Kenji Fukuda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kenji Fukuda: a Japanese football player, who currently plays for Ionikos FC. He is a left-footed forward.After graduating from Narashino High School in Chiba in 1996, he joined J. League side Nagoya Grampus Eight. He helped the club to win the Sanwa Bank Cup, the Asian Cup Winners Cup (both in 1997) and the Emperor's Cup (in 1999). He moved to F.C. Tokyo, then Vegalta Sendai. He was loaned out from Sendai to a series of clubs in Latin America and Spain. Las Palmas signed him on a permanent basis in 2007. In August of 2008 he moved to Greece and Ionikos FC.

Kenji Suzuki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kenji Suzuki: a former television announcer for the NHK in Japan. He retired in 1988. He is the younger brother of film director Seijun Suzuki.

Daimanazuru Kenji            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Daimanazuru Kenji: is a former sumo wrestler from Kawakami, Yoshino District, Nara, Japan. He began his professional career in 1992, and spent a total of 19 tournaments in the top two divisions, peaking at maegashira 16 in 2006. He retired at the end of the January 2010 tou

Oshio Kenji            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Oshio Kenji: is a former sumo wrestler from Kitakyushu, Japan. His highest rank was komusubi. His career lasted twenty six years, from 1962 until 1988, and he holds the record for the most bouts contested in professional sumo. He was born in Yahata Higashi ward. He ma

Den Kenjiro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Den Kenjiro: was the 8th Governor-General of Taiwan from October 29, 1919 to September 1923, and the first civilian to hold that position.A graduate of Tokyo Imperial University, Den Kenjiro served as a member of the Japanese Diet for several years before being appointed as Governor-General of Taiwan. As Governor-General, he promoted a new policy of Doka, where Taiwan would be governed the same way as the Home Islands, and Taiwanese would be assimilated into normal Japanese society. Several major reforms were carried out during Den's tenure, including various administrative reforms, expansion of the public education system, the abolition of caning as a criminal punishment, construction of the Chyanan Reservoir, and the legalization of Japanese-Taiwanese intermarriage.

Baron Yamakawa Kenjiro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Baron Yamakawa Kenjiro: was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War. Though his name is commonly written "Yamakawa," he himself wrote it as "Yamagawa" in English.Yamakawa was born as the third son to Yamakawa Naoe, a senior samurai of the Aizu Domain (present day Fukushima Prefecture). He became a member of the Byakkotai, a unit of the newly reorganized Aizu domain army composed mostly of boys aged 15 to 17 years, who fought in defense of Aizu during the Boshin War.