Famous People with Name Yoshino

Yoshino Kimura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshino Kimura: a Japanese actress. She appeared on an episode of the Showtime series Masters Of Horror. Kimura won the Rookie of the Year prize at the 21st Japan Academy Awards for her appearance in Shitsurakuen.[1]Kimura appears as Shizuka in the recent spaghetti western movie Sukiyaki Western Django. As of 25 June 2007 she is slated to star in a new Japanese soap opera to be set in Australia.[2] She also played Master Tiger in the Japanese dub of Kung Fu Panda.

Hideo Yoshino            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideo Yoshino: was a tanka poet in Showa period Japan.In 1926 Yoshino financed the publication of his own first poetry anthology, Tenjo gishi. However, most of his works did not appear in print until after the end of World War II. He developed a unique style of tanka that was independent of the mainstream Araragi verses, and used a tight, succinct style borrowed from the 19th century Buddhist priest-poet, Ryokan. He also was inspired by the ancient classic from Japanese literature, the Man'yoshu. His anthologies include Seiin shu (The Clear and Cloudy Collection, 1967) and Kansen shu (The Autumn Cicada Collection, 1974). Yoshino also wrote a number of essays, including Yawarakana Kokoro (Soft heart) and Korokono Furusato (Home is the heart).

Sakuzo Yoshino            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Sakuzo Yoshino: was a Japanese author active as a political thinker in the Taisho period. He is best known for his formulation of the theory of "Minponshugi," or politics of the people.Yoshino graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1904. In 1906 he went to China as a private tutor for the son of Yuan Shikai, the then dominant Chinese politician. He returned in 1909 and took a position teaching political history and theory in the Faculty of Law at Tokyo Imperial University until 1924. In 1910, he went abroad for three years to study in Germany, England and the United States. On his return he began to write articles discussing the problems of implementing democratic government in Japan, such as political corruption and universal suffrage. He published his most famous essays in the noted literary magazine Chuokoron. Arguably his most significant work, "On the Meaning of Constitutional Government," was written in response to the popular belief in the superiority of the Prussian pattern. In it, Yoshino argued that democracy was compatible with the concept of the emperor's sovereignty.

Masayoshi Yoshino            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masayoshi Yoshino: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Iwaki, Fukushima and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the assembly of Fukushima Prefecture in 1987 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000.

Masato Yoshino            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masato Yoshino: is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working for the Dragon Gate wrestling promotion where he is a member of the World-1 stable and the current Open the Dream Gate Champion. Yoshino began to gain rank within Dragon Gate rapidly in 2007. He began

Nobuatsu Yoshino            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Nobuatsu Yoshino: is a Japanese sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the C-2 1000 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.