Famous People with Name Hajime

Hajime Moriyasu            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hajime Moriyasu: a retired Japanese football player. He was a defensive midfielder. He is now a coach at Sanfrecce Hiroshima.Ooft became the national coach of Japan in 1992. He called up and played Moriyasu for his first match in charge against Argentine held on May 31, 1992 at the Tokyo National Olympic Stadium. Moriyasu was still a low-profile player at that time and many international teammates didn't know how to pronounce his name. What Ooft asked him to do throughout his reign was a simple task, to "win the ball and pass it to playmaker Ruy Ramos".He has been serving as a coach for Sanfrecce Hiroshima since 2004. He also coaches the Japan national youth team which participated in the 2006 AFC Youth Championship and the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He is currently a coach for the top team of Hiroshima.

Hajime Watanabe            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hajime Watanabe: a Japanese animator and character designer. His debut as a chief character designer was with Hime-chan's Ribbon, and he has frequently worked with Akitaro Daichi on anime titles.

Hajime Takano            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hajime Takano: a Japanese journalist, the editor-in-chief for the magazine Insider. He graduated from Waseda University with a major in philosophy and is a former member of the Japan Socialist Party.[citation needed]

Hajime Sorayama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hajime Sorayama: a Japanese illustrator. He resides with his wife and two daughters in Tokyo, Japan.[1]Hajime Sorayama was born in 1947 in Imabari, Ehime prefecture, Japan.[2] He received his basic education at Imabari Kita High School. In 1965 he was admitted to the Shikoku Gakuin University,[3] where he began to study Greek and English literature.[4] In 1967, after the publication of his first work, Pink Journal, he transferred to Tokio's Chuo Art School where he began to study art.

Hajime Itoi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hajime Itoi: a retired male backstroke swimmer from Japan, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. He is best known for winning a silver medal at the 1995 Summer Universiade in Fukuoka. He competed for the Waseda University.

Chitose Hajime            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Chitose Hajime: a singer from Japan. She is from Amami Oshima and sings in a style particular to that region, with distinctive falsetto effects.Chitose Hajime was recognized as a gifted folk singer at a young age. She won many folk song competitions, released two traditi

Kawakami Hajime            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kawakami Hajime: was a Japanese Marxist economist of the Taisho and early Showa periods.After writing for Yomiuri shimbun, he earned an economics professorship at Kyoto Imperial University. Increasingly inclined toward Marxism, he participated in the March 15 incident of 1928, and was expelled from the university as a subversive. The following year, he joined the formation of a political party Shinroto. Kawakami went on to publish a Marxist-oriented economics journal, Studies of Social Problems. After joining the then-outlawed Communist Party of Japan, he was arrested in 1933 and sent to prison. Following his release in 1937,

Nakamura Hajime            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Nakamura Hajime: was a Japanese academic of Vedic, Hindu and Buddhist scriptures. Nakamura was an expert on Sanskrit and Pali, and among his many writings are commentaries on Buddhist scriptures. He is most known in Japan as the first to translate the entire Pali Tripitaka into Japanese. This work is still considered as the definitive translation to date against which later translations are measured. The footnotes in his Pali translation often refer to other previous translations in German, English, French as well as the ancient Chinese translations of Sanskrit scriptures.

Yasunaga Hajime            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yasunaga Hajime: was the strongest and most famous amateur Go player of the 20th century. As a professional Go journalist, author and editor, and long-time undisputed strongest amateur player in Japan, Yasunaga was personally acquainted with most of the strong Japanese professional players from the 1920s to the 1980s. In the early 1930s he co-wrote Shin Fuseki Ho, a seminal work on go opening theory, in cooperation with the young professionals Kitani Minoru and Go Seigen. The book created a sensation, and helped win amateur players over to the revolutionary ideas of shin fuseki ("new opening") theory.

Hidenokuni Hajime            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Hidenokuni Hajime: is a former professional sumo wrestler, who was active from 1989 until 1990. The highest rank he reached was jonidan 89. He was the first, and so far only sumo wrestler from the United Kingdom. A former photographic print worker from Herne Bay, Kent, he w