Famous People with Name Hajime

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.

Hajime Suzuki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hajime Suzuki: a professional Japanese tennis player. Played in Belgium as a professional player from 1998 to 2004. Once retired in 2004 due to injury followed by going back to study in University of Waseda (Japan).

Hajime Funada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hajime Funada: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Utsunomiya, Tochigi he attended Keio University both as undergraduate and graduate. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1979.

Hajime Furuta            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hajime Furuta: is the governor of Gifu Prefecture in Japan, first elected in 2005 and reelected in 2009. A native of Gifu, Gifu, he was chosen as the final torchbearer for the National Athletic Meet when it was held in Gifu while he was a senior at Gifu Prefectural Senior High School. He entered the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1971.

Hajime Hirota            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hajime Hirota: a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A former member of the assembly of Kochi Prefecture, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2001.

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