Famous People with Name Kaoru

Kaoru Sugayama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kaoru Sugayama: is a Japanese volleyball player. Although her nickname is "yuu", there is already Ai Otomo with that nickname on the All-Japan women's Team, so her new nickname is "kaoru". Its nickname in television broadcasts is "koushuni kagayaku Kaoru-hime", (?????????, translation: "Princess Kaoru who shines in offense and defense"). Also, she is sometimes known as "shiroi yousei" (????, translation: "White fairy") due to her lovely face. However, she is embarrassed about being called "Princess Kaoru", "White fairy".

Kaoru Usui            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kaoru Usui: is a Japanese photographer known for photographing children and the life of Nagoya and environs.From the 1930s to the 1950s, Usui worked to set up a series of amateur photography groups in Nagoya. One of these was Shudan 35 (??35), whose members in 1952 included the young Shomei Tomatsu.

Kaoru Ishikawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kaoru Ishikawa: was a Japanese University professor and influential quality management innovator best known in North America for the Ishikawa or cause and effect diagram (also known as Fishbone Diagram) that are used in the analysis of industrial process.

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]

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.