Famous People with Name Katsuya

Katsuya Ishihara            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Katsuya Ishihara: Katsuya Ishihara (born October 2, 1978 in Japan) is a Japanese football player.

Katsuya Kondo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Katsuya Kondo: a mangaka, character designer, animator and animation director born June 2, 1963 in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. He is most well known for his character design work on the Studio Ghibli films Kiki's Delivery Service and I Can Hear the Sea, as well as the PlayStation game Jade Cocoon. His character designs are considered the epitome of the Studio Ghibli style.After graduating from high school, he began working for Osamu Dezaki and Akio Sugino at their Studio Annapuru. Under the direction of Shinji Otsuka, Kondo worked as a key animator of the TV anime series Cat's Eye. He then worked as a free agent on such shows as The Mighty Orbots, Rainbow Brite and Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears. His first work with Studio Ghibli was as a key animator on Castle in the Sky. After working on the Gainax film The Wings of Honneamise and the OVAs Devilman and Meikyu Bukken File 538, Kondo began to be known for the high quality of his work.

Katsuya Yokoyama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Katsuya Yokoyama: an internationally renowned player and teacher of the shakuhachi, a traditional vertical bamboo flute of Japan.Yokoyama achieved international attention for his New York City premiere performance, in November 1967, of Toru Takemitsu's composition November Steps, for shakuhachi, biwa, and orchestra, with the New York Philharmonic, under the direction of Seiji Ozawa (with biwa player Tsuruta Kinshi).

Katsuya Nomura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Katsuya Nomura: was one of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) greatest players as a catcher and is a long-time manager, currently serving as the skipper of the Rakuten Golden Eagles of NPB's Pacific League.During a career that spanned four decades from 1954 to 1980, Nomura hit 657 home runs and led the Pacific League in homers eight straight seasons. (However, it should be taken into consideration that his home park, Osaka Stadium, measured only 276 feet until 1972 and 300 feet from 1972 onward down the lines, and 380 feet to straightaway center-tiny dimensions by today's standards.)[1] He finished his career with 2901 hits.

Katsuya Ogawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Katsuya Ogawa: a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kamikawa District, Hokkaido and graduate of Nihon University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1995 as a member of the New Frontier Party.

Toshinobu Katsuya            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toshinobu Katsuya: a former Japanese football (soccer) player. He was a defender.Katsuya was capped 27 times for the Japanese national team between 1985 and 1993, and was a member of the Japan team that won the 1992 AFC Asian Cup. He played 3 matches in the competition.He filled in for injured left back Satoshi Tsunami in the final qualifying stage of the AFC for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He was on the pitch when Japan's hope to play in the finals was dashed by an injury-time Iraqi equaliser in the last qualifier, the match that the Japanese fans now refer to as the Agony of Doha.