Famous People with Name Kazuya

Kazuya Kamenashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazuya Kamenashi: a Japanese idol, singer-songwriter, actor, television personality and radio host. Born and raised in Edogawa, Tokyo, he joined the renowned Japanese talent agency, Johnny & Associates, at the age of 12 and was drafted as a member and lead vocalist of the popular J-pop group KAT-TUN in 2001. The group officially debuted in 2006 and has since achieved a string of chart successes with all three albums and seven singles reaching number 1 on the Oricon charts.Kamenashi has also established himself as an actor with award-winning roles in Nobuta wo Produce and the second season of Gokusen and has regularly appeared in various television dramas since 2005.[2] He is also a co-host of KAT-TUN's late-night NTV variety/talk show, Cartoon KAT-TUN, and a radio host with his own program aired by Nippon Cultural Broadcasting.

Kazuya Maekawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazuya Maekawa: a retired Japanese football (soccer) player. He was a goalkeeper.He was capped 17 times for the Japanese national team from 1992 to 1996. His first cap came on June 7, 1992 in a friendly against Wales in Matsuyama, Ehime. He was a member of the Japan team that won the 1992 AFC Asian Cup. He played 2 games after first-choice keeper Shigetatsu Matsunaga was shown a red card in the semi-final against China.After finishing his playing career, he remained at Trinita and worked in the areas of marketing, operations and developments until 2005. He is now a coach at Sanfrecce Tsuneishi Soccer School, one of the affiliated soccer schools of Sanfrecce Hiroshima. (as of September 2007)

Kazuya Tsurumaki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazuya Tsurumaki: He is the protegé of Hideaki Anno, and a longtime animator at Gainax. Tsurumaki's first project at Gainax was as an animation director for the 1990 TV series Fushigi no Umi no Nadia; Tsurumaki was also director of the humorous "omake" (extra) sequences that went along with the TV series, and producer of "Nadia Cinema Edition". In 1995, Tsurumaki served as an assistant director under Hideaki Anno in Gainax's landmark series Neon Genesis Evangelion, in which role he handled production, art director and setting assistant for some episodes. In 1997, he directed episode 25', the first half of the cinematic conclusion to the Evangelion series, The End of Evangelion. He assumed directorial duties for the 1998 TV series His and Her Circumstances after Anno abruptly left the project. In 2000,

Kazuya Yoshioka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazuya Yoshioka: a Japanese ski jumper.In the World Cup he finished twelve times among the top 10. He finished four times on the podium, and recorded one victory, from January 2001 in Park City, Utah.At the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships he finished 19th in the normal hill and 20th in the large hill. He placed 19th at the 1998 FIS Ski Flying World Championships.

Kazuya Iio            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazuya Iio: is a Japanese footballer who plays for Sagan Tosu in the J. League Division 2.

Kyokudozan Kazuyasu            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kyokudozan Kazuyasu: is a former sumo wrestler and politician from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. He began his sumo career in 1980, reaching the top division in 1996. He was one of the lightest men in makuuchi. but he nevertheless reached the fourth highest rank of komusubi and