Famous People with Name Kenjiro

Kenjiro Takayanagi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kenjiro Takayanagi: was a Japanese pioneer in the development of television. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television".In 1925, Takayanagi began research on television after reading about the new technology in a French magazine. He developed a system similar to that of John Logie Baird, using a Nipkow disk to scan the subject and generate electrical signals. But unlike Baird, Takayanagi took the important step of using a cathode ray tube to display the received signal, thereby developing the first "all-electronic" television set. On December 25, 1926, Takayanagi successfully demonstrated his system at Hamamatsu Industrial High School, where he was teaching at the time (the school is now the Faculty of Engineering at Shizuoka University)

Kenjiro Haitani            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kenjiro Haitani: was a Japanese writer.

Kenjiro Nomura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kenjiro Nomura: a former Japanese baseball player of the Hiroshima Carp of Japan's Central League.

Kenjiro Okazaki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kenjiro Okazaki: a Japanese visual artist whose works span over several genres, including painting, sculpture (which includes reliefs and constructions), as well as landscape design and architecture. Many of his works has been featured in public collections throughout Japan and in various exhibitions around the world. In 2002, Okazaki participated in the Venice Biennale as the director of the Japanese pavilion of the International Architecture Exhibition. His recent works include a collaborative performance "I love my robots" with the choreographer Trisha Brown, premiered in early 2007.

Kenjiro Shoda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kenjiro Shoda: was a Japanese mathematician.After he finished the Eighth High School, he returned to Tokyo and studied mathematics at Imperial University of Tokyo. Shoda was supervised by Teiji Takagi, one of best mathematicians in Japan at that time, and Takagi inspired Shoda to study algebra. Shoda graduated at Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science at Tokyo University in 1925 and continued his graduate study under Takagi's supervision.

Den Kenjiro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Den Kenjiro: was the 8th Governor-General of Taiwan from October 29, 1919 to September 1923, and the first civilian to hold that position.A graduate of Tokyo Imperial University, Den Kenjiro served as a member of the Japanese Diet for several years before being appointed as Governor-General of Taiwan. As Governor-General, he promoted a new policy of Doka, where Taiwan would be governed the same way as the Home Islands, and Taiwanese would be assimilated into normal Japanese society. Several major reforms were carried out during Den's tenure, including various administrative reforms, expansion of the public education system, the abolition of caning as a criminal punishment, construction of the Chyanan Reservoir, and the legalization of Japanese-Taiwanese intermarriage.

Baron Yamakawa Kenjiro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Baron Yamakawa Kenjiro: was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War. Though his name is commonly written "Yamakawa," he himself wrote it as "Yamagawa" in English.Yamakawa was born as the third son to Yamakawa Naoe, a senior samurai of the Aizu Domain (present day Fukushima Prefecture). He became a member of the Byakkotai, a unit of the newly reorganized Aizu domain army composed mostly of boys aged 15 to 17 years, who fought in defense of Aizu during the Boshin War.