Famous People with Name Mitsuru

Mitsuru Yoshida            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mitsuru Yoshida: was a Japanese author and naval officer. He was born in Tokyo. He was the senior surviving officer on the battleship Yamato when it was sunk on 7 April 1945 during Operation Ten-Go, an attempt to support the defenders of Okinawa.His best known work is Senkan Yamato-no Saigo (???????, The Last Days of Battleship Yamato), based on his personal experiences as a junior officer on Yamato's final voyage. It was made into a movie Senkan Yamato ("Battleship Yamato" Shin-Toho. Dir.: Yutaka Abe) in 1953. Another movie Otoko-tachi no Yamato was released in 2005.

Mitsuru Matsumura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mitsuru Matsumura: a Japanese figure skater who is now a coach. He won the Japan Figure Skating Championships in 1978. He placed 18th in the 1976 Winter Olympic Games, and 8th in the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.

Mitsuru Sakurai            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mitsuru Sakurai: a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Sendai, Miyagi, he attended Tokyo Medical and Dental University as an undergraduate and received a Ph.D in medicine from Tohoku University. He was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2004.

Mitsuru Chiyotanda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mitsuru Chiyotanda: is a Japanese professional football defender who currently plays for Japan's J. League Division 1 club Nagoya Grampus.

Mitsuru Mansho            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mitsuru Mansho: is a Japanese football player currently playing for Mito HollyHock.

Toyama Mitsuru            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toyama Mitsuru: was a right-wing political leader in early 20th century Japan and founder of the Genyosha ultra-nationalist secret society.In 1881, Toyama became one of the founders of the Genyosha, a secret society and terrorist organization whose agenda was to agitate for Japanese military expansion and conquest of the Asian continent. The society attracted disaffected ex-samurai, and also figures in involved in organized crime to assist in its campaigns of violence and assassination against foreigners and liberal politicians. In 1889, Toyama and the Genyosha were implicated in the attempted assassination of foreign minister Okuma Shigenobu.

Ichinoya Mitsuru            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Ichinoya Mitsuru: is a former sumo wrestler from Tokunoshima, Oshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. His highest rank was sandanme 6. At 46 years of age, Ichinoya was the oldest man in professional sumo since the start of the Showa era in 1926. When he began his sumo career