Famous People with Name Yoshihisa

Yoshihisa Hirano            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshihisa Hirano: a professional Japanese baseball player for the Orix Buffaloes in Nippon Professional Baseball. He was the number 1 draft pick by the Orix Buffaloes in by 2005.

Yoshihisa Naruse            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshihisa Naruse: a pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball. He made his debut in the 2006 season, and has twenty-one career wins. In 2007, Naruse had his best season as a professional in his short career. All season long he was competing with Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters superstar Yu Darvish for the Eiji Sawamura Award, the award for best pitcher in all of Japan. In 24 starts, Naruse was 16-1 with a 1.82 ERA, with 138 strikeouts and only 27 walks in 173 and 1/3 innings. Darvish, by comparison, was 15-5 in 26 starts, also compiling a 1.82 ERA, but not only did he throw more complete games than Naruse (12 for Darvish, 6 for Naruse), but Darvish also threw more innings (207 and 2/3), but he struck out more batters, with 210 punch-outs. The two ended up facing each other in the 2007 Pacific League Championship Series' deciding Game 5. Darvish triumphed over Naruse at Sapporo Dome, and the Fighters won Game 5 and the series 3-2, setting up a rematch of the 2006 Japan Series with the Chunichi Dragons. Naruse ultimately lost out to Darvish for the Sawamura Award in 2007.

Yoshihisa Furukawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshihisa Furukawa: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kushima, Miyazaki and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Construction in 1989. After unsuccessful runs in 1996 and 2000, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2003 as an independent.

Yoshihisa Inoue            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshihisa Inoue: a Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Toyama, Toyama and graduate of Tohoku University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990. He lost his seat in 1993 but was re-elected in 1996.

Yoshihisa Ishida            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshihisa Ishida: is a retired male shot putter and hammer thrower from Japan. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics. He set his personal best (70.54 metres) in the hammer throw event on 5 August 1972 in Sapporo.

Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa: was the 2nd head of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family.During the unrest of the Boshin War to overthrow the Tokugaga Shogun, Prince Yoshihisa fled north with Tokugawa partisans of the following the Satsuma-Choshu takeover of the city of Edo, and was made the nominal head of the "Northern Alliance" (Ouetsu Reppan Domei). This short-lived alliance consisted of almost all of the domains of northern Japan under the leadership of Date Yoshikuni of Sendai. Documents exist which name Prince Yoshihisa as "'Emperor Tobu"' (???? , Tobu-tenno, (alternately ???? Tobu-kotei)?),