Famous People with Name Yoshii

Isamu Yoshii            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Isamu Yoshii: was a Japanese tanka poet and playwright writer active in Taisho and Showa period Japan. Attracted to European romanticism in his youth, his later works were more subdued.Yoshii Isamu was born in the elite Takanawa district Tokyo. His grandfather, Count Yoshii Tomosane was a member of the House of Peers, the Privy Council and official in the Imperial Household Ministry, and his aunt was the wife of Field Marshal Oyama Iwao. Yoshii began to live at his father's cottage in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture from 1887 and entered the elementary section of the Kamakura Normal School in 1891. The following year the family returned to Tokyo, but for the rest of his life, he returned to Kamakura frequently to recuperate from bouts of ill health (i.e. tuberculosis).

Hidekatsu Yoshii            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hidekatsu Yoshii: a Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives for Japanese Communist Party.A native of Kyoto, Kyoto and graduate of Kyoto University, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the city assembly of Sakai, Osaka in 1971 and then to his one term in the assembly of Osaka Prefecture in 1983. After running unsuccessfully for the House of Councilors in 1986, he was elected to the house in 1988 but lost his seat in the following year. In 1990 he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time.

Sayuri Yoshii            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Sayuri Yoshii: is a Japanese speed skater. She competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics and is set to compete for Japan at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Hiroyuki Yoshiie            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hiroyuki Yoshiie: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Nagano Prefecture and graduate of Meiji Gakuin University, he was elected for the first time in 2007.