Famous People with Name Yukio

Yukio Mishima            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yukio Mishima: a Japanese author and playwright.Mishima was born in the Yotsuya district of Tokyo (now part of Shinjuku). His father was Azusa Hiraoka, a government official and his mother, Shizue, was the daughter of a school principal in Tokyo. His paternal grandparents were Jotaro and Natsuko Hiraoka. He had a younger sister named Mitsuko, who died of typhus, and a younger brother named Chiyuki.

Yukio Shimomura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yukio Shimomura: Yukio Shimomura (born in Hiroshima, Japan) is a former Japanese football player.

Yukio Ninagawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yukio Ninagawa: a Japanese theatre director, particularly known for his Japanese language productions of Shakespeare plays and Greek tragedies. He has directed Hamlet differently six times.Although most famous abroad for his touring productions of European classics, Ninagawa has also directed works based on contemporary writing from Japan, including the Modern Noh plays of Yukio Mishima (which toured to New York's Lincoln Center in early summer 2005) and several other plays by Japanese dramatists, including Shuji Terayama and Kunio Shimizu. His production of Titus Andronicus was performed in England in June 2006, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford and the Theatre Royal in Plymouth. In 2007 his company participated in the Barbican International Theatre Event (BITE) series at the Barbican Arts Centre in London, with their production of Coriolanus.

Yukio Tanaka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yukio Tanaka: a Japanese biwa player.He studied under the satsuma biwa master Kinshi Tsuruta, whose status he inherited as a leading figure of Japanese traditional music. His honours include First Prize at the Japanese Biwa Competition, the Minister of Education, Science and Culture Prize and the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Prize.Tanaka has released numerous CDs and recordings for films. He performs internationally both as soloist and with orchestras, including the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the RAI Symphony Orchestra, and the Hespèrion XXI, under the baton of conductors such as Kent Nagano, Christoph Eschenbach and Jordi Savall. He is a professor at the Tokyo College of Music and a director of the Japan Biwa Association.

Yukio Sakano            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yukio Sakano: a Japanese ski jumper.In the World Cup his highest place was number 11 from January 2006 in Sapporo.

Roho Yukio            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Roho Yukio: is a sumo wrestler. The highest rank he has achieved is komusubi. His younger brother is also a sumo wrestler, under the name of Hakurozan of Kitanoumi stable.

Aobajo Yukio            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Aobajo Yukio: is a former sumo wrestler from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. He did not miss a single bout in his 22 year professional career, and holds the record for the most consecutive matches fought, at 1630. He is now a sumo coach. He made his debut in March 19

Hananosato Yukio            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hananosato Yukio: is a sumo wrestler from Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan. Hananosato was a junior member of the Takasago stable, home to yokozuna Asashoryu, and he serves as one of Asashoryu's tsukebito, or personal attendants. He made his professional debut in March 1999, an ent