Famous People with Name Eiji

Eiji Tsuburaya            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Eiji Tsuburaya: was the Japanese special effects director responsible for many Japanese science-fiction movies, including the Godzilla series.The tremendous success of Godzilla led Toho to produce a series science fiction films, films introducing new monsters, and further films involving the Godzilla character itself. The most critically and popularly successful of these films were those involving the team of Tsuburaya, Honda and Tanaka, along with the fourth member of the Godzilla team, composer Akira Ifukube. Tsuburaya continued producing the special effects for non-kaiju films like The H-Man (1958), and The Last War (1961), and won another Japanese Movie Technique Award for his work in the 1957 science-fiction film The Mysterians.

Eiji Kawashima            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Eiji Kawashima: Eiji Kawashima (born March 20, 1983 in Yono, Saitama, Japan) is a Japanese football player.

Eiji "Tarzan" Yamada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Eiji "Tarzan" Yamada: is a Japanese Drifting driver, known as an all out time attack driver.[1] He is currently a judge at American Formula D events.[2] Yamada has drifted in time attack events and raced in both the JGTC and Japanese Touring Car Championship.

Eiji Wentz            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Eiji Wentz: a singer, entertainer, and actor from Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan. He is a member of the singer-songwriter duo WaT, and belongs to the production company Burning Productions.His father is German-American, and his mother is Japanese, but he only speaks Japanese.[1] He became involved in the entertainment industry at a very young age. Wentz initially started as a model at age 4, and made his acting debut as the role of Chip in the Four Seasons Musical Troupe Production of Beauty and the Beast. He became famous as a child actor as a regular on the NHK television show Tensai Terebi-kun (??????? ?) where he played bass guitar and piano at age 10. During live performances, he played the acoustic bass as well as the keyboard. He started learning the guitar from age 17. He later entered Burning Productions after the recommendation of Hiromi Go.

Eiji Toyoda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Eiji Toyoda: a prominent Japanese industrialist, who was largely responsible for bringing Toyota Motor Corporation to profitability and worldwide prominence during his tenure as president and later chairman. Born into a family of textile manufacturers, Eiji Toyoda is the son of Heihachi Toyoda, the brother of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda.[1]He studied engineering at Tokyo Imperial University from 1933 to 1936.[2] During this time Toyoda's cousin Kiichiro established an automobile plant at the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works in the city of Nagoya in central Japan.[2] Toyoda joined his cousin in the plant at the conclusion of his degree and throughout their lives they shared a deep friendship. In 1938, Kiichiro Toyoda asked Eiji Toyoda to oversee construction of a newer factory about 32 km east of Nagoya on the site of a red pine forest in the town of Koromo, later re-named Toyota City.[3] Known as the Honsha ("headquarters") plant, to this day it is considered the "mother factory" for Toyota Motor production facilities worldwide.[4]

Kim Eiji            Origin/Culture/Country: Korean

Kim Eiji: a former member of the Korean girl group Baby V.O.X.As its oldest member, Kim had been the leader of Baby Vox and had been assigned the 'sexy' role in the group. She was the group's rapper and sang sub vocals. In March 2006 after Baby VOX broke up, Kim decided to pursue an acting career. She has also worked as an emcee for MNET. She has attended Kyung Hee University where she studied dance.