Yoichiro Nambu

Yoichiro Nambu

male, 88 years old
University of Chicago, Sakurai Prize, Max Planck medal, OrderofCulture, Quantum chromodynamics, Dirac Medal…National Medal of Science recipient, National Medal of Science, Department of Physics
Yoichiro Nambu is a Japanese-born American physicist. He is famous for having proposed the "color charge" of quantum chromodynamics, for having...
Yoshio Nishina

Yoshio Nishina

male, deceased (1951)
bohr, dirac, heisenberg, Cavendish Laboratory, quantum mechanics, okayama…University of Copenhagen, Georg August University of Göttingen, OrderofCulture
Yoshio Nishina was a Japanese physicist. He was a friend of Niels Bohr, and a close associate of Albert Einstein. Nishina was a world-class...
Kotaro Honda

Kotaro Honda

male, deceased (1954)
OrderofCulture, Okazaki, scientist, steel, Japanese, Aichi Prefecture
Kotaro Honda (本多 光太郎, "Honda Kōtarō", born on February 23, 1870 in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture - February 12, 1954) was a Japanese scientist an...
Kayo Yamaguchi

Kayo Yamaguchi

male, deceased (1984)
painter, watercolour painting, kyoto, Japanese, From Kyoto, nihonga…OrderofCulture
was a Japanese painter specializing in the nihonga style of watercolour painting. He was born in the Nakagyo ward of Kyoto。 Kayo studied under Ni...
Yasushi Sugiyama

Yasushi Sugiyama

male, deceased (1993)
painter, heisei, watercolour painting, asakusa, showa, Japanese…Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, OrderofCulture, Japanese Order of Culture
was a Japanese painter of the Showa and Heisei eras, who practiced the nihonga style of watercolour painting. Sugiyama was born in 1909 in Asakusa,...
Takeuchi Seihō

Takeuchi Seihō

male, deceased (1942)
art-name, nihonga, kyoto, meiji, Japanese, From Kyoto…OrderofCulture
was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter of the "nihonga" genre, active from the Meiji through the early Showa era. One of the founders of...
Kawai Gyokudō

Kawai Gyokudō

male, deceased (1957)
Bunten, Bosetsu, landscape painting, Yuku haru, Showa period, meiji…Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, OrderofCulture
was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter in the nihonga school, active from Meiji through Showa period Japan. His real name was Kawai Yoshisaburō. G...
Kiyoshi Shiga

Kiyoshi Shiga

male, deceased (1951)
bacteriology, shiga toxin, Keijo Imperial University, Sendai, Miyagi, OrderofCulture, from Miyagi Prefecture…Governor-General of Korea
"' (7 February 1871–25 January 1951) was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. Dr. Shiga was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. His original fa...

Kawaguchi Matsutarō

male, deceased (1985)
novelist, World War II, film producer, Short story writer, melodrama, Showa period…OrderofCulture
"'"' (1 October 1899 - 9 June 1985) was a novelist, playwright and movie producer in Showa period Japan.　 Kawaguchi was born in the plebian As...
Hisaya Morishige

Hisaya Morishige

male, 96 years old
nhk, Tetsuko's Room, Hirakata, Osaka, Kitano High School, Japan Actors Union, OrderofCulture
(born May 4, 1913) is a Japanese actor. Born in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, he graduated from what was known under the old education system as...