Yukiko Kada

Yukiko Kada

female, 59 years old
(born May 18, 1950) is the governor of Shiga Prefecture. She is the first female governor of Shiga and the fifth female governor in Japanese history.
Ii Naosuke

Ii Naosuke

male, 194 years old
Ii Naosuke was feudal lord of Hikone and Tairō of Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858 until his death. He is most famous for signing the H...
Ishida Mitsunari

Ishida Mitsunari

male, deceased (1600)
Ishida Mitsunari (1560 - November 6, 1600) was a samurai who led the Western army in the Battle of Sekigahara following the Azuchi-Momoyama period...
Zheng Yongshan

Zheng Yongshan

female, 37 years old
Zheng Yongshan (1972) is a Chinese immigrant who also goes by the name of Mie Taniguchi lives near Tokyo, Japan. She moved to Japan in 2004 and...
Aika Mitsui

Aika Mitsui

female, 16 years old
born on January 12, 1993 in Ōtsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, is a member of J-pop group Morning Musume, joining as a member of the eighth g...
Simon Cozens

Simon Cozens

male, 31 years old
Simon Cozens (b. 1978) is a British Perl programmer, author, blogger and missionary. He is a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford (where he studied...

Sōsuke Uno

male, deceased (1998)
Sōsuke Uno was a Japanese politician and the 75th Prime Minister of Japan from June 3,1989 to August 10,1989. He was born in Shiga Prefecture and a...
Natsuka Masaie

Natsuka Masaie

male, deceased (1600)
Natsuka Masaie was a daimyo in the Azuchi-Momoyama period and one of the Go-Bugyo, or "five commissioners", appointed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Born...
Yutaka Take

Yutaka Take

male, 40 years old
(born March 15 1969, came from Ritto, Shiga, Shiga) is a Japanese jockey who is a multiple champion in his homeland and won the Japan Cup in 1999...

J. Martin Holman

male
Literary translator, professor, and puppet theater director, James Martin Holman, Jr. was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1957. He received a BA in...