Shigeo Hirose

Shigeo Hirose

male, 62 years old
BEng, MEng, PhD (born 1947 in Tokyo) is an award winning pioneer of robotics technology and a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Born...
Kenichi Ohmae

Kenichi Ohmae

male, 66 years old
Author of over 100 books, including the seminal work, The Mind of the Strategist , Kenichi Ohmae has an unsurpassed reputation as an advisor on...
Naoto Kan

Naoto Kan

male, 63 years old
Naoto Kan is a Japanese politician who was the former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the largest opposition party in the Diet. Kan...
Shoji Hamada

Shoji Hamada

male, deceased (1978)
Shoji Hamada was a Japanese potter. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, and died in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture. He studied ceramics at Tokyo Institute of...
Yoji Akao

Yoji Akao

81 years old
Yoji Akao (born 1928) is a Japanese planning specialist, recognized as the developer of Hoshin Kanri (a strategic planning methodology). With the...
Nob Yoshigahara

Nob Yoshigahara

male, deceased (2004)
Nobuyuki Yoshigahara was perhaps Japan's most celebrated inventor, collector, solver, and communicator of puzzles. Nob graduated from the Tokyo...
Masao Horino

Masao Horino

male, deceased (2000)
Masao Horino (1907 - 2000) was one of the most prominent Japanese photographers in the first half of the 20th century in Japan. He was born in...