Ken Akamatsu

Ken Akamatsu

male
is a Japanese "mangaka", born in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, on July 5, 1968. Most of his works fall into the "harem anime" genre and feature ecchi...
Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito

male, 68 years old
Toyo Ito is considered "one of the world's most innovative and influential architects" (Designboom). Ito is known for creating extreme conceptual...
Shinichi Kitaoka

Shinichi Kitaoka

male, 61 years old
Shinichi Kitaoka is a professor of Tokyo University and Japan's United Nations Representative.
Hajime Nakamura

Hajime Nakamura

male, deceased (1999)
Nakamura Hajime(中村元 November 28,1911 - October 10,1999) was a Japanese Buddhist philosopher. Nakamura was born in Matsue, Shimane. He gradua...
Isao Takahata

Isao Takahata

male, 74 years old
is one of the most famous directors of anime, or Japanese animated films. Born in Ujiyamada (now Ise), Mie prefecture, Japan, he is a long-term...

Nobukatsu Fujioka

male, 66 years old
(born October 21, 1943 in Shibecha, Hokkaido) is a professor of education at Tokyo University noted for his efforts at removing from Japanese...

Horace Wilson

male, deceased (1927)
Horace Wilson was an American professor of English at Tokyo University (then named "Kaisei Gakko") during the modernization of Japan after the...
Takeo Doi

Takeo Doi

male, 89 years old
Takeo Doi is an eminent Japanese psychoanalyst. Takeo Doi made his influential critique of contemporary Japanese society in the work The Anatomy of...
Yoshinori Kobayashi

Yoshinori Kobayashi

male, 56 years old
Yoshinori Kobayashi (Penname: 小林 よしのり, Real name: 小林 善範; "Kobayashi Yoshinori", born in Fukuoka, Japan, August 31 1953) is a bestselling Japanese...
Kawakami Hajime

Kawakami Hajime

male
Kawakami Hajime, 1879 - 1946, was a Japanese Marxist economist of the Taishō and early Shōwa periods. Born in Yamaguchi, he graduated from Tokyo Un...