List of Famous people born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Chūmei Watanabe

渡辺 宙明
First Name Chūmei
Born on August 19, 1925
Died on June 23, 2022 (aged 96)

Chumei Watanabe , born Michiaki Watanabe , was a Japanese film score and television score composer. He worked on various tokusatsu shows and mecha anime.

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Seito Yamamoto

First Name Seito
Born on March 11, 1992 (age 34)

Seito Yamamoto is a Japanese pole vaulter. He competed in the pole vault event at the 2012 Summer Olympics failing to clear any height in the qualifying round. His biggest success to date is the sixth place at the 2013 World Championships.

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Masahiro Andoh

First Name Masahiro
Last Name Andoh
Born on September 16, 1954 (age 71)

Masahiro Andoh is a Japanese composer, guitarist and T-Square's leader from Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He was also one-third of Ottottrio, a Superband led by three Japanese guitarists: himself, Hirokuni Korekata of KORENOS and Issei Noro of Casiopea.

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Satoru Akahori

First Name Satoru
Born on March 8, 1965 (age 61)

Satoru Akahori is a Japanese scriptwriter, novelist and manga author. He is best known for the Saber Marionette, Sakura Wars and Sorcerer Hunters series, which comes in anime, novel and manga forms.

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Ryo Sakakibara

First Name Ryo
Last Name Sakakibara
Born on August 4, 1985 (age 40)
Height 176 cm | 5'9

Ryo Sakakibara is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters from 2009 to 2013 and the Orix Buffaloes from 2014 to 2015.

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Yoshio Sawai

First Name Yoshio
Last Name Sawai
Born on March 14, 1977 (age 49)

Yoshio Sawai is a Japanese gag manga creator best known for his series Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and sequel Shinsetsu Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, both serialized on Weekly Shōnen Jump. Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo was adapted into a 76 episodes anime series by the Toei Animation studio between 2003 and 2005.

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Shingo Takeyama

First Name Shingo
Born on June 22, 1984 (age 41)

Shingo Takeyama is a retired professional Japanese baseball player. He played catcher for the Yokohama BayStars, Saitama Seibu Lions and Chunichi Dragons.

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Nankichi Niimi

渡邊 正八
First Name Nankichi
Born on July 30, 1913
Died on March 22, 1943 (aged 29)

Nankichi Niimi was a Japanese author, sometimes known as the Hans Christian Andersen of Japan.

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Miyoko Akaza

First Name Miyoko
Born on February 10, 1944 (age 82)
Height 163 cm | 5'4

Miyoko Akaza is a Japanese actress. She is married to Toshiya Fujita.

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Yura Matsuda

First Name Yura
Born on July 22, 1998 (age 27)

Yura Matsuda is a Japanese competitive figure skater. She is the 2015 Triglav Trophy silver medalist and 2016 Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy champion.

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