List of Famous people born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
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Hiromi Kojima
Hiromi Kojima is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Hiroyuki Kakudō
Hiroyuki Kakudō is a Japanese anime director. He is best known for directing the first two Digimon series.
Takeshi Hidaka
Takeshi Hidaka is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball player. He played with the Orix BlueWave/Orix Buffaloes from 1998 to 2012 and the Hanshin Tigers from 2013 to 2014.
Shun Obu
Shun Obu is a Japanese footballer who since 2014 has played defender for Júbilo Iwata.
Asahiko Mihara
Asahiko Mihara is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Onga, Fukuoka, he attended Hitotsubashi University and Dag Hammarskjöld College in the United States, and received a master's degree from Carleton University in Canada. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1986. He participated in the formation of the New Party Sakigake in 1993 but later returned to the LDP. He was defeated in the 2009 election by DPJ candidate Rintaro Ogata.
Mutsuo Takahashi
Mutsuo Takahashi is one of the most prominent and prolific male poets, essayists, and writers of contemporary Japan, with more than three dozen collections of poetry, several works of prose, dozens books of essays, and several major literary prizes to his name. He is especially well known for his open writing about male homoeroticism. He currently lives in the seaside town of Zushi, several kilometers south of Yokohama, Japan.
Kenichi Ohmae
Kenichi Ohmae is a Japanese organizational theorist, management consultant, Former Professor and Dean of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and author, known for developing the 3C's Model.