List of Famous people born in Tokyo City, Japan

Keiko Fukuda

First Name Keiko
Last Name Fukuda
Born on April 12, 1913
Died on February 9, 2013 (aged 99)

Keiko Fukuda was a Japanese American martial artist. She was the highest-ranked female judoka in history, holding the rank of 9th dan from the Kodokan (2006), and 10th dan from USA Judo and from the United States Judo Federation (USJF), and was the last surviving student of Kanō Jigorō, founder of judo. She was a renowned pioneer of women's judo, together with her senpai Masako Noritomi (1913-1982) being the first woman promoted to 6th dan. In 2006 the Kodokan promoted Fukuda to 9th dan. She is also the first and, so far, only woman to have been promoted to 10th dan in the art of judo. After completing her formal education in Japan, Fukuda visited the United States of America to teach in the 1950s and 1960s, and eventually settled there. She continued to teach her art in the San Francisco Bay Area until her death in 2013.

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Tsutomu Hata

First Name Tsutomu
Born on August 24, 1935
Died on August 28, 2017 (aged 82)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Tsutomu Hata was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan for 9 weeks in 1994. He took over from Morihiro Hosokawa at the head of a coalition government. Shortly after he had been appointed Prime Minister, the Japanese Socialist Party left the government, leading to his early departure from office. He was a member of the lower house representing Nagano district #3. He was elected 14 times, retiring in 2012.

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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

First Name Jun'ichirō
Born on July 24, 1886
Died on July 30, 1965 (aged 79)

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki was one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, and he is perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki. Some of his works present a shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions. Others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society. Frequently his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which constructions of the West and Japanese tradition are juxtaposed.

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Shōtarō Ikenami

First Name Shōtarō
Born on January 25, 1923
Died on May 3, 1990 (aged 67)

Shōtarō Ikenami was a Japanese author. He wrote a number of historical novels. He won the Naoki Award for popular literature in 1960. Many of his historical novels were adapted for TV and cinema.

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Takeshi Katō

First Name Takeshi
Last Name Katō
Born on May 24, 1929
Died on July 31, 2015 (aged 86)

Takeshi Katō was a Japanese stage and film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films.

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Tanzan Ishibashi

First Name Tanzan
Born on September 25, 1884
Died on April 25, 1973 (aged 88)

Tanzan Ishibashi was a Japanese journalist and politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1956 to 1957. He was also Director General of the Japan Defense Agency in addition to being Prime Minister. During the same time he was the 2nd president of the Liberal Democratic Party, the majority party in the Diet. From 1952 to 1968 he was also the president of Rissho University. Being a member of Nichiren-shū, the name Tanzan is a religious name, as his profane name was Seizō (省三).

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Kishin Shinoyama

First Name Kishin
Born on December 3, 1940 (age 83)

Kishin Shinoyama is a Japanese photographer.

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Hasui Kawase

川瀬 文治郎
First Name Hasui
Born on May 18, 1883
Died on November 7, 1957 (aged 74)

Hasui Kawase was an artist, one of modern Japan's most important and prolific printmakers. He was a prominent designer of the shin-hanga movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by Western art. Like many earlier ukiyo-e prints, Hasui's works were commonly landscapes, but displayed atmospheric effects and natural lighting.

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Takeo Arishima

First Name Takeo
Last Name Arishima
Born on March 4, 1878
Died on June 9, 1923 (aged 45)

Takeo Arishima was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist during the late Meiji and Taishō periods. His two younger brothers, Ikuma Arishima (有島生馬) and Ton Satomi (里美弴), were also authors. His son was the internationally known film and stage actor, Masayuki Mori.

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Tatsuhiko Shibusawa

澁澤 龍雄
First Name Tatsuhiko
Last Name Shibusawa
Died on August 5, 1987 (aged 17)

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa was the pen name of Shibusawa Tatsuo, a novelist, art critic, and translator of French literature active during Shōwa period Japan. Shibusawa wrote many short stories and novels based on French literature and Japanese classics. His essays about black magic, demonology, and eroticism are also popular in Japan.

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