List of Famous people born in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Tomimaru Okuni

First Name Tomimaru

Born on January 1, 1931 (age 95)

Born in Japan, Yamagata Prefecture

Tomimaru Okuni is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets at the Nanyo Observatory, Yamagata prefecture, Japan.

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Makoto Sataka

First Name Makoto

Last Name Sataka

Born on January 19, 1945 (age 81)

Born in Japan, Yamagata Prefecture

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Takeshi Koike

First Name Takeshi

Last Name Koike

Born on January 26, 1968 (age 58)

Born in Japan, Yamagata Prefecture

Filmmaker

Takeshi Koike is a Japanese animator, illustrator and film director.

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Eiken Shōji

First Name Eiken

Born on July 6, 1923

Died on September 15, 2015 (aged 92)

Born in Japan, Yamagata Prefecture

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Makoto Satō

First Name Makoto

Last Name Satō

Born on June 12, 1975 (age 50)

Born in Japan, Yamagata Prefecture

Height 182 cm | 6'0

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Yui Satō

First Name Yui

Last Name Satō

Born on March 29, 1986 (age 40)

Born in Japan, Yamagata Prefecture

Height 152 cm | 5'0

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Rinia Matsuda

First Name Rinia

Born on May 30, 1979 (age 46)

Born in Japan, Yamagata Prefecture

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Makiko Ishikawa

First Name Makiko

Born on November 12, 1949 (age 76)

Born in Japan, Yamagata Prefecture

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Homma Munehisa

First Name Homma

Last Name Munehisa

Born on January 1, 1724

Died on January 1, 1803 (aged 79)

Born in Japan, Yamagata Prefecture

Munehisa Honma (1724-1803) was a rice merchant from Sakata, Japan who traded in the Dojima Rice market in Osaka during the Tokugawa Shogunate. He is sometimes considered to be the father of the candlestick chart, a form of technical analysis used in stock markets.

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Itō Chūta

First Name Itō

Last Name Chūta

Died on April 7, 1954

Born in Japan, Yamagata Prefecture

Itō Chūta was a Japanese architect, architectural historian, and critic. He is recognized as the leading architect and architectural theorist of early 20th-century Imperial Japan.

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