List of Famous people named Yoshihisa
Yoshihisa Hirano
Yoshihisa Hirano is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He previously played for the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and the Arizona Diamondbacks and Seattle Mariners in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Yoshihisa Furukawa
Yoshihisa Furukawa is a Japanese politician who currently serves as Minister of Justice since October 2021. He is serving in the House of Representatives as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Yoshihisa Naruse
Yoshihisa Naruse is a Japanese baseball player. He is a pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball. He made his debut in the 2006 season. In 2007, Naruse had his best season as a professional in his short career. All season long he was competing with Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters superstar Yu Darvish for the Eiji Sawamura Award, the award for best pitcher in all of Japan. In 24 starts, Naruse was 16–1 with a 1.82 ERA, with 138 strikeouts and only 27 walks in 173 and 1/3 innings. Darvish, by comparison, was 15–5 in 26 starts, also compiling a 1.82 ERA, but not only did he throw more complete games than Naruse, but Darvish also threw more innings, but he struck out more batters, with 210 punch-outs. The two ended up facing each other in the 2007 Pacific League Championship Series' deciding Game 5. Darvish triumphed over Naruse at Sapporo Dome, and the Fighters won Game 5 and the series 3–2, setting up a rematch of the 2006 Japan Series with the Chunichi Dragons. Naruse ultimately lost out to Darvish for the Sawamura Award in 2007.
Yoshihisa Okumura
Dr. Yoshihisa Okumura is a Japanese engineer, known for development of cellular telephone networks. His radio survey of signal strength as a function of distance as measured in drive tests in automobiles was critical to the system planning of mobile radio telephone systems.