Yamaguchi

Yamaguchi

Yamaguchi (, "mountain entrance/gateway") is the 15th most common Japanese surname. It can refer to:

Real people

*Adam Yamaguchi American television correspondent and producer at Current TV
*Billy Yamaguchi Famed Feng Shui Hairstylist and creator of hair product line.
*Eri Yamaguchi (born 1973), Japanese long-distance runner
*Erina Yamaguchi Japanese gravure idol
*Gogen Yamaguchi (1909 - 1989), Japanese karateka
*Goro Yamaguchi (1933 - 1999), world famous Japanese shakuhachi musician
*Hideko Yamaguchi, plaintiff foster mother in "Sweden v. Yamaguchi", a famous international family law trial.
*Hitomi Yamaguchi (1923 – 1995), popular Japanese novelist and essayist
*Jun Yamaguchi, (born 1967) Japanese composer
*Kappei Yamaguchi, Japanese seiyū
*Kayo Yamaguchi (1899 - 1984), Japanese painter
*Keiji Yamaguchi, (creature technical director: Industrial Light & Magic)
* Koichi Yamaguchi, bicycle framebuilder
*Kosuke Yamaguchi, underwater hockey player/finswimmer
*Kristi Yamaguchi, Japanese American figure skater
*Makoto Yamaguchi (origami artist)
*Masakatsu Yamaguchi, plaintiff foster father in "Sweden v. Yamaguchi", a famous international family law trial.
*Mayumi Yamaguchi (born 1975), Japanese seiyū
*Momoe Yamaguchi (born 1959), former Japanese pop singer, actress and idol
*Motohiro Yamaguchi (born 1969), Japanese football midfielder
*Noboru Yamaguchi (1901 - 1942), second kumicho, or Godfather, of the Yamaguchi-gumi
*Otoya Yamaguchi (1943 - 1960), Japanese ultranationalist best known for his assassination of Inejiro Asanuma
*Roy Yamaguchi, Japanese-American chef
*Ryōta Yamaguchi (born 1969), Japanese anime screenwriter
*Seigo Yamaguchi (1924 - 1996), Japanese aikidoka
*Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Japanese actor
*Shinji Yamaguchi, Japanese mangaka
*Takayuki Yamaguchi, Japanese seiyū
*Tamon Yamaguchi (1892 - 1942), Japanese Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy
*Tomoko Yamaguchi (born 1964), Japanese actress and singer
*Taro Yamaguchi (born 1970), Japanese seiyū
*Wally Yamaguchi, Japanese professional wrestling personality, better known in the U. S. as the manager of Kai En Tai in World Wrestling Entertainment
*Yuki Yamaguchi, Japanese sprinter
*Yuriko Yamaguchi (born 1965), Japanese seiyū
*Yuriko Yamaguchi (born 1948), Japanese-American sculptor
*Yutaka Yamaguchi (born 1940), Japanese businessman and economist

Places

*Yamaguchi Prefecture, westernmost prefecture of Honshū island of Japan
*Yamaguchi-shi, city, capital of Yamaguchi Prefecture
*Yamaguchi-mura, village in Nagano Prefecture
*Yamaguchi Station, JR West railway station located in Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Fictional Depictions

*Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi, character of Yukie Nakama in Gokusen
*Yamaguchi-sensei, doctor in the manga/anime series Fighting Spirit
*USS Yamaguchi was destroyed at the Battle of Wolf 359.

Other

*Yamaguchi Bank, major regional bank in Japan, primarily in the Yamaguchi prefecture
*Yamaguchi Broadcasting Co. (later named KRY), Japanese television and radio broadcasting company serving the city of Yamaguchi and Yamaguchi Prefecture.
*Yamaguchi-gumi, yakuza group
*Sweden v. Yamaguchi, a highly complex decision in international family law which touches on questions in law still unresolved over fifty years later.

ee also

* Japanese name


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