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Kazuo Sakamaki (酒巻和男)

Kazuo Sakamaki (酒巻和男), Japanese midget submarine officer, HA-19 pilot at Pearl Harbor, captured 8 December 1941 as America's first Japanese WWII POW, later Toyota Brazil president.

Kazuo Shinozaki, born in 1949, is a Japanese plant molecular biologist at RIKEN who discovered the major gene-regulatory systems governing plant drought response and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Kazuo Takimiya

Kazuo Takimiya (瀧宮和男) is a Japanese organic materials chemist, professor at Tohoku University and a RIKEN group director, known for the high-mobility semiconductors BTBT and DNTT.

Sep 19, 2026

Kazuo Tashima

Kazuo Tashima (田嶋一雄, 1899–1985) was a Japanese businessman who founded the company that became Minolta Camera in 1928, later making the first practical autofocus SLR.

Kazuo Tomita

Kazuo Tomita (富田一雄, born 1 January 1939, Kurume, Japan), Japanese backstroke swimmer; bronze in 4x100 m medley relay at 1960 Rome Olympics, 1958 and 1962 Asian Games gold medalist, former medley relay world record holder.

Kazuo Tsubota

Kazuo Tsubota (坪田一男) is a Japanese ophthalmologist known for research on dry eye, myopia, and corneal regenerative medicine, who was professor of ophthalmology at Keio University from 2004 to 2021 and now leads Tsubota Laboratory.

Sep 27, 2026

Kazuo Yana

Kazuo Yana is a Japanese Liberal Democratic Party politician appointed Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in September 2026, with food security as his central theme.

Oct 10, 2026

Kazuoki Azuma

Kazuoki Azuma (吾妻一興) is a Japanese mathematician and professor at Miyagi University of Education known for the Azuma–Hoeffding inequality, a 1967 tail bound for martingales.

Oct 22, 2026

Kazusa Hirotsune

Kazusa Hirotsune (died 1183) was a Japanese warrior of the late Heian period who helped raise Minamoto no Yoritomo's eastern army before being killed on Yoritomo's orders.

Kazushi Kanoda

Kazushi Kanoda (鹿野田一司) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist, a University of Tokyo professor since 1999, known for NMR studies of organic molecular conductors.

Kazushi Mashima

Kazushi Mashima (真島和志), born 1957, is a Japanese organometallic chemist and Specially Appointed Professor at Osaka University, known for cerium cluster catalysis and asymmetric hydrogenation.

Kazushi Sakuraba (桜庭和志)

Kazushi Sakuraba (桜庭和志), "The Gracie Hunter," Japanese catch wrestler and ex-UWFi pro wrestler who beat four Gracies in PRIDE, won UFC Japan 1997, and retired 26-17-1; 2017 UFC Hall of Fame Pioneer.

Oct 22, 2026

Kazushige Abe

Kazushige Abe (阿部和重) is a Japanese novelist, born in 1968 in Yamagata Prefecture, who won the Akutagawa Prize for Grand Finale and the Tanizaki Prize for Pistols.

Kazushige Touhara

Kazushige Touhara (東原和成) is a Japanese sensory neuroscientist, professor at the University of Tokyo, known for discovering the mouse pheromone ESP1 and showing insect olfactory receptors are ion channels.

Kazutaka Katoh

Kazutaka Katoh (加藤和貴) is a Japanese computational biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo, known for developing the widely used MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program.

Sep 20, 2026

Kazutomo Suenaga

Kazutomo Suenaga, also published as Kazu Suenaga, is a Japanese electron microscopist known for single-atom spectroscopy and single-molecule imaging; since 2021 he has been a distinguished professor at The University of Osaka.

Kazutoshi Mori

Kazutoshi Mori (森和俊, born 1958) is a Japanese cell biologist who discovered the unfolded protein response, a cellular quality-control system, and shared the 2014 Lasker Award.

Sep 20, 2026

Kazuwa Nakao

Kazuwa Nakao (中尾一和) is a Japanese endocrinologist and physician-scientist at Kyoto University whose laboratory carried natriuretic peptides and leptin from discovery into clinical use.

Kazuya family

Kazuya family (FIN 521, KAZ): a compact S-type asteroid family of 44 members in the central main belt, named for 7353 Kazuya; possibly only about 2 Myr old and a candidate rotational-fission group.

Kazuya Kikuchi

Kazuya Kikuchi (菊地和也) is a Japanese chemical biologist and Distinguished Professor at Osaka University, known for fluorogenic no-wash protein-labeling tags and core-shell nanoparticle 19F MRI probes.

Kazuya Mishima

Kazuya Mishima (三島一八) is a fictional character in Bandai Namco's Tekken fighting game franchise, who defeated his father Heihachi and carries the Devil Gene.

Kazuya Nishimoto

Kazuya Nishimoto (born 1962) is a Japanese long-distance runner whose 1:28:46 for 30 km road (Kumamoto, 1985) was the Japanese national best until 2003; marathon best 2:12:41, Berlin 1990.

Sep 19, 2026

Kazuya Shobayashi (N.B.Medical Inc.)

Kazuya Shobayashi (正林和也) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded N.B.Medical Inc. in Tokyo in 2021, developing neurovascular stents and in-silico device technologies; Forbes JAPAN ranked him 8th in its Japan Entrepreneurs Ranking 2026.

Sep 19, 2026

Kazuya Takase

Kazuya Takase (高瀬一矢) is a Japanese composer and record producer from Hokkaido who co-founded the Sapporo music collective I've in 1998 and produces its singers, including KOTOKO.

Kazuyasu Minobe

Kazuyasu Minobe (見延和靖), born 1987 in Echizen, Fukui, is a Japanese left-handed épée fencer; Tokyo 2020 team gold (Japan's first Olympic fencing gold), Paris 2024 team silver, 2022 world individual silver.

Kazuyoshi Funaki

Kazuyoshi Funaki (船木和喜), Japanese ski jumper born 1975 in Yoichi, Hokkaido; double 1998 Nagano Olympic champion (large hill individual and team) plus normal hill silver, 1998 Four Hills and ski flying world champion, 17 World Cup wins.

Kazuyoshi Miura (三浦知良)

Kazuyoshi Miura (三浦知良), "King Kazu", born 1967, Japanese forward, J.League's first MVP (1993), 55 goals in 89 caps for Japan, oldest professional footballer, still playing in 2026 for Fukushima United in his 42nd season.

Kazuyuki Kuroda

Kazuyuki Kuroda (黒田一幸) is a Japanese inorganic materials chemist at Waseda University in Tokyo, known for mesoporous silica, oriented mesoporous films, and his nanotectonics design program.