All articles starting with S

Shigeo Maruyama

Shigeo Maruyama (丸山茂夫, born 1960) is a Japanese mechanical engineer and Distinguished Professor at the University of Tokyo, known for inventing the ACCVD method of growing carbon nanotubes.

Shigeo Nakata (中田茂男), Japanese freestyle wrestler born 1945 in Asahikawa, Hokkaido; won flyweight (≤52 kg) gold at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, 1967 World Championship, and 1966 Bangkok Asian Games.

Shigeo Okabe

Shigeo Okabe (岡部繁男), born in Tokyo in 1960, is a Japanese neuroscientist at the University of Tokyo who won the 2025 Japan Academy Prize for imaging techniques.

Oct 10, 2026

Shigeo Sasaki

Shigeo Sasaki (1912–1987) was a Japanese differential geometer at Tohoku University who introduced the Sasaki metric on tangent bundles and the theory of almost contact structures, founding Sasakian geometry.

Oct 15, 2026

Shigeo Shingo

Shigeo Shingo (新郷重雄, 1909–1990) was a Japanese industrial engineer who trained thousands of Toyota managers from about 1955 to 1980 and developed the SMED setup-reduction method and poka-yoke mistake-proofing.

Shigeo Sugiura

Shigeo Sugiura (杉浦重雄, 1917–1988), Japanese freestyle swimmer from Hamamatsu; won 1936 Berlin Olympic gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay, setting the 8:51.5 world record that stood until 1948.

Shigeo Tokuda (徳田重男)

Shigeo Tokuda (徳田重男) is a Japanese adult film actor born in 1934 who debuted at 59 and became known as the world's oldest active porn star.

Oct 22, 2026

Shigeo Watanabe

Shigeo Watanabe (渡辺茂男, 1928–2006) was a Japanese children's author, translator, and library science professor at Keio University who published about 300 children's books, including the fire-engine story Shōbō jidōsha Jiputa.

Shigeru Chiba

Shigeru Chiba (千葉繁), birth name Masaharu Maeda (前田正治), born 1954, is a Japanese voice actor and sound director with 81 Produce, known for Pilaf, Kuwabara, Buggy, and Kefka since his 1976 debut in Dokaben.

Shigeru Ida

Shigeru Ida (井田茂) is a Japanese planetary scientist known for theoretical work on planet formation, from the Moon's origin to exoplanet populations, and a former president of the Astronomical Society of Japan.

Shigeru Ishiba (石破茂)

Shigeru Ishiba (石破茂), Japanese LDP politician and defense expert, was Prime Minister from October 2024 to September 2025. Former Defense Agency chief, five-time leadership candidate, proposed an Asian NATO, resigned after 2024-2025 election defeats.

Shigeru Kasamatsu

Shigeru Kasamatsu (笠松茂), born in 1947, is a retired Japanese artistic gymnast who won four Olympic medals at Munich 1972, including team gold, and the 1974 world all-around title.

Oct 22, 2026

Shigeru Kayano

Shigeru Kayano (萱野茂, 1926–2006) was a self-taught Ainu researcher, woodcarver, and writer from Nibutani, Hokkaido, who recorded the Ainu language and became the first Ainu member of Japan's National Diet in 1994.

Shigeru Kinoshita

Shigeru Kinoshita (木下茂) is a Japanese ophthalmologist and professor at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, known for cultivated corneal endothelial cell therapy for bullous keratopathy.

Shigeru Kuratani

Shigeru Kuratani (倉谷滋) is a Japanese evolutionary developmental biologist at RIKEN who studies the origin of the vertebrate body plan, jaws, and the turtle shell.

Shigeru Miyamoto (宮本茂)

Shigeru Miyamoto (宮本茂), born 1952, Japanese Nintendo designer who created Donkey Kong, Mario, Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin, and Nintendogs; now Executive Fellow and Representative Director, co-producing Nintendo films and theme parks.

Oct 10, 2026

Shigeru Mizohata

Shigeru Mizohata, publishing as Sigeru Mizohata, was a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University who worked on the Cauchy problem, the Lax–Mizohata theorem, weakly hyperbolic equations, and the Mizohata–Takeuchi conjecture.

Shigeru Nagase

Shigeru Nagase (永瀬茂), born 1946 in Osaka, is a Japanese theoretical and computational chemist and professor emeritus at the Institute for Molecular Science, known for endohedral metallofullerenes.

Shigeru Yamago

Shigeru Yamago (山子茂) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Chemical Research, known for cycloparaphenylene synthesis and organotellurium-mediated living radical polymerization.

Shigeru Yoshida (吉田茂)

Shigeru Yoshida (吉田茂, 1878–1967), Japanese diplomat and five-time prime minister 1946–1954, associated with the Yoshida Doctrine: reliance on US security, limited rearmament, focus on economic recovery.

Sep 20, 2026

Shigetada Nakanishi

Shigetada Nakanishi (中西重忠, born 1942) is a Japanese molecular neuroscientist who cloned the NMDA and metabotropic glutamate receptors and won the 2007 Gruber Neuroscience Prize.

Oct 15, 2026

Shigetai Coal Mine

Shigetai Coal Mine (石圪台煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Shenmu, Shaanxi, China, operated by China Shenhua Energy with a capacity of 12 million tonnes per year.

Shigetake Sasayama

Shigetake Sasayama (篠山重威) is a Japanese cardiologist and physician-scientist, professor of cardiovascular medicine at Kyoto University from 1991 to 2001, known for research on cytokines in heart failure.

Shigetarō Shimada (島田繁太郎)

Shigetarō Shimada (嶋田繁太郎, 1883–1976) was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral, Navy Minister under Tōjō from 1941 who approved the Pearl Harbor attack, briefly concurrently Chief of the Navy General Staff in 1944, and a convicted Class A war criminal released in 1955. Distinct from namesake Tanida Shigetarō.

Shigeyoshi Inoue (井上成美)

Shigeyoshi Inoue (井上成美, 1889–1975), the "last admiral" of the Imperial Japanese Navy: anti-Tripartite Pact air-power advocate, Fourth Fleet commander at the Coral Sea, Vice Minister of the Navy 1944–45, postwar English teacher in Yokosuka.

Shigeyoshi Itohara

Shigeyoshi Itohara (糸原重美) is a Japanese neuroscientist who leads the Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, studying neural circuit genetics in mice.

Shigeyoshi Sakaki

Shigeyoshi Sakaki (榊茂好) is a Japanese theoretical chemist at Kyoto University known for computational studies of transition-metal catalysis and the 2014 Chemical Society of Japan Award.