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Born | 9 December 1941 Toyama, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 4 March 2015 (aged 73) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Freestyle wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Iwao Horiuchi (堀内 岩雄, 9 December 1941 – 4 March 2015) was a Japanese lightweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1964. He also won a world title in 1963 and finished second in 1966. [1] [2] He died of diabetes in March 2015, aged 73. [3]
Masami Horiuchi is a Japanese actor.
Neptune is a three-man Japanese conte group consisting of two boke, Taizo Harada, and Ken Horiuchi – usually referred to as Horiken (ホリケン), and one tsukkomi, Jun Nagura. Their trio name comes from the Kinnikuman character, Neptuneman.
Iwao is both a masculine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname. Notable people with the name include:
Hatsutarō Horiuchi was a Japanese photographer.
Mitsuo Horiuchi was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Misaka, Yamanashi and graduate of Keio University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1976. He joined Sosuke Uno's cabinet as the Minister of Labour.
Tsuneo Horiuchi is a former professional baseball player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, and a politician. A right-handed pitcher, in 2008 he was voted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.
Takao Horiuchi is a Japanese pop and enka singer. He won a 1990 Japan Record Award for enka.
Horiuchikōen Station is a railway station in the city of Anjō, Aichi, Japan, operated by Meitetsu.
Gen Horiuchi is a Japanese ballet dancer and choreographer. He was a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet and is artistic director of the Saint Louis Ballet Company.
Paul Chikamasa Horiuchi was an American painter and collagist. He was born in Yamanashi, Japan, and studied art from an early age. After immigrating to the United States in his early teens, he spent many years as a railroad worker in the Western U.S. In 1946, he moved to Seattle, Washington, where he eventually switched his focus from painting to collage and came to be associated with the "Northwest School" of artists. In his mid-forties, he was finally able to devote himself to art full-time, his unusual collage style becoming very popular in the 1950s and 60s. He continued creating art at his studio in Seattle until succumbing to Alzheimer's-related health problems in 1999.
Yu Horiuchi is a female wrestler from Japan. She won a silver medal at the 2010 World Wrestling Championships in Moscow.
Aiko Horiuchi is a Japanese painter, writer, and actress. She is best known for her role of the villainess Kayako Saeki in The Grudge 3 (2009), taking over for Takako Fuji, who had passed on the role.
Mitsuo is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
Takao is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
Horiuchi is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ken Horiuchi is a Japanese comedian who performs boke in the comedy trio Neptune. He is nicknamed Horiken (ホリケン). He also creates stories for the trio.
2015 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.
Terufumi Horiuchi is a member of the Japanese Communist Party, former serving in the House of Representatives.
Shunsuke Horiuchi is a Japanese rower. He competed in the men's single sculls event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Noriko Horiuchi is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives, since 2012, representing the Yamanashi 2nd district. She served as Minister for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games and Minister in Charge of Promoting Vaccinations. She had been in Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet since 4 October 2021 until 31 March 2022. Noriko Horiuchi was preceded by Tamayo Marukawa as Minister for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games and by Taro Kono as Minister in Charge of Vaccination. She is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.