Favorite Japanese person?

[Japanrocks12]

hey, this thing has really taken off so what the hell.

 

[MobBoss]

Hiro Nakamura

 

[Communisto]

Anyone who says anything different deserves to die.

 

[Japanrocks12]

poll up. MB, I was going to make him a choice but had precious few slots.

 

[Japanrocks12]

Anyone who says anything different deserves to die.

fix your link boy

 

[Japanrocks12]

argh I forgot Akira Kurosawa

 

[Communisto]

it was working for me, meh fixed.

 

[Adrogans]

Personally a big fan of Yohorsehockyaka Amano and his art myself.

 

[Bartleby]

Toshiro Mifune.

 

[Kyriakos]

You forgot Junichiro Tanizaki

 

[Japanrocks12]

You forgot Junichiro Tanizaki

yeah, he too is among my favorite authors but there's such precious little space

 

[Kyriakos]

Do you have any japanese short story to propose i should read? Preferably if there is an etext of it around as well

 

[Cato the Elder]

I haven't voted yet, though I have to admit that Koizumi has one of the most awesome hair-dos I've ever seen for a major world leader.

 

[Japanrocks12]

I'd go over and buy akutagawa's collection of short stories (or try to find one that has "Hell Screen", that story is amazing). Or you can buy The Elephant Vanishes or Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, two collections of short stories by Murakami. Out of all these options, the best known are probably "In a Grove" and "Rashomon" by Akutagawa.

 

[amadeus]

You forgot Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japan's great arch-conservative of the 80s.

Of the list, I voted for Emperor Meiji.

 

[bhsup]

Anyone who says anything different deserves to die.

*snort* That punk is a weenie. Now here, here's a badarse Japanese.

 

[emzie]

David Suzuki, for he is an almost mythic creature -- nay, a protector, a guardian -- of righteousness and green things.

 

[bhsup]

In all seriousness, I vote for Mitsuo Fuchida. Honorable man as both enemy then later as friend of America.

 

[Rossiya]

Takeshi Castle

 

[theskald]

No Rosa Kato?

I like Tojo's description, though.

Nobuo Uematsu, for being one of the best things to happen to music.

Personally a big fan of Yohorsehockyaka Amano and his art myself.

Mmmmeeeeeeeeeeehhh...