** Watanabe no Tsuna ( formally a Minamoto ), great-great-grandson of Tōru

Watanabe has two biological children and an adopted son.

His oldest son, Dai Watanabe is an actor, and his daughter Anne Watanabe ( 1986 -) is also an actress and fashion model.

; Cameron " Cam " Watanabe: The Green Samurai Ranger ; the son of Kanoi Watanabe, head of the Wind Ninja Academy.

His 52-year old son, Akio Toyoda, was the chief contender for the office of president when Katsuaki Watanabe relinquished that post to become Chairman ; and the expectation was confirmed in 2009.

In May and June 2009, articles in the Japanese weekly magazine FRIDAY accused the IIBC ’ s 92 year-old Chairman Yaeji Watanabe of nepotism when he appointed the son of his girlfriend to the position of Chairman of the IIBC Board of Directors.

As a result Watanabe claimed that he had little to do with the decision to appoint the son of his girlfriend to the position.

In 2009, Watanabe suddenly resigned from the IIBC, leaving the son of his girlfriend in charge of the non-profit.

Giants owner Tsuneo Watanabe was upset, and manager Shigeo Nagashima was forced to tell his son that he would not be offered a contract for next year.

His eldest son, Yoshimi Watanabe, is currently serving as a politician of Your Party.

* Tokyo Joe ( 1978, with Kazumi Watanabe, more a compilation than a proper album, featuring an odd mix of tracks from Thousand Knives and from the eponymous album by Watanabe's short lived Kylyn band )

Kazumi Watanabe ( 渡辺香津美 ) is a jazz and jazz fusion guitarist, from Tokyo, Japan.

Clans such as the Watanabe, Matsura, and Kamachi descended from the Saga Genji.

The series was originally an in-joke from an episode of Excel Saga ; Watanabe decided to take the in-joke to its most extreme logical conclusion, creating the series.

The noted scholar Watanabe Kazan was from Tahara.

Then, in 2003, Watanabe directed his first American-produced anime, the short films Kid's Story and A Detective Story, both part of The Animatrix, an anthology of animated shorts of back stories from The Matrix.

* Watanabe clan-descended from Emperor Saga.

After graduating from high school in 1978, Watanabe moved to Tokyo to begin his acting career, getting his big break with the Tokyo-based theater troupe En.

Watanabe appeared on Sesame Street for some years and had a recurring role on ER from 1998 to 2002.

A Corporal and Superior Private from Ushigome Military Police squad were wounded in the attack, and Watanabe also fought back with his pistol, but was finally killed.

To overcome this opposition, Kitaoka received help from his friend, Yaeji Watanabe.

In a nightclub, Watanabe requests a song from the piano player, and sings " Gondola no Uta " with great sadness.

He would later earn the nickname because of the fearless tactics he displayed in his operations ; this is to distinguish him from Watanabe Hanzo ( Watanabe Moritsuna ), who is nicknamed.

Watanabe stated that the nickname Nabeshin ( which is a combination of " nabe " in Watanabe and " shin " in Shinichi ) came to him from God.

The company originated from Fukuoka-based Watanabe Tekkōjo ( Watanabe Steel Foundry ), which started building aircraft in 1935.

* Akira Watanabe ( National President of the Scout Association of Japan from 1974 – 2003 )

Clamp charges in with the police and press, but is so thrilled by the end result that he gives Billy, Katie, Fred and Marla promotions and gives Grandpa Fred a job as an anchorman and gives Mr. Katsuji ( Gedde Watanabe ) who is a photographer and cameraman a job to be Grandpa Fred's cameraman while Clamp decides to start a new project based on Kingston Falls ' tranquil setting from Billy's drawing.

In 1969 Merrill signed a solo management deal with Watanabe Productions, who contracted him to Atlantic Records, and changed his professional surname from Sachs ( pronounced sax ) to Merrill because " Merrill " sounded less lascivious and was more commercially viable when spoken by young Japanese pop music fans.

Along with teen idols Tomoyo Harada and Noriko Watanabe who debuted from Kadokawa Haruki Corporation, she was often dubbed as one of " Kadokawa Sannin-musume " in her early career.

Two truck drivers, Goro and Gun ( Tsutomu Yamazaki and Ken Watanabe ), help the widowed Tampopo ( Nobuko Miyamoto ) with her failing ramen shop.

: At the start of a new school year the over-energetic Poemy Watanabe is introduced, along with her adoptive parents Nabeshin and Kumi-Kumi.

It was not until September 1914 that they met each other, introduced by Watanabe Masatarō, in the home of her husband, Tsuji Jun.

Hiroko Watanabe lives in Kobe and has lost her fiancé Itsuki Fujii in a mountain climbing accident.

Watanabe is attracted to her joyous love of life and enthusiasm.

Inspired by her example, Watanabe dedicates his remaining time to accomplishing one worthwhile achievement before his life ends ; through his persistent efforts, he is able to overcome the inertia of bureaucracy and turn a mosquito-infested cesspool into a children's playground.

Watanabe died after a long battle with cancer in her Milan home at the age of 51.

In 1978, the 25-year-old Ms. Watanabe made her debut in Europe, then mostly performed in Italy.

The adults and babies meet Kira Watanabe and her daughter, Kimi, who originate from Japan.

Rui eventually falls in love with and marries her teacher Keisuke Watanabe.

After the deaths of their soldiers the Japanese officers Watanabe and Imanaka torture Chien for telling them the location of her father, but Chien Hua refuses.

In Singapore he has appeared in many Mediacorp Channel 5 and Art Central productions including: My Sassy Neighbour where he plays the character Mr. Watanabe ( which is coincidentally the last name of the character he played in Power Rangers Ninja Storm ), Six Weeks, Parental Guidance, 9 Lives, Mental, The Secret Lives of Sorry Stars and the telemovie: House of Harmony playing opposite Maggie Q as her husband Michael Lee.

Excluding Tomita, who only wrote the music to her own song, only the Okui / Watanabe pairing does not have a songwriting credit in the band's catalogue.