Masaji Kiyokawa
Kiyokawa was born in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, and graduated from the Tokyo College of Commerce( now Hitotsubashi University).
Selected as a member of the Japanese swimming team at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, he won the gold medal in the 100 m backstroke event, with teammates Toshio Irie and Kentaro Kawatsu taking the silver and bronze.
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he placed third in the same event.
In 1948, Kiyokawa became a director of the Japan Swimming Federation, and a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1975 to 1989, serving as vice chairman from 1979 to 1983.
During his tenure, the city of Nagoya made a bid for the 1988 Summer Olympics, competing against Seoul, South Korea.
Kiyokawa was critical of the large amounts of money being spent by both parties to entertain and influence the votes of the IOC members.
He was also critical of the decision of the Japanese government to bow to political pressure from the United States to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Kiyokawa was the CEO of the general trading company Kanematsu Corp. from 1976.
He died of pancreatic cancer.
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Kentaro Asahi
Asahi played as a center for the Japan men's national volleyball team in the 1990s.
He ended up in sixteenth place at the 1998 World Championship, and later on started a career in beach volleyball.
Asahi and teammate Katsuhiro Shiratori represented Japan in beach volleyball at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Asahi began to work for IT company Forval Corporation in 2011 through a Japanese Olympic Committee athlete hiring program.
In July 2016, Asahi was elected as a member of the House of Councillors representing the Tokyo at- large district for the Liberal Democratic Party.
Simon Qamunga
Simon Qamunga( born November 20, 1967) is a Tanzanian long- distance runner who represented his country in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
He competed in the men's marathon event, placing 92nd.
He would go on to coach running in Arusha.
Mohan Poothathan
Mohan Poothathan is an Indian beach volleyball player.
Along with Pradeep John, Poothathan entered the finals of the 15th Asian Games of 2006 held at Doha, Qatar defeating Philippines.
But they lost to the Japanese pair of Kentaro Asahi and Katsuhiro Shiratori.
He competed at the 2012 Asian Beach Games in Haiyang, China.
Markiyan Shashkevych
Markiyan Shashkevych
( November 6, 1811 in Pidlyssia, Złoczów powiat, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria – June 7, 1843 in Nowosiółki, Lesko powiat, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek- Catholic Church, a poet, a translator, and the leader of the literary revival in Right Bank Ukraine.
Shashkevych's parents were Simon Shaskevych( Szaszkiewicz) and Elizabeth Audykowska, who was the daughter of Rev. Romanus Audykowski, the Greek Catholic parish priest in Pidlyssia.
In 1832, Shashkevych and fellow students organized a group aimed at the rise of the Ukrainian dialect free of Church Slavonic and alien' styles' up to the literary language.
He graduated from the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary at University of Lviv in 1838 and worked as a priest in the rural Lwow powiat.
During his studies he met Yakiv Holovatsky and Ivan Vahylevych, with whom he formed the Ruthenian Triad( aka" Ruska Triytsia").
He also organized nationally conscious Ukrainian young people to work for national and cultural revival in Western Ukrainian lands, particularly to reintroduce the use of spoken Ukrainian language in writing and sermons.
The activities of the Shashkevych circle constituted not only a literary phenomenon, but a social and democratic movement.
Its greatest achievement was the publication of an almanac entitled" Rusalka Dnistrova"(' The Mermaid of the Dniester'), which was the first collection of Ukrainian literature to appear in Western Ukraine( 1837).
The almanac had a decisive effect on the revival and development of Ukrainian literature in Galicia.
After a short life, he was first buried at a Nowosilky in 1843, present Busk Raion of the Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, and then in 1891 his mortal remains were transferred to the Lychakivskiy Cemetery.
Phil Slater
Phil Slater is an Australian trumpeter and composer.
In 2019 he released the album" The Dark Pattern".
Playing with him on the album were Simon Barker( drums), Matt McMahon( piano), Matt Keegan( saxophone) and Brett Hirst( bass).
The album saw him nominated for the 2019 ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album.
Slater has been a member of many bands including
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Katsuhiro Shiratori
He represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics with teammate Kentaro Asahi.
Katsuhiro Shiratori
He represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics with teammate Kentaro Asahi.
Toshio Irie
Irie was born in Takatsuki, Osaka, and graduated from the Engineering Department of Waseda University.
He finished fourth in the 100 m backstroke at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Later that year, on October 14, 1928, he set a new world record in the 200 m at 2 minutes 37.8 seconds.
At the 1932 Summer Olympics, Irie won the silver medal in the 100 m backstroke, with teammates Masaji Kiyokawa and Kentaro Kawatsu taking the gold and bronze.

Question: Were Simon Qamunga and Kentaro Asahi of the same nationality?
Answer: no