Yoshiomi Tamai is a Japanese activist, philanthropist, and educator. He is the founder and president of Ashinaga and the founder and headmaster of Kokorojuku dormitory.

Osamu Fujimura is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan who served as Chief Cabinet Secretary under Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda from 2011 to 2012. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2012.