Yūki Ishikawa (石川祐希, Ishikawa Yūki; born 11 December 1995) is a Japanese male professional volleyball player from Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture. He is the captain of the Japan men's national volleyball team, and plays as an outside hitter. At club-level, he currently plays for Sir Susa Vim Perugia at the SuperLega (The highest level of the Italian Volleyball League).
Ishikawa is the first Japanese male player to win gold medal at the CEV Champions League.
Ishikawa was named as the "Best outside spiker" at the FIVB World Cup (2015, 2019), FIVB Nations League (2023, 2024), Asian Championship (2017, 2019, 2021), as well as the "Most valuable player" at the Asian Championship (2017, 2023).
Read more...Ishikawa is the first volleyball player to have a wax figure in Japan. Currently, his wax figure is displayed at Madame Tussauds Tokyo.
The December 11, 1995 was a Monday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 344 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 29 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 271 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, December 11, 2025, in 93 days. You have lived for 10,864 days, or about 260,742 hours, or about 15,644,538 minutes, or about 938,672,280 seconds.
Date: 12 December 1995
AP
Authorities suspended publication of Algeria's largest newspaper and arrested its director as he was leaving for Paris to receive a literary prize. The director of the French-language Liberte, Aubrous Outoudert, and the newspaper's editor-in-chief, Hacene Ouandjeli, were charged on Sunday with "repeated publication of a defamatory news item."
Date: 11 December 1995
By Steven A. Holmes
Steven Holmes
When Representative Kweisi Mfume walked into a hotel conference room here on Saturday to interview with the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the group broke out into spontaneous applause. It was perhaps the first time in more than two years that the full board had found anything to cheer about. The organization is mired in debt and increasingly accused of being archaic and out of touch; Mr. Mfume, who was named on Saturday as its president and chief executive officer, is viewed by many within the civil rights group as a savior. So much so that the descriptions of him that flow from some quarters lapse effortlessly into hyperbole.
Date: 12 December 1995
Reuters
Lachlan Murdoch, the elder son of Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of the News Corporation, has been appointed deputy chief executive of the News Corporation's Australian subsidiary, News Ltd., the company said today. Lachlan Murdoch, 24, is publisher of The Australian, a newspaper, and is deputy chairman of Star TV.
Date: 11 December 1995
Top executives of the Microsoft Corporation and the General Electric Company have reportedly been meeting to discuss ways in which the two companies might distribute news or other material together. One executive close to the discussions, who insisted on anonymity, said last night that the companies might announce a partnership this week involving an all-news cable television channel.
Date: 11 December 1995
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
JUST because TV Guide says Fox's "Party of Five" is "the best show you're not watching" does not mean that executives from NBC, ABC and CBS are going to agree. Actually, because TV Guide is owned by the News Corporation, the same company that owns the Fox network, the decision to splash "Party of Five" on the magazine's cover this week, accompanied by a gushing story about the show's having "the cutest cast on TV," means that executives from the competing networks are going to disagree with a vengeance. In the case of NBC, it also means throwing in a veiled threat to stop advertising in TV Guide.
Date: 12 December 1995
Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Broderbund Software Inc. rose 5 percent yesterday after a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed that Paul G. Allen, a co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation, had acquired a 5 percent stake in Broderbund, of Novato, Calif. Mr. Allen paid $59.8 million to acquire 1.03 million common shares as an investment, according to the filing. Mr. Allen began buying the stake on Dec. 7, the day that the Learning Company abandoned an agreement to merge with Broderbund, in favor of a $606 million bid by Softkey International Inc. Purchases that Mr. Allen made that day and on Dec. 8 were at prices ranging from $57.72 to $58.50 per share. Broderbund's shares rose $3.3125, to $61.3125, in Nasdaq trading.
Date: 12 December 1995
Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
Tyco International Ltd. of Exeter, N.H., agreed yesterday to buy the Earth Technology Corporation for $8 a share, or about $70 million. Earth Technology, based in Long Beach, Calif., designs water and waste-water treatment facilities. It reported sales of $178 million for the fiscal year ended on Aug. 25. Tyco International, which had sales of $4.54 billion in its last fiscal year, has four business segments: fire-control products, fiber optic cable, disposable specialty products and flow-control devices.
Date: 12 December 1995
Dow Jones
Dow Jones
Pope & Talbot Inc. agreed yesterday to sell its disposable diaper business to Paragon Trade Brands Inc. for $65 million -- $50.5 million in cash and Paragon common stock valued at $14.5 million. Pope & Talbot, a pulp and wood concern in Portland, Ore., plans to use the proceeds from the sale to pay down bank lines of credit. The diaper business generated about $157 million in revenue in 1994, or 24 percent of Pope & Talbot's $660 million of revenue. The company said it would remain in the private-label consumer products tissue business.