Today’s Google Doodle caught my eye, so I checked it out. It was Fujita Tsuguharu (藤田 嗣治, ふじた つぐはる), apparently a famous painter who lived between 1886 and 1968. Particularly well-known for his paintings of cats and women, he spent 1913 - 1933 in Paris, enduring WWI there; a serious Francophile, he was naturalized French in 1955. He was also quite a funny-looking fellow.
The reason I mention this is, though he was born in Tokyo, he moved to Kumamoto with his family at age 7 and lived here for four years, attending Kumamoto University Fuzoku Elementary School. So there is a connection. His paintings are delightful; Google them. - William