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Motoko
Motoko is a feminine Japanese given name. Possible writings * もとこ hiragana * 素子 "unadorned, plain, undecorated, child" * 元子 "origin, child" * 基子 "fundamental, child" * 資子 "resourceful, child" People with the name * Motoko Arai (新井 素子), Japanese writer * Hani Motoko (羽仁 もと子), the first female Japanese journalist * Motoko Hirotsu (広津 素子), Japanese politician * Motoko Obayashi (素子), a Japanese volleyball player * Motoko Ishii (幹子), a Japanese lighting designer * Motoko Fujimoto (索子), a Japanese softball player * Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite (1927–2020), American teacher * Motoko Katakura (1937-2013), Japanese anthropologist * Motoko Kumai (統子, born 1970), a Japanese voice actress *, Japanese actress and striptease performer Fictional characters * Motoko Aoyama (素子), a character in the '' Love Hina'' series * Motoko Kusanagi (素子), protagonist of the ''Ghost in the Shell'' series * Motoko Minagawa (素子), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoko Katakura
(née Niiya, 17 October 1937 - 23 February 2013) was a Japanese anthropologist who specialized in the Islamic world. Early life Born in Nara Prefecture in Japan, she moved to Kanagawa Prefecture and finished high school in 1956. She was admitted to Tsuda College as an English Language major and studied abroad during her senior year to graduate in 1962. She earned her Master of Letters in 1968 at the Chuo University Graduate School, and conducted research at Columbia University between 1971 and 1972 as a Visiting Research Fellow. Islamic world and multicultural studies Katakura's main field of study was focused on the Islamic world including bedouin, and multicultural studies. In late 1960s she visited bedouin camps in Saudi Arabia for her first field research in Islamic culture, while the Katakuras lived there. Abdur-Rahim Al Aḥmadī was the best supporter for Katakura's field work in Saudi Arabia since the early stage of her research in late 1960s. He witnessed that Katakur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoko Kusanagi
Major , or just "Major", is the main protagonist in Masamune Shirow's ''Ghost in the Shell'' Ghost in the Shell (manga), manga and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, anime series. She is a synthetic "full-body prosthesis" augmented-Cyborg, cybernetic human employed as the field commander of Public Security Section 9, a fictional anti-cybercrime law-enforcement division of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission (Japan), National Public Safety Commission. Being strong-willed, physically powerful, and highly intelligent cyberhero, she is well known for her skills in deduction, hacking and military tactics. Conception and creation Motoko Kusanagi's body was designed by the manga author and artist Masamune Shirow to be a mass production model so she would not be conspicuous. Her electrical and mechanical system within is special and features parts unavailable on the civilian market. Shirow intentionally chose this appearance so Motoko would not be harvested for those p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Characters In Love Hina
This is a list of fictional characters in the anime and manga series ''Love Hina'' created by Ken Akamatsu. The character names are listed in Western order, with the given name before the family name. ''Note'' because the story spans over several years, any characters age mentioned below describes their age at the point of their introduction. Main characters The main characters are residents of the Hinata Inn, a former hot springs resort that is converted to an all-girls dormitory managed by Keitaro Urashima, the sole male resident. Keitaro Urashima is a 19/20-year-old second-year '' ronin'' studying to enter Tokyo University (abbreviated as "Todai"). As a child, Keitaro made a promise with a girl, based on a story the children overheard that two people who love each other will live "happily ever after" if they enter 'Todai'. Keitaro is set on gaining entrance to Todai to fulfill the promise he made to his childhood friend, even though he cannot properly remember eithe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoko Minagawa
The characters of ''Fruits Basket'' were created by Natsuki Takaya in the manga written and illustrated by her. The manga was serialized in 136 chapters in the monthly manga magazine ''Hana to Yume'' between January 1999 and November 2006, and collected in 23 ''tankōbon'' volumes by Hakusensha. The series was adapted as a drama CD distributed as a promotional item with an issue of ''Hana to Yume'' and as a 26-episode anime television series produced by Studio DEEN initially broadcast on TV Tokyo between July 5 and December 27, 2001. The manga is licensed in English by Chuang Yi in Singapore, Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand, and Tokyopop in North America. The anime is licensed in English by FUNimation Entertainment, which distributes it in North America itself, in the United Kingdom through Revelation Films, and in Australia and New Zealand through Madman Entertainment. The series tells the story of Tohru Honda, an orphan girl who, after meeting Yuki, Kyo, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite
Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite (born Motoko Fujishiro, August 24, 1927 – May 4, 2020) was an American teacher. She served during World War II with the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program. In 2015, she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in a Washington, D.C., ceremony alongside Harry Ettlinger, another Monuments Man. Fujishiro Huthwaite also worked closely with the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art and its founder Robert M. Edsel to continue the mission of the MFAA. Life Huthwaite was born in Boston. She graduated from Radcliffe College, the University of South Carolina, and Wayne State University. In 1941, she was sent to Japan as an exchange of nationals and was unable to get out of Japan after the outbreak of World War II. In 1945, she was recruited by Langdon Warner for the Japan division of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, working under George L. Stout. She later taught at the American School in Japan. She died from COVID-19 dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoko Sasaki
is a Japanese '' pink film'' actress and striptease performer. She entered the ''pink film'' profession at the advanced age of 29, became a star in the field at 31, and won a Best Actress award for her work in this genre in 2003 at the age of 36. Life and career Early life Motoko Sasaki was born on February 15, 1967. She became interested in the stage in middle school, and first began acting in her high school drama club. She had an invitation to pursue the study of acting after graduation from high school, but her father believed that a girl should not attend college. Sasaki wound up working as a civil servant in the same government district as her father. She continued acting in community theater at this time, gaining acting experience in the Shingeki style. She reports that the turning point in her life came when a traveling drama troupe visited her community. The director told her that if she were serious about acting, she would have to learn the basics at training school. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoko-chan No Wonder Kitchen
or ''Motokochan in Wonder Kitchen'' is a 1993 Super Famicom point-and-click video game that features minigames related to cooking. The game was a promotional item with a production run of 10,000 units which were used for a lottery contest. Consumers who mailed in two proof of purchase seals from Ajinomoto mayonnaise received a copy of the game and were entered into the contest, which was run over five months with 2,000 prizes given away monthly. Gameplay Name brand products from Japanese supermarkets are used as an advertising gimmick from the company Ajinomoto. A young girl named Motoko takes children through a fantasy world and provides educational and informative content about the history of mayonnaise and other things that are related to food history. Games include reversi against a witch and finding seven dwarves that turn into sausages. The gameplay is somewhat similar to the more widely known Nintendo DS The is a handheld game console produced by Nintendo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hani Motoko
is considered to be Japan's first female journalist. Born into a former samurai family, Hani was born Matsuoka Motoko in Aomori Prefecture and was baptized a Christian in 1890. She was educated at Tokyo First Higher Women's School and then at the Meiji Women's Christian School. After leaving school in 1892, she taught school in Hachinohe and in Morioka. Her marriage in 1895 did not work out and she moved to Tokyo, working as a maid for a female doctor. She joined ''Hochi Shinbun'' in 1897, working first as a copy editor and later becoming a reporter. In 1901, she married a co-worker, Hani Yoshikazu. Together, they founded a new magazine called ''Fujin no Tomo'' (Women's friend) in 1908. An association of readers of that magazine was established in 1930 which still existed as of 1999. In 1921, the couple founded a private school for girls, Jiyu Gakuen. She wrote an autobiography in 1928 titled ''Speaking of Myself''. Early life Family Hani Motoko was born on September 8, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoko Ishii
is a Japanese lighting designer. From 1965 to 1967 she worked at lighting-design offices in Finland and Germany. Returning to Japan in 1968, she established the Ishii Motoko Design Office. One of her major projects was the design for the lighting at Expo '75 in Okinawa. However, the rise in energy costs due to the energy crisis proved to be a problem. Beginning in the 1980s, she produced the designs for a number of major projects. Three big events for which she was responsible for the lighting were Expo '85 in Tsukuba, the light-up festival of Yokohama, and Japan Flora 2000. She designed lighting for the cities of Osaka, Hakodate, Himeji and Kurashiki, and for the '' gasshō-zukuri'' village at Shirakawa. Her 1989 redesign of the lighting for Tokyo Tower brought international attention. She won the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America Prize for the Light Fantasy Electricity Pavilion at the International Garden and Greenery Exposition (Osaka, 1990) and again fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoko Arai
Motoko Arai (新井素子; born August 8, 1960) is a Japanese science fiction and fantasy writer. Her writing is characterized by her use of a light conversational tone geared towards a young adult audience. She has published three series of novels and several short stories. Her works, '' Green Requiem'' and ''Neptune'', received the Seiun Award for short story in 1981 and 1982. Early life Born in Tokyo in 1960, Arai expressed her creativity early on as a sophomore at Metropolitan High School of Igusa when she entered the science fiction magazine Kiso Tengai’s first competition for new writers. At age 16, she received an honorable mention and praise from prominent science fiction writer Shinichi Hoshi for her short story entry ''Inside Myself''. Hoshi was a classmate of her father's and both of her parents were employees of Kodansha. Writing the entire story in the language of a contemporary teenage girl with minimal Kanji, Arai established a precedent for an emerging genre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoko Kumai
is a Japanese Voice acting in Japan, voice actress employed by 81 Produce. She played Takao Kinomiya in ''Beyblade (manga), Beyblade'' and Syaoran Li in ''Cardcaptor Sakura''. From December 21, 2006 to October 2007, she had a hiatus from her career due to an illness requiring medical treatment. Filmography Television animation ;1990s * ''After War Gundam X'' (1996), Kid Salsamille * ''YAT Anshin! Uchū Ryokō'' (1996), Yat Anshin Uchuu Ryokou#Characters, Gorō Hoshiwatari * ''Flame of Recca'' (1997), List of Flame of Recca characters#Team Hokage, Kaoru Koganei * ''Pokémon (anime), Pokémon'' (1997), Tarō * ''Alice SOS'' (1998), Takashi Sagano * ''Cyber Team in Akihabara, Akihabara Dennō Gumi'' (1998), Tetsurō * ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' (1998-2000), List of Cardcaptor Sakura characters#Syaoran Li, Syaoran Li * ''Space Pirate Mito'' (1999), Sabu * ''Case Closed, Detective Conan'' (1999), Toshiya (ep 129) * ''Digimon Adventure'' (1999), List of characters in Digimon Adventure#Sukamo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoko Obayashi
is a volleyball player from Japan, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. She was considered the most valuable player at the Barcelona Games. She released a single under the solo project named Deka Moni was a Japanese group consisting of one member, volleyball player Motoko Obayashi, presumably chosen because of her height. She appears four times on the single cover to give the impression of a group with four members. Although Deka Moni is not ... in 2001. Since her retirement from professional volleyball she has been working as an actress, predominantly appearing in stage plays. ReferencesProfile at Hori Pro * * 1967 births Living people Japanese women's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of Japan Sportspeople from Tokyo Metropolis People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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