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Yoshimi Teru
Yoshimi is a unisex Japanese given name and can also be used as a surname. Written forms Forms in kanji can include: *佳美, meaning "excellent, beautiful" *良美, meaning "good, beautiful" *好美, meaning "like, beautiful" *芳美, meaning "fragrant, beautiful" People with the given name * Yoshimi (吉見), a guitarist and composer from the pop rock band Funta *, Japanese actress and singer *, Japanese Coastal Engineer * Yoshimi Hayashi (1923–2006), American lawyer * , Japanese professional race car driver * , Japanese actress and singer *, Japanese softball player *, Japanese judoka *, Japanese ace fighter pilot *, Japanese general *, Japanese judoka *, Japanese long-distance runner *, Japanese Sinologist *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese writer and critic *, Japanese football referee * Yoshimi P-We or Yoshimi Yokota (横田 佳美, born 1968), a Japanese musician and drummer of the rock band Boredoms *, Japanese politician People with the surname *, Japanese ice h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanji
are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived Syllabary, syllabic scripts of and . The characters have Japanese pronunciations; most have two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing character components derived from other Chinese characters. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as , by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the general public. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characters that exist. There are nearly 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshimi Usui
was a Japanese writer and critic from Azumino, Nagano prefecture. Usui won the 1974 10th Tanizaki Prize for ''Azumino'' (安曇野). In 1977 he published a novelised account of Kawabata's death that led to a lawsuit against him by the Nobel Prize-winner's family. Van C. Gessel, Three Modern Novelists, Kodansha is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayoshi'', ''Morning (magazine), Morning'', ''Afternoon (magazine), Afternoon'', ''Evening (magazine), Eveni ..., 1993; p. 207, note 96 Selected works *''Hōjōki. Tsurezuregusa. Ichigon hōdanshu'' (方丈記. 徒然草. 一言 芳談集), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1970. *''Hitotsu no kisetsu'', 1975. *''Butai no ue de'', 1976. *''Genjitsu no gyoshi'', Tōkyo : Ie no Hikari Kyokai, 1976. *''Tsuchi to furusato no bungaku zenshū'', 15 volumes, 1976–1977. *''Jikō no tenmatsu'' (事故のてんまつ), 1977. *''Jibun o tsukuru'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuyokiss
is a Japanese visual novel that has been adapted into an anime television series directed by Shinichiro Kimura. The story focuses on a group of students at a high school and the various romantic attachments that the characters feel for each another. ''Tsuyokiss'' originally began as an eroge for Windows by video game developer Candy Soft first released on August 26, 2005. A PlayStation 2 version of the game called ''Tsuyokiss ~Mighty Heart~'' was released with erotic elements removed. A fan disc with some minigames for Windows named ''Minikiss ~Tsuyokiss Fan Disk~'' was released. The anime based on the original game began airing in Japan on July 1, 2006. is the sequel to ''Tsuyokiss'', available for Windows, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. A third installment, was released for Windows on March 31, 2011. Plot Video games ''Tsuyokiss'' ''Tsuyokiss'' is about the lives of a group of fictional high school students and the often comedic events that occur in their li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruhi Suzumiya
is a Japanese light novel series written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito. It was first published in 2003 by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan with the novel ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', and has since been followed by 11 additional novel volumes, an anime television series adaptation produced by Kyoto Animation, four manga series, an animated The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, film, two original net animation series and several List of Haruhi Suzumiya video games, video games. After the anime adaptation airing in 2006, publishing company Kadokawa Shoten received offers for licensing the novels and their adaptations. The novels are licensed for English language release in the United States by Little, Brown and Company, for young readers by Yen Press and the anime adaptation was licensed for North American distribution by Kadokawa Shoten, Kadokawa Pictures USA division which then sub-licensed production and distribution to Bandai Entertainment. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Archive
''Blue Archive'' is a 2021 real-time strategy role-playing game developed by the South Korean developer MX Studio under the management umbrella of Nexon Games (formerly NAT Games). The player and protagonist is a Sensei who was summoned from outside the academic city-state of Kivotos by the president of the General Student Council, an extrajudicial committee governing the culturally rich regional school districts. Following her sudden disappearance, criminal activity rises around Kivotos and the player is tasked by the remaining members of the council to resolve issues that crop up and help search for the president. It was first released in February 2021 for Android and iOS devices in Japan by Yostar and self-published worldwide in November of the same year by Nexon. The game is free-to-play with gacha game mechanics as a means to obtain new characters and improvise strategies via team building. Two short-length original net anime productions was released between J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Di Gi Charat
is a Japanese manga and anime series created by Koge-Donbo. The series follows a catgirl named Di Gi Charat " Dejiko" who was adopted as the mascot of Broccoli's retail chain store, Gamers. The original anime series and its original video animations (OVAs) are set in a Gamers store. There are twentGamersstores across Japan. Several specials, OVAs, and movies have been adapted as prequels, sequels and alternate stories; trading cards and video games are among the many forms of merchandise released for the series. The original series, movie, and ''Leave It to Piyoko!'' were licensed in North America by Synch-Point. The manga series is licensed by several companies. The original series, 4 specials and the ''Winter Garden'' special are now licensed by Sentai Filmworks. Manga The characters of Di Gi Charat and her sidekick Gema first appeared in July 1998 in ''From Gamers'', a promotional magazine for the Akihabara store, ''Gamers''. In August of that year, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zettai Karen Children
''Psychic Squad'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Shiina. It was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from July 2005 to July 2021, with its chapters collected in 63 volumes. It is the story about three young problem girls with outstanding psychic powers and a young man with no special powers at all tasked to guide them properly while dealing with all the commotions they cause, including their obvious infatuation with him. A 51-episode anime television series produced by SynergySP was broadcast from April 2008 to March 2009, and had a special original video animation (OVA) released in July 2010. A 12-episode spin-off focused on main antagonist Kyōsuke Hyōbu, titled '' Unlimited Psychic Squad'', and produced by Manglobe, was broadcast from January to March 2013. By July 2012, the manga had over 6 million copies in circulation. In 2022, ''Psychic Squad'' received the 53rd Seiun Award for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duck Dodgers
Duck Dodgers is the star of a series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros., featuring Daffy Duck in the role of a science fiction hero. He first appeared in the 1953 cartoon short '' Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century'', directed by Chuck Jones as a spoof of the popular '' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' and '' Flash Gordon'' science fiction serials of the 1930s, casting the brash, egomaniacal Daffy Duck as the hero of the story. The plot of the cartoon involves Duck Dodgers' search for the rare element Illudium Phosdex, "the shaving cream atom", the only remaining supply of which is on the mysterious " Planet X". Just after Dodgers has claimed Planet X in the name of the Earth, Marvin the Martian lands on the same planet and claims it in the name of Mars. The stage is set for a battle of wits, not to mention various forms of weaponry, most of which tend to backfire comically on Dodgers. Considering the period in which the cartoon was produced (the Red Scare was in full ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshiaki Yoshimi
is a professor of Japanese modern history at Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan. He is a founding member of the Center for Research and Documentation on Japan's War Responsibility. He was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, and studied at the University of Tokyo. Notable research Yoshimi has done major research on war crimes perpetrated by the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the first part of the Shōwa period. He has published his studies on the use of chemical weapons by Japan, ordered by Michinomiya Hirohito himself. Yoshimi is mostly noted for his work on sex slaves. He found the first documented evidence at the "Defense Agency Library" of Tokyo that the Imperial Japanese Army established and ran "comfort stations." He discovered plenty of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of approximately 2,000 comfort women centers where as many as 200,000 Korean, Filipina, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Burmese, Dutch, Australian, and Japanese women, many of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shunya Yoshimi
is a Japanese sociologist. He is a professor at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo. He is one of the most influential cultural sociologists in Japan and best known for helping introduce cultural studies to Japan. His research topics include cultural studies, media studies and urban sociology. Shunya Yoshimi has authored several books on subjects such as cultural theory, urban culture, international exposition, media culture, information technology, the emperor system, and the Americanization of modern Japan and East Asia. Yoshimi's works in Japanese include ''Dramaturgy in the City: A Social History of Popular Entertainments in Modern Tokyo'' (Kobundo, 1987), ''The Politics of Exposition: Imperialism, Commercialism and Popular Entertainment'' (Chuokoronsha, 1992), ''Cultural Sociology in the Media Age'' (Shinyosha, 1994), ''Voice of Capitalism: The Social Construction of Telephone, Gramophone and Radio in Japan'' (Kodansha, 1995), ''Expo Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naho Yoshimi
is a Japanese ice hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1998 Winter Olympics The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 (), were a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Nagano, Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, with some events .... References External links * 1972 births Living people Japanese women's ice hockey players Olympic ice hockey players for Japan Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics Ice hockey people from Tokyo Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Ice hockey players at the 1999 Asian Winter Games Medalists at the 1999 Asian Winter Games Asian Games medalists in ice hockey {{Japan-icehockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshimi Watanabe
is a former Japanese politician. He was formerly a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and later the founder of Your Party, after which he became a member of Nippon Ishin no Kai until 2019 when he then became an independent politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2014, and returned to the Diet (national legislature) in 2016 as a member of the House of Councillors. Early life Watanabe is a native of Nishinasuno, Nasu District, Tochigi (now part of the city of Nasushiobara) and graduated from Waseda University and Chuo University. His father is Michio Watanabe, a major political figure first elected to the Diet while Watanabe was in junior high school. Watanabe developed an interest in politics soon after his father was elected to office, and served as his father's secretary during the elder Watanabe's appointments as Minister of International Trade and Industry and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Yoshimi Watanabe's nephew Michitaro Watana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
