Taeko is a Japanese female

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. It can have various meanings depending on the

Kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of 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 subsequ ...

used. Possible writing include: 妙子 "mysterious child" 多恵子 "many blessings, child"

People

Taeko Fukao , known professionally as TAEKO, is a Japanese jazz singer from Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Fukao is based in New York City, but travels extensively throughout the US and Japan performing in jazz festivals and jazz club venues. In between national ...

, Japanese jazz singer *

Taeko Hattori is a Japanese stage, film, and television actress. She is from Nagoya, and graduated from high school there. She then joined the Dreamy 7 agency, and then M.M.P, to which she belongs. Her film appearances include ''Sotsugyō ryokō'' (1970), ''J ...

(b. 1949), a Japanese stage, film, and television actress *

Taeko Ishikawa (born October 14, 1975) is a Japanese softball player who played as a pitcher. She won the silver medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug ...

(b. 1975), Japanese softball player * Taeko Kawasumi (b. 1972), Japanese football player *

Taeko Kawata is a freelance Japanese voice actress best known for voicing Amy Rose from the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' franchise. While working at a confectionery shop after graduating from Jissen Commercial High School, she attended a voice acting school in t ...

(b. 1965), a Japanese voice actress * Taeko Kono (b. 1926), a Japanese novelist and essayist * Taeko Kubo (b. 1949), Japanese diver * Taeko Kunishima, Japanese jazz pianist * ''Taeko Kuwata'' (b. 1945), half of the classical piano duo

Duo Crommelynck Duo Crommelynck was the name of a notable classical piano duo team active from 1974 to 1994. It consisted of the Belgian Patrick Crommelynck and his Japanese-born wife Taeko Kuwata. In 1994, at the height of their fame, they each took their own l ...

Taeko Nakanishi is a Japanese actress who specializes in voice acting and previously worked for Aoni Production. She is best known as the voices of the various Panther Claw villains in '' Cutie Honey'', and the Hell Tree in the first arc of the ''Sailor Moon ...

(b. 1931), a Japanese voice actress *

Taeko Namba Taeko Namba is a former international table tennis player from Japan. Table tennis career From 1957 to 1959 she won several medals in doubles, and in team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. The four World Championship medals includ ...

, a Japanese table tennis player *

Taeko Onuki is a Japanese singer and songwriter. She is influential in the city pop genre. Early life and career Taeko Onuki was born in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, in 1953. Her father was Kenichiro Onuki, a member of the Japanese Special Attack Units durin ...

(b. 1953), a Japanese singer *

Taeko Oyama Taeko Oyama (大山妙子, born 18 June 1974) is a Japanese former basketball player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2 ...

(b. 1974), Japanese basketball player * Taeko Takeba (b. 1966), Japanese trap shooter * Taeko Todo (b. 1968), Chinese-born table tennis * Taeko Tomioka (b. 1935), a Japanese writer * Tomiyama Taeko (1921–2021), Japanese visual artist * Taeko Udagawa (b. 1960), Japanese anthropologist *

Taeko Watanabe is a Japanese manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1979 with the short story . In 1987, she won the Excellence Award at the 16th Japan Cartoonists Association Awards for her comedy series ''St. 14 Graffiti''. She has twice received ...

(b. 1960), a Japanese manga artist

Fictional

* Makioka Taeko in The Makioka Sisters (novel) by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki * Taeko, the main character in the 1991 Studio Ghibli film '' Only Yesterday'' * Taeko Hiramatsu, a character in the light novel series ''Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?'' * Taeko Minazuki, a character in the series ''Ai Yori Aoshi'' * Taeko Ishiki, captain of Nadeshiko Japan in

Area no Kishi is a Japanese manga series written by Hiroaki Igano and illustrated by Kaya Tsukiyama. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine '' Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from April 2006 to March 2017, with its chapters collected in 5 ...

* Taeko Yasuhiro, aka Celestia Ludenberg, a student in '' Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc'' * Taeko Takeda, one of the major characters in the 2014 series of novels 'The Desolate Tree' by Raphael Sangorski * Hirata Taeko, character in Laura Joh Rowland's Sano Ichiro series. Daughter of Sano's chief retainer Hirata and his wife Niu Midori, conceived out of wedlock, makes first appearance in "The Dragon King's Palace". * Taeko Yamada, a female version of Taro Yamada in

Yandere Simulator ''Yandere Simulator'' is a stealth action video game currently in development by American game developer YandereDev. The game centers upon an obsessively lovesick schoolgirl named Ayano Aishi, nicknamed " Yandere-chan", who has taken it upon ...

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