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Fusako Urabe
Fusako (written: or ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese diver *, Japanese princess *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese diver *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese racewalker *, Japanese kidnapping victim *, Japanese communist *, Japanese empress consort *, Japanese writer {{given name Japanese feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of '' hiragana'' and '' katakana''. 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 World War II, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as shinjitai, by a process similar to China's simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the common folk. 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 3,000 kanji used in Japanese names and in comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusako Kakumaru
is a Japanese diver. She competed in two events at the 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila .... References 1958 births Living people Japanese female divers Olympic divers for Japan Divers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Asian Games medalists in diving Divers at the 1974 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games 20th-century Japanese women {{Japan-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusako Kitashirakawa
, born , was the eleventh child and seventh daughter of Emperor Meiji of Japan, and the fourth child and third daughter of Sono Sachiko, the Emperor's fifth concubine. Biography Fusako was born in Tokyo, the daughter of Emperor Meiji and Lady Sachiko. Fusako held the childhood appellation "Kane no miya" (Princess Kane). On 29 April 1909, Princess Kane married Prince Kitashirakawa (1887–1923), the son of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa and Princess Tomiko. Prince Naruhisa succeeded as head of the house of Kitashirakawa-no-miya after the death of his father in November 1895 during the First Sino-Japanese War. Prince and Princess Kitashirakawa had one son and three daughters: * * ; married Viscount Tachibana Tanekatsu * ; married Viscount Higashizono Motofumi * ; married Tokugawa Yoshihisa. In October 1947, the Kitashirakawa and the other branches of the Japanese Imperial Family were divested of their titles and privileges during the American occupation of Japan and became co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusako Kodama
is a Japanese photographer who has concentrated on people in cities as subjects. Life and career Kodama was born in Wakayama City (Wakayama Prefecture, Japan) in 1945. She graduated from Kuwasawa Design School in 1967.Michiko Kasahara (), "Kodama Fusako", in ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p.133.Ryūichi Kaneko, Shinzō Shimao, and Hiroshi Nagai, ''Independent Photographers in Japan, 1976–83'' (Tokyo: Tōkyō Shoseki, 1989; ), p.22. (Although the title of the book is in English, the book is in Japanese only.) She then worked as a photographer for a company named Le Mars (). In 1990 ''Grafication'', a PR magazine of Fuji Xerox, published a series of pieces by Kodama that were later collected into her first photobook, ''Criteria.'' With its depiction of nuclear power plants and other scenes of advanced technology, this book was widely noted as a remarkable document. This was followed by depictions of stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusako Kōno
is a Japanese diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics ( German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad ( German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi- .... In 1936 she finished sixth in the 10 metre platform event and eighth in the 3 metre springboard competition. External links * * 1916 births Possibly living people Japanese female divers Olympic divers for Japan Divers at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century Japanese women {{Japan-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusako Kuramochi
is a Japanese manga artist. While still in high school, she made her professional debut with , published in the Autumn 1972 issue of ''Bessatsu Margaret''. She won the magazine's gold medal for amateur manga artists. Afterwards, Kuramochi studied Japanese painting at Musashino Art University, but left before graduation to pursue her career full-time. Her manga ''Tennen Kokekkō'' received the 1996 Kodansha Manga Award for manga, and was adapted as a live-action movie in 2007. Her series '' A-Girl'' was adapted as an anime OVA in 1993. Her manga '' Hana ni Somu'' won the Grand Prize category of the 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Named after Osamu Tezuka, the is a yearly manga prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in Tokyo, Japan. Curren ... in 2017. References External links * Profile at The Ultimate Manga Page Female comic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusako Masuda
Fusako Masuda ( ja, 増田 房子; born January 18, 1968) is a retired female race walker Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Race judges carefully asse ... from Japan. Achievements References * 1968 births Living people Japanese female racewalkers Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games Place of birth missing (living people) {{japan-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusako Sano
(born November 28, 1980) is a Japanese woman who was kidnapped at age nine by , and held in captivity for nine years and two months from November 13, 1990, to January 28, 2000. In Japan, the case is also known as the . Abduction Fusako Sano, then a fourth grade elementary school girl, disappeared on November 13, 1990, at age nine after watching a school baseball game in her home town of Sanjō, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. A large police search failed to find the missing girl. Police even considered the possibility that she had been kidnapped by North Korean intelligence operatives. She had been kidnapped by Nobuyuki Satō (born July 15, 1962), then a 28-year-old mentally disturbed unemployed Japanese man, who forced her into his car, and subsequently held her in the upstairs floor of his apartment in a residential area of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture for 9 years and two months. The house is only 200 meters from a ''kōban'' (police substation), and 55 kilometers from the lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusako Shigenobu
is a Japanese communist activist and founder of the disbanded militant group Japanese Red Army (JRA). Early life Shigenobu was born on 28 September 1945 in the ward of Tokyo. Her father served as a major in the Imperial Japanese Army and was dispatched to . Prior to his military service, he was a teacher at a (or temple school) for poor villa ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takatsukasa Fusako
, also known as , was an empress consort of Japan. She was the consort of Emperor Reigen. Life Her father was Takatsukasa Norihira, who had the post of '' sadaijin'' and the . Her half-siblings by other mothers included the '' kampaku'' Takatsukasa Fusasuke, the '' sadaijin'' Kujō Kaneharu, and Takatsukasa Nobuko, the wife of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. Another theory holds that Fusako was actually Norihira's younger sister, whom he adopted as his daughter. Marriage On December 1, 1670, Fusako entered the court of Emperor Reigen, one year her junior, as a court lady. On June 23, 1673, the palace went up in flames, and the estate of '' udaijin'' Konoe Motohiro was used as a temporary palace. This was not a new occurrence: in 1661, during the reign of the previous emperor Emperor Go-Sai, another conflagration had led to the use of Motohiro's estate. On October 3, 1673, Fusako gave birth to her daughter . In light of the great fire in Kyoto that had destroyed the palace, the era ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusako Tsunoda
Fusako Tsunoda was a Japanese writer. Biography Tsunoda was born Fusa Tsunoda on December 5, 1914, in Tokyo, Japan. She studied at Sorbonne University and lived in Paris for several years. She began writing in 1955 while living abroad. She wrote about a wide variety of topics ranging from the Japanese colonization of Manchuria to Japanese immigration to Brazil Japanese immigration in Brazil officially began in 1908. Currently, Brazil is home to the largest population of Japanese origin outside Japan, with about 1.5 million Japanese diaspora, ''Nikkei'' (日系), term used to refer to Japanese and .... Her work won several awards. She died on January 1, 2010. References 1914 births 2010 deaths Writers from Tokyo 20th-century Japanese writers {{Japan-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
