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Hirofumi Kobayashi
Hirofumi (written: , , , , , , , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese actor *, Japanese actor and singer *, Japanese actor *, Japanese historian *, Japanese politician *, Japanese actor *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese judoka *, Japanese golfer *, American-born Japanese footballer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese basketball player *, Japanese speed skater *, Japanese politician *, Japanese racewalker *, Japanese figure skater *, Japanese economist *, Japanese comedian *, Japanese garden designer and landscape architect *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese ichthyologist and environmentalist *, Japanese conductor *, Japanese politician See also ''Hirobumi'' is an older pronunciation of modern ''Hirofumi'': * Hirobumi Itō * Hirobumi Watanabe is a Japanese film director and actor. He writes the scripts for and performs as an actor in his films, while also sometimes acting in the films of other ... [...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] |
Hirofumi Ryu
is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party, who serves as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Career A native of Fukuoka City and graduate of the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, Ryu was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2003 after working at TV Asahi in the Marketing and Broadcasting departments. His profile on the DPJ website also states that he serves as Chief Vice Secretary General and Deputy Chair, Election Campaign Committee within the party, and that his career also included the following positions: *Parliamentary Secretary of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology *Senior Vice Chair, Diet Affairs Committee *Leader, Kanagawa Prefectural Headquarters, DPJ Right-wing positions Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, Ryu was a supporter of right-wing filmmaker Satoru Mizushima's 2007 revisionist film The Truth about Nanjing, which denied that th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirobumi Watanabe
is a Japanese film director and actor. He writes the scripts for and performs as an actor in his films, while also sometimes acting in the films of other directors. Career Watanabe was born in Ōtawara, Tochigi Prefecture, and attended the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He studied under Daisuke Tengan (son of Shohei Imamura) and in 2008 won the grand prize at the 9th Fuji Film Lovers Festival with his graduation film, ''A Light Pig of August''. In 2013, he formed the production company Foolish Piggies Films in Ōtawara with his brother Yūji Watanabe, who produces and composes the music for his films. His 2016 film, ''Poolsideman'', won the Japanese Cinema Splash Best Picture Award at the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival as well as the Nippon Visions Jury Award at the 2017 Nippon Connection. In his review of ''Poolsideman'', critic Mark Schilling wrote of Watanabe's early films that "Hirobumi Watanabe has created a unique cinematic world" with films "all shot in blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirofumi Yoshimura
is a Japanese politician currently serving as the governor of Osaka Prefecture. He assumed office in April 2019. He has been described as a conservative. Early life Yoshimura was born in the city of Kawachinagano. He studied law at Kyushu University, graduating in 1998. He passed the Japanese bar examination later that year and was admitted to practice as an attorney in 2000, at the age of 25. After working for several years under Tokyo-based attorney Shintaro Kumagai ( 熊谷 信太郎), Yoshimura returned to Osaka and co-founded the Star Law Office in 2005. He remains a partner in the firm as of 2017. Political career Osaka City Council Yoshimura was elected to the Osaka city council in 2011 as a member of the Osaka Restoration Association headed by Osaka Prefecture governor Toru Hashimoto. House of Representatives Yoshimura was elected to the Japanese House of Representatives in the 2014 general election as a member of the Japan Innovation Party. He was a candid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirofumi Yoshida
is a Japanese orchestral conductor. He resides in Italy, but grew up in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan. Education Yoshida's parents, his father Toru from Tokyo and his mother Ayako from Hokkaido, send their son to the “Kōnodai High School”. Later, following his passion, Yoshida attends the Tokyo College of Music, where he specializes in piano with professor Yukiko Okafuji, in contrabass with Mitsuru Onozaki, in musicology with Reiko Arima and Tomiko Kojiba and in conduction with Yasuhiko Shiozawa, Jun-Ichi Hirokami and Yujiro Tsuda. Between 1994 and 1995, Yoshida move to Vienna to obtain the Music and Arts Master at Vienna's University with the masters Hans Graf and Julius Kalmar. In 1996, he obtained the Advanced Music Master at the Chigiana Academy of Music in Siena with the masters Juri Temirkanov e Myung-Whun Chung Career In 2008, Yoshida conducted '' Don Carlos'' in Hong Kong. In January 2009, he was appointed music director at Teatro Sociale di Mantova, Mantua, Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirofumi Yamashita
(died 2000) was a Japanese ichthyologist and environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists. History Awardees are named from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, an ... in 1998Goldman Environmental PrizeHirofumi Yamashita (Retrieved on November 27, 2007) for his efforts on marine protection. References People from Nagasaki Prefecture 2000 deaths Japanese environmentalists Japanese ichthyologists 1934 births 20th-century Japanese zoologists Goldman Environmental Prize awardees Scientists from Nagasaki Prefecture {{environmentalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirofumi Watanabe
is a former Japanese football player who last played for Renofa Yamaguchi FC is a Japanese professional Association football, football club based in Yamaguchi (city), Yamaguchi, the capital of Yamaguchi Prefecture. They currently play in the J2 League, the second tier of professional football in Japanese association foot .... Career statistics ''Updated to 4 December 2020''.Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社"2017 J1&J2&J3選手名鑑 (NSK MOOK)" 8 February 2017, Japan, (p. 56 out of 289) References External linksProfile at Vissel Kobe* 1987 births Living people Senshu University alumni Association football people from Yamagata Prefecture Japanese men's footballers J1 League players J2 League players Kashiwa Reysol players Tochigi SC players Vegalta Sendai players Vissel Kobe players Renofa Yamaguchi FC players Men's association football defenders 21st-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-footy-defender-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirofumi Suga (Japanese Garden Designer)
Hirofumi Suga (菅 宏文 ''Suga Hirofumi;'' born 31 May 1972) is a Japanese garden designer (called 庭師 “niwashi” in Japanese) and landscape architect, and is currently the CEO of 1moku Landscape Design and Research and 1moku Spain S.L. Some of his notable works include the rooftop garden design for Shanghai Grand Cinema, the Japanese Garden of Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo, and the garden of Taiko-en. Biography Early life Hirofumi Suga was born on May 31, 1972, in Shakujii-koen, Tokyo. In an interview for "Green is..." magazine, Suga describes how when he was 18-years-old, his friend took him to visit gardens in Kyoto. He was so inspired by the temple gardens he saw there that he decided to pursue a career as a “niwashi”, or Japanese-style gardener. During that time, he met the acclaimed “niwashi” Kasai Tsutomu, who Suga greatly admired for his challenge to traditional methods in Japanese gardening. Suga would occasionally assist Kasai with his projects in order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirofumi Suga (comedian)
is a Japanese comedy (manzai) duo ''( kombi)'' from Osaka consisting of as boke and as tsukkomi under the entertainment agency, Yoshimoto Kogyo. Formed in 1996, they are best known for their stand-up acts and TV tarento activities in variety and quiz shows. Ujihara is known as one of the most competitive quiz show contestants. Having attended highly ranked public universities, the two are broadly recognized as "highly educated comedians". However, Suga eventually dropped out of Osaka Prefecture University while Ujihara graduated from Kyoto University spending 9 years to earn satisfactory credits to graduate. As the boke, Suga is prone to strange comments, while Ujihara is the more reasonable of the two, often criticizing Suga's remarks. As their talk material, they often use current affairs and items that Japanese students learn in high school and middle school. Suga writes almost all their material while Ujihara types them out since Suga cannot touch-type. In Yoshimoto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirofumi Uzawa
was a Japanese economist. Biography Uzawa was born on July 21, 1928, in Yonago, Tottori to a farming family. He attended the Tokyo First Middle School (currently the Hibiya High School) and the First Higher School, Japan (now the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo). He graduated from the Mathematics Department of the University of Tokyo in 1951; he was a special research student from 1951 to 1953. At that time, he discovered the true nature of economics in the words of John Ruskin, “There is no wealth, but life.” which was quoted in the foreword to by Hajime Kawakami, and decided to study economics. His paper on decentralized economic planning caught the eye of Kenneth Arrow at Stanford University. He went to study economics at Stanford University in 1956 with Fulbright fellowship, and became a research assistant, then assistant professor in 1956, then assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1960, and then associate professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirofumi Torii
is a Japanese figure skater. He placed 22nd at the 2007 World Junior Championships and won a bronze medal at an ISU Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international figure skating competition, junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded ... event in Romania. Programs Competitive highlights References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Torii, Hirofumi 1988 births Living people Japanese male single skaters Figure skaters from Tokyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
