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Hiroji (written: 博二, 博治 or 弘次) is a masculine Japanese given name. As 弘次, the name also may be read as Kōji. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese academic and translator *, Japanese video game designer *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese table tennis player *, Japanese actor {{given name Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ...
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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 ...
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Hiroji Imamura
is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. Club career Imamura was born in Koka on April 27, 1949. After graduating from high school, he joined Yanmar Diesel in 1968. He played as winger with Kunishige Kamamoto and assisted with many of his goals. The club won the league championship in 1971, 1974, 1975, and 1980. He retired in 1983. He played 230 games and scored 60 goals in the league. National team career On August 8, 1976, Imamura debuted for Japan national team against India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since .... He played 4 games for Japan in 1976. National team statistics References External links * 1949 births Living people Association football people from Shiga Prefecture Japanese men's footballers Japan men's int ...
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Hiroji Kataoka
is a Japanese professor of Urdu at Daito Bunka University, where he also serves as dean of the Faculty of International Relations and director of the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies. Early life and career Kataoka was born in Saitama Prefecture. He entered the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies' Urdu department in 1964. He describes himself as being an initially unmotivated student, even once failing a class in his second semester. However, he was inspired to work harder after his professor, Takeshi Suzuki, assigned Krishan Chander's short story ''Sufaid Phool'' as class reading. The story describes a young mute boy who had fallen in love with a girl but had no way to express his feelings to her except through glances and gestures, which echoed a situation Kataoka was facing in his personal life with a girl he liked but to whom he was too afraid to speak. In the early 1970s, he attended a two-year course in Urdu at the University of Karachi. He joined the faculty of Osaka ...
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Hiroji Kiyotake
, born December 21, 1960, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan) is a game designer for Nintendo and has been a part of the history of Nintendo since 1983. Education Kiyotake graduated from Kyoto Seika University with a BA of Visual Design and was part of the rugby club. Career Kiyotake started his employment at Nintendo in 1983, working in the Nintendo Research & Development 1 and Product Engineering Departments, and is currently a member of the Planning and Development Department. Game design ''Metroid'' Hiroji was a designer for ''Metroid'', which was originally designed for the Famicom Disk System. Hiroji is the character designer of Samus Aran and named the ''Metroid'' character after Pelé, but he later found out that Pelé's full name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, not Samus Arantes. Hiroji and Yoshio Sakamoto and the rest of the team decided at the end of ''Metroid'' to reveal that Samus was a female character, making Samus Aran one of the first female protagonists in a vid ...
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Hiroji Kubota
is a Japanese photographer, a member of Magnum Photos who has specialized in photographing the far east. Born in Kanda (Tokyo), Kubota studied politics at Waseda University, graduating in 1962.Yoshiko Suzuki (, ''Suzuki Yoshiko''), "Kubota Hiroji", ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p.113. In 1961 he met the Magnum photographers René Burri, Elliott Erwitt, and Burt Glinn.Biography
of Kubota, Magnum Photos. Accessed 20 December 2009.
He then studied journalism and international politics at the , and became an assistant to Erwitt and
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Hiroji Satoh
was an international table tennis player from Japan. Table tennis career From 1952 to 1953 he won two medals in the singles and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships and four medals in the Asian Table Tennis Championships. Hiroji was the first person to use a sponge on his racket, a common feature of all modern table tennis rackets. Although, at the time it may have seemed as though this technological advancement gave him an unfair advantage, it has truly brought table tennis into the modern age and as the Olympic sport it would become. He won bronze medal in the team event at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships and a gold medal in the men's singles at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in a ...
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Kōji Mitsui
was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 150 films from 1925 to 1975, including 29 of ''Kinema Junpo''’s annual Top-10 winners and three of its 10 best Japanese films of all time. In 2000 the magazine named him one of the 60 most important Japanese actors of the 20th century. Career Mitsui was born Hikohide Mitsui in Yokohama, where his father managed a Shochiku movie theater. He joined the studio in 1924 while a student at the Keio School of Commerce and Industry, making his film debut in 1925 under the stage name Hideo Mitsui (三井秀男). His short stature, soft features, and expressive face and voice suited him for rebellious “younger brother” roles, and he appeared as a youth lead in many silent and early sound films, notably in several Yasujirō Ozu classics and the “Yota” series, about the antics of a trio of young idlers that also included Akio Isono and Shōzaburō Abe. Mitsui left Shochiku in 1935 to help found the independent studio Tokyo Hasse ...
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Japanese Masculine Given Names
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japanese studies , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, history, culture, litera ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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