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Shuntarō
Shuntarō, Shuntaro or Shuntarou (written: or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese businessman *, Japanese physician *, Japanese historian and educator *, Czech sumo wrestler *, Japanese poet and translator *, Japanese journalist and activist {{DEFAULTSORT:Shuntaro Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takanoyama Shuntarō
Takanoyama Shuntarō (born 21 February 1983 as Pavel Bojar) is a former sumo wrestler from Prague, Czech Republic. He is the first man from the Czech Republic to join the professional sport in Japan. He reached the third highest ''makushita'' division in 2004, but due to his light weight, he had difficulty in regularly beating his opponents, despite his skill. However, in May 2011, he finally earned promotion to the ''sekitori'' ranks. After becoming only the third new ''sekitori'' since 1958 to pass through ''jūryō'' division in just one tournament, he made his debut in the top ''makuuchi'' division in September 2011. He retired on 24 July 2014. Early life and sumo background Bojar practised judo in the Czech Republic before becoming interested in sumo. Sumo is more popular in the Czech Republic than in any other European country , with ten sumo clubs containing some 600 members, and he was trained by , president of the Czech Sumo Association. After winning the bronze medal in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuntarō Tanikawa
was a Japanese poet and translator. He was considered to be one of the most widely read and highly regarded Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad. The English translation of his poetry volume ''Floating the River in Melancholy'', translated by William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura and illustrated by Yoko Sano, won the American Book Award in 1989. Life and career Tanikawa in the 1950s Tanikawa has written more than 60 books of poetry in addition to translating Charles Schulz's ''Peanuts'' and the Mother Goose rhymes into Japanese. He was nominated for the 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Award for his contributions to children's literature. He was awarded Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evening in 2022. He also helped translate ''Swimmy'' by Leo Lionni into Japanese. Among his contributions to less conventional art genres is Tanikawa's open video correspondence with Shūji Terayama (''Video Letter'', 1983). Since the 1970s, Tanikawa also provided short, onomatopoeic verse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuntarō Itō
was a Japanese scholar of the history of science and the study of comparative civilization. Itō was an honorary professor of University of Tokyo and International Research Center for Japanese Studies, and a professor of Reitaku University, and the Chairman of Japan Seaology Promotion Organization. He was also a president of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. Itō was born in Tokyo, and obtained his bachelor's degree in literature from Tokyo University in 1953, his master's in 1955, and Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964. Itō taught at the University of Tokyo, as Professor, from 1978 to 1989, and in International Research Center for Japanese Studies from 1989 to 1995, and in Reitaku University from 1995. Itō died on September 20, 2023, at the age of 93. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuntaro Furukawa
is a Japanese businessman and executive who is the sixth and sitting president of the video game company Nintendo. He succeeded Tatsumi Kimishima for the position in June 2018. Early life Furukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, on January 10, 1972. He grew up playing games on Nintendo's Famicom console, mainly third party games such as Nobunaga's Ambition and baseball games like Super Batter Up, not Nintendo games, until he was recommended by another student to play Super Mario Kart, making it the reason he became interested in joining. Furukawa is a graduate of Kunitachi Senior High School, and graduated from Waseda University's School of Political Science and Economics in 1994. Furukawa is fluent in English. Career In April 1994, he joined Nintendo and worked as an accountant at the European headquarters for a decade. In May 2012 he became an outside director in the board of directors of the partly owned The Pokémon Company as the Nintendo representative, due to the company o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuntaro Torigoe
(born 13 March 1940) is a Japanese journalist and political activist. Early life Born in 1940 in Yoshi-cho, Ukiha-gun, Fukuoka Prefecture (now Ukiha City). His father's name was Toshio, and he was given the name Shuntaro, taking on Toshio's first character. His father graduated from university and went to work for a company, and after being bullied in the workplace, he developed neurosis, and when Shuntaro was born, he was admitted to the psychiatric ward of Kyushu University. In 1946, he entered primary school and became the first student to receive post-war education. After attending Kurume University High School, he graduated from Kyoto University's Department of Literature (majoring in Japanese History) in 1965, studying for two years as he became absorbed in the student movement. In 1965, he joined the Mainichi Shimbun. His first position was at the Niigata branch. Journalism career Torigoe was born in present-day Ukiha, Fukuoka and graduated from Kyoto University. He bega ... [...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] |
Shuntaro Hida
was a Japanese physician who was an eyewitness when the ''Little Boy'' atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the ''Enola Gay'' on 6 August 1945. He treated survivors as a medical doctor and wrote about the effects of radiation on the human body. The night before the bomb was dropped 28-year-old Dr. Hida left the Hiroshima Military Hospital where he was stationed as an army medical officer to attend to a sick child in the village of Hesaka. He was therefore approximately 6 kilometers from ground zero when the bomb was dropped and he looked up and saw the Boeing B-29 Superfortress aircraft which he described as appearing like a "tiny silver drop". He then felt the heat and blast from the explosion and saw the mushroom cloud over the city. As a medical doctor he treated the wounded and saw the short- and long-term effects of radiation on the human body. After the war he continued to treat atomic bomb survivors (known as Hibakusha) for many years and he became the Director of the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
