Sōichirō Matsutani
Sōichirō, Soichiro, Souichirou or Sohichiroh is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese basketball player *, founder of Honda Motor Company *, Japanese voice actor *, president of Benesse Corporation *, Japanese sport shooter *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese writer Fictional characters *Soichiro Koizumi is a Japanese manga series by Satomi Ikezawa about a Labrador puppy, named Ponta, who turns into a human and falls in love with Mirai Iwaki, who's very popular in his school. In 2000, it won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo. It was publi ... of ''Guru Guru Pon-chan'' * of ''Fate/stay night'' * of ''Death Note'' * of '' Kill la Kill'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Soichiro Japanese masculine given names ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Soichiro Fujitaka
, nicknamed So, is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for Bambitious Nara of the B.League in Japan. He also plays for Japan men's national 3x3 team. Non-FIBA Events statistics , - , align="left" , 2013 , align="left" , Universiade Japan , 7 , , , , 15.10 , , .550 , , .250 , , .733 , , 2.7 , , 1.3 , , 0.7 , , 0.0 , , 5.1 , - Career statistics Regular season , - , align="left" , 2011-12 , align="left" , Nippon Tornadoes , 1, , 1 , , 48.0, , .304, , .000, , .250, , 7.0, , 1.0, , 1.0, , 0.0, , 15.0 , - , align="left" , 2014-15 , align="left" , Hitachi , 37, , 1 , , 9.1, , .417, , .190, , .586, , 1.1, , 0.2, , 0.2, , 0.1, , 2.9 , - , align="left" , 2015-16 , align="left" , Hitachi , 30, , , , 6.9, , .440, , .400, , .769, , 0.8, , 0.3, , 0.2, , 0.1, , , 2.0 , - , align="left" , 2016-17 , align="left" , Shibuya , 57, , 2 , , 8.9, , .430, , .367, , .619, , 1.2, , 0.4, , 0.2, , 0.0, , ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Soichiro Honda
was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. In 1948, he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer. Early years Honda was born in Kōmyō village, Iwata District, Shizuoka, near Hamamatsu on November 17, 1906. He spent his early childhood helping his father, Gihei Honda, a blacksmith, with his bicycle repair business. At the time his mother, Mika Honda, was a weaver. Honda was not interested in traditional education. His school handed grade reports to the children, but required that they be returned stamped with the family seal, to make sure that a parent had seen it. Honda created a stamp to forge his family seal out of a used rubber bicycle pedal cover. The fraud was soon discovered when he started to make forged stamps for other children. Honda was unaware that the stamp was supposed to be mirror-imaged. His family name 本田 (Honda) is symmetrical whe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sōichirō Hoshi
is a Japanese voice actor and singer affiliated with Arts Vision. Some of his major anime roles include Son Goku in '' Saiyuki'', Kira Yamato in '' Gundam Seed'', '' Gundam Seed Destiny'', Kazuki Fuuchouin in ''GetBackers'', Masaru Daimon in ''Digimon Savers'', Kaoru Hanabishi in ''Ai Yori Aoshi'', and Tomoki Sakurai in '' Heaven's Lost Property''. In video game franchises he voices Sanada Yukimura in '' Sengoku Basara'', Keiichi Maebara in '' Higurashi When They Cry'', Kilik in '' Soulcalibur'', and various characters in '' Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time''. He partially voices Shirogane Takeru in the '' Muv-Luv'' series. Hoshi was also known for his voice roles of villains as Goro Akechi from '' Persona 5'', Death Gun from ''Sword Art Online'', and Lio Shirazumi in '' The Garden of Sinners''. For his work, Hoshi has been awarded the voice acting award in the Anime Grand Prix in both 2005 and 2006. Additionally, in the 2007 Seiyu Awards, Hoshi was a nominee in the c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Soichiro Fukutake
is a Japanese billionaire, and the former chairman of the Benesse Corporation, a publishing firm and juku company known for its patronage of the arts. Career Fukutake inherited Benesse, which his father founded in 1955 as Fukutake Publishing. After his father's death in 1986, he renamed it Benesse (Latin for well-being), and expanded the company, and his family owns 15% of the company. Benesse owns 275 nursing homes in Japan and the Berlitz language schools. Personal life Fukutake is married, with one son, and lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Art "shrines" He has created four museums or "art shrines" on the islands of Naoshima, Teshima and Inujima in an archipelago in Japan's southern Seto Inland Sea, including the Chichu Art Museum. They have been built in collaboration with the architect Tadao Ando is a Japanese autodidact architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism". He is th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Soichiro Ito is a sport shooter who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics and in the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... References 1947 births Japanese male sport shooters Skeet shooters Olympic shooters of Japan Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1990 Asian Games Shooters at the 1994 Asian Games Shooters at the 1998 Asian Games Living people Asian Games competitors for Japan 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   |