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Yamauchi
Yamauchi or Yamanouchi (やまうち or やまのうち, lit. "inside mountains") is a Japanese surname. Either name is written in kanji as 山内 while Yamanouchi can also be written as 山ノ内. Notable people with the surname include: * Yamanouchi Toyoshige, 15th feudal lord of the Tosa domain * Yamauchi Kazutoyo, first feudal lord of the Tosa domain *Kenji Yamanouchi, eponymous founder of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., now part of Astellas Pharma * Edwin M. Yamauchi, historian and biblical scholar *Fusajiro Yamauchi, founder of Nintendo **Sekiryo Yamauchi (born Sekiryo Kaneda), second president of Nintendo, son-in-law of Fusajiro Yamauchi **Hiroshi Yamauchi, third president of Nintendo, grandson of Fusajiro Yamauchi *Goiti Yamauchi, Japanese-Brazilian mixed martial artist *Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of the ''Gran Turismo'' videogame series *Mara Yamauchi, British long-distance runner *, Japanese rower *, Japanese long-distance runner *Wakako Yamauchi, American writer *Tetsu Yam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Yamauchi
was a Japanese businessman and the third president of Nintendo, joining the company in 1949 until stepping down on 24 May 2002, being subsequently succeeded by Satoru Iwata. During his 53-year tenure, Yamauchi transformed Nintendo from a hanafuda card-making company that had been active solely in Japan into a multibillion-dollar video game publisher and global conglomerate. He was the great-grandson of Fusajirō Yamauchi, Nintendo's first president and founder. In April 2013, Forbes estimated Yamauchi's net worth at $2.1 billion; he was the 13th richest person in Japan and the 491st richest in the world. In 2008, Yamauchi was Japan's wealthiest person with a fortune at that time estimated at $7.8 billion. At the time of his death, Yamauchi was the largest shareholder at Nintendo. Early life Yamauchi was born in Kyoto to father Shikanojo Inaba and mother Kimi. His father abandoned them both when he was five years old, and his mother was unable to cope as a single parent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goiti Yamauchi
is a Japanese-born Brazilian mixed martial artist who currently competes in the Welterweight division for Bellator MMA. As of December 13, 2022, he is #5 in the Bellator Welterweight Rankings. Background Yamauchi was born in Anjō, Aichi to a Japanese father and a Japanese-Brazilian mother, but his family moved to Curitiba, Paraná when he was 3 years old. He started in Brazilian jiu-jitsu at the age of 9, followed by Muay Thai, boxing and wrestling during his youth. At the age of 14, he became Paraná State's amateur boxing champion in 2007, defeating then-reigning champion John Lineker, who was 17. Mixed martial arts career Early career Before moving to professional mixed martial arts, Yamauchi scored seven wins as an amateur, with seven first-round stoppages. Yamauchi started his professional career in 2010, when he was just 17 years old. From October 2010 to May 2013, he fought for many organizations throughout Brazil and won a featherweight title and a featherweight tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mara Yamauchi
Mara Rosalind Yamauchi (born Mara Myers 13 August 1973) is a British long-distance track and road running athlete. She currently holds the third fastest time by a British woman over the marathon, behind former world-record holder, Paula Radcliffe. Biography Early life Yamauchi was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England to Dorothy and Norman Myers, and lived with her family until she was eight years old in Nairobi, Kenya. She was named after the Mara River which runs through Kenya where her parents lived for 25 years in total. Yamauchi started running with Oxford club Headington RoadRunners while still at school, but took up running seriously when she was an undergraduate at university, competing mainly in cross-country races. After graduating at St Anne's College, Oxford (Politics, Philosophy & Economics) she studied a one-year master's degree at the London School of Economics. During this time she joined Parkside AC (now Harrow AC) and was coached by Bob Parker, who coached ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazunori Yamauchi
, nicknamed "Kaz", is a Japanese game designer and professional racing driver. He is CEO of Polyphony Digital and producer of the '' Gran Turismo'' video game series. Polyphony Digital He became the president of Polyphony Digital after designing his first game ''Motor Toon Grand Prix'', a cartoon-inspired racing title similar to Mario Kart. ''Motor Toon Grand Prix'' later spawned a sequel, ''Motor Toon Grand Prix 2'', which was the only game in the franchise released outside Japan. Since then, Yamauchi has fulfilled his dream of creating realistic driving simulators with his massively successful ''Gran Turismo'' series. He has also expressed interest in broadening out to other game genres; in 1999 Polyphony Digital released '' Omega Boost'', a shoot 'em up title set in space, which has since proven to be Yamauchi's only foray outside of racing game development. As a result of ''Gran Turismo's'' success, Yamauchi has become an important figure in the worldwide automotive indust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wakako Yamauchi
Wakako Yamauchi (October 23, 1924 – August 16, 2018) was a Japanese American writer. Her plays are considered pioneering works in Asian-American theater. Biography Yamauchi (née Nakamura) was born in Westmorland, California. Her mother and father, both Issei, or first-generation Japanese immigrants, were farmers in California's Imperial Valley. Many of her stories and her two plays, '' And the Soul Shall Dance'' and '' The Music Lessons'', are set in the same dusty, isolated settings".Wong, Shawn. ''Asian American Literature''. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Her plays and stories examine the hardships that Japanese Americans faced in California's agricultural communities and in the internment camps during the second World War.Tudeau, Lawrence J. ''Asian American Literature: Reviews and Criticism of Works by American writers of Asian Descent''. Farmington Hills: Gale Research. 1999. In 1942, at seventeen, Yamauchi and her family were interned at the Poston, Arizona camp; the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamauchi Kazutoyo
, also spelled Yamanouchi (1545/1546? – November 1, 1605). He was retainer of Oda Nobunaga and later Toyotomi Hideyoshi. His father Yamauchi Moritoyo, was a descendant of Fujiwara no Hidesato, a senior retainer of the Iwakura Oda clan (opposed to Oda Nobunaga), and lord of Kuroda castle in Owari Province at the end of the Sengoku period of Japan. He was famous as the husband of Yamauchi Chiyo. Military life When he was still a 400-Koku lord, many great people as children were entrusted to him, such as Kuroda Nagamasa when he was hostage of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hidetsugu were taught by him. He participated at Battle of Anegawa 1570 in the Oda's side. After the Siege of Odawara (1590) and the rise to power of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu was forced to trade his domains in the Tōkai region for the Kantō region instead. Kazutoyo was relinquished Kakegawa Castle from Hideyoshi. In 1600, Kazutoyo fought at the Battle of Sekigahara on Tokugawa Ieyasu's side. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sekiryo Kaneda
, also known as , was the second president of what is now Nintendo Co., Ltd., from 1929 to 1949. He married the daughter of Fusajiro Yamauchi, Tei Yamauchi, and took the Yamauchi surname. Kaneda retired in 1949 after suffering a stroke, leaving Nintendo to be run by his grandson, Hiroshi Yamauchi. Career Kaneda married Fusajiro Yamauchi's daughter, Tei, and based on Japanese adult adoption rules, he took the Yamauchi surname on the same day in order to inherit Nintendo. Fusajiro Yamauchi retired in 1929, making Kaneda Nintendo's second president. When Kaneda took over Nintendo, he was in charge of Japan's largest card maker. In 1933, he established a joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acce ... company, and renamed it Yamauchi Nintendo and Co. The same year, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamauchi, Saga
was a town located in Kishima District, Saga Prefecture, Japan. On March 1, 2006, Yamauchi, along with the town of Kitagata (also from Kishima District), was merged into the expanded city of Takeo. Geography *Mountains: Mt. Kurokami, Mt. Jinroku *Rivers: Matsuura River (source) Adjoining municipalities *Saga Prefecture ** Arita **Imari ** Takeo *Nagasaki Prefecture **Hasami History *April 1, 1889 - The modern municipality system was established. The area consisted of two villages: Nakato and Sumiyoshi. *April 1, 1954 - Nakato and Sumiyoshi were merged to create Yamauchi Village. *March 1, 1955 - Part of Takeuchi Town was incorporated into Yamauchi Village. *September 1, 1960 - Yamauchi Village became Yamauchi Town (Yamauchi-machi) Education *Yamauchi Junior High School *Yamauchi Higashi Elementary School *Yamauchi Nishi Elementary School Transportation Rail *JR Kyushu **Sasebo Line *** Nagao Station - Mimasaka Station Road * Expressways: **Nagasaki Expressway ***Takeo-K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusajiro Yamauchi
, born , was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the company that is now known as Nintendo. Yamauchi lived in Kyoto, Japan and had a wife and a daughter, Tei Yamauchi, who later married Sekiryo Kaneda. Before Nintendo Fusajiro Fukui was born on 22 November 1859, as the eldest son of Sosuke Fukui. Working at Haiko Cement Company, Fukui would receive the surname Yamauchi upon being adopted by Naoshichi Yamauchi in 1872. Nintendo Koppai On 23 September 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi opened the first '' Hanafuda'' (flower cards) card shop called "Nintendo Koppai", during a time when the Japanese government was banning playing cards from the hands of the public, due to them being tied to gambling, with the exception of Yamauchi's playing cards. With the huge success he had in selling these cards, he rapidly began expanding and opened another card shop in Osaka. He later went on to create more card games. Retirement and death Fusajiro departed from the company in 1929, leaving his son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsu Yamauchi
is a Japanese retired bass guitarist. In the 1970s, he was a member of several popular hard rock bands, including Free, where he replaced former bassist Andy Fraser before the band's final album '' Heartbreaker'', and the Faces, where he replaced Ronnie Lane and appears on the band's final single, "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything", as well as touring with them and playing on the live album '' Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners''. He also recorded a number of solo albums and did extensive work as a session musician before retiring from the music industry in the late 1990s. Biography Yamauchi was born in 1946 in Fukuoka, Japan. In the late 1960s, he played with Mickey Curtis and his band called Samurai, and this involvement led to him working as a session musician in both Tokyo and London. In London he became close friends with Ginger Baker and Alan Merrill. In 1972, he contributed to the album '' Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu and Rabbit'' with Free guitarist Paul Kossoff a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamanouchi Toyoshige
Yamauchi Toyoshige , also known as , was a Japanese ''daimyō'' in the Shikoku region in the late Edo period. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Yamauchi Toyoshige"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 1045. He was usually referred to as “Lord Yōdō” in Western accounts. Career Yamauchi was the 15th head of the Tosa Domain. He opposed the treaties of the ''Ansei'' era. In 1859, he was forced to retire. In 1862 he was appointed sanyo (参与). After the assassination of his favourite Yoshida Tōyō in 1862, he ordered an investigation into the local anti-foreigner samurai groups, suspecting them of terrorism. These efforts culminated in the arrest and subsequent suicide of political rogue Takechi Hanpeita, who ordered the hitokiri Okada Izō, in 1865. In 1867 he advised Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu to carry out ''Taisei Houkan'' (大政奉還), the return of power to the Emperor, which he carried out later that year. In 1871, Yamauchi was appointed governor of the new Kochi Prefect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faces (band)
Faces are an English rock band formed in 1969 by members of Small Faces after lead singer and guitarist Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie. The remaining Small Faces— Ian McLagan (keyboards), Ronnie Lane (electric bass, vocals), and Kenney Jones (drums and percussion)—were joined by Ronnie Wood (guitar) and Rod Stewart (lead vocals), both from the Jeff Beck Group, and the new line-up was renamed Faces. The band had a unique arrangement, as Rod Stewart had signed a separate solo recording contract with the Mercury label shortly before joining the group, which was signed to Warner's. Band members often contributed to Stewart's solo albums as contract players, and Faces live shows of the period would feature as much of Stewart's solo material as that of the band, which later fuelled tensions amongst them when they began to effectively be viewed as Stewart's 'backing band'. The group lacked a single main songwriter as from the beginning each member would work in tandem t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
