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Yasui
Yasui (written: 安井 or 保井) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese judge *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese businessman *, Japanese biologist *, Japanese voice actor *, American lawyer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese Go player *, Japanese Go player *, Japanese actor *, Japanese Confucian scholar *, Japanese painter *, Japanese economist *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese fencer *, Japanese politician See also * Yasui house, one of the four Schools of Go during the Edo period *Yasui procedure, a pediatric heart operation *''Yasui v. United States ''Yasui v. United States'', 320 U.S. 115 (1943), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the constitutionality of curfews used during World War II when they were applied to citizens of the United States.. The case arose out of the impleme ...'' (1943), a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States {{surname Japanese-language surnam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minoru Yasui
was an American lawyer from Oregon. Born in Hood River, Oregon, he earned both an undergraduate degree and his law degree at the University of Oregon. He was one of the few Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor who fought laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans or Japanese immigrants. His case was the first case to test the constitutionality of the curfews targeted at minority groups. Yasui's case made its way to the United States Supreme Court, where his conviction for breaking curfew was affirmed. After internment during most of World War II, he moved to Denver, Colorado in 1944. In Denver, Yasui married and became a local leader in civic affairs, including leadership positions in the Japanese American Citizens League. In 1986, his criminal conviction was overturned by the federal court. In 2015, Senator Mazie K. Hirono nominated Yasui for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award of the United States. On November 16, 2015, Preside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakaji Yasui
(15 December 1903 – 15 March 1942) was one of the most prominent photographers in the first half of the 20th century in Japan. Life Yasui was born in Osaka and became a member of the Naniwa Photography Club (, ''Naniwa Shashin Kurabu'') in 1920s and also became a member of the Tampei Photography Club (, ''Tanpei Shashin Kurabu'') in 1930. His photographs cover a wide range from pictorialism to straight photography, including photomontages. He appreciated every type and kind of photographs without any prejudice and tried not to reject any of them even during wartime. Works * photographs of Jewish people who fled from the Nazis to Kobe (Japan) in the 1930s — in collaboration with several other photographers in the Tampei Shashin Club, such as Osamu Shiihara, Kaneyoshi Tabuchi and Tōru Kōno * series Exhibitions in Japan *Nakaji Yasui (安井仲治展) at Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (兵庫県立近代美術館) and Seibu Contemporary Art Gallery (西 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasui V
Yasui (written: 安井 or 保井) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese judge *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese businessman *, Japanese biologist *, Japanese voice actor *, American lawyer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese Go player *, Japanese Go player *, Japanese actor *, Japanese Confucian scholar *, Japanese painter *, Japanese economist *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese fencer *, Japanese politician See also * Yasui house, one of the four Schools of Go during the Edo period * Yasui procedure, a pediatric heart operation *'' Yasui v. United States'' (1943), a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States {{surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kono Yasui
was a Japanese biologist and cytologist. In 1927, she became the first Japanese woman to receive a doctoral degree in science. She received a Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon and was awarded as an Order of the Precious Crown Third Class for her academic accomplishments and leadership in women’s education in Japan. Early life and education Yasui was born in the village of in Kagawa Prefecture in 1880, to the owner of a shipping business. She was the first child of nine siblings and was raised by parents who valued and emphasized education. When she was moving from lower elementary to higher elementary school, her father persuaded her to read ''Encouragement of Learning'', a highly influential book written by the philosopher and educator Yukichi Fukuzawa. Throughout her early education, she excelled in her studies, and was particularly gifted in science and mathematics.Yamazaki, Miwae.Where no Other Dared to Go: Kono Yasui 1880-1971 Japan's First Woman Doctor of Science. ''Blaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seiichirō Yasui
Seiichirō Yasui was a Japanese politician and bureaucrat who held a variety of positions in Japanese government. He served as appointed Governor of Niigata Prefecture from 1940 to 1941, then as appointed Governor of Tokyo from 1946 to 1947, then as elected Governor of Tokyo from 1947 to 1959. He also served as one of the members of the House of Representatives from 1960 to his death in 1962. Early life and career Yasui was born in , Mitsu District, Okayama Prefecture. After graduating from the Faculty of Law in Tokyo Imperial University, Yasui joined the Home Ministry, where he served as superintendent for Ibaraki and Kanagawa police. He later was promoted to the police chief of Toyama and Hyogo Prefectures. In 1931, Yasui became a secretary to the Governor-General of Korea, Kazushige Ugaki, and served in colonial management, including the head of the Monopoly Bureau (). In addition, in 1936, he was the Governor of Keiki Province. Yasui returned to Japan and was app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasui Sokken
was a classical scholar of Confucianism from Obi Domain, Hyūga Province (now Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Kiyotake Miyazaki Prefecture) Japan. He educated many notable personalities of Bakumatsu period, Bakumatsu and early Meiji period Japan, including Tani Tateki, Mutsu Munemitsu and Shinagawa Yajiro. His child name was Junsaku and later his name was Chuhei. His Art-name was Sokken. His wife Sayo was the model for Mori Ogai's historical novel ''Mrs. Yasui''. His famous quote is: ''The plan for the day is in the morning. The plan for the year is in the spring. The plan for the whole life is in the yout''h. Biography Yasui was the second son of Yasui Koshu, a samurai of Obi domain whose served the Itō clan, the ''daimyō'' of Obi Domain, for generations. When he was a child he contracted smallpox, and the smallpox scars on his face left him disfigured and blind in one eye. Under the influence of his father, who was a scholar, he aspired to study, and at the age of 21, he studied under S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kizo Yasui
was a Japanese corporate executive. He held the positions of the chairman of the board of directors of Toray Industries, vice-president of Mitsui Bank, president of Mitsui Petrochemicals Industries, vice-chairman of Nihon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), chairman of Japan Chemical Fibers Association and others. He was also general manager of Tokyo Metropolis of Ise Shrine Revered Board. He dedicated himself to reconstructing Japanese National Railways as the 4th chairman of audit committee thereof. He received Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1979. Biography Yasui was born in Hikone, Shiga. He carried on his father's name, Kizo. The last Kizo Yasui, father of this Kizo Yasui, was nicknamed Kōshō Chōchō［Commercial College Town Mayor］because he was elected Town Mayor of Hikone Town against his will while he was in Tokyo to negotiate the establishment of Hikone Commercial College（now, the Faculty of Economics of Shiga University）and resign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misako Yasui
is a former legislator in the National Diet of Japan, holding a seat in the House of Councillors of Japan from 2010 to 2016. She is a member of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), serving as a representative of Aichi Prefecture. Early life and education Once completing her studies at New York University, Ms. Yasui joined McKinsey & Company in Tokyo, serving as a business analyst. She formulated corporate strategies in the areas of marketing, product development, sales strategies and organization restructuring. She then joined Misumi Group Inc. and led a team that launched a new food service business entity､that became a model for others. Yasui then became an independent consultant helping corporations and local governments. At that time, she worked as an advisor for "the Office of City Management Reform" of the City of Osaka and then as a Special Advisor for Osaka Prefectural Government. She first collaborated with Toru Hashimoto, the former governor of Osaka and the curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sōtarō Yasui
was a Japanese painter, noted for development of ''yōga'' (Western-style) portraiture in early twentieth-century Japanese painting. Biography Yasui was born to a merchant class household in Kyoto, but dropped out of commercial high school against his family's wishes to pursue a career in the arts. He studied oil painting under Asai Chū at the Shōgōin Yōga Kenkyujō and ''Kansai Bijutsu-in'' (Kansai Fine Art Academy) together with Ryuzaburo Umehara. In 1907, at the age of nineteen he moved to Paris to study at the Académie Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens. During this seven years, from 1907 to 1914, he was strongly influenced by the realistic styles of Jean-François Millet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and, in particular, Paul Cézanne. Forced to return to Japan with the outbreak of World War I, in 1915, he made his debut at the ''Nikakai'' (Second Division Society) Exhibition, where he displayed forty-four paintings he had made in Paris. For the next ten years, Yasui suffered fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasui Sanchi
Yasui Sanchi (安井算知, 1617–1703) was a Japanese professional Go player, and second head of the Yasui house. He became ''Meijin''-''godokoro'' in 1668. It has always been said''Go Monthly Review'' 1963/5 p.54 that this promotion was achieved by a backstairs route, with influence exerted by the head of the Matsudaira clan The was a Japanese samurai clan that descended from the Minamoto clan. It originated in and took its name from Matsudaira village, in Mikawa Province (modern-day Aichi Prefecture). During the Sengoku period, the chieftain of the main line of the .... A related anecdote has Hon'inbō San'etsu facing down Lord Matsudaira during an earlier official '' oshirogo'' against Sanchi. The Hon'inbō house did not take this lying down. From 1668 to 1675 Hon'inbō Dōetsu played a twenty-game match against Sanchi (they had played in 1649, but after that there was a dearth of competitive games). Dōetsu had the better of it with Black, earning the right to a ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasui Procedure
The Yasui procedure is a pediatric heart operation used to bypass the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) that combines the aortic repair of the Norwood procedure and a shunt similar to that used in the Rastelli procedure in a single operation. It is used to repair defects that result in the physiology of hypoplastic left heart syndrome even though both ventricles are functioning normally. These defects are common in DiGeorge syndrome and include interrupted aortic arch and LVOT obstruction (IAA/LVOTO); aortic atresia- severe stenosis with ventricular septal defect (AA/VSD); and aortic atresia with interrupted aortic arch and aortopulmonary window. This procedure allows the surgeon to keep the left ventricle connected to the systemic circulation while using the pulmonary valve as its outflow valve, by connecting them through the ventricular septal defect. The Yasui procedure includes a modified Damus–Kaye–Stansel procedure to connect the aortic and pulmonary roots, allow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sentetsu Yasui
was a Japanese Go player, who is said to be born in either Aizu or Kawachi Province. His year of birth is unknown, but his birthname is believed to be . He served as an apprentice to Yasui Shuntetsu Senkaku. In 1748, he changed his birthname to his present name, and began playing castle game . As he was part of a famous Go house, he would play with the other Go houses in the shōgun's castle. In 1775, his mentor Yasui Shuntetsu Senkaku retired, causing him to become the sixth head of the Yasui house. He died on September 4, 1780. Results *1748 (Kan'en 1) 3 games/win vs Inoue Shunseki *1749 (Kan'en 2) 5 games/loss vs Honinbo Hakugen *1750 (Kan'en 3) 2 games/win vs Inoue Shunseki *1751 (Hōreki , also known as Horyaku, was a after '' Kan'en'' and before ''Meiwa''. The period spanned the years from October 1751 through June 1764. The reigning emperor and empress were and . Change of era * 1751 : The new era of ''Hōreki'' (meaning "V ... 1) none vs Inoue Shuntatsu *17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
