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Yasushi Ishida
Yasushi is a masculine Japanese given name. Written forms Yasushi can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *康, "healthy" *靖, "peaceful" *泰, "peaceful" *安, "tranquil" *靖志, "peaceful, determination" *靖史, "peaceful, history" *靖士, "peaceful, knight" *靖司, "peaceful, administer" *康志, "healthy, determination" *康史, "healthy, history" *康士, "healthy, knight" *安志, "tranquil, determination" *安史, "tranquil, history" *安士, "tranquil, knight" *安司, "tranquil, administer" *保志, "preserve, determination" *保史, "preserve, history" *保士, "preserve, knight" *泰志, "peaceful, determination" *泰史, "peaceful, history" *易司, "divination, administer" *妥師, "peace, teacher" *也寸志, "to be, measurement, determination" The name can also be written in hiragana やすし or katakana ヤスシ. Notable people with the name *, Japanese politician *, Japanese diplomat *, Japanese telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech. The IPA is used by linguists, lexicography, lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, speech–language pathology, speech–language pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators, and translators. The IPA is designed to represent those qualities of speech that are part of lexical item, lexical (and, to a limited extent, prosodic) sounds in oral language: phone (phonetics), phones, Intonation (linguistics), intonation and the separation of syllables. To represent additional qualities of speechsuch as tooth wikt:gnash, gnashing, lisping, and sounds made with a cleft lip and cleft palate, cleft palatean extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet, extended set of symbols may be used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasushi Inoue
was a Japanese writer of novels, short stories, poetry and essays, noted for his historical and autobiographical fiction. His most acclaimed works include '' The Bullfight'' (''Tōgyū'', 1949), ''The Roof Tile of Tempyō'' (''Tenpyō no iraka'', 1957) and ''Tun-huang'' (''Tonkō'', 1959). Biography Inoue was born into a family of physicians in Asahikawa, Hokkaido in 1907, and later raised in Yugashima, Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture. He was born in Hokkaido but is from Shizuoka Prefecture. In his essay "Hometown Izu", he wrote, "I was born in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, but in the yearbooks and directories, most of my birthplace is Shizuoka Prefecture. When I write it myself, I write it separately from Asahikawa as my place of birth and Shizuoka Prefecture as my birthplace...". In My History of Self-Formation, he wrote, "It seems safe to assume that Izu, where I spent my childhood, was my true hometown, and that everything that would form the basis of my person was created here." During h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasushi Nomura
Viscount was a Japanese bureaucrat, statesman and cabinet minister, active in Meiji period Japan. Biography Nomura was born as the second son of a low-ranked '' ashigaru samurai'' in Hagi, Chōshū Domain, (currently Yamaguchi Prefecture). As a youth, he studied at Yoshida Shōin's ''Shokansonjuku'' academy, where he joined the Sonnō jōi movement against the Tokugawa shogunate and the increasing foreign presence in Japan. He participated in the unsuccessful assassination attempt against the ''rōjū'' Manabe Akikatsu and in the burning of the British legation in Edo in 1862. He fought as a member of the Chōshū armies against the Tokugawa during the Second Chōshū expedition. After the Meiji Restoration, he went to Tokyo and entered into service of the new Meiji government, and was selected as a member of the 1871 Iwakura Mission, visiting the United States, Great Britain and other European countries. After his return to Japan, he was appointed governor of Kanagawa Pref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasushi Nirasawa
was a Japanese illustrator, character designer, and model maker born in Tochio, Niigata. He is well known for character designs in the Kamen Rider entries ''Kamen Rider Blade'', ''Kamen Rider Kabuto'', and ''Kamen Rider Den-O'' and the creatures called " Horrors" in the ''GARO'' series. Much of his early work as a designer and sculptor was featured in his Hobby Japan magazine column titled "Creature Core", which featured at least one of his sculptures in each monthly issue and was later collected as a hardcover book of the same name. In addition to original designs, this column also included sculptures based on characters from Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Guyver, Phantom of the Paradise, Hellraiser, Hellraiser III, and others. As part of his work for Hobby Japan, Nirasawa did character designs and cover art for the video games Beast Warriors and A-Rank Thunder Tanjouhen, and illustrations for Japanese RPGs, including illustrations of Michael Moorcock's Elric for the Japanese editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasushi Nawa
was a Japanese entomologist from Gifu Prefecture. Personal history Nawa was born in the Motosu District of Gifu Prefecture (present day city of Mizuho) and had a strong affinity to bugs even in his youth. In 1878, he entered into the Gifu Agricultural Learning Center (which later became the Gifu Prefectural Agricultural School and is now the Gifu Prefectural Agricultural High School) and stayed on at the school as an assistant after he graduated in 1882. On April 24 of the following year, 1883, he discovered a new butterfly in the present day Kanayama-machi in the city of Gero.''Gifu City Walking Map''. Gifu Lively City Public Corporation, 2007. He called the new butterfly the ''Gifu Butterfly'' ('' Luehdorfia japonica''). In 1886, Nawa entered into Tokyo Imperial University (now University of Tokyo) and earned his junior high school teaching license in half a year, after which he began teaching at junior high and elementary schools in Gifu Prefecture. After a decade of teac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasushi Nagao
was a Japanese press photographer. Career Nagao is best known for his photograph of Otoya Yamaguchi assassinating Japanese Socialist Party politician Inejirō Asanuma. At the time Nagao was a cameraman working for ''Mainichi Shimbun''. Hisatake Abo, Nagao's picture editor, told Nagao to cover a debate at Hibiya Hall. As Yamaguchi charged Asanuma, Nagao changed the focus to fifteen feet from ten feet. Nagao won the 1960 World Press Photo of the Year award and the 1961 Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes for 1961 are: Journalism awards *Public Service: ** The '' Amarillo Globe-Times'', for "exposing a breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive action that swept lax officials from their posts and brought about th .... The first award allowed Nagao to travel abroad widely, impossible for most Japanese people at the time. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasushi Murase
is a Japanese rower. He competed in the men's double sculls event at the 1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subseq .... References 1941 births Living people Japanese male rowers Olympic rowers for Japan Rowers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasushi Mieno
was a Japanese businessman, central banker, the 26th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and a Director of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).Siegman, Charles J "The Bank for International Settlements and the Federal Reserve,"''Federal Reserve Bulletin.'' October 1, 1994. Early life Mieno was born in Ōita. Career From April 1975 through February 1978, Mieno was head of the BOJ banking department.Werner, Richard A. (2003). Mieno was BOJ Governor from December 17, 1989, to December 16, 1994, having previously served as Deputy Governor from 1984 to 1989. Starting a week after his appointment, from late December 1989 until August 1990, BOJ heavily increased interest rates. Soon the Japanese asset price bubble of the 1980s collapsed. In 1994, he was an elected member of the BIS Board of Directors. On April 15, 2012, Mieno died from heart failure in a Tokyo hospital. Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Yasushi Mieno, OCLC/WorldC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
