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Nakano (, Latn, ja, Nakano) is a special ward in the
Tokyo Metropolis Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most ...
in Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Nakano City (, Latn, ja, Nakano-ku).About Nakano City
." Retrieved March 10, 2013.
, the ward has an estimated population of 337,377, and a population density of 21,640 persons per km2. The total area is 15.59 km2. Nakano is the most densely populated city in Japan.


History

The ward was founded on October 1, 1932, when the towns of Nogata and Nakano were absorbed into the former
Tokyo City was a Cities of Japan, municipality in Japan and capital of Tokyo Prefecture (1868–1943), Tokyo Prefecture (or ''Tokyo-fu'') which existed from 1 May 1889 until the establishment of Tokyo Metropolis on 1 July 1943. The historical boundari ...
as Nakano Ward. The present administration dates from March 15, 1947, when the Allied occupation reformed the administration of Tokyo-to. * 1447:
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defeated Toshima Yasutsune in a battle here. * 1606: The Naruki Kaidō, predecessor of today's
Ōme Kaidō is one of the main roads leading westwards out of Tokyo. It begins in Shinjuku, passes through Ōme, and ends in Kōfu, Yamanashi.Ōme) was established. * 1695: In connection with the ''Shorui Awaremi no Rei'' (a law for the protection of animals), a facility for keeping wild dogs opened. * 1871: The twelve villages that comprise present-day Nakano became part of Tokyo Prefecture. * 1889: The Kofu Railway opens. The forerunner of today's
Chūō Main Line The , commonly called the Chūō Line, is one of the major trunk railway lines in Japan. It connects Tokyo and Nagoya, although it is the slowest direct railway connection between the two cities; the coastal Tōkaidō Main Line is slightly faste ...
included a station at Nakano en route from
Shinjuku , officially called Shinjuku City, is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative center, housing the northern half of the busiest railway station in the world ( Shinjuku Station) as well as the Tokyo Metropol ...
to Hachioji. * 1897: Nakano becomes a village. * 1932:
Tokyo City was a Cities of Japan, municipality in Japan and capital of Tokyo Prefecture (1868–1943), Tokyo Prefecture (or ''Tokyo-fu'') which existed from 1 May 1889 until the establishment of Tokyo Metropolis on 1 July 1943. The historical boundari ...
expands to encompass the district that included Nakano. * 1943: With the abolition of Tokyo City, Nakano becomes part of Tokyo-to. * 1947: Nakano becomes one of the special wards under the new system. * 1961: The Tokyo subway system extends to Nakano. * 1973: Construction of Nakano Sun Plaza near Nakano Station reaches completion. * 2016:
Murder of Jiang Ge The murder of Jiang Ge occurred in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan, on 3 November 2016. Jiang Ge, a 24-year-old graduate student from China at Hosei University, was stabbed to death by Chen Shifeng, a 25-year old Chinese national, just outside her apartmen ...


Districts and neighborhoods

;Nakano Area * Chūō * Higashinakano * Honchō *
Minamidai is a district of Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. As of October 2020, the population of this district is 20,698. The postal code for Minamidai is 164-0014. Geography Minamidai borders Yayoichō in the north, Honmachi to the east, Sasazuka and Hata ...
* Nakano * Yayoimachi ;Nogata Area *
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* Eharachō * Ekoda * Kamisaginomiya * Kamitakada * Maruyama * Matsugaoka * Nogata * Numabukuro * Saginomiya * Shirasagi * Wakamiya * Yamatochō


Geography

Five special wards surround Nakano:
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. It lies just west of the bustling
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area. Rivers include the
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, Myosho-ji and Zenpuku-ji Rivers, and the Aratama Waterway.


Places

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Nakano Sun Plaza , formerly Nakano Sun Plaza, was a Japanese concert hall and hotel complex located in Nakano, Tokyo. It opened in 1973 and closed in 2023. A 262-meter-tall skyscraper is scheduled to be completed on the site in 2028. Notable events Numerous mus ...
: concert hall, hotel facilities * Arai
Yakushi Bhaiṣajyaguru (, zh, t= , , , , ), or ''Bhaishajyaguru'', formally Bhaiṣajya-guru-vaiḍūrya-prabha-rāja ("Medicine Master and King of Lapis Lazuli Light"; zh, t=藥師琉璃光(王)如來, , , ), is the Buddha of healing and medicine i ...
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temple *
Nakano Broadway is a shopping mall in Nakano, Tokyo. Founded in 1966 as a luxury shopping complex, it has become a popular destination for goods aimed at ''otaku'' (hobbyists and enthusiasts, particularly those of anime and manga). History Nakano Broadway was ...
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building (several floors of arcades,
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specialty shops, as well as a well-regarded
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arcade) * GRIPS International House, apartment for foreign students studying at the
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Education


Public schools

Metropolitan senior high and combined junior-senior high schools are operated by the
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. * * * * * * Yotsuya Commercial High School Municipal kindergartens, elementary schools, and junior high schools are operated by the Nakano City Board of Education. Municipal junior high schools: * No. 2 Junior High School (第二中学校) * No. 5 Junior High School (第五中学校) * No. 7 Junior High School ( 第七中学校) * Kita Nakano Junior High School ( 北中野中学校) * Meiwa Junior High School (明和中学校) ** Merger of No. 4 Junior High School (第四中学校) and No. 8 Junior High School ( 第八中学校). * Midorino Junior High School (緑野中学校) * Minami Nakano Junior High School ( 南中野中学校) * Nakano Junior High School ( 中野中学校) * Nakano Higashi Junior High School ( 中野東中学校) ** Merger of No. 3 Junior High School ( 第三中学校) and No. 10 Junior High School (第十中学校). Municipal elementary schools: * Egota Elementary School ( 江古田小学校) * Ehara Elementary School ( 江原小学校) * Hakuo Elementary School ( 白桜小学校) * Heiwa no Mori Elementary School ( 平和の森小学校) * Kami Saginomiya Elementary School ( 上鷺宮小学校) * Keimei Elementary School (啓明小学校) * Kitahara Elementary School (北原小学校) * Midorino Elementary School ( 緑野小学校) * Mihato Elementary School (美鳩小学校) ** Formed by the merger of Wakamiya Elementary ( 若宮小学校) and Yamato Elementary (大和小学校) * Minamidai Elementary School (南台小学校) ** Formed by the merger of Niiyama Elementary (新山小学校) and Tada Elementary (多田小学校) * Minamino Elementary School ( みなみの小学校) ** Formed by the merger of Nakano Shinmei Elementary (中野神明小学校) and Niiyama Elementary (新山小学校) * Momozono No. 2 Elementary School ( 桃園第二小学校) * Musashidai Elementary School ( 武蔵台小学校) * Nakano No. 1 Elementary School ( 中野第一小学校) ** Merger of Monozono Elementary School ( 桃園小学校) and Mukodai Elementary School ( 向台小学校) * Nakano Hongo Elementary School (中野本郷小学校) * Nishi Nakano Elementary School ( 西中野小学校) * Reiwa Elementary School ( 令和小学校) ** Merger of Arai Elementary School (新井小学校) and Kamitakada Elementary School (上高田小学校) * Saginomiya Elementary School (鷺宮小学校) * Toka Elementary School ( 桃花小学校) * Tonoyama Elementary School (塔山小学校) * Yato Elementary School ( 谷戸小学校) Kindergartens: * Higashi Nakano Kindergarten (ひがしなかの幼稚園) * Kamisagi Kindergarten (かみさぎ幼稚園)


Private schools

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Horikoshi Gakuen is a private high school in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. The school was founded by Chiyo Horikoshi in 1923. Due to its trait course (formerly the entertainment activities course) and the physical education course for entertainers and athletes who have ...
High School * - Has coeducational and girls' only sections * * * * * * - Girls' school *


Colleges and universities

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Teikyo Heisei University is a private university Private universities and private colleges are higher education institutions not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. However, they often receive tax breaks, public student loans, and government gran ...
Nakano Campus *
Tokyo Polytechnic University is a private university in Honchō, Tokyo, Honchō, Nakano, Tokyo. Its nickname is ''Shadai'' (写大). It was formerly known as Tokyo College of Photography (, ''Tōkyō Shashin Daigaku''). The university was founded as Konishi Professional Sc ...
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Meiji University is a Private university, private research university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Originally founded as Meiji Law School () by three lawyers in 1881, it became a university in April 1920. As of May 2023, Meiji has 32,261 undergradu ...
Nakano Campus *
University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...
Nakano campus *
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Transportation


Rail

Nakano Ward is served by the
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Chūō and Sobu lines, the
Seibu Shinjuku Line The is a Japanese railway line owned by the private railway operator Seibu Railway, connecting Seibu Shinjuku Station in Shinjuku, Tokyo with Hon-Kawagoe Station in Kawagoe, Saitama. The Shinjuku Line is one of two main lines of the Seibu Ra ...
, the
Tokyo Metro Tozai Line The is a rapid transit line in Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture, Japan, owned and operated by Tokyo Metro. Its name translates to "''East-West Line"''. The line runs between Nakano Station (Tokyo), Nakano in Nakano, Tokyo, Nakano-ku, Tokyo and Nish ...
and
Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line The is a Rapid transit, subway line in Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tokyo Metro. The line runs in a U-shape between Ogikubo Station in Suginami, Tokyo, Suginami and Ikebukuro Station in Toshima, Tokyo, Toshima, with a branch line between Nakano-Sa ...
, and the
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. * JR East **
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Chūō-Sōbu Line The is a railway line that runs through Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Part of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) network, the line operates on separate tracks along the right-of-way of the Chūō Main Line ( Chūō Line (Rapid)) and ...
: Higashi-Nakano and Nakano Stations *
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**Seibu Shinjuku Line: Arai Yakushi-mae, Numabukuro, Nogata, Toritsu-Kasei, Saginomiya Stations *
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** Marunouchi Line: Shin-Nakano, Nakano-Sakaue Stations *** Honancho Branch Line: Nakano-Fujimicho, Nakano-Shimbashi, Nakano-Sakaue Stations ** Tozai Line: Nakano, Ochiai (although the station is in Shinjuku, some entrances are in Nakano) Stations *
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: **Toei Oedo Line: Nakano-Sakaue, Higashi-Nakano, Shin-egota Stations


Bus

A complicated bus network is constructed throughout Nakano Ward because most train lines only run east and west. * Kanto bus * Toei bus * Kokusai Kogyo bus * Keio bus


Roads

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: *C2
Central Circular Route The , signed as Route C2, is one of the routes of the Shuto Expressway system serving the central part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The route is a circumferential highway running through the outer wards of Tokyo. The route is the middle of fou ...
(Nakano-chōjabashi exit)
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: * Tokyo Metropolitan Route 8 (Mejiro-dōri Ave., Shin-Mejiro-dōri Ave.) * Tokyo Metropolitan Route 439 (Senkawa-dōri Ave.) * Tokyo Metropolitan Route 440 (Shin-Ōme-kaidō Ave.) * Tokyo Metropolitan Route 25 (Waseda-dōri Ave.) * Tokyo Metropolitan Route 433 (Ōkubo-dōri Ave.) * Tokyo Metropolitan Route 4 (Ōme-kaidō Ave.) * Tokyo Metropolitan Route 14 (Hōnan-dōri Ave.) * Tokyo Metropolitan Route 317 (Yamate-dōri St.; 6th Beltway) * Tokyo Metropolitan Route 420 (Nakano-dōri St.) * Tokyo Metropolitan Route 318 (Kannana-dōri St.; 7th Beltway) * Tokyo Metropolitan Route 427 (Nakasugi-dōri St.)


Business and entertainment

*Nakano-minamiguchi ekimae shōtengai – an outdoor arcade *
Soft On Demand , often known as SOD, is a Japanese adult video group of companies which has its headquarters in the Nakano ward of Tokyo. SOD was founded in December 1995 by Ganari Takahashi, who retired from the company in March 2005 and is currently working ...
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group of companies has its headquarters in Nakano *
MAPPA is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Nakano, Tokyo (formerly in Suginami, Tokyo). Founded in 2011 by Madhouse co-founder and producer Masao Maruyama, it has produced anime works including '' Terror in Resonance'', '' Yuri!!! on I ...
- a Japanese animation studio has its head office in Nakano


''Benza'' series

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'' is a 2019
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series about two foreigners (
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) who are trying to fix their broken and are suddenly tasked with saving the world. The series takes place entirely in Higashi Nakano. ''
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'' is a 2020 spin-off series that also takes place in Higashi Nakano. ''
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'' is a 2020 video game adaption available on
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Notable people

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Kanako Yanagihara (born February 3, 1986, in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress, comedian, and ''tarento'', who has been featured in ''Cartoon KAT-TUN'', the live-action drama ''Otomen'', and collaborated on the music for '' Keroro Gunso the Super Movie ...
, comedian * Mayumi Kojima, singer and songwriter *
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, voice actress, actress *
Shoko Sawada is a Japanese singer-songwriter, reporter, and radio personality. Since the start of her professional singing career in 1980, Sawada has recorded over 27 studio albums. Life and career At the age of five, Sawada became a member of the Otowa Bas ...
, singer and songwriter *
Yuji Tanaka is a Japanese comedian. He is best known as half of the ''owarai'' duo Bakusho Mondai along with Hikari Ota. He also played Mike in the Japanese dub of the Pixar movie ''Monsters, Inc.'', Br'er Fox in the Japanese dub of the Disney movie ' ...
, comedian *
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, Japanese professional wrestler *
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, Japanese actor *
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Wataru Kamimura is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 5-dan. Early life and apprenticeship Kamimura was born in Nakano, Tokyo on December 10, 1986. He learned how to play shogi from his father and entered the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice scho ...
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Rieko Miura is a Japanese actress, voice actress, singer and former member of the band CoCo (band), CoCo. She was born in Nakano, Tokyo. Her solo debut was on 14 September 1991. Filmography Film *''Kyō no Kira-kun'' (2017), Kanon Okamura *''Love and Li ...
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Takahiro Sonoda was a Japanese classical pianist. Life Sonoda was born in 1928 in the town of Nogata, today a part of Tokyo and renamed Nakano City. He was first taught piano by his father, Kiyohide, a student of Robert Casadesus. After his father's death ...
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Michiko Yamamoto is the professional name of , a Japanese writer and poet. Yamamoto has won the Shincho Prize for New Writers, the Akutagawa Prize, and the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature. Biography Yamamoto was born in Nakano, Tokyo and graduated from Ato ...
, Japanese writer and poet (Real Name: Michiko Furuya,
Nihongo is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. ...
: 古屋道子, ''Furuya Michiko'') * Michiyo Yasuda, Japanese animator and colour designer *
Yoko Yamamoto was a Japanese actress represented by Kabushikigaisha Sanyō Kikaku. Yamamoto was born on March 17, 1942, and died on February 20, 2024, at the age of 81. Filmography Films TV dramas NHK Tokyo Broadcasting System Nippon TV Fuji Televi ...
, Japanese actress *
Hideo Kachi Hideo Kachi (可知 日出男) (born December 17, 1953, in Nakano, Tokyo) is a Japanese musician. He is a player of various woodwind instruments, such as the flute, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, ocarina, recorder (musical instrument), and others ...
, Japanese musician (Real Name: Kachi Hidenori,
Nihongo is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. ...
: カチヒデノリ, ''Hidenori Kachi'') *
Kazushi Hagiwara is a Japanese manga artist best known for creating the manga '' Bastard!!''. Biography He originally began as an assistant to hentai manga artist Dirty Matsumoto, and then as an assistant to manga artist Izumi Matsumoto in the production of '' ...
, Japanese
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and the creator of ''
Bastard!! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazushi Hagiwara. It began its serialization in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' in 1988, after debuting with a pilot one-shot in that magazine in 1987, and has co ...
'' *
Kenji Ohtsuki is a Japanese rock musician and Seiun Award-winning writer. His musical career began in the late 1970s. He is the vocalist of Kinniku Shōjo Tai, Tokusatsu, Underground Searchlie and Karate Bakabon. The lyrics of a Kinniku Shōjo Tai's song "D ...
,
Japanese rock , sometimes abbreviated to , is rock music from Japan. Influenced by American and British rock of the 1960s, the first rock bands in Japan performed what is called group sounds, with lyrics almost exclusively in English. Folk rock band Happy End ...
musician and
Seiun Award The is a Japanese speculative fiction award given each year for the best science fiction works and achievements during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by , the awards are given at the annual Nihon SF Taikai, Japan Science Fic ...
-winning writer * Mayumi Kojima, Japanese
Shibuya-kei is a microgenre of pop music or a general aesthetic that flourished in Japan in the mid-to-late 1990s. The music genre is distinguished by a "cut-and-paste" approach that was inspired by the kitsch, fusion, and artifice from certain music styl ...
musician *
Shoko Nakagawa is a Japanese tarento, media personality, singer, actress, Voice acting in Japan, voice actress, illustrator, YouTuber, and cosplayer. Also known by her nickname , she is best known as the presenter of ''Pokémon Sunday'', and as the performer o ...
, Japanese ''
tarento Television personalities in Japan, known as in Japanese, are celebrities who regularly appear in mass media in Japan, especially as panelists on variety shows. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, bankable stars in the United States were descri ...
'' (media personality), actress,
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, illustrator, MC and singer *
Kanako Yanagihara (born February 3, 1986, in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress, comedian, and ''tarento'', who has been featured in ''Cartoon KAT-TUN'', the live-action drama ''Otomen'', and collaborated on the music for '' Keroro Gunso the Super Movie ...
, Japanese actress, comedian, and ''
tarento Television personalities in Japan, known as in Japanese, are celebrities who regularly appear in mass media in Japan, especially as panelists on variety shows. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, bankable stars in the United States were descri ...
'' *
Masao Kobayashi is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Nakano, Tokyo Nakano (, Latn, ja, Nakano-ku) is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward in the T ...
,
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, member of the
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and member of the
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in the
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(national legislature) *
Kentaro Shigematsu is a Japanese football player who plays as a striker for FIFTY CLUB. A journeyman striker, Shigematsu has over 375 appearances in the J League system for various teams, with the majority of his appearances coming from his time at Kamatamar ...
, Japanese
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Kamatamare Sanuki Kamatamare Sanuki (カマタマーレ讃岐、''Kamatamāre Sanuki'') is a football club based in Takamatsu, the capital city of Kagawa Prefecture of Japan. They currently play in the J3 League, the Japanese third tier of professional football. ...
,
J3 League or simply J3 is the third division of . It was established in 2013 as the third-tier professional association football league in Japan under the organization of J.League. The league is known as the for sponsorship reasons. The third-tier nation ...
) * Mitsuya Kurokawa, Japanese guitarist *
Mayumi Itsuwa (born January 24, 1951) is a Japanese vocalist, composer, lyricist, and keyboardist who made her debut in 1972. Her first studio album entitled ''Shoujo'' was recorded in Los Angeles, produced by Grammy Award winner John Fischbach, with disting ...
, Japanese vocalist, composer, lyricist, and keyboardist *
Masatō Ibu is a Japanese actor and voice actor, Best known for his villainous characters. He is sometimes credited as Masato Eve. Filmography Films * '' P.P. Rider'' (1983) *'' Love Hotel'' (1985) *'' Maison Ikkoku'' (1986) *'' Empire of the Sun'' (1987 ...
, Japanese actor and voice actor *
Kiyoshiro Imawano , born , was a Japanese rock musician, lyricist, composer, musical producer, and actor from Tokyo, Japan. He was dubbed "Japan's King of Rock". He formed and led the influential rock band RC Succession. He wrote many anti-nuclear songs followi ...
,
Japanese rock , sometimes abbreviated to , is rock music from Japan. Influenced by American and British rock of the 1960s, the first rock bands in Japan performed what is called group sounds, with lyrics almost exclusively in English. Folk rock band Happy End ...
musician, lyricist, composer, musical producer, and actor (Real Name: Kiyoshi Kurihara,
Nihongo is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. ...
: 栗原 清志, ''Kurihara Kiyoshi'') *
Ray Fujita , is a Japanese actor and musician from Tokyo. His mother is Japanese and his father is French. His most notable roles to date are as Kitazaki/Dragon Orphnoch in the 2003 series ''Kamen Rider 555'' and Rei Suzumura/ZERO the Silver Fanged Knigh ...
, Japanese actor and musician *
Shoko Sawada is a Japanese singer-songwriter, reporter, and radio personality. Since the start of her professional singing career in 1980, Sawada has recorded over 27 studio albums. Life and career At the age of five, Sawada became a member of the Otowa Bas ...
, Japanese singer-songwriter, reporter, and radio personality * Tochisakae Atsushi, former
sumo wrestler A , or, more colloquially, , is a sumo wrestler. Although used to define all wrestlers participating in sumo wrestling matches, the term is more commonly used to refer to professional wrestlers, employed by the Japan Sumo Association, who part ...
* Takahiro Yamaguchi, Japanese former
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*
Christopher McCombs Christopher Brian McCombs (born 25 August 1980) is an American actor and model. He is the creator, star, writer, and producer of the Japanese on demand series '' The Benza'' and its spin off series ''Benza English'' on Amazon Prime Video. He is k ...
, American actor and
tarento Television personalities in Japan, known as in Japanese, are celebrities who regularly appear in mass media in Japan, especially as panelists on variety shows. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, bankable stars in the United States were descri ...


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Nakano City Official Website
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