Hidemitsu Hori (堀 秀光, Hori Hidemitsu; born March 23, 1954), better known professionally by his stage name Hideyuki Hori…
Hidemitsu Hori (堀 秀光, Hori Hidemitsu; born March 23, 1954), better known professionally by his stage name Hideyuki Hori (堀 秀行, Hori Hideyuki), is a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and the younger brother of voice actor Yukitoshi Hori affiliated with Aoni Production. He is most well known for his roles in Saint Seiya as Phoenix Ikki, Sakigake!! Otokojuku as Momotaro Tsurugi, Kinnikuman as Warsman, Dragon Ball Z as Captain Ginyu, Mobile Fighter G Gundam as Kyoji Kasshu / Schwarz Bruder, the Dead or Alive series and Ninja Gaiden as Ryu Hayabusa, and One Piece as Bartholomew Kuma.
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Shinya Aoki (Japanese: 青木 真也, Hepburn: Aoki Shin'ya; born May 9, 1983) is a Japanese mixed martial artist, professional…
Shinya Aoki (Japanese: 青木 真也, Hepburn: Aoki Shin'ya; born May 9, 1983) is a Japanese mixed martial artist, professional wrestler, and grappler who competes in Welterweight division of ONE Championship. He is also signed to Japanese promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), where he is one-half of the current KO-D Tag Team Champions (with Junta Miyawaki) in their first reign as a team and individually. A professional competitor since 2003, he is a former DREAM Lightweight Champion, former two-time ONE Lightweight World Champion, former WAMMA Lightweight Champion and former Shooto Welterweight Champion. Aoki is an A-class Shootist and BJJ black belt, both under his long-term mentor Yuki Nakai, as well as a black belt Judoka. In 2008, Aoki, along with DEEP champion Masakazu Imanari and Sengoku champion Satoru Kitaoka, founded the "Nippon Top Team", a group of elite Japanese grapplers competing in MMA. Besides his MMA credentials, Aoki has garnered several submission grappling accolades including two All Japan Jiu-Jitsu Championships, a Japan Open Jiu-Jitsu Championship, a Budo Open Championship, and an ADCC Japan Championship.
Mie Yamashita (in original Japanese: 山下 みゑ) (September 25, 1901 – January 13, 1986), better known by her stage name…
Mie Yamashita (in original Japanese: 山下 みゑ) (September 25, 1901 – January 13, 1986), better known by her stage name Sayuri Yōko (小百合 葉子/さゆり ようこ), was a Japanese theatre company president and actress. She is the founder and chairman of Dandelion, a children's theatre company. She was active as a stage, radio and film actress before and during the war. After the war, she founded a children's theatre company and devoted her life to her company. She was called 'a living witness to children's theatre after the war'.
Daiki Yamashita (山下 大輝, Yamashita Daiki; born September 7, 1989) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Arts Vision.…
Daiki Yamashita (山下 大輝, Yamashita Daiki; born September 7, 1989) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Arts Vision. He is best known for voicing the character Izuku Midoriya in the popular shonen anime My Hero Academia. He won the Best Male Newcomer award at the 8th Seiyu Awards.
Shiho Kohata (高畑 志帆, Kohata Shiho; born November 12, 1989) is a Japanese footballer who has played a defender for club…
Shiho Kohata (高畑 志帆, Kohata Shiho; born November 12, 1989) is a Japanese footballer who has played a defender for club sides as well the Japan national team.
Remina Chiba (千葉 玲海菜, Chiba Remina; born 30 April 1999) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward…
Remina Chiba (千葉 玲海菜, Chiba Remina; born 30 April 1999) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Juventus and the Japan national team. She has previously played for WE League club JEF United Chiba and German Frauen-Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt.
Dame Mitsuko Uchida, (内田光子; [ɯtɕida miꜜtsɯ̥ko]; born 20 December 1948) is a Japanese-English classical pianist and…
Dame Mitsuko Uchida, (内田光子; [ɯtɕida miꜜtsɯ̥ko]; born 20 December 1948) is a Japanese-English classical pianist and conductor. Born in Japan and naturalised in England, she is particularly notable for her interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. She has appeared with many notable orchestras, recorded a wide repertory with several labels, won numerous awards and honours (including Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2009) and is the co-artistic director, with Jonathan Biss, of the Marlboro Music School and Festival. She has also conducted several major orchestras.
Yurina Hase (長谷優里奈, Hase Yurina; born December 9, 1979, in Shizuoka Prefecture), formerly Yurika Ochiai (落合祐里香, Ochiai…
Yurina Hase (長谷優里奈, Hase Yurina; born December 9, 1979, in Shizuoka Prefecture), formerly Yurika Ochiai (落合祐里香, Ochiai Yurika) and now just Yurika (友利花, Yurika), is a Japanese singer-songwriter and former voice actress and gravure idol. She is also known by her nickname Yurishi (ゆりしー) in Japan. She originally worked for Arts Vision, but quit in October 2006. From 2007, she worked for Genki Project, but moved to Intercept in December 2008. On December 17, 2009, she went freelance and changed her name to Yurina Hase. In December 2011, Hase began working for Kekke for her voice actor related activities. In 2014, she took a break from voice acting roles. In June 2020, she recalled how she experienced sexual harassment from a casting couch from anime studio Sunrise.
Sayuri Iwata (岩田さゆり, Iwata Sayuri; born July 21, 1990) is a Japanese actress and former singer. Iwata started her…
Sayuri Iwata (岩田さゆり, Iwata Sayuri; born July 21, 1990) is a Japanese actress and former singer. Iwata started her career as a model for Love Berry magazine before branching out into singing when she was 15. Her first single, "Sora Tobu Ano Shiroi Yuki No You Ni", was released in February 2005 and peaked at number 40 on the Oricon Singles Chart. Later that year, in November, Iwata released another single, "Thank You for Everything", which was used as an ending theme for the Detective Conan anime adaptation. Iwata starred in the TBS drama Kinpachi-sensei the same year she started modeling for Love Berry, playing the role of Yayoi Iijima. Later, in 2008, Iwata had a part in the movie Utatama. In 2011, she made an appearance in the film Lupin no Kiganjo, opposite Koichi Yamadera as Lupin. Later in her acting career, in April 2015, Iwata starred in the Gaim Gaiden: Kamen Rider Zangetsu film as Touka Akatsuki. A few months later, she appeared in the TV drama adaptation of Gin no Spoon as Tamaki Suzui.
Mai Fukagawa (Japanese: 深川 麻衣, Hepburn: Fukugawa Mai; born March 29, 1991) is a Japanese actress. She is a former…
Mai Fukagawa (Japanese: 深川 麻衣, Hepburn: Fukugawa Mai; born March 29, 1991) is a Japanese actress. She is a former member of the idol girl group Nogizaka46, debuting in 2011 as part of the first generation and graduating in 2016.
Yukitoshi Hori (堀 之紀, Hori Yukitoshi) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Setagaya, Tokyo. He is the…
Yukitoshi Hori (堀 之紀, Hori Yukitoshi) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Setagaya, Tokyo. He is the elder brother of fellow voice actor Hideyuki Hori and is currently represented by Aoni Production. He is most known for the roles of Tokumaru Tatsumi (Saint Seiya), Dodoria, Android 19 (Dragon Ball Z), Gin (Detective Conan), and Robert McGuire (Crayon Shin-chan).
Yoshitaka Amano (天野 喜孝, Amano Yoshitaka; born March 26, 1952) is a Japanese visual artist, character designer…
Yoshitaka Amano (天野 喜孝, Amano Yoshitaka; born March 26, 1952) is a Japanese visual artist, character designer, illustrator, scenic designer for theatre and film, and costume designer. He began his career in 1967 at Tatsunoko Production, working on anime such as Speed Racer, and later created characters for anime like Gatchaman, Tekkaman, Honeybee Hutch, and Casshern. In 1982, he went independent and became a freelance artist, finding success as an illustrator for numerous authors and working on best-selling novel series, like The Guin Saga and Vampire Hunter D. He is also known for his commissioned illustrations for the Final Fantasy video game franchise. Since the 1990s, Amano has created and exhibited paintings in galleries around the world, primarily using acrylic and automotive paint on aluminium box panels to depict his iconic retro pop icons. He is a five-time winner of the Seiun Award, and also won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, a collaboration with Neil Gaiman. Amano's influences include early Western comic books, Orientalism, Art Nouveau, and Japanese woodblock prints. In early 2010, he established Studio Devaloka, a film production company.
Natsumi Ikegaya (born 14 June 1990) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for WE League club…
Natsumi Ikegaya (born 14 June 1990) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for WE League club AC Nagano Parceiro.
Madoka Asahina (朝日奈 丸佳, Asahina Madoka; born December 17, 1993) is a Japanese voice actress from Shizuoka Prefecture…
Madoka Asahina (朝日奈 丸佳, Asahina Madoka; born December 17, 1993) is a Japanese voice actress from Shizuoka Prefecture who is affiliated with 81 Produce. She is known for her roles as Shūka Hanazono in Idol Time PriPara.
Rika Hoshimi (Japanese: 星美りか, Hepburn: Hoshimi Rika) is a Japanese former AV idol, gravure model and actress.
Ii Naotora (井伊 直虎, d. 12 September 1582) was a daimyō of the Sengoku period and head of the Ii clan, a feudal samurai…
Ii Naotora (井伊 直虎, d. 12 September 1582) was a daimyō of the Sengoku period and head of the Ii clan, a feudal samurai clan of medieval Japan. There are two theories regarding Naotora's identity: The classical theory from Edo period stated Naotora was Jirō Hōshi daughter of Ii Naomori, the eighteenth head of their clan. She was primarily the head of Ii clan and retainer of the Imagawa clan. The second theory was that Ii Naotora was actually a son of an Imagawa clan retainer named Sekiguchi Ujitsune (関口氏経). According to this theory, the son of Ujitsune became temporary head of the Ii clan until Ii Naomasa, the son of Ii Naochika, reached adulthood and could inherit the position.
Ii Naomasa (井伊 直政; March 4, 1561 – March 24, 1602) was a Japanese samurai general and daimyo under the Sengoku period…
Ii Naomasa (井伊 直政; March 4, 1561 – March 24, 1602) was a Japanese samurai general and daimyo under the Sengoku period daimyō, and later shōgun, Tokugawa Ieyasu. He led the clan after the death of Ii Naotora. He married Tobai-in, Matsudaira Yasuchika's daughter and adopted daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ii Naomasa joined the ranks of the Tokugawa clan in the mid-1570s, rising swiftly through the ranks and became particularly famous after the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute, as he is recognized as one of the Four Guardians of the Tokugawa along with Honda Tadakatsu, Sakakibara Yasumasa, and Sakai Tadatsugu. Ii Naomasa then eventually became the master of a sizable holding in Ōmi Province, following the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. His office in the Imperial Japan ministries was Hyōbu-daifū. Ii Naomasa was also notable for his command over elite troops Red Guards (赤備え) (akazonae) that formerly served the Takeda clan.
Yuki Iwata (岩田 ユキ, Iwata Yuki; born 1972 in Shizuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese film director and illustrator.
Akiko Yagi (八木 亜希子, Yagi Akiko; born 24 June 1965, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese free…
Akiko Yagi (八木 亜希子, Yagi Akiko; born 24 June 1965, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese free announcer, tarento, television presenter, newscaster, and actress. She is represented with Phonics. She is a former Fuji Television announcer from 1988 to 2000. She is the ambassador of Kanagawa Tourism.
Kenyu Horiuchi (堀内 賢雄, Horiuchi Ken'yū) is a Japanese voice actor. In 2002, he founded his own voice acting management…
Kenyu Horiuchi (堀内 賢雄, Horiuchi Ken'yū) is a Japanese voice actor. In 2002, he founded his own voice acting management office, Kenyu Office. He is best known for dubbing over Brad Pitt, whom he met at Japan's premiere of Bullet Train, Charlie Sheen, Ben Stiller, Ben Affleck, Ian Ziering, Brendan Fraser, John Stamos, especially for Jesse Katsopolis in the ABC sitcom Full House, and many more.
Yūki Ono (小野 友樹, Ono Yūki; born June 22, 1984) is a Japanese voice actor and singer. He was represented by Atomic…
Yūki Ono (小野 友樹, Ono Yūki; born June 22, 1984) is a Japanese voice actor and singer. He was represented by Atomic Monkey and is now a freelancer. His major roles are Josuke Higashikata in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, Taiga Kagami in Kuroko's Basketball, Zenkichi Hitoyoshi in Medaka Box, Kaname Tsukahara in Kimi to Boku, Masayuki Hori in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Jun Isashiki in Ace of Diamond and Ultraman Belial in the recurring Ultraman Series.
Tamiji Kitagawa (北川 民次, Kitagawa Tamiji; January 27, 1894 – April 26, 1989) was a Japanese painter, printmaker and art…
Tamiji Kitagawa (北川 民次, Kitagawa Tamiji; January 27, 1894 – April 26, 1989) was a Japanese painter, printmaker and art educator. Kitagawa's work, ranging in media from oil and tempera paintings to woodcuts and copperplate prints, to mosaic and ceramic murals, depict not only everyday-life scenes of urban and rural working people, but also political events. He synthesized traditions of postimpressionist, expressionist, Cubist and Surrealist painting with Mexican modernist painting, particularly Mexican muralism, and such Japanese artistic traditions as Nihonga, ink wash painting, and ceramics. Having encountered such socially aware artists as the US-American realist painter John Sloan and the Mexican modernist painter Alfredo Ramos Martínez during his years in the United States and Mexico from 1914 to 1936, Kitagawa became involved in Ramos Martínez’ Open Air Art Schools of Painting, which, as part of the Mexican postrevolutionary social reforms, provided children and adolescents in rural areas with access to art to foster their emancipation. After returning to Japan in 1936, Kitagawa was accepted by the Japanese art world for his unique painting style inspired by Mexican muralism. He became a member of the Nika Art Association and began engaging in art education as a jury member of children's art exhibitions and as a publisher of children's books in collaboration with art critic Sadajirō Kubo. Kitagawa became a seminal figure for the progressive art education movement in Japan in the postwar years. Inspired by the Mexican Open Air Art Schools, he organized an open-air summer art school for children and adolescents at the Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, founded his own art school, and was involved in the Sōzō Biiku Kyōkai (Society for Creative Art Education), a network of artists, teachers, and parents advocating for a child- and life-centered approach in art education. With his cross-cultural experiences and knowledge of social, racial and cultural representations of painting, his compassion for disadvantaged social and cultural minorities, and his lifelong social commitment to art and art education as essential for the advancement of a democratic society, Kitagawa was a key figure in establishing a new understanding of art as an essential part of human development in Japan.
Sanae Kobayashi (小林 沙苗, Kobayashi Sanae; born 26 January 1980) is a Japanese voice actress formerly affiliated with…
Sanae Kobayashi (小林 沙苗, Kobayashi Sanae; born 26 January 1980) is a Japanese voice actress formerly affiliated with Production Baobab, and now with Sigma Seven. She has voiced in a number of anime shows and films. Some of her major roles are Allen Walker in D.Gray-man, Miyuki Tanokura in Kaze no Yojimbo, Akira Toya in Hikaru no Go, Asuka Tenjoin in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Chris Thorndyke in Sonic X, Natsumi Raimon in Inazuma Eleven, and Satsuki Kitaoji in Strawberry 100%. In more recent works, she voices Namie Yagiri in Durarara!!, Reiko Natsume in Natsume's Book of Friends, and Canon Memphis-Hazama in Fafner: Exodus. In video games, she voices Gemini Sunrise in Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love, Pai in .hack, Popo and Nana in the Super Smash Bros. series, Kat in Gravity Rush, and Natasha Cioara (Raven) in Honkai Impact 3rd.
Shu Watanabe (渡辺 周, Watanabe Shū; born 11 December 1961) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic…
Shu Watanabe (渡辺 周, Watanabe Shū; born 11 December 1961) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature).
Yuka Imai (今井 由香, Imai Yuka; born September 19, 1970) is a Japanese former voice actress who was previously represented…
Yuka Imai (今井 由香, Imai Yuka; born September 19, 1970) is a Japanese former voice actress who was previously represented by Gekidan Moonlight and by Atomic Monkey at the time of her retirement. She was born in Atami, Shizuoka. On August 30, 2018, Imai announced her retirement from voice acting, which she attributed to personal reasons.
Takanobu Suzuki (鈴木 隆信, Suzuki Takanobi; 20 July 1931 – 19 October 2018), better known as Takanobu Hozumi (穂積 隆信…
Takanobu Suzuki (鈴木 隆信, Suzuki Takanobi; 20 July 1931 – 19 October 2018), better known as Takanobu Hozumi (穂積 隆信, Hozumi Takanobu), was a Japanese actor from Ōhito, Shizuoka (now Izunokuni) attached to Mausu Promotion. He died of gallbladder cancer at the age of 87.
Jun Miho (美保 純, Miho Jun; born 4 August 1960) is a Japanese actress.
Mika Oguma (小熊 美香, Oguma Mika; born 25 March 1986) is a freelance announcer. She was formerly a female announcer for…
Mika Oguma (小熊 美香, Oguma Mika; born 25 March 1986) is a freelance announcer. She was formerly a female announcer for Nippon TV.
Haruka Shimada (島田 晴香, Shimada Haruka; born 16 December 1992) is a Japanese businessperson and former singer and…
Haruka Shimada (島田 晴香, Shimada Haruka; born 16 December 1992) is a Japanese businessperson and former singer and actress. She is a former member of AKB48, and has founded two companies aiming to provide second career options for aspiring and active entertainers.
Sachiko Sugiyama (杉山 祥子, Sugiyama Sachiko, born October 19, 1979) is a volleyball player from Japan, who competed at…
Sachiko Sugiyama (杉山 祥子, Sugiyama Sachiko, born October 19, 1979) is a volleyball player from Japan, who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, wearing the number #12 jersey. There she ended up in fifth place with the Japan women's national team. Sugiyama played as a middle blocker.
Kana Kitahara (北原 佳奈, Kitahara Kana; born December 17, 1988) is a Japanese women's professional footballer who plays as…
Kana Kitahara (北原 佳奈, Kitahara Kana; born December 17, 1988) is a Japanese women's professional footballer who plays as defender. She has also played for the Japan national team. Kitahara is currently the player-coach for Albirex Jurong.
Tanaka Chōbei (田中 長兵衛) was a merchant and purveyor to Japan's military during the Meiji Period. He established Kamaishi…
Tanaka Chōbei (田中 長兵衛) was a merchant and purveyor to Japan's military during the Meiji Period. He established Kamaishi Mine Tanaka Ironworks (Kamaishi Kōzan Tanaka Seitetsusho) in 1887, which was Japan's first modern private ironworks and remained the only one in the country until 1901, when the state-run ironworks was built again. A few years earlier, in 1874, Japan's Ministry of Industries (Kōbushō) had decided to build a modern furnace at Kamaishi . It appointed German engineers who went on to build a large-scale mill (with a railway system to carry the product and iron ore) utilizing two imported 25-ton furnaces. Local experts had advised a more modest method of learn-by-doing and gradual scale-up. The government, which never questioned the superiority of Western technology, overrode these objections and proceeded to construct the plant and operation started in 1890. However, within 196 days the plant had to be shut down and the government gave up- mainly due to the use of poor quality coke. Tanaka entered the steel business by taking over this loss-making government-run enterprise. He reverted to the earlier advise of building with smaller furnaces (5-6 ton), adapting the technology to local conditions, and then scaling up. Building on local knowledge, he adapted foreign technology through a process of trial and error – it took his people 22 months and 49 trial operations before they could finally produce iron. There was also help from Kageyoshi Noro. By 1894, Tanaka was in a position not only to repair but also redesign British-made furnaces and succeeded in restarting them using coke as fuel. Tanaka Chōbei owned mines all over Japan, as well as the Jinguashi mine in northern Taiwan. His ironworks in Kamaishi produced the majority of Japan's domestic pig iron in 1894.
Yu Hayami (Japanese: 早見 優, Hepburn: Hayami Yū; born 2 September 1966) is a Japanese singer and television personality.…
Yu Hayami (Japanese: 早見 優, Hepburn: Hayami Yū; born 2 September 1966) is a Japanese singer and television personality. In 2011, the Japanese music television program Music Station listed her as the 50th all-time best-selling idol in Japan, with 2,850,000 records sold.
Tokifudō Kō (Japanese 時不動 虹) (birth name Kō Yoshii (吉井 虹)), born August 1, 2003, is an active sumo wrestler from Yaizu…
Tokifudō Kō (Japanese 時不動 虹) (birth name Kō Yoshii (吉井 虹)), born August 1, 2003, is an active sumo wrestler from Yaizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, belonging to the Tokitsukaze stable. He turned pro directly after graduating junior high school and has spent most of his pro sumo career in the Makushita division. His highest rank was Juryo 13. He won the Makushita yusho championship in July 2022.