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Arakawa (surname)
Arakawa (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adele Arakawa (born 1958), American evening news anchor *Akio Arakawa (1927–2021), climate scientist *Alan Arakawa (born 1951), American local politician, mayor of Maui, Hawaii *, Japanese long jumper *, Japanese women's footballer *, Japanese water polo player *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese businessman, former president of Nintendo of America *Mitsu Arakawa Mack Mitsukazu Arakawa (May 23, 1927 – April 17, 1997) was an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based NWA Minneapolis Boxing & Wrestling Club/American Wrestling Association. E ... (1927–1997), American professional wrestler *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese screenwriter *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese linguist *, Japanese figure skater *, Japanese artist and architect *, Japanese mathematician *, Japanese kar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arikawa
Arikawa (written 有川) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese writer *, Japanese actor and voice actor *, Japanese ice dancer *, Japanese aikidoka *, Japanese politician {{surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naruhisa Arakawa
is a Japanese screenwriter who primarily works on anime and tokusatsu Japanese television drama, dramas. He first served as a series' main writer for ''Blue Seed'' anime and the Kamen Rider Series revival ''Kamen Rider Kuuga''. Arakawa was the main series writer for the Super Sentai anniversary series ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'' where he is also credited as a lyricist for the ending theme with Shoko Fujibayashi. He also wrote the lyrics to "Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Power!", the first ending theme of ''Dragon Ball Z''. Anime Television series * series head writer denoted in bold * ''Doteraman'' (1986-1987) * ''High School! Kimengumi'' (1987) * ''Dragon Ball (TV series), Dragon Ball'' (1987) * ''Tsuide ni Tonchinkan'' (1988) * ''Gaki Deka'' (1989) * ''Idol Densetsu Eriko'' (1989-1990) * ''Madö King Granzört'' (1989-1990) * ''Kyatto Ninden Teyandee'' (1990) * ''Mitsume ga Tōru'' (1990-1991) * ''Magical Angel Sweet Mint'' (1990-1991) * ''Jankenman'' (1991-1992) *''Blue Seed'' (199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
is a Japanese actor. His real name is . He is represented with Otona Keikaku. He graduated from Ryukoku High School. Biography Arakawa's parents are draper Draper was originally a term for a retailer or wholesaler of cloth that was mainly for clothing. A draper may additionally operate as a cloth merchant or a haberdasher. History Drapers were an important trade guild during the medieval period ...s. He is an individualist actor who plays an active part in the appearance of chubby body form and round cut, and he was named , but due to depending on circumstances such as many misreading of names, he took a kanji letter from his real name, and renamed it to his current name (both of his names are presided by Otona Keikaku and named by Suzuki Matsuo). Arakawa had made many appearances in films, dramas and advertisements. He played his first leading role in the film '' Fine, Totally Fine'' released in 2008. Filmography Films TV dramas Stage Documentaries See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasuhiko Arakawa
Yasuhiko Arakawa (Japanese , ''Arakawa Yasuhiko''; born 6 November 1952) is a Japanese physicist. His research focuses on semiconductor physics, including growth of nanostructures and their optoelectronic applications. Among his main achievements are the proposal of the concept of quantum dots and their application to quantum dot lasers, the observation of exciton-polariton Rabi-splitting in a semiconductor microcavity, or, recently, the first 3D photonic crystal nanocavity lasers with quantum dot gain. Biography Yasuhiko Arakawa received a B.S. degree in 1975 and a Ph.D. degree in 1980, respectively, from the University of Tokyo, both in Electronics Engineering. In 1981 he became an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo and in 1993, was promoted Full Professor there. He is now at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo and is also the Director of Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics. He has been a visiting scientist of the California Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyozō Arakawa
was a well-known Japanese ceramic potter. He lived and worked in Mino, near Nagoya. He was given the title "Living National Treasure" in 1955. In 1930 he discovered shards at the site of the ruins of an ''ogama'' style kiln at Mutabora proving that that Shino and Oribe glazed work of the Momoyama and early Edo period in Japan had been manufactured in Mino rather than in the Seto area. In 1933 he built a kiln reproducing the original Mutabora kiln and rediscovered the techniques for manufacturing Shino glazes. He died in Tokyo, Japan in 1985. There is a translation of Arakawa's ''The Traditions and Techniques of Mino Pottery'' in Janet Barriskill's ''Visiting the Mino Kilns'' Wild Peony Press, Sydney, 1995. His work is kept in several museums, including the Mills College Art Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the ASU Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshiyuki Arakawa
is a music composer, arranger and member of the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC). He graduated from the Department of Literature at Chuo University and afterwards Nippon Columbia joined as music director. He currently works as a music producer, arranger and singer.http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E8%8D%92%E5%B7%9D%E6%95%8F%E8%A1%8C Contributions Arakawa has composed music for anime: * Crayon Shin-chan *Cyborg Kuro-chan *Shōnen Ashibe is a Japanese ''seinen'' manga series written and illustrated by Hiromi Morishita. It describes the daily life of Ashibe (an elementary school boy) and his family and friends, including a white sea lion pet named Goma-chan. It w ... He has composed music for all the 23 Crayon Shinchan movies (as of 2015). References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Arakawa, Toshiyuki 1953 births Chuo University alumni Japanese film score composers Japanese male film score composers Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toru Arakawa
Tōru Arakawa(, '' Arakawa Tōru ''; November 1932 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan; – 20 June 2015) was a karate master of the style Wadō-ryū. He was one of the few karateka ranked 9th Dan in Japan. Biography Tōru Arakawa began karate training at the Nihon University at the age of 18. At the beginning of the 1960s he traveled to Europe and America together with Tatsuo Suzuki and Hajime Takashima to make karate in the western countries popular. Arakawa served as the manager of the JKF Wadōkai from 1962 to 1979. In 1982, he played a major role in the creation of the first '' Shatai ata'' book, which standardized Kata 's style – encompassing style for JKF competitions. In addition, he trained numerous successful athletes in the 1980s, including Seiji Nishimura and Toshiaki Maeda.Salvador Herráiz: ''Toru Arakawa – Top Master of Japanese Karate Federation'' in ''Budo International Martial Arts Magazin'', No. 288, May 2015, Budo International, Madrid, page 65 Until his death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomoyuki Arakawa
Tomoyuki Arakawa (Japanese: ; born 22 May 1968) is a Japanese mathematician, mathematical physicist, and a professor at the RIMS of the Kyoto University. His research interests are representation theory and vertex algebras and he is known especially for the work in W-algebras. He obtained his PhD from the University of Nagoya in 1999. In 2018 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ... in Rio de Janeiro. He won the MSJ Autumn Prize in 2017 for his work on representation theory of W-algebras. Selected publications * * * References External links Personal website Japanese mathematicians Academic staff of Kyoto University 1968 births Living people {{Asia-mathematician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shusaku Arakawa
was a Japanese conceptual artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with the writer and artist Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades in which they collaborated on a diverse range of visual mediums, including: painting & printmaking, experimental filmmaking, performance art, and architectural & landscape design. Throughout his life, Arakawa frequently infused his works with philosophical ideas that considered art's intrinsic functions, human perceptions of the physical world, and the language of signs, symbols, and visual meanings. These thematic elements were based on the writings and theories authored by key figures in Science, Philosophy, and Art History: Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Beginning in the 1960s, Arakawa's work attracted positive responses from the Western art world and led to his representation at numerous esteemed galleries and museums: the Dwan Gallery, Gagosian, The National Museum of Mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shizuka Arakawa
is a retired Japanese figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic champion and the 2004 World champion. Arakawa is the first Japanese skater to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating and the second Japanese skater to win any Olympic medal in figure skating, after Midori Ito, who won silver in 1992. She is also the second Japanese woman to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics, following skier Tae Satoya. She was the only Japanese medalist at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Arakawa retired from competitive skating following her Olympic win and began skating professionally in ice shows and exhibitions. She also works as a skating sportscaster for Japanese television. Personal life Arakawa was born in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, and grew up in Sendai and its suburbs. She is the only child of Koichi and Sachi Arakawa and was named Shizuka after Shizuka Gozen. In March 2000, Arakawa enrolled at Waseda University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in social sciences in 2004, while s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shintarō Arakawa
is a Japanese linguist who specializes in the study of the extinct Tangut language. Biography Arakawa graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Kyoto University in 1995. He stayed on for graduate studies at Kyoto University, from where he received his doctorate in 2002. Since 2003 he has been teaching at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, with the position of associate professor since 2007. Arakawa specialises in the study of the Tangut language, in particular Tangut phonology and the reconstruction of the pronunciation of Tangut characters. In 2006 he co-edited a Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese dictionary with Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov, for which he provided the reconstructed Tangut readings. He has also published a number of studies of bilingual Tangut-Tibetan texts. In 2016 Arakawa received the prestigious Kyōsuke Kindaichi Memorial Award (金田一京助博士記念賞) for his study of the Tangut version of the Diamond Sutra. Works * 1997. "Seikago tsūin jiten" 西 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nihito Arakawa
is a professional boxer nicknamed "Japanese Rocky". He made his mark in the twelve-round lightweight slugfest against Omar Figueroa in July 2013, that earned him the nickname after the film ''Rocky''. "The Japanese lefty gained a zillion fans with his rumble last year against Figueroa," TheSweetScience.com's Michael Woods said in 2014. He is the former Japanese and OPBF (Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation) lightweight champion. Early life and amateur career Arakawa was born in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan, and move to Fussa soon after. Fussa is the city well known by U.S. Air Force Base and Ryū Murakami's novel ''Almost Transparent Blue''. He enjoyed basketball with fellow kids while living there from the age of two to thirteen, then relocated to Minamiizu, Shizuoka. He became involved in middle-distance running and tennis during junior high school, and served as the captain and pitcher for the high school's baseball team. It was also during high school that he watched the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
