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Haruko
is a feminine Japanese given name. Its most common translation is "spring child" (春子, which may also be read as a Korean name Chun-ja), though other kanji provide different meanings. Notable people with the name include: * Princess Haruko (春子), the first daughter of Emperor Tsuchimikado * Haruko Arimura (born 1970), politician * Haruko Hatoyama (1863–1938), Japanese educator *, Japanese actress *, Japanese badminton player *, Japanese politician *Haruko Momma, Japanese philologist * Haruko Momoi (桃井はるこ, born 1977), a religious historian *Haruko Nawata Ward (1922–2015), Japanese actress *, Japanese actress * Haruko Saida, women's professional shogi player * Haruko Sugimura (杉村春子, 1909–1997), Japanese actress * Haruko Obokata (小保方晴子, born 1983), Japanese biological scientist *, Japanese figure skating coach *Haruko Okano (born 1945), Japanese-Canadian artist *, Japanese manga artist *Haruko Tanaka (1974-2019), Los Angeles-based artist *, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruko Haruhara
The central characters in ''FLCL'' (also known as Fooly Cooly), a 2000 Japanese anime produced by Gainax and Production I.G, with two additional seasons released in 2018. The first season covers the story of a sixth grade student named Naota Nandaba whose life is greatly changed after he is run over by the mysterious alien troublemaker Haruko Haruhara. The second season covers the story of a seventh grade student named Hidomi Hibajiri whose life Haruko also intrudes. Main characters Haruko Haruhara : , her actual name , is the mysterious pink-haired alien who is the central character in the FLCL series and serves as the antagonistic catalyst for the abnormal events within the series, her goals mostly unknown save her obsessive desire to have Atomsk by absorbing him. She is an energetic and unpredictably reckless sociopath who is nicknamed "Vespa Woman" for riding a sunglow Piaggio Vespa SS 180, claiming to be 19 and later 16 despite Mamimi's observation that she is 20. Haruko is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruko Momoi
is a Japanese singer, songwriter and voice actress. She also produces an all-female pop group called Afilia Saga. She was born in Tokyo, Japan and is affectionately referred to as Halko by her fans, a nickname she gave herself which is inspired by HAL 9000, the computer in the film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey''. Biography Career Haruko took interest in personal computers from a young age and studied personal computer communications during high school. After she graduated from , her articles and writing on her online blog caught the attention of the chief editor of the magazine. She was later offered a job as a writer for the magazine. During the late nineties, Haruko began singing and doing live performances on the streets of Harajuku and Akihabara. She then debuted her single "Mail Me," a cover version of which appears in the movie '' Suicide Circle'' in 2001. Soon after, she debuted as a voice actress for her role as Komugi Nakahara in ''Nurse Witch Komugi''. In 2001, she pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruko Obokata
is a former stem-cell biologist and research unit leader at Japan's Laboratory for Cellular Reprogramming, Riken Center for Developmental Biology. She claimed in 2014 to have developed a radical and remarkably easy way to generate stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells that could be grown into tissue for use anywhere in the body. In response to allegations of irregularities in Obokata's research publications involving STAP cells, Riken launched an investigation that discovered examples of scientific misconduct on the part of Obokata. Attempts to replicate Obokata's STAP cell results failed. The ensuing STAP cell scandal gained worldwide attention. Early life, education and career Obokata was born in Matsudo, Chiba, Japan, in 1983. She attended Toho Senior High School, which is attached to Toho University, and graduated from Waseda University with a B.S. degree in 2006, and an M.S. degree in applied chemistry in 2008. Obokata later joined the laborator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruko Saida
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 5-dan. She is a former Women's Meijin, and title holder. She is currently serving as a non-executive director for the Japan Shogi Association. Women's shogi professional Promotion history Saida's promotion history is as follows. * Women's Professional Apprentice League: 1984 * 3-kyū: April 1, 1986 * 1-kyū: April 1, 1987 * 1-dan: April 1, 1988 * 2-dan: March 20, 1991 * 3-dan: April 1, 1995 * 4-dan: February 27, 2001 * 5-dan: June 9, 2011 Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks. Titles and other championships Saida has appeared in major title matches twelve times and has won a total of four titles. In addition to major titles, Saida has won two other shogi championships. Major titles Other championships Note: Tournaments marked with an asterisk (*) are no longer held or currently suspended. Awards and honors Saida received the Japan Shogi Association's "Women's Professional" Annual Shogi Award for the Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruko Sugimura
was a Japanese stage and film actress, best known for her appearances in the films of Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. Biography Sugimura was born in Nishi-ku, Hiroshima. After the death of her parents, she was adopted at an early age by affluent lumber dealers, only learning much later that they were not her biological parents. (Sugimura reputedly claimed that she was the illegitimate child of a geisha.) Her adoptive parents took her to performances of both classical Japanese stage arts like kabuki and bunraku, and western ballet and opera. They also encouraged her to enroll at the Tokyo Ongaku Gakko (now Tokyo University of the Arts), where she failed the exams. She then joined the Tsukiji Shōgekijō (Tsukiji Little Theatre), Tokyo, in 1927, and later the Bungakuza theatre company, which she remained affiliated with from 1937 until her retirement in 1996. She gave her film debut in 1932 in Eizo Tanaka's ''Namiko'' (1932). Between 1937 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empress Shōken
, born , was the wife and adviser of Emperor Meiji of Japan. She is also known under the technically more correct name . She was one of the founders of the Japanese Red Cross Society, whose charity work was known throughout the First Sino-Japanese War. Early life Lady Masako Ichijō was born on 9 May 1849, in Heian-kyō, Japan. She was the third daughter of Tadayoshi Ichijō, former Minister of the Left and head of the Fujiwara clan's Ichijō branch. Her adoptive mother was one of Prince Fushimi Kuniie's daughters, but her biological mother was Tamiko Niihata, the daughter of a doctor from the Ichijō family. Unusually for the time, she had been vaccinated against smallpox. As a child, Masako was somewhat of a prodigy: she was able to read poetry from the ''Kokin Wakashū'' by the age of 4 and had composed some ''waka'' verses of her own by the age of 5. By age seven, she was able to read some texts in classical Chinese with some assistance and was studying Japanese calligraphy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruko Okano
Haruko Okano (born March 26, 1945) is a process-based, collaborative, multidisciplinary, mixed-media artist, poet, community organizer, and activist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Life Haruko Okano was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is a Sansei, or third-generation, Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian. Her Japanese grandfather came to live in Haney, British Columbia, Haney, BC, in 1918. Okano was born at a tumultuous time in her parents’ relationship. Okano’s parents argued over custody of her and she was intermittently placed in foster care. Her mother died when she was nine years old. After her mother’s death, Okano became a permanent ward of the Children’s Aid Society and she lived in a series of foster homes, where she experienced psychological and sexual abuse and was removed from all contact with her Japanese cultural heritage. Okano locates the origin of her alienation from her identity as a Japanese Canadian during this period of displacement. Her career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruko Hatoyama
was a Japanese educator of the Meiji, Taishō and Shōwa periods, and the matriarchal head of the prominent Japanese Hatoyama political family which has been called "Japan's Kennedy family." She was a co-founder of what is today Kyoritsu Women's University. Her husband was politician Kazuo Hatoyama. Early life Haruko Hatoyama was born in Matsumoto, the youngest of seven children (five girls and two boys). Her father, Tsumu, was a samurai. He changed the family name from Watanabe to Taga after the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Her education began at home with her mother, and was supplemented by the lessons from local teachers of Chinese classics. Her education was different from her sisters because she was allowed to pursue the same curriculum as a boy. She was among the first students to enroll when a small, all-girls school opened in Matsumoto in 1873. However, her knowledge was so advanced that her father decided to pull her out of the small school and take her to Tokyo to be e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruko Kato
was a Japanese actress. Biography Haruko Kato was born in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, on 24 November 1922. After training at acting school, she was signed up with the film production company Toho in 1939, debuting in ' in the same year. She married the playwright in 1946, but he died in 1953. She married actor in 1958, but they divorced in 1973. Kato died on 2 November 2015 at her home in Tokyo, aged 92. Filmography Films * ''Higashi Shinakai'' (1968) * ''Something Like It'' (1981), Yumi's mother * '' Gray Sunset'' (1985), Kikuyo Takano * ''Capone Cries a Lot'' (1985) * ''Gonza the Spearman'' (1986) * ''Tokyo Blackout'' (1987) * ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' (1989), Madame (voice) * ''Pistol Opera'' (2001) * ''Blooming Again'' (2004) * ''Howl's Moving Castle'' (2004), Madame Suliman (voice) * ''Chameleon'' (2008) * '' Still Walking'' (2008) * '' About Her Brother'' (2010) Television * ''Ashura no Gotoku (TV series)'' (1979,1980) * ''Ōoku'' (1983) * ''Furuhata Ninzaburō'' (1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air (visual Novel)
''Air'' is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key, a brand of Visual Arts. It was released on September 8, 2000 for Windows as an adult game. Key later released versions of ''Air'' without the erotic content, and the game was ported to the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita and Nintendo Switch. The story follows the life of Yukito Kunisaki, a traveling showman searching for the "girl in the sky". He arrives in a quiet, seaside town where he meets three girls, one of whom is the key to the end of his journey. The gameplay in ''Air'' follows a branching plot line which offers pre-determined scenarios with courses of interaction, and focuses on the appeal of the three female main characters by the player character. The game is divided into three segments—Dream, Summer, and Air—which serve as different phases in the overall story. The title of the game reflects the prominent themes of the air, skies, and use of wings throughout gameplay. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruko Sagara
Haruko Sagara (相楽 晴子, Sagara Haruko, born March 1, 1968 in Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan) is a Japanese actress and ex-idol singer in the 1980s. She debuted in 1985 with her role as Okyo in the cult TV series ''Sukeban Deka II''. She won the Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for ''Dotsuitarunen''. After some 10 movies, 20 TV series, 10 singles and 2 albums, she quit her career in 1995 to settle in Los Angeles, where she married an American, becoming Haruka Haynes. In 2008, she opened a travel agency in Hawaii. Filmography *1985-1986 : Sukeban Deka II : Shōjo tekkamen densetsu (TV series) : 'Okyō' / Kyōko Nakamura *1986 : Koisuru Onnatachi : Teiko Shima *1987 : Sukeban Deka (movie) : Kyōko Nakamura / 'Okyō' *1987 : Hissatsu 4: Urami harashimasu : Omitsu *1988 : Marilyn ni aitai : Rie (cameo) *1988 : Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad : Shizuka Atsugi (Episode 1) *1989 : Dotsuitarunen is a 1989 Japanese film directed by Junji Sakamoto. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruko Nawata Ward
Haruko Nawata Ward is a religious historian currently teaching church history at Columbia Theological Seminary. She is known primarily for her work on women religious leaders, history of Christianity in Asia, history of the Christian Reformation, encounter of cultures and religions and justice issues throughout the history of the church. Career Ward received a BFA from Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music (1976), a MA from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of New York University (1980), a MDiv from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (1983), a ThM (1993) and a PhD (2001) from Princeton Theological Seminary. During her time here she served as a Teaching Fellow and an occasional lecturer (1996–2001). She was ordained as a minister of the Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and began teaching at Columbia Theological Seminary as the assistant professor of Church History (2002-2008) and then associate professor of Church History (2008–2016). She is c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
