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Hayakawa Publishing Corporation
Hayakawa (written: 早川) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Chuko Hayakawa (born 1945), Japanese politician *Hiromi Hayakawa (1982–2017), Mexican singer *, Japanese swimmer *Kenichi Hayakawa (born 1986), Japanese male badminton player * Kiyotaka Hayakawa (1946–2005), Japanese handball player *Masato Hayakawa (born 1986), Japanese-American singer *Nami Hayakawa (born 1984), Japanese athlete *Norio Hayakawa (born 1944), American activist *Noritsugu Hayakawa (1881–1942), Japanese businessman *Ren Hayakawa (born 1987), Japanese female archer * S. I. Hayakawa (1906–1992), semanticist and United States Senator from California *Sakura Hayakawa (born 1997), Japanese rhythmic gymnast *Sayo Hayakawa (born 1983), Japanese fashion model *Sessue Hayakawa (1889–1973), motion picture actor * Tokuji Hayakawa (1894–1981), founder of Hayakawa Kinzoku Kougyou (the present-day Sharp Corporation) * Tomonobu Hayakawa (born 1977), former Japanese footballer *Haya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuko Hayakawa
is a Japanese attorney who previously served as a Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) member of the House of Representatives of Japan, House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan, Diet (national legislature), representing the 4th District of Saitama prefecture. He is a native of Nagasaki Prefecture and graduate of the University of Tokyo. He worked at the Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan), Ministry of Home Affairs from 1969 to 1973 and then resigned to undergo training as an attorney at the Legal Research and Training Institute, beginning private law practice in 1975. In the 2003 Japanese general election, 2003 general election, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time, after running unsuccessfully in 1996 Japanese general election, 1996 and 2000 Japanese general election, 2000. He represented the 4th District of Saitama prefecture, which includes the cities of Asaka, Saitama, Asaka and Shiki, Saitama, Shiki. He served as Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sessue Hayakawa
, known professionally as , was a Japanese actor and a matinée idol. He was a popular star in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly handsome" good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood. After withdrawing from the Japanese naval academy and attempting suicide at 18, Hayakawa attended the University of Chicago, where he studied political economics in accordance with his wealthy parents' wish that he become a banker. Upon graduating, he traveled to Los Angeles in order to board a scheduled ship back to Japan, but decided to try out acting in Little Tokyo. There, Hayakawa impressed Hollywood figures and was signed on to star in ''The Typhoon'' (1914). He made his break ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haya River (Kanagawa)
The Haya River ( = Hayakawa, literally a ''fast-flowing river'' ) is a river that flows in Hakone and Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan. It is a 26 km long river, starting from the Kojiri Water Gate (湖尻水門) at the northern tip of Lake Ashi, gathering rain and hot spring water as it flows in the Sengoku, the Mount Hakone caldera, running down beside the towns of Hakone Hot Springs, and emptying near Odawara Fishing Port () into Sagami Bay of the Pacific Ocean. Lake Ashi is not the source of the Haya River, because it is drained through the Fukara Water Gate to the , completed in 1676, which leads to Shizuoka Prefecture. The Sukumo River ( 須雲川) is the Haya's largest tributary. The Chisuji Falls ( 千条の滝) are on another tributary, the Jakotsu River (蛇骨川). The Haya is famous for ayu fishing in summer, in its midstream. A section of the Haya near Hakone-Yumoto Station on Odakyu Group's Hakone Tozan Line is known as a place where one can observe fireflies in each June. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayakawa, Yamanashi
270px, Hayakawa Town Hall is a town located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 10,679 in 610 households, and a population density of 28.9 persons per km2. The total area of the town is . It has the smallest population of any town in Japan. Hayakawa is on the list of The Most Beautiful Villages in Japan, established in 2005. Geography Hayakawa is located in far southwestern Yamanashi Prefecture. The Hayakawa River, a tributary of the Fuji River runs through the town. Some 96% of the town's area is covered by forest and mountains. Neighboring municipalities Yamanashi Prefecture * Minami-Alps *Minobu * Fujikawa Shizuoka Prefecture *Aoi-ku, Shizuoka Climate The town has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters (Köppen climate classification ''Cfa''). The average annual temperature in Hayakawa is 13.0 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1655 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayakawa Station
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Lines Hayakawa Station is served by the Tōkaidō Main Line, and is located 86.0 kilometers from the line’s terminus at Tokyo Station. Station layout The station consists of a single island platform, connected to the station building by a footbridge. The platform is too short to accommodate trains longer than 15 cars in length, so a door cut system is employed.The station is attended. Platforms Station history Hayakawa Station first opened on December 21, 1922, when the section of the Atami-Odawara Line connecting Odawara with Manazuru was completed. From December 1, 1934 this became the Tōkaidō Main Line. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in 1959, and parcel services by 1972. With the dissolution and privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of the East Japan Railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayakawa Publishing
is a Japanese publishing company, founded in 1945 by Kiyoshi Hayakawa. It is the largest science fiction publisher in Japan; almost all winners of the Seiun Award for Best Foreign Novel are published by the company. Notable books written by Japanese authors that are published by Hayakawa are ''Crest of the Stars'' and ''G.I. Samurai''. In 2022, Hiroshi Hayakawa, for 30 years the president of Hayakawa Publishing (having worked since 1965 at the independent family firm), was the recipient of the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award "for his decades-long work in bringing international authors to the Japanese market, as well as his championing of science fiction, crime and non-fiction titles in Japan". Magazines *''S-F Magazine'' (first published February 1960) *''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' (Japanese edition of the American magazine, first published in June 1956) *'' Higeki Kigeki'' (悲劇喜劇, a theatrical magazine first published in 1928 by Kunio Kishida Kunio K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayakawa Award
The is an annual poll conducted by '' Hayakawa's S-F Magazine'' for the best Japanese short story, illustrator, and foreign short story, voted by the readers from their issues in the previous year. The honor has been awarded since 1989. Award winners Foreign Short Story * Thomas M. Disch, "The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars" (''Translator: Hisashi Asakura'') (1989) * Mike Resnick, "For I Have Touched the Sky" (''Translator: Masayuki Uchida'') (1990) * John Varley, "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo" (''Translator: Hisashi Asakura'') (1991) * John Morressy, "Timekeeper" (''Translator: Youko Miki'') (1992) * James Tiptree, Jr. "With Delicate Mad Hands" (''Translator: Norio Itou'') (1993) * Ted Chiang, "Understand" (''Translator: Shigeyuki Kude'') (1994) * Greg Egan, "Learning to Be Me" (''Translator: Makoto Yamagashi'') (1995) * Greg Bear, "Heads" (''Translator: Kazuko Onoda'') (1996) * James Tiptree, Jr. "Come Live With Me" (''Translator: Norio Itou'') (1997) * Greg Egan, " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Hayakawa
Lady Hayakawa (早川殿, ''Hayakawa-Dono'', died April 4, 1613) was a Japanese woman and aristocrat of the Sengoku period. Hayakawa is a common nickname for one of ''Daimyō'' Hōjō Ujiyasu's daughters, who lived in the Sengoku through early Edo periods. She is best known for marrying into the Imagawa clan as a condition for The Kōsōsun Triple Alliance, an alliance which put daughters of the Takeda, Imagawa and Hojo clans into political marriages. The formation of the alliance would later change the fate of these three powerful clans. Life Elder daughter of Hōjō Ujiyasu, daimyō of Sagami province in Kanto, her mother was probably Zuikeii-in, sister of Imagawa Yoshimoto. In 1554, she married Imagawa Ujizane, her cousin, as an agreement of the Kai-Sagami-Suruga alliance, of which she had five children. Due to their political marriage, the Hojo, Takeda, and Imagawa clans became allies. However, in 1568, Takeda Shingen violated the agreement and invaded the Imagawa. In 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayakawa Senkichirō
was a bureaucrat, politician and entrepreneur in late Meiji and early Taishō period Empire of Japan. He is noted for his involvement in the development of the South Manchurian Railway. Biography Hayakawa was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. He graduated from the Law School of Tokyo Imperial University in 1887. In January 1890, he was hired by the Ministry of Finance, and became a director of the Bank of Japan in 1899. After leaving public service, Hayakawa became director of the Mitsui Bank in 1901, and chairman of the board in 1909. With the creation of the Mitsui Gomei ''zaibatsu'' through the merger of Mitsui Bank with Mitsui Trading, he became vice director in 1918. He left Mitsui the following year to become director of the Bank of Chosen. From 1920-1922 he was an appointed member of the House of Peers. In May 1921, he also became President of the South Manchurian Railway Company, and died in office due to a stroke in October 1922. Hayakawa was a close friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomonobu Hayakawa
is a former Japanese football player. He is the current assistant manager of J1 League club Yokohama FC. Playing career Hayakawa was born in Shizuoka on July 11, 1977. After graduating from Juntendo University, he joined J2 League club Urawa Red Diamonds in 2000. Although the club was promoted to J1 League from 2001, he could hardly play in the match in 3 seasons until 2002. In 2003, he moved to J2 club Yokohama FC. He played many matches as right side back and center back for a long time. In 2006, he played as center back and the club won the champions and was promoted to J1 from 2007. Although he played many matches in 2007, the club was relegated to J2 in a year and his opportunity to play decreased in 2008. In August 2008, he moved to the J1 club JEF United Chiba , full name and also known as , is a Japanese professional football club that plays in the J2 League. On 1 February 2005, the club changed its name from ''JEF United Ichihara'' to the current name after Chiba cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokuji Hayakawa
was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Hayakawa Kinzoku Kōgyō (the present-day Sharp Corporation). He invented and patented the “Tokubijō” belt buckle in 1912 (a belt which can fasten without perforating) and invented the "Ever Ready Sharp" mechanical pencil (from which his company would later get its name) in 1915. The success of the “Tokubijō” belt buckle led to Hayakawa starting his own metallurgical processing, which then developed into the present-day Sharp Corporation. Life Hayakawa was born in Tokyo in 1893. Due to difficult domestic circumstances, he was adopted by the Ideno family. He left primary school after second grade due to his family’s poverty and was apprenticed to a maker of metallic ornaments. Hayakawa was inspired to invent a new belt that could be fastened to any length and developed a buckle that used a roller to fasten a belt without puncturing it. Tokuji applied for a patent, using the name “Tokubijō.” When Hayakawa launched his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayo Hayakawa
is a Japanese fashion model. She is best known for her stint as a main model for the ''Koakuma Ageha'' cabaret-gyaru fashion magazine. Hayakawa is well known as a former prominent cabaret hostess. After retiring from nightwork in 2010, she still remained active in ''Koakuma Ageha'' and began to be known as a businesswoman as well as a fashion designer. She left ''Koakuma Ageha'' in 2011 and has since become a main model for its sister magazine '' Ane Ageha''. She is also known as a former member of Japanese idol girl group SDN48, in which she remained for a short period in 2011. Career Hayakawa was born in Fukuoka, Japan. Her parents divorced and she was raised by her mother. She began modeling while working at a hostess bar in Fukuoka. After moving to Tokyo in 2004, she worked as a model and race queen, until she re-entered nightwork. She became the top hostess at R, a Roppongi hostess club, in term of sales, and at one point, was considered the most prominent hostess in al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
