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Jirō Tamiya
is a stand-alone Japanese given name along with " Tarō", and a common name suffix for males. Possible writings Jirō can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: * 次郎, "next, son" * 次朗, "next, melodious" * 二郎, "second, son" * 二朗, "second, melodious" * 治郎, "reign, son" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People * Jiro (musician) (born 1972), bassist of the Japanese rock band GLAY * Jiro Aichi (治郎, born 1969), Japanese politician * Jirō Akagawa (次郎, born 1948), Japanese novelist * Jiro Akama (二郎, born 1968), Japanese politician * Jiro Ando (慈朗), Japanese manga artist * Jirō Asada (次郎, born 1951), Japanese novelist * , Japanese footballer * , Japanese engineer * Jiro Horikoshi (二郎, 1903–1982), chief engineer behind many Japanese fighters of WWII * , Japanese weightlifter * Jiro Kamiharako (次郎, born 1966), Japanese ski jumper * Jiro Kikkawa (1929–2016), Japanese Australian ornithologist * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of ''hiragana'' and ''katakana''. The characters have Japanese pronunciation, pronunciations; most have two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing character components derived from other Chinese characters. After World War II, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as shinjitai, by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the common folk. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiro Kikkawa
Professor was a Japanese Australian ornithologist. His early zoological studies were at Tokyo University, Japan and at Oxford University in England. He subsequently spent three years at the University of Otago in New Zealand where he began what was to become an enduring focus of research, the behavioural ecology of Silvereyes and other species of ''Zosterops''. Early life Jiro Kakkawa was born in Japan on 15 December 1929. He studied his BSc at Tokyo University of Fisheries graduating with a degree in marine biology in 1950. He was a Technical Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Japan from 1950 to 1953. He undertook postgraduate study at the University of Oxford from 1955 to 1956 and was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Otago from 1958 to 1961. He took his DSc in 1961 from Kyoto University. Career In 1961 Kikkawa moved to Australia, first to the University of New England at Armidale, and then to the University of Queensland in 1965. He was Head of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Blood Brothers
''Black Blood Brothers'', also known as ''BBB'', is a light novel series written by Kōhei Azano and illustrated by Yuuya Kusaka. In 2006, Studio Live and Group TAC produced an anime based on the series. It is directed by Hiroaki Yoshikawa. It was licensed for North American release by Funimation Entertainment, with the first DVD being released in February 2008. Plot During a war called the Hong Kong Crusade, an Old Blood vampire, Jiro Mochizuki, a.k.a. the , fought and defeated the Kowloon king and most of the Kowloon Children. Ten years later, Jiro heads to Hong Kong with his younger brother, Kotaro Mochizuki, in hopes of reaching The Special Zone, a thriving secret city where Vampires live-(which is separate from the human civilized parts of the city). They soon realize that a plan to infiltrate the Special Zone is being hatched by the Kowloon Children survivors. As they travel to The Special Zone, Jiro encounters enemies from the past and new threats that may endang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
