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Kanai (surname)
Kanai (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese javelin thrower * Hiroyuki Kanai, Japanese philatelist *Katsu Kanai, Japanese film director *Kikuko Kanai (1911–1986), Japanese composer *, Japanese shogi player * Kiyotaka Kanai, astronomer *Mieko Kanai, fiction writer *Mika Kanai, voice actress, also known as Mika Yamadera *Mitsunari Kanai, aikido teacher *Norishige Kanai, Japanese astronaut candidate *, Japanese businessman *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese hurdler *Yuta Kanai, actor *Yutaka Kanai was a Japanese long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sp ... (1959–1990), Japanese long-distance runner Fictional characters * Izumi Kanai, a character in the film ''Battle Royale'' {{surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideta Kanai
is a Japanese athlete. He competed in the men's javelin throw at the 1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho .... References 1938 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics Japanese male javelin throwers Olympic athletes for Japan Place of birth missing (living people) Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 1962 Asian Games Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanai Hiroyuki
was a Japanese businessman, writer and philatelist. Life Kanai's father was a wealthy Japanese businessman and at the age of five he began his first stamp collection. At 13, he intensified his hobby and while in university founded two stamp collecting clubs. His first degree was in engineering at Nihon University after which he studied political economy at Waseda University. He then worked for the textile machinery factory founded by one of his grandfathers. Later, he became president of a number of companies such as the Kanai Heavy Industry Co. Philately At first, Kanai was a general stamp collector but after World War II he specialised in the philately of Japan, Finland and the British colonies. Through philatelic contacts he became aware of and eventually owned a unique collection of the Red and Blue Mauritius "Post Office" stamps, when he procured a total of six pieces of 27 known copies of these valuable stamps, which was the largest ever owned by one person. In 1971, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsu Kanai
is a Japanese experimental and avant-garde film director. The Harvard Film Archive has called him "one of the most vital and inventive filmmakers in the history of Japanese underground film". Career Born the son of a farmer in Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanai graduated from the College of Art of Nihon University before finding work at Daiei Film. He later became a freelance cinematographer and founded Kanai Productions in 1968. His first film, ''The Deserted Archipelago'' (1969, aka ''The Desert Island'') won the grand prix at the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival. His second film, ''Good-Bye'' (1971), was the "first post-war, post-liberation Japanese feature to be filmed in Korea," and according to the film scholar Oliver Dew, illustrated "how a surreal, decided non-representational approach could block the determinations of cultural essentialism". His 2003 work, ''Super Documentary: The Avant-Garde Senjutsu'', was awarded the FIPRESCI award at the International Short Film Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikuko Kanai
was a Japanese composer and one of the first Japanese women to compose classical music in the Western tradition. Biography Kikuko Kawahira was born on the Ryukyu island of Miyako-jima, Okinawa, and studied voice at the Nihon Music School and composition at Tokyo Music School. She studied with teachers including with Taijiro Goh, Kanichi Shimofusa, Hisatada Otaka and Kishio Hirao. Working as a composer, she produced songs and orchestral music using the Ryukyuan pentatonic scale. In 1954 she studied the dodecaphonic method in Brazil with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter Hans-Joachim Koellreutter (2 September 1915 – 13 September 2005) was a Brazilian composer, teacher and musicologist. Koellreutter was born in Freiburg, Germany and lived in Brazil from 1937 onward, where he became one of the country's most i ..., and incorporated atonal composition into her work. She was awarded the Mainichi Prize for Cultural Publication in 1955, and a prize by the Okinawan government for her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kota Kanai
Kota or KOTA may refer to: People and languages *Kōta (given name), a masculine Japanese given name *Kota Brahmin, a sub-caste of Brahmins in Karnataka *Kota people (India), a tribe in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu, South India **Kota language (India), a Dravidian language spoken in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu *Kota people (Gabon) (Bakota) whose members live primarily in the northeastern region of Gabon in Central Africa **Kota language (Gabon), a Bantu language of the Bakota people of Gabon * Kota language (Central African Republic) (Ngando), a Bantu language of the Central African Republic *Kota Vamsa, 12th century dynasty of Amaravathi, India Media *KOTA (AM), a radio station (1380 AM) licensed to serve Rapid City, South Dakota, United States *KOTA-TV, a television station (channel 7, virtual 3) licensed to serve Rapid City, South Dakota *KHME, a television station (channel 2, virtual 23) licensed to serve Rapid City, South Dakota, which held the call sign KOTA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiyotaka Kanai
is a Japanese amateur astronomer, observer of variable stars, discoverer of comet C/1970 B1, and co-discoverer of the main-belt asteroid 7752 Otauchunokai __NOTOC__ Year 775 ( DCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 775 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era ..., named after the ''Ota Uchuno Kai'' group, an amateur astronomers' club at Ōta city, of which he is a member of. The inner main-belt asteroid 26168 Kanaikiyotaka was named after him on 21 September 2002 (). References 20th-century Japanese astronomers 1951 births Living people {{japan-astronomer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mieko Kanai
is a Japanese writer, poet, and literary critic. Biography Mieko Kanai was born in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,362 Square kilometre, km2 (2,456 Square mile, sq mi). Gunma P ..., November 3, 1947. Her father died when she was six years of age. She has a sister who is a painter and illustrator. Kanai graduated from Takasaki Girls' High School in 1966. The following year, Kanai's short story ''Ai no Seikatsu'' ("Love Life") was nominated for the Osamu Dazai Prize. In 1968, Kanai released two short stories: ''Umi no Kajitsu'' ("The Fruit of the Sea"), which was retitled as ''Shizen no Kodomo'' ("Children in Nature"), and "Eonta" (Ontology). Both were well received. The same year, Kanai was awarded the Gendaishi Techou Prize for poetry. Her first poetry collection, ''Madamu Juju no ie'' ("The House ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Kanai
is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She is attached to Ken Production. She is best known for her roles in '' Idol Tenshi Yokoso Yoko'' (as Yoko Tanaka), ''Tanoshii Moomin Ikka'' (as the Snork Maiden), ''Goldfish Warning!'' (as Wapiko), ''Soreike! Anpanman'' (as Melonpanna), ''Yadamon'' (as Yadamon), ''After War Gundam X'' (as Tiffa Adill), '' Hare Tokidoki Buta'' (as Harebuta), ''Galaxy Angel'' (as Vanilla H and Normad), ''Higurashi When They Cry'' (as Satoko Hōjō), ''Tales of Phantasia'' (as Arche Klein), ''Uchi no 3 Shimai'' (as Sū), ''Sailor Moon S'' (as Mimet), '' Mysterious Theft Saint Tail'' (as Maju Sendo). She is currently the voice of Jigglypuff in the ''Pokémon'' and '' Super Smash Bros.'' series. She freelanced for the voice of Bonnie, also from the ''Pokémon'' series when her regular voice actress Mariya Ise was on maternity leave. She married Koichi Yamadera from 1993 to 2006, though their divorce was not disclosed until 2007. They had worked together on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsunari Kanai
Mitsunari Kanai (1939 – March 28, 2004) was an aikido and iaido teacher born in Japan, who spent most of his teaching career in the United States. He was an 8th dan teacher with the title shihan in the organisation Aikikai. Life Kanai Sensei was one of the last group of students of the founder of aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, entering the Hombu Dojo in 1958 as an uchi-deshi. He moved to the United States in 1966 as a 4th dan and subsequently founded the New England Aikikai, currently located off Porter Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kanai was instrumental in the early development of aikido in the United States and Canada, and taught seminars widely throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. He was one of the founders and a Technical Director of both the United States Aikido Federation (USAF) and the CAF. Kanai Sensei was also skilled in iaido and subsequently taught this art to his senior students, many of whom hold dan rank in both iaido and aikido. He was also highly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norishige Kanai
is a Japanese doctor and JAXA astronaut. He is a lieutenant and Diving Medical Officer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (Medical Service Division, 1st Service School). He served as a crew member on board the International Space Station for Expedition 54/ 55, and returned to Earth on June 3, 2018. Personal life Kanai graduated from Toho High School, Chiba, Japan, in 1995. He received an M.D. degree from National Defense Medical College in 2002. He enjoys Iaidō and other Japanese traditional martial arts, scuba diving, and traveling. He is a member of the Japan Surgical Society and the Japanese Society of Hyperbaric and Undersea Medicine. Career Kanai was commissioned from the National Defense Medical College in 2002. From 2002 to 2004, he worked in the Department of Surgery at the National Defense Medical College Hospital. In 2004, he was assigned to Japan Self Defense Force Ohminato Hospital, Aomori, Japan. He completed the Diving Medicine Course and qualified as a Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noritoshi Kanai
(February 25, 1923 – April 22, 2017) was a Japanese-born executive of the Los Angeles branch of the food importer, Mutual Trading Company. He has been credited with the idea of opening the first authentic sushi bar in the United States during the 1960s. Life and work Kanai was born February 25, 1923, in Ochiai Village, Toyotama County, Tokyo. He graduated from the Tokyo College of Commerce (today's Hitotsubashi University). In 1951, Kanai joined Tokyo Mutual Trading Co., an affiliate to Mutual Trading Co., Inc., a Los Angeles-based company started by Sadagoro Hoshizaki, a merchant in Little Tokyo in 1926. This was a company to bring in Japanese foodstuff as a co-op operation from Japan. In 1964, Kanai permanently relocated to Los Angeles with his family to manage Mutual Trading Co., Inc. Kanai is credited with promoting the idea of opening a sushi counter on the premises of the Kawafuku restaurant in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles Little Tokyo ( ja, リトル・トーキョー ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryuta Kanai
is a Japanese former footballer who played the entirety of his career for Vanraure Hachinohe is a football club based in Hachinohe, a city in the southeastern part of Aomori Prefecture in Japan. They currently play in the J3 League. The name Vanraure comes from the combination of two Italian words: ''derivante'', meaning "origin"; and ' .... Career Kanai retired at the end of the 2019 season. Club statistics ;Notes References External links * 1989 births Living people Japanese men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Japan Football League players J3 League players Shonan Bellmare players Vanraure Hachinohe players {{Japan-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
