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Kikuo
Kikuo (written: 喜久夫, 喜久雄, 喜久男 or 規矩雄) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese golfer *, Japanese scientist *, Japanese poet and mathematician *, Japanese sport wrestler *R. Kikuo Johnson Reid Kikuo Johnson (born in 1981) is an American illustrator and cartoonist. He is known for illustrating several covers of ''The New Yorker'' in addition to the graphic novels ''Night Fisher, The Shark King,'' and ''No One Else.'' In 2023 he bec ... (born 1981), American illustrator and cartoonist {{given name Japanese masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikuo Takano
was a Japanese poet and mathematician. He was born on Sado Island in 1927. He graduated from Utsunomiya Agricultural College in 1948. He began to write poems from the day after Japan had ended its role in World War II. Being inspired from surrealism and Heidegger, he wrote poems that ask the meaning of being. He was part of the VOU and Arechi poetry groups, and was awarded the Attilio Bertolucci Award for his poetry. Takano also discovered a Machin-like formula In mathematics, Machin-like formulae are a popular technique for computing to a large number of digits. They are generalizations of John Machin's formula from 1706: :\frac = 4 \arctan \frac - \arctan \frac which he used to compute to 100 d ... for calculating pi. Selected bibliography * * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Takano, Kikuo 20th-century Japanese mathematicians 21st-century Japanese mathematicians People from Niigata Prefecture 2006 deaths 1927 births 20th-century Japanese poets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikuo Chishima
was a Japanese medical researcher who promoted a variant of the Soviet medical biologist Olga Lepeshinskaya's pseudoscientific cellular theories, known as neo-Haematology, now largely discredited. Biography Chishima was born in the village of Kamitakara in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. In 1953 he became a research professor at Gifu University, and in 1958 he completed his medical training earning a degree from Toho medical University. Upon his retirement from the faculty at Gifu in 1963, he became a full professor at Nagoya University. In 1964 he created and assumed the chairmanship of the Society of neo-haematology. His ''magnum opus'' - ''Chishima's Complete Works Regarding Biological and Medical Sciences'' - is a multivolume tome encompassing 5 decades of research, of which only volume 9 - ''Revolution of Biology and Medical Science'' - has been translated into English. Chishima died aged 79. Neo-Haematology Chishima's ideas concerning cellular theory can be seen as novel extens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikuo Arai
is a Japanese professional golfer. Arai played on the Japan Golf Tour, winning six times. He also played on the PGA Tour in the 1980s; 45 events from 1983 to 1989, including 16 events in 1986. His best finish was a tie for second at the 1985 Bing Crosby National Pro-Am. He played on the Champions Tour in 2000, with one top-10 finish at The Instinet Classic. Professional wins (19) Japan Golf Tour wins (6) Japan Golf Tour playoff record (1–4) Other wins (12) *1972 Tokai Classic *1976 Nagano Open *1978 Asahi Toy Ohashi Kyosen Invitational, Gunma Open *1980 Hakuryuko Open, Gunma Open *1982 Saitama Open *1984 Meikyukai Golden Star Charity Tournament, Gunma Open *1985 Meikyukai Golden Star Charity Tournament *1986 Asahi Breweries Ohashi Kyosen Tournament *1993 Sekisui Harmonate Meikyukai Charity Tournament Senior wins (1) *1993 Maruman Senior Tournament Results in major championships ''Note: Arai only played in the Open Championship.'' CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikuo Wada
is a Japanese former wrestler who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. .... References 1951 births Living people Olympic wrestlers of Japan Wrestlers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Japanese male sport wrestlers Olympic silver medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in wrestling Asian Games medalists in wrestling Wrestlers at the 1970 Asian Games Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games 20th-century Japanese people 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...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] |
