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Kawamura
Kawamura ( or ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aki Kawamura (), gravure idol and television idol * Hikaru Kawamura (), gravure idol * Sumiyoshi Kawamura (), Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy * Kageaki Kawamura (), Field Marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army * Kaori Kawamura (), singer * Kiyoo Kawamura (), painter *, Japanese ice hockey player * Masahiro Kawamura (), Japanese Golfer * Maria Kawamura (), voice actress * Megumi Kawamura (), model and volleyball player * Mika Kawamura (), manga artist and author *, Japanese women's basketball player *, Japanese field hockey player * Ryo Kawamura (), announcer * Ryuichi Kawamura (), singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer. * Seiko Kawamura (), volleyball player * Takashi Kawamura (), politician * Takuo Kawamura (), voice actor * Takeo Kawamura (), baseball player * Takeo Kawamura (), politician * Takeshi Kawamura (), playwright and director *, Japanese footballer * Terry Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryuichi Kawamura
is a Japanese singer, songwriter, record producer, actor and author. He is best known as lead singer of the rock band Luna Sea since 1989. He started a solo career in 1997, three years before Luna Sea disbanded in 2000. In 2005, Kawamura formed Tourbillon with fellow Luna Sea member Inoran and Hiroaki Hayama. He rejoined Luna Sea when they reunited in August 2010. Kawamura's first full-length album ''Love'' topped the Oricon chart with sales of around 1,021,000 copies, making him the only male solo artist to have an album sell over one million copies within its initial week in Oricon charts history. That same album sold over 3,200,000 copies by the end of the year, therefore it holds the record for best-selling male solo album. In 1997 alone, with his mini and full-length albums and four singles (of which "Glass" sold over one million itself), he sold over six million records. Career 1986–2000: Luna Sea, solo debut Ryuichi Kawamura started his musical career as vocalist of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawamura Kazuma
Kawamura ( or ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aki Kawamura (), gravure idol and television idol * Hikaru Kawamura (), gravure idol * Sumiyoshi Kawamura (), Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy * Kageaki Kawamura (), Field Marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army * Kaori Kawamura (), singer * Kiyoo Kawamura (), painter *, Japanese ice hockey player * Masahiro Kawamura (), Japanese Golfer * Maria Kawamura (), voice actress * Megumi Kawamura (), model and volleyball player * Mika Kawamura (), manga artist and author *, Japanese women's basketball player *, Japanese field hockey player * Ryo Kawamura (), announcer * Ryuichi Kawamura (), singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer. * Seiko Kawamura (), volleyball player * Takashi Kawamura (), politician * Takuo Kawamura (), voice actor * Takeo Kawamura (), baseball player * Takeo Kawamura (), politician * Takeshi Kawamura (), playwright and director *, Japanese footballer * Terry Teruo K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawamura Zuiken
Kawamura ( or ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aki Kawamura (), gravure idol and television idol * Hikaru Kawamura (), gravure idol * Sumiyoshi Kawamura (), Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy * Kageaki Kawamura (), Field Marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army * Kaori Kawamura (), singer * Kiyoo Kawamura (), painter *, Japanese ice hockey player * Masahiro Kawamura (), Japanese Golfer * Maria Kawamura (), voice actress * Megumi Kawamura (), model and volleyball player * Mika Kawamura (), manga artist and author *, Japanese women's basketball player *, Japanese field hockey player * Ryo Kawamura (), announcer * Ryuichi Kawamura (), singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer. * Seiko Kawamura (), volleyball player * Takashi Kawamura (), politician * Takuo Kawamura (), voice actor * Takeo Kawamura (), baseball player * Takeo Kawamura (), politician * Takeshi Kawamura (), playwright and director *, Japanese footballer * Terry Teruo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Kawamura (politician)
is a Japanese politician of the Nagoya-based Genzei Nippon (減税日本 "Tax Cut Japan") party, currently serving as Mayor of Nagoya. He was previously a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Kawamura's antics have earned him a peculiar reputation outside of Nagoya, but local voters see him as an exponent of Nagoya's unique culture who constantly speaks in strong dialect ( Nagoya-ben). As of 2021, he has been elected for 4 terms as mayor, and there are 12 members of his Genzei Nippon party on the Nagoya City Council. Biography Family The family is from Kodekimachi in Higashi-ku, Nagoya. Kawamura's father Kaneo had served in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) as a corporal (伍長) in the 101st Division, which was part of the Shanghai Expeditionary Army, taking part in the Battle of Nanjing. After the war ended in August 1945, he remained at the Qixia Temple outside of Nanjing until January 1946, and was repatriated in March of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeshi Kawamura
is a Japanese playwright and director. He gained recognition in the 1980s for his popular-culture-influenced, violent, highly physical plays. Building upon this early work with later projects of social criticism and postmodern theatrical experimentation, Kawamura secured his position as an internationally recognized theatre artist. As artistic director of theatre companies Daisan Erotica and T Factory, Kawamura uses his plays to comment directly and indirectly on Japanese social conditions and current events while prompting audiences to consider issues such as the shaping influences of media, the confusion of reality with fantasy, and the nature of human individuality. 1980s: Early work Born in Tokyo in 1959, Kawamura established his first company, Daisan Erotica, in 1980, while studying at Meiji University. Kawamura wrote, directed, and sometimes acted in the young company's productions, which took inspiration from the Japanese angura (underground) theatre of the 1960s and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Teruo Kawamura
Terry Teruo Kawamura (December 10, 1949 – March 20, 1969) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam War. Vietnam War military service and death Terry Kawamura joined the Army in Oahu, Hawaii in 1968, and by March 20, 1969, was serving as a Corporal in the 173rd Engineer Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade. On that day, at Camp Radcliff, Republic of Vietnam, Kawamura smothered an enemy-thrown explosive with his body, sacrificing his life to protect those around him. Terry Kawamura, aged 19 at his death, was buried in Mililani Memorial Park, Mililani, Hawaii. Medal of Honor citation Corporal Kawamura's official Medal of Honor citation reads: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Cpl. Kawamura distinguished himself by heroic action while serving as a member of the 173d Engineer Company. An enemy demolition team infiltrated the unit quarters area and open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawamura Kageaki
Viscount was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army. Biography Kawamura was born in Kagoshima in the Satsuma han feudal domain (present day Kagoshima prefecture. He first fought as a samurai in the Anglo-Satsuma War. He was part of the Satsuma forces in the Boshin War to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate. After the Meiji Restoration he was appointed commander of the Imperial Guards. He also served as field commander in the suppression of various insurrections during the early years of the Meiji era, including the Hagi Rebellion and the Satsuma Rebellion. Kawamura led his Imperial Guards Division in the First Sino-Japanese War and went to the front in Taiwan as field commander. On the conclusion of that war, he was ennobled by Emperor Meiji with the title of ''danshaku'' (baron) under the ''kazoku'' peerage system. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, Kawamura succeeded Prince Fushimi Sadanaru as commander of the Japanese 10th Division, and served notably as field co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawamura Sumiyoshi
Count , was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Kawamura's wife Haru was the aunt of Saigō Takamori. Biography A native of Satsuma, Kawamura studied navigation at Tokugawa bakufu naval school at Nagasaki, the Nagasaki Naval Training Center. In 1868, he joined his Satsuma clansmen, and fought on the imperial side in the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration as an army general. He was especially noted for his role in the Battle of Aizu-Wakamatsu. Under the new Meiji government, he became an officer in the fledgling Imperial Japanese Navy, and steadily rose through the ranks. He became first Director of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1870 and ''taifu'' (senior vice minister) of Navy in 1872. He was in command of Japanese naval forces during the Taiwan Expedition of 1874. During the Satsuma Rebellion, he was placed in command of all Imperial troops in September 1877 at the final Battle of Shiroyama near Kumamoto, when Saigō Takamori was killed (or committed '' seppuku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawamura Kiyoo
(1852–1934) was a yōga artist in Meiji to Shōwa Japan. Life Born in Edo in 1852, as a child he began to study under , before moving to Osaka prior to his grandfather's appointment as bugyō (magistrate). Continuing his education under , after returning to Edo he studied for a time with before learning yōga from , in around 1868. Initially sponsored by Katsu Kaishū, with Tokugawa support he studied political law in America in 1871, travelling the following year to France and Italy. In Venice he turned to the study of painting. Returning to Japan in 1881, he worked for the Ministry of Finance Printing Bureau before resigning over a disagreement and opening a school for painting in Kōjimachi. In 1889 he participated in the formation of the , the first domestic art association to champion western-style painting. Within a decade the association had been eclipsed by Kuroda Seiki's . Kawamura Kiyoo often painted in western-style oil on traditional Japanese supports o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Kawamura (The Prince Of Tennis)
''The Prince of Tennis'' manga and anime series has a large cast of fictional characters created by Takeshi Konomi; many have appeared in the musical and film adaptations. The cast of the series is largely made up of the members of the various tennis teams for the schools portrayed in the series, their coaches, and various family members and supporters. The main character of the series is Ryoma Echizen, a 12-year-old tennis prodigy who joins the Seishun Academy tennis team. The main cast is rounded out with the other eight regular players for Seishun, all of whom have various special abilities at playing tennis. Beyond them, there are many rival schools whose players reappear during the course of the series. Protagonists The protagonists of the series all attend , or for short. The school is famous for its talented tennis club in which the series' leading protagonist, Ryoma Echizen, is enrolled in the school by his father, Nanjiro Echizen, a former professional tennis playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeo Kawamura (politician)
is a Japanese politician from the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2008 to 2009, and a member of the House of Representatives from 1990 to 2021, representing the Yamaguchi 3rd district. Political career A native of Hagi, Yamaguchi and graduate of Keio University, he worked at Seibu Oil from 1967 to 1976. Kawamura then entered politics and served four terms in the Yamaguchi Prefecture assembly from 1976, followed by his election to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990. Kawamura served for a time as Minister of Education, Science and Technology under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. In the Cabinet of Prime Minister Taro Aso, Kawamura was appointed as Chief Cabinet Secretary on September 24, 2008. He also served as Minister of State for Abduction issues in the Aso Cabinet, and as Chairman of the LDP's Election Strategy Committee. Historical revisionism Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, Kawamura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaori Kawamura
was a rock and pop singer in Japan, born in Moscow, Soviet Union. Family background Her father was a Japanese expatriate in the Soviet Union, while her mother was a Russian. The family moved to Japan when she was 11 years old, where she was subjected to repeated bullying. Bullied in elementary school and middle school, she attempted to commit suicide on multiple occasions. One time, when she was an elementary school girl, she broke both arm bones by herself, with the intention of skipping school. She used this as a stepping stone to enter the music industry.http://nosy-life.blogspot.com/2009/07/rock-singer-kawamura-kaori-dead-at-30.html Career She released her first single, "Zoo", at the age of 17 in 1988. She then made her debut with the album "Zoo" in 1988. In 1990 she had a hit with "Kamisama ga Oritekuru Yoru" and the following year with the often-covered "Tsubasa wo Kudasai." That year she made the first of several movie appearances in "Tokyo Kyujitsu." From the mid-19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
