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Kawashima Chūnosuke
Kawashima (written: 川島, 川嶋) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, musician *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese comedian, television personality and actor *, voice actress *, association football goalkeeper *, boxer * Justin Kawashima (born 1970), Japanese–American music producer *, boxer *Kiko, Princess Akishino, née Kawashima (川嶋紀子, born 1966) *, ski jumper *, video game composer *, spy *, actress *, voice actor *, neuroscientist *, voice actor *, singer and actress *Yasunaru Kawashima, cardiothoracic surgeon who pioneered the Kawashima procedure * Manchu princess and spy *, Japanese ice hockey player *, filmmaker Fictional characters *, a main character from ''Toradora!'' *, a main character from ''Hibike! Euphonium'' *, side character from ''Food Wars!'' See also *Kawashima, Gifu *Kawashima, Tokushima was a town located in Oe District, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 8, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Kawashima
is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter and pianist. After overcoming her tragic childhood, she released her debut single ''Asueno tobira'' (Door to Tomorrow) as the duo I Wish in 2003. She is well known for her numerous street performances. She is also known for her devotion to help children under circumstances similar to hers in Japan and rest of the world. Early life Kawashima was born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan. After her birth, her mother's health deteriorated and she died when Kawashima was only 3 years old. Because her father had been missing before she was born, she was taken to an orphanage and eventually adopted by the Kawashima family, owners of a construction company. Her foster father died when she was 10. After graduating from middle school, she moved to Tokyo. Her foster mother died when she was 16. She started playing the piano at the age of 3 and eventually began to think about a career as a singer. Career Kawashima started her career as an enka singer. At arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryuta Kawashima
is a Japanese neuroscientist known for his appearances in the '' Brain Age'' series of video games for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch.Touch! Generations Profile Biography Kawashima was born May 23, 1959 in , , Japan. In the 1970s, he enrolled in . Af ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawashima, Gifu
was a town located in Hashima District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 10,204 and a density of 1,272.32 persons per km2. The total area was 8.02 km2. On November 1, 2004, Kawashima was merged into the expanded city of Kakamigahara and no longer exists as an independent municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go .... Notes External links Official website of Kakamigahara Dissolved municipalities of Gifu Prefecture {{Gifu-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Food Wars!
is a Japanese manga series written by Yūto Tsukuda and illustrated by Shun Saeki. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from November 2012 to June 2019. Its chapters were compiled in 36 ''tankōbon'' volumes published by Shueisha. The series follows an aspiring chef who enrolls in an elite culinary school where students take part in cooking competitions. Yuki Morisaki also works as a contributor, providing the recipes for the series. The manga is licensed by Viz Media in North America, who has been releasing the volumes digitally since March 2014, and released the first volume in print in August 2014. The manga series received sales of over 20 million. An anime adaptation by J.C.Staff aired between April and September 2015. A second season, titled ''Food Wars! The Second Plate'' aired between July and September 2016. The first cour of the third season, titled ''Food Wars! The Third Plate'', aired between October and December 2017. The second half ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibike! Euphonium
is a Japanese novel series written by Ayano Takeda. The story is set in Uji, Kyoto and focuses on the Kitauji High School Music Club, whose concert band is steadily improving thanks to the newly appointed adviser's strict instruction. A manga adaptation illustrated by Hami was serialized on the ''Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Web'' website. Kyoto Animation was in charge of its anime adaptations: it produced two seasons of a television series adaptation in 2015 and 2016, depicting the first high school year of the main character, Kumiko Oumae. Two animated theatrical films titled '' Liz and the Blue Bird'' and ''Sound! Euphonium: The Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day'', both taking place during Kumiko's second high year, were released in premiered in 2018 and 2019 respectively. A third season focused on Kumiko in her third year of high school has been announced for 2024, preceded by the theatrical OVA ''Ensemble Contest'' in Q3 2023. Plot The Kitauji High School Concer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toradora!
is a Japanese light novel series by Yuyuko Takemiya, with illustrations by Yasu. The series includes ten novels released between March 10, 2006 and March 10, 2009, published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. Three volumes of a spin-off light novel series were also created, aptly titled ''Toradora Spin-off!''. A manga adaptation by Zekkyō started serialization in the September 2007 issue of the shōnen manga magazine ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'', published by MediaWorks. The manga ended serialization in ''Dengeki Comic Gao!'' with the March 2008 issue, but continued serialization in ASCII Media Works' manga magazine ''Dengeki Daioh'' with the May 2008 issue. The title ''Toradora!'' is derived from the names of the two main characters Taiga Aisaka and Ryūji Takasu. Taiga's name is almost homophonic with from English ''tiger'' (the final ''a'' is more lengthened in the English loanword), which is synonymous with the native Japanese word . Inversely, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuzo Kawashima
was a Japanese film director, most famous for making tragi-comic films and satires. Career Kawashima was born in Mutsu, Aomori in the Shimokita Peninsula. From his youth, he suffered from a paralysis that affected his right leg and arm. He was educated at Meiji University, where he was a member of the film study circle. He entered the Shōchiku studios in 1938 and served as an assistant director under Minoru Shibuya and Keisuke Kinoshita before directing his first film, ''The Man Who Has Returned'', in 1944. At Shōchiku after the war, he made many comedies before switching to Nikkatsu in 1955, when the studio resumed film production. There he made such notable works as ''Burden of Love'' (1955), ''Suzaki Paradise: Akashingō, Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District'' (1956), and ''Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate'' (1957), which was later voted the fifth best Japanese film of all time in Kinema Junpō's poll of 140 film critics and filmmakers in 1999. In his remaining years, Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukiko Kawashima
is a Japanese ice hockey player for Mitsuboshi Daito Perigrine and the Japanese national team. She participated at the 2015 IIHF Women's World Championship The 2015 IIHF Women's World Championship was the 16th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The competition also served as qualifications for the 2016 competition. Venues included the Malmö Isstadion, and Rosengårds I .... References 1996 births Living people Japanese women's ice hockey defencemen Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade Olympic ice hockey players for Japan Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics {{Japan-icehockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchu
The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name. The Later Jin (1616–1636) and Qing (1636–1912) dynasties of China were established and ruled by the Manchus, who are descended from the Jurchen people who earlier established the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) in northern China. Manchus form the largest branch of the Tungusic peoples and are distributed throughout China, forming the fourth largest ethnic group in the country. They can be found in 31 Chinese provincial regions. Among them, Liaoning has the largest population and Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia and Beijing have over 100,000 Manchu residents. About half of the population live in Liaoning and one-fifth in Hebei. There are a number of Manchu autonomous counties in China, such as Xinbin, Xiuyan, Qinglong, Fengning, Yitong, Qingyuan, Weichang, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshiko Kawashima
was a Qing dynasty princess of the Aisin-Gioro clan. She was raised in Japan and served as a spy for the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War. She is sometimes known in fiction under the pseudonym "Eastern Mata Hari". After the war, she was captured, tried, and executed as a traitor by the Nationalist government of the Republic of China. She was also a notable descendant of Hooge, eldest son of Hong Taiji. Names She was born in the Aisin Gioro clan, the imperial clan of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty. Her birth name was Aisin Gioro Xianyu and her courtesy name was Dongzhen (literally "eastern jewel"). Her Sinicised name was Jin Bihui. She is best known by her Japanese name, Kawashima Yoshiko (川島 芳子), which is read as Chuāndǎo Fāngzǐ in Chinese. In 1925, Yoshiko took the male name Ryōsuke. Family background and early life She was born Aisin Gioro Xianyu in Beijing in 1907 as the 14th daughter of Shanqi (1866–1922), a Manchu pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawashima Procedure
The Kawashima procedure is used for congenital heart disease with a single effective ventricle and an ''interrupted inferior vena cava'' (IVC). It was first performed in 1978 and reported in 1984. __TOC__ Procedure Technically it is very similar to the bidirectional Glenn procedure used to direct half the body's venous blood flow into the lungs. However, in patients with interrupted IVC, most of the blood from the lower body actually joins the blood from the upper body before returning to the heart via the superior vena cava (SVC). Therefore, the redirection of SVC blood to the lungs (as in the Glenn) results in much more than half the venous blood flow being diverted. After Kawashima, the only de-oxygenated blood returning to the heart is from the abdominal organs (via the hepatic vein In human anatomy, the hepatic veins are the veins that drain venous blood from the liver into the inferior vena cava (as opposed to the hepatic portal vein which conveys blood from the gastr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umika Kawashima
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She is a former member of the Japanese girl group 9nine. Her solo single "Maji de Koi Suru 5 Byō Mae/Ichigo Iro no Kimochi", on the '' Watashi no Yasashikunai Senpai'' soundtrack, reached #46 on the Oricon chart. As an actress, she played in numerous Japanese TV series and movies. Biography Umika Kawashima was born in the Saitama Prefecture. She was scouted in Shibuya when she was in 6th grade and joined Lespros Entertainment. The actresses she idolizes are Aoi Miyazaki, Yui Aragaki and Kou Shibasaki. She has stated that she would like to collaborate with Masaharu Fukuyama. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Letters at Meiji University with a degree in psychology in 2016. Career Since 2006, Kawashima has appeared in numerous television dramas and movies. In 2007 she joined the female idol group 9nine, however she announced her graduation from the group in 2016 to focus on her acting career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
