Makoto Nakura
is a unisex Japanese name although it is more commonly used by males. As a noun, Makoto means "sincerity" (誠) or "truth" (真, 眞). People Given name * Makoto (musician) (born 1977), drum and bass artist *Makoto (Sharan Q) ( まこと), drummer of Sharan Q *Makoto (streamer) ( まこと), Japanese streamer, voice actress *Makoto (wrestler) (born 1989), professional wrestler *, Japanese basketball player *Makoto Chūza, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese actor *, Japanese chemist *, Japanese writer *Makoto Furukawa, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese academic * Makoto Hagiwara (1854–1925), landscape designer often credited with inventing the fortune cookie * Makoto Hasebe (長谷部 誠, born 1984), Japanese footballer * Makoto Hiejima (born 1990), Japanese basketball player *, Japanese Paralympic judoka *Makoto Horikawa or Ryō Horikawa *Makoto Imaoka (born 1974), professional baseball player * Makoto Inoue (born 1974), professional golfer *, Japanese economist *Mako (acto ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Makoto Gonokami
is a professor of science and engineering in University of Tokyo, mostly in the field of physics. He was 30th president of the University of Tokyo, after succeeding Junichi Hamada who retired in 2015, and until the expiration of his term in March 2021. In 2022 he became president of Riken. He works in the graduate school of science, school of engineering in the institution before being dean in graduate school of science and vice president of the university. He holds a PhD in optical physics at University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ... and most of his research based on Quantum physics and participate in Center for Quantum Materials. He is also president of IARU, elected for two years. Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Gonokami, Makoto Living people ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Makoto Kawamoto
, is a Japanese pop singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Fukui, Japan. She currently sings under the pseudonym Tiger Fake Fur. Biography Early life Kawamoto grew up hearing her mother playing the piano. Aside from learning piano, she also studied ballet for about two years and joined the boys' and girls' chorus and took flute lessons. Her life was changed upon seeing a rock festival held in the nearby Prefectural Hall in her high school days. Kawamoto entered the Jin-ai Women's College music department, piano department and formed a band. After graduating from college, Kawamoto found a job at a company and became a piano teacher. However, since she only received a salary of 40,000 yen, she got fed up with her job and quit. Still, she continued to teach piano in her parents' house. She earned her livelihood working at a wedding hall, during which time she continued to try forming a band. Kawamoto participated in "AIDS against FUKUI" held in Fukui as a band. She ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Makoto Kawahira
is a Japanese ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1998 Winter Olympics The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 ( ja, 長野1998), was a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Japan, with some events taking place in the .... References External links * 1971 births Living people Japanese ice hockey players Oji Eagles players Olympic ice hockey players of Japan Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Hokkaido Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2003 Asian Winter Games Ice hockey players at the 2003 Asian Winter Games Asian Games medalists in ice hockey {{Japan-icehockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Makoto Kawabata
Kawabata Makoto ( ) is a Japanese musician and founding member of the band Acid Mothers Temple. He was part of one line-up of Gong when Acid Mothers Temple and Gong briefly fused into one group. Band history Kawabata is chiefly famous for his leadership of Acid Mothers Temple and its variants; however, he has also played in many other bands since the start of his career in the late 1970s. Some of these bands are: * Baroque Bordello * Toho Sara * Erochika * Tsurubami * Musica Transonic * Mainliner * Mothers of Invasion * Nishinihon * Floating Flower Solo discography In addition to the many records recorded with bands, Kawabata Makoto has an extensive solo discography. Major releases are: * The 'Private Tapes' series (1999–2004) * Inui.1 (2000) * Inui.2 (2000) * I'm in Your Inner Most (2001) * Hosanna Mantra (2007) * Inui.4 (2007) * We're one-sided lovers each other's (2013- Bam Balam.records) Musical philosophy In 2000, Kawabata wrote "Music, for me, is neither somethi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Makoto Kamada
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 External links * 1950 births Living people Olympic wrestlers of Japan Wrestlers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Japanese male sport wrestlers Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Asian Games medalists in wrestling Wrestlers at the 1974 Asian Games Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games 20th-century Japanese people 21st-century Japanese people World Wrestling Championships medalists {{Japan-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mako (actor)
was a Japanese-American actor, credited mononymously in almost all of his acting roles as simply Mako. His film roles include Po-Han in ''The Sand Pebbles'' (1966) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Oomiak "The Fearless One" in ''The Island at the Top of the World'' (1974), Akiro the Wizard in ''Conan the Barbarian'' (1982) and '' Conan the Destroyer'' (1984), and Kungo Tsarong in ''Seven Years in Tibet'' (1997). He was part of the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's 1976 Broadway musical ''Pacific Overtures'', which earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. He was also one of the founding members of East West Players. Later in his career, he became well known for his voice acting roles, including Aku in the first four seasons of ''Samurai Jack'' (2001–2004), and Iroh in the first two seasons of ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' ( 2005–2006). He died on July 21, 2006, aged 72, from esophageal cancer. Early ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Makoto Itoh
is a Japanese economist and is considered internationally to be one of the most important scholars of Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...'s Theory of value (economics), theory of value. He teaches at Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, and is professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo. He belongs to the school of economic thought founded by Kozo Uno and is one of the few Japanese Marxian economics, Marxian economists who has published widely in English-language journals such as Science & Society, Monthly Review, Capital & Class, New Left Review and Ampo. He has published 24 books, of which 6 are in English, and 5 are translated and published in Chinese. Books in English * ''Value and Crisis'' (1980). * ''The Basic Theory of Capitalism'' (1987) * ''The world e ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Makoto Inoue
is a Japanese professional golfer. Inoue plays on the Japan Golf Tour The Japan Golf Tour ( ja, 日本ゴルフツアー機構) is a prominent golf tour. It was founded in 1973 and as of 2006 it offers the third-highest annual prize fund out of the regular (that is not for seniors) men's professional tours after th ..., and has won twice. Professional wins (3) Japan Golf Tour wins (2) Japan Challenge Tour wins (1) External links * Japanese male golfers Japan Golf Tour golfers Sportspeople from Yamaguchi Prefecture 1974 births Living people {{Japan-golf-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Makoto Imaoka
Makoto Imaoka (今岡 誠, born September 11, 1974), nicknamed "Makochan", is a former Japanese professional baseball player from Takarazuka, Hyōgo, Japan. Career Imaoka spent several uneventful seasons in the Japanese professional leagues before being chosen as the leadoff batter by Senichi Hoshino, who managed the Hanshin Tigers from 2002 to 2004. Imaoka won the batting title in 2003 with a .340 batting average, and his team won the Central League pennant the same year. He had previously played shortstop and second base, but was converted to third base in 2004. He continued his hitting prowess, and led the league with 147 RBIs in 2005. He fell into a huge slump in 2006, and missed half of the season due to injuries. He won a silver medal playing for the Japanese national team in the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an interna ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ryō Horikawa
is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Osaka. He is married to fellow Japanese voice actress Hitomi Oikawa since 1988, whose birth name is also . His former stage name is also , which uses the kanji of his given name, though pronounced "Ryō". He is best known for his role as Vegeta from the ''Dragon Ball'' series, Reinhard von Lohengramm from '' Legend of the Galactic Heroes'', Andromeda Shun from ''Saint Seiya'', Heiji Hattori from ''Detective Conan'', and Captain Falcon in the '' Super Smash Bros.'' series. Career Horikawa started out as a child actor in elementary school. He made his debut in voice acting as Kenta Hirono, the protagonist of the 1984 anime '' Dream Soldier Wing-Man''. From there, he became famous for his anime character roles as Andromeda Shun (''Saint Seiya''), Reinhard von Lohengramm ('' Legend of the Galactic Heroes''), Vegeta (''Dragon Ball'' series), and Heiji Hattori (''Detective Conan''). He is also well known for his game role as Captain Falcon ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Makoto Hirose
is a Japanese Paralympic judoka in Lightweight. In 2004 he won the silver medal in the men's 60 kg, but was not upgraded when Sergio Arturo Perez was stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for a banned substance. In 2008 he made it to the quarter-finals but lost to Mouloud Noura (Algeria). In 2012 he switched to 66 kg (half-lightweight) and lost the semi-final to Zhao Xu (China). The 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio will be his fourth Games. In the 60 kg, he won his second silver medal when Sherzod Namozov (Uzbekistan) beat him in the final. At the 2010 Asian Para Games The 2010 Asian Para Games (), also known as the First Asian Para Games, was a parallel sport event for Asian athletes with a disability held in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, China. Two weeks after the conclusion of the 2010 Asian Games, 1 ... he won a bronze medal in the men's -66 kg event. References External links * 1976 births Living people Japanese male judok ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |