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Matsuko Shiga
Matsuko is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *Matsuko Deluxe (born 1972), Japanese columnist, essayist and TV personality *, Japanese singer-songwriter *, Japanese lover of Katsura Kogorō See also *''Memories of Matsuko is a 2006 Japanese musical film written and directed by Tetsuya Nakashima. It is based on a Japanese novel by Muneki Yamada. It has not yet received North American distribution, though in its North American premiere at the 2007 New York Asian Fi ...'', a 2006 Japanese film {{given name Japanese feminine given names Feminine given names ...
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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 ...
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Matsuko Deluxe
is a Japanese columnist, essayist, and TV personality. Matsuko is a female persona and stage name assumed by a cross-dressing gay man. She has been described as plus-sized and gravely-voiced with a sharp tongue. Before Matsuko Deluxe The person who would later become famous as Matsuko was born in Chiba Prefecture. He graduated from a beauty school and was training to be a beautician when, inspired by LGBT activists, he changed careers and became an editor and writer for the Japanese gay magazine '' Badi''.マツコ・デラックスが職歴を語る 美容師見習いやゲイ雑誌の編集者
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He quit his job in his late twenties and began to live as a ''

Matsuko Mawatari
is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. Life and works She is known for having written " Hohoemi no Bakudan" (Smile Bomb), which is the opening theme for the ''YuYu Hakusho is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi. The series tells the story of Yusuke Urameshi, a teenage delinquent who is struck and killed by a car while attempting to save a child's life. After a number of ...'' anime series. She also sang a few ending themes from the same anime, such as "Sayonara Bye Bye", "Homework ga Owaranai", and "Daydream Generation". In the early 1990s, Mawatari Matsuko opened for the band Dreams Come True for their tour. She has also released five studio albums, four from Anime record label Remoras, and one from her own label, Pit'A'Pat. According to her website, she has retired from the music business. However, in 2012, it has been released a new album named KiseKi with the songs 1. PC Dakegashitteiru ; 2. Precious; 3. Netsu; 4. Middle Voi ...
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Kido Matsuko
(born ; November 22, 1843 – April 10, 1886), later known as the nun , was a Japanese woman from the late Edo period to the Meiji period. She was formerly a geisha under the stage name from Sanbongi, Kyoto. She was the lover (and later the wife) of Katsura Kogorō (later Kido Takayoshi), who would go on to became one of the Three Great Nobles of the Restoration. References

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Katsura Kogorō
, also known as , was a Japanese statesman, samurai and '' shishi'' who is considered one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration. Early life Born Wada Kogorō in Hagi, Chōshū Domain (present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture) as the son of a samurai physician and his second wife . In 1840, due to his brother-in-law already being the head of the Wada family, he was later adopted into the Katsura family at age seven and was known as . The Katsura family's stipend was originally 150 '' koku'', but due to the late nature of his adoption which took place as his adoptive father was already on his deathbed, who died ten days later, it was reduced to 90 ''koku''. Katsura Kogorō thus became the head of the Katsura family. A year later in 1841, his adoptive mother also died, months later he was returned to his old home. In 1848, he lost his mother and elder half-sister Yaeko to illnesses. Katsura was educated at Meirinkan, in which he later became increasingly unhappy ...
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Memories Of Matsuko
is a 2006 Japanese musical film written and directed by Tetsuya Nakashima. It is based on a Japanese novel by Muneki Yamada. It has not yet received North American distribution, though in its North American premiere at the 2007 New York Asian Film Festival, the film received the Audience Award with an average rating of 9.2 Summary Following a breakup with his girlfriend, Sho Kawajiri sleeps at home, before his father, Norio, pays him a surprise visit. Sho is surprised to see an urn with the ashes of his aunt Matsuko, who he has never met. Sho is asked to help clean her old room, and while doing so, he gradually learns more about the life of his estranged aunt. During Matsuko's early life, she struggled to gain the attention of her father, who was mostly concerned with her chronically ill sister, Kumi. This created an imbalance where Matsuko's needs were less likely to be met. From 1970 to 1971, Matsuko was a very popular junior high school music teacher in Ōkawa, Fukuoka. How ...
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Japanese Feminine Given Names
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies ( Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japan ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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