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Minako Yoshida
is a Japanese feminine given name. Minako can be written using different kanji characters: *美奈子, "beauty, apple tree, child" *美那子, "beauty, unknown, child" or "beauty, child" *美菜子, "beauty, (green) vegetable, child" *美名子, "beauty, name, child" *美梨子, "beauty, pear, child" *聖名子, "holy, name, child" *聖奈子, "holy, apple tree, child or holy child" *皆子, "everybody/all, child" *水奈子 "water, apple tree, child" or "water, child" *実奈子 "truth, apple tree, child" *実菜子 "truth, (green) vegetable, child" *実那子 "truth, unknown, child" or "truth, child" *実名子 "truth, name, child" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People *Minako (美奈子), a member of the Japanese musical group ''Kome Kome Club is a Japanese pop rock band formed in 1982 which achieved commercial success by blending soul and funk musical styles. They also use the style of '' rakugo''. History 1982–1997: Commercial success Kome Kome Cl ... [...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] |
Minako Kotobuki
is a Japanese actress and singer. She played Tsumugi Kotobuki in the anime series ''K-On!'' about a high school girl band. The show launched her music career as she performed the opening and ending themes, and joined three other voice actresses as the music group Sphere. Acting career At the age of three years, Kotobuki, along with her parents, was caught up in the Great Hanshin earthquake. Not long after having seen a 1997 Japanese film entitled ''Chikyuu ga Ugoita Hi'' ("The Day the Earth Moved"), all of these events inspired Kotobuki to pursue her career as a voice actress. Kotobuki played Tsumugi Kotobuki in ''K-On!'', Karina Lyle/Blue Rose in '' Tiger & Bunny'', Rikka Hishikawa/Cure Diamond in '' DokiDoki! PreCure'', Mitsuko Kongō in ''A Certain Magical Index'' and ''A Certain Scientific Railgun'', Yūko Nishi in '' A Channel'', Lana and Cia from ''Hyrule Warriors'', and Natsumi Aizawa in ''Natsuiro Kiseki'', Touko Nanami in '' Bloom Into You'', Asuka Tanaka in ''H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persona 3 Portable
released outside Japan as ''Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3'', is a 2006 role-playing video game developed by Atlus. It is the fourth main installment in the ''Persona'' series, which is part of the larger ''Megami Tensei'' franchise. Atlus originally released the game for the PlayStation 2 in Japan in July 2006; the North American release of the game was delayed until 2007 due to issues with the publication of the official art book. ''Persona 3 FES'', an extended version containing a new playable epilogue among other changes, was released in Japan in 2007 and worldwide the following year. In ''Persona 3'', the player takes the role of a high-school student who joins the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (SEES), a group of students investigating the Dark Hour, a time period between one day and the next that few people are aware of. During the Dark Hour, the player enters Tartarus, a large tower containing Shadows, creatures that feed on the minds of humans. To fight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
