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Naomi Hosokawa
Naomi Hosokawa (細川直美 ''Hosokawa Naomi''; real name: Chiho Katsurayama (葛山知保 ''Katsurayama Chiho''; born 18 June 1974 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actress and singer. Filmography Films *''Shigure no Ki'' (1998) - Yūko Furuya *'' The Setting Sun'' (2022) Television *''Karin'' (1993–94) *''Hoshi no Kinka'' (1995) - Shōko Yūki *''Hideyoshi , otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: Military Innovations that Changed the Cour ...'' (1996) - Sato References External links *JMDb Profile 1974 births Living people People from Yokohama Japanese television actresses Asadora lead actors {{Japan-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin region, Keihin Industrial Zone. Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the Western world, West following the 1859 end of the Sakoku, policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji (era), Meiji period, including the first foreign trading port and Chinatown (1859), European-style sport venues (1860s), English-language newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer manufacturing (1865), daily newspaper (1870), gas-powered street lamps (1870s), railway station (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kanagawa Prefecture borders Tokyo to the north, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northwest and Shizuoka Prefecture to the west. Yokohama is the capital and largest city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Kawasaki, Sagamihara, and Fujisawa. Kanagawa Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast on Tokyo Bay and Sagami Bay, separated by the Miura Peninsula, across from Chiba Prefecture on the Bōsō Peninsula. Kanagawa Prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with Yokohama and many of its cities being major commercial hubs and southern suburbs of Tokyo. Kanagawa Prefecture was the political and economic center of Japan du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Setting Sun
is a Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai first published in 1947. The story centers on an aristocratic family in decline and crisis during the early years after World War II. Plot summary Twenty-nine year old Kazuko, her brother Naoji, and their widowed mother are members of an impoverished aristocratic family living in post-war Tokyo. Kazuko had been married, but divorced and returned to the family household after claiming that she had had an extramarital affair with a painter she admired. The child she had been expecting was stillborn. Naoji, who served with the military in the South Pacific, is declared missing. Kazuko recalls a time when she burned snake eggs, thinking that they were viper eggs. It is revealed that at the time of Kazuko's father's death, there were many snakes present in and around the house, which therefore have become ominous in her and her mother's eyes. Kazuko and her mother move to the Izu peninsula countryside with the help of a relative, and she begins w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoshi No Kinka
is a 1995 Japanese television drama series. The series revolves around , a deaf and mute girl from Hokkaido who is in love with a doctor named . After Shūichi leaves for Tokyo, he has an accident and loses his memory. Aya travels to Tokyo and encounters , Shūichi's brother. The sequel series, , aired in 1996, continues where the previous series left off. The third series, , which ran for 11 episodes in 2001, uses a new set of characters, starring Mari Hoshino as the deaf heroine. The opening theme for the original season is " Aoi Usagi" by Noriko Sakai. The opening theme for ''Heaven's Coin: Part 2'' is "Kagami no Dress", also by Sakai. Characters ''Heaven's Coin'' * Aya Kuramoto – Noriko Sakai * Shūichi Nagai – Takao Osawa * Takumi Nagai – Yutaka Takenouchi * – Minako Tanaka * – Naomi Hosokawa * – Raita Ryū * – Tomomi Nishimura ''Heaven's Coin: Part 2'' * Aya Kuramoto – Noriko Sakai * Shūichi Nagai – Takao Osawa * Takumi Nagai – Yutaka Takenouchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideyoshi (TV Series)
is a 1996 Japanese historical television series. It is the 35th NHK taiga drama television series. Plot The story chronicles the life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Production Production Credits *Original – Taichi Sakaiya *Music – Reijirō Koroku *Titling – Hisaya Morishige *Narrator – Etsuko Ichihara, Ryuji Miyamoto *Historical research – Tetsuo Owada *Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi Cast Starring role *Naoto Takenaka as Hideyoshi Toyotomi clan *Yasuko Sawaguchi as One - wife of Hideyoshi *Etsuko Ichihara as Naka - mother of Hideyoshi * Ichiro Zaitsu as Chikuami - stepfather of Hideyoshi *Masanobu Takashima as Toyotomi Hidenaga - younger brother of Hideyoshi *Naomi Hosokawa as Sato - younger sister of Hideyoshi *Takako Matsu as Cha-cha - concubine of Hideyoshi *Hiroyuki Sanada as Ishida Mitsunari **Shun Oguri as Ishida Mitsunari (teenager) *Atsushi Onita as Hachisuka Masakatsu * Ikkō Furuya as Takenaka Hanbei *Masatō Ibu as Kuroda Kanbei * Yosuke Asari as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asahi No Kata
Asahi no kata (朝日の方) (1543 – February 18, 1590) was a Japanese woman and aristocrat of the Sengoku period. She was a half-sister of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and wife of Tokugawa Ieyasu, two of Japan's greatest feudal warlords. She is also called Suruga Gozen (駿河御前) and Asahi-hime (朝日姫), though none of these are names, referring to her as "the person of Asahi", "the Lady Suruga", or "Princess Asahi". Life In 1543, Asahihime was born as the daughter of Ōmandokoro and Chikuami, a farmer in Owari Province. Along with the rise of Hideyoshi under Oda Nobunaga, her husband was elevated to the status of a ''bushi'' and adopted the name of Saji Hyūga-no-kami. Asahi no kata was first married to Saji Hyūga no kami, but when her brother Toyotomi Hideyoshi wished to make peace with Tokugawa Ieyasu after the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute, Hideyoshi expressed interest in marrying her to Ieyasu. In 1586, the retainers of Oda Nobukatsu were dispatched as messengers to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miki Fujitani
is a Japanese actress. In addition to her many live-action film and television roles, she had a prominent voice role as Kamiya Kaoru in the ''Rurouni Kenshin'' anime series, and as Chun-Li in '' Street Fighter II The Movie''. Filmography Live-action film * (1988) * (1988) * (1988) * '' Nozomi Witches'' (live-action, 1990) * '' Bloom in the Moonlight'' (1993) * (1994) – Chie Minami * (1995) * (Heisei version, 1996) – Yuki * (1997, directed by Kan Mukai) – Mirai Ito * (1998) – Kuniko * (2000, directed by Ikuo Sekimoto) – Xiao Chun * ''Merdeka 17805'' (2001) – Sanae Miyata * (2004) – Koma Inoue * (2007) – Toshiko Suzuki * (2007) – Chiyo Awaji Live-action television ; 1980s * (1987) - cast member * (1988) - cast member * (1989) * (1989) - cast member * (1989) * (1989) – Episode series: '' Sarashina Nikki'' ; 1990s * (1990) * (1990) * ''Anne of Green Gables'' (CX golden movie theater, 1990) – Anne (dub) * (1991) * (1991) * (1991) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Bishojo Contest
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 123.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsuyo Obara
Mitsuyo (written: 美鶴代, 美津代 or 満代) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese television presenter *, Japanese alpine skier *, Japanese actress and singer *, Japanese author Mitsuyo (written: 光世) is also a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese judoka *, Japanese animator, screenwriter and film director {{given name Japanese feminine given names Feminine given names Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names Japanese unisex given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Births
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following List of Prime Ministers of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkey, Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, and Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an Guillaume affair, espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the 1974 FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the Germany national football team, German national team won the championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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People From Yokohama
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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