Nobuko Terashima
is a feminine Japanese given name. Although the name is always romanized the same way, the kanji characters can be different. Possible writings * 信子, "trust, child" * 伸子, "to lengthen, child" * 延子, "to prolong, child" * 暢子, "extend/stretch, relax/child" * 宜子, "good, child" People * Nobuko Albery, a Japanese author, theatrical producer and the widow of English theatrical impresario, Sir Donald Albery * Princess Nobuko (Japanese romanization: ''Fumi-no-miya Nobuko Naishinnō'', 富美宮允子内親王), the 8th daughter of Emperor Meiji * Nobuko Asō (麻生信子), later Princess Tomohito of Mikasa (寛仁親王妃信子) * Nobuko Fukuda (福田 修子), Japanese cross-country skier * Nobuko Imai (今井 信子), a Japanese classical violist and chamber musician * Nobuko Iwaki (井脇 ノブ子), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet *, Japanese writer * Nobuko Miyamoto (宮本信子), a J ... [...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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Nobuko Iwaki
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, was a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) until 2009. A native of Minamiamabe District, Ōita, she attended Beppu University as an undergraduate and received a master's degree from Takushoku University. She was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005 after running unsuccessfully for the House of Councillors in the Diet in 2003. See also * Koizumi Children is a popular Japanese political term for the 83 LDP members of the House of Representatives first elected in the 2005 general election. The Koizumi Children are loosely organized into a political association called . The term is a reference ... References * External links Official websitein Japanese. Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Female members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Takushoku University alumni People from Ōita Prefecture Living people 194 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nobuko Tsuchiya
is an artist based in London. Tsuchiya was born in 1972 in Yokohama, Japan. She studied art at Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze and the Goldsmiths, University of London. She makes sculptures out of found scraps of household objects. Nobuko begins her work by collecting items she's intuitively attracted to; then combines them into a polymer like structure, which are then cast. Her work was included in the 50th Venice Biennale The 50th Venice Biennale, held in 2003 (15 June-2 November), was an exhibition of international contemporary art, with 64 participating nations. The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy. Prizewinners of the 50th Biennale in ... in 2003. References External links *Further information from thSaatchi Gallery*Nobuko Tsuchiya aAnthony Reynolds*Nobuko Tsuchiya a*Nobuko Tsuchiya aSCAI The Bathhouse 1972 births Living people Japanese women sculptors 21st-century sculptors 21st-century Japanese women artists People from Yokohama Acc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pen Name
A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to merge multiple persons into a single identifiable author, or for any of a number of reasons related to the marketing or aesthetic presentation of the work. The author's real identity may be known only to the publisher or may become common knowledge. Etymology The French-language phrase is occasionally still seen as a synonym for the English term "pen name", which is a "back-translation" and originated in England rather than France. H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler, in ''The King's English'' state that the term ''nom de plume'' evolv ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nobuko Takagi
is the professional name of , a Japanese author. She has won the Akutagawa Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, she has been named a Person of Cultural Merit, and her work has been adapted for film. Biography Takagi was born Nobuko Tsuruta in Yamaguchi Prefecture on April 9, 1946. She graduated from the Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Junior College of Tokyo Women's University, after which she worked at a publishing company for two years, married her first husband in 1971, and had a son. Takagi moved to Fukuoka in 1974, divorced her first husband in 1978 and married her second husband, a lawyer, in 1980. Takagi started writing love stories and made her fiction debut in 1980 with ''Sono hosoki michi'' (That Narrow Road). It was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize, as were her subsequent stories ''Tôsugiru tomo'' (A Distant Friend, 1981), ''Oikaze'' (A Following Wind, 1982), and '. ''Hikari idaku tomo yo'', a story about the emotional lives of two high school girls, won the 90th Akut ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nobuko Otowa
was a Japanese actress who appeared in more than 100 films between 1950 and 1994. A graduate of Takarazuka Girl's Opera School, Otowa was first signed to Daiei studios, before becoming a freelance actress by the early 1950s. After starring in Kaneto Shindo's ''Story of a Beloved Wife'', she became the director's mistress and appeared in nearly all of his following films. She finally married him in 1977, after his previous wife divorced him. Although closely associated with Shindo's films, with ''Children of Hiroshima'', ''The Naked Island'' and '' Onibaba'' being among the most well-known, Otowa also worked for noted directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Heinosuke Gosho, Keisuke Kinoshita and Nagisa Ōshima. Devoted to her profession, she frequently wrote and lectured on the art of film acting. In 1995, she was posthumously awarded as best actress in a supporting role at the 19th Japan Academy Prize for ''A Last Note'', having been diagnosed with terminal liver can ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nobuko Ota
is a Japanese rower. She competed in the women's coxless pair event at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as .... References 1969 births Living people Japanese female rowers Olympic rowers of Japan Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Asian Games medalists in rowing Rowers at the 1990 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games 20th-century Japanese women {{Japan-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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House Of Representatives Of Japan
The is the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors (Japan), House of Councillors is the upper house. The composition of the House is established by and of the Constitution of Japan. The House of Representatives has 465 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 176 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation, and 289 are elected from single-member constituencies. The overall voting system used to elect the House of Representatives is a Parallel voting, parallel system, a form of semi-proportional representation. Under a parallel system the allocation of list seats does not take into account the outcome in the single seat constituencies. Therefore, the overall allocation of seats in the House of Representatives is not proportional, to the advantage of larger parties. In contrast, in bodies such as the German ''Bundestag'' or the New Zealand Parliament the election of single-seat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Liberal Democratic Party Of Japan
The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a conservativeThe Liberal Democratic Party is widely described as conservative: * * * * * political party in Japan. The LDP has been in power almost continuously since its foundation in 1955—a period called the 1955 System—except between 1993 and 1994, and again from 2009 to 2012. In the 2012 election, it regained control of the government. After the 2021 and 2022 elections it holds 261 seats in the House of Representatives and 119 seats in the House of Councillors, and in coalition with Komeito since 1999, a governing majority in both houses. The LDP is often described as a big tent conservative party, with several different ideological factions. The party's history and internal composition have been characterized by intense factionalism ever since its emergence in 1955, with its parliamentary members currently split among six factions, each of which vies for influence in the party and the government. The incumbent Prime Mini ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nobuko Okashita
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kagawa Prefecture has a population of 949,358 (as of 2020) and is the smallest prefecture by geographic area at . Kagawa Prefecture borders Ehime Prefecture to the southwest and Tok ... and graduate of Gakushuin Women's Junior College, she was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000. She lost her seat in 2003 but was re-elected two years later. References * External links Official websitein Japanese. Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Female members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Politicians from Kagawa Prefecture Living people 1939 births Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians 21st-century Japanese politicians 21st-century Japanese women politicians {{Japan-politician-1930s- ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nobuko Nakahara
Nobuko Nakahara (, January 5, 1929 – July 5, 2008) was a Japanese architect who reached prominence after World War II. Nakahara was one of the first women to become a licensed architect in Japan. Biography Nobuko Nakahara was born in Urawa, Saitama in 1929. In 1945, she matriculated to Kasei-Gakuin Special School where she was taught home economics. After graduation, Nakahara found herself dissatisfied with her course of study and resolved to pursue architecture. In 1951, she enrolled at Musashi Institute of Technology , often called or TCU for short, is an engineering, environmental and information sciences focused private university located in Tokyo, Japan. The university has four campuses, the Setagaya campus close to the Tama River at Oyamadai, Setagay ... where she studied architecture. She was president of the UIFA (french: L'Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes, en, International Union of Women Architects). In September 1953, Nakahara, along with a number ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nobuko Miyamoto
is a Japanese actress. She was born in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and raised in Nagoya. She was married to director Juzo Itami from 1969 until his death in 1997, and regularly starred in his films. She has been nominated for eight Best Actress Japanese Academy Awards, winning in 1988 for her role in '' A Taxing Woman''. Selected filmography Film *''Lost Sex'' (1966) *'' The Funeral'' (1984) *''Tampopo'' (1985) *'' A Taxing Woman'' (1987) *''A Taxing Woman's Return'' (1988) *''Sweet Home'' (1989) as Akiko Hayakawa *'' A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha'' (1990) *''Minbo'' (1992) *''Daibyonin'' (1993) *'' Supermarket Woman'' (1996) *''Woman in Witness Protection'' (1997) *''Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald'' (1997) *'' Hankyu Railways: A 15-Minute Miracle'' (2011) as Tokie Hagiwara *''Strawberry Song'' (2019) *''Stand by Me Doraemon 2'' (2020) *''It's a Flickering Life'' (2021) as Yoshiko *''BL Metamorphosis'' (2022) as Yuki Ichinoi *''Haw'' (2022) Television *'' Uchi no Ko ni Kagitte...'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |