|
Risa (given Name)
is a female given name, which exists most commonly in Japanese, but may be found elsewhere. Possible writings Risa can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *梨彩, "pear, coloring" *梨沙, "pear, sand" *梨紗, "pear, silk gauze" *里沙, "village, sand" *里紗, "village, silk gauze" *理沙, "reason, sand" *理佐, "reason, aid" *理紗, "reason, silk gauze" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People *, Japanese actress and gravure idol *, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese announcer *, Japanese fashion model *, Japanese idol and tarento *, Japanese idol *Risa Hontiveros (born 1966), Filipino socialist activist, politician, and journalist * Risa Horowitz (born 1970), Canadian visual and media artist *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese actress * Risa Kawano, Japanese drummer *, Japanese model and actress * Risa L. Goluboff, American lawyer and legal historian * Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (born 1954), American doct ... [...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] |
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey (born September 25, 1954) is an American medical doctor and executive who served as president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 2003 to 2017. She was the first woman and the first African-American to head the foundation, which has an endowment of about $8 billion and distributes more than $400 million a year. She has been named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes several times, and one of The Grio's History Makers in the Making. She was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2016. Education and early career Born in Seattle, Washington, in 1954, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey attended The Bush School and attended University of Washington and State University of New York at Stony Brookbut applied to medical school after her junior year her M.D. at Harvard Medical School and completed her internship and residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. In 1984, she was named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risa Shimizu (footballer)
is a Japanese professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... player who plays as a right-back for Women's Super League club West Ham United F.C. Women, West Ham United and the Japan women's national football team, Japan national team. Born and raised in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Hyogo Prefecture, Shimizu played youth football for Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza, Tokyo Verdy Beleza and subsequently begun her professional career with the club in 2013. Shimizu moved to West Ham United F.C. Women, West Ham United in 2022. Shimizu made her senior international debut for the Japan women's national football team, Japan national team in 2018 and has since won 56 caps. Early life and career Shimizu was born in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture on June 15, 1996. She began pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risa Shimamoto
is a Japanese gravure idol, belonging to the show-business production ''Plaisir'', subsequently ''ACE''. Activities TV Programs * Mizugi Shojo (水着少女), TV Tokyo * Tokyo Biyu (東京美優), TV Tokyo DVDs * Pearl, Vega Factory 2003 * Pure Smile Risa Shimamoto, Takeshobo is a major publisher in Japan. Takeshobo was founded in 1972 by Kyōichirō Noguchi, starting Japan's first Mahjong magazine . Other magazines, such as a magazine dedicated to mahjong-themed manga, as well as a magazine dedicated to yonkoma ma ... 2004 * Sweet Milk, Line Communications 2004 * Jonetsu (情熱), E-net Fronteer 2004 * Milk Shake, Line Communications 2005 * Muku -innocent world- (無垢 -i.w.-), GP Museum Soft 2005 * Mizugi Samurai (水着サムライ), GP Museum Soft 2005 * LHICHA de GO, E-net Fronteer 2005 Bibliography Photo books * Ichigo Juice (15果実), Bauhaus 2003 * Strawberry (ストロベリー), Angel-X - ''digital'' * RI-CHA, Saibunkan 2004 * girl, Takeshobo 2004 * Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risa Shigetomo
is a Japanese long-distance runner. She competed in the marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics, placing 78th with a time of 2:40:06. She finished in 14th place in the marathon at the 2015 World Championship with a time of 2:32:37. Her personal best is 2:23:23, set in Osaka in 2012, while she was winning the 2012 Osaka marathon. She won the Osaka Marathon again in 2017, in a time of 2:24:22. Winning the Osaka Marathon earned her a place on Japan's 2017 World Championship team. References 1987 births Living people Japanese female long-distance runners Olympic athletes of Japan Olympic female marathon runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics People from Okayama Prefecture World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan Japanese female marathon runners 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risa Sera
, better known by her ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler and actress. She is currently a freelancer working in the deathmatch unit Prominence, who is best known for wrestling in Ice Ribbon. She is a four-time International Ribbon Tag Team Champion, while also being a former two-time ICE×∞ Champion. Early life Sera was born in Sera, Hiroshima. After graduating high school, she moved to Tokyo and studied voice acting at Amusement Media Academy (AMG). In 2012, Sera took part in the audition for "Taiyo kara Plancha" (), a movie collaboration with Ice Ribbon, and she won the main role on the condition that she had to actually make her wrestling debut with other winners of the audition, which made Ice Ribbon's recruiting project likewise in "Muscle Venus." Until then, she used her real name Risa Okuda. Professional wrestling career Ice Ribbon (2012–2020) Sera was trained by Tsukasa Fujimoto and made her debut on November 10, 2012, at the Ice Ribbon dojo under the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risa Sato
is a Filipino-Japanese volleyball player who is currently living in the Philippines and playing in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines for the NU Lady Bulldogs and in the Premier Volleyball League for the Creamline Cool Smashers. Early life Risa Sato was born on October 4, 1994 in Osaka, Japan where she also spent her childhood. Her mother is Filipino while her father is Japanese. Sato played volleyball at school in Japan. She left Japan at age 19 along with her mother to pursue her dream to play in the Philippines. Career Sato was brought to the Philippines in 2013 to play for the collegiate varsity team of the Ateneo de Manila University by Roger Gorayeb, who was then coach of the university. She played for Ateneo as a guest player in the Shakey's V-League. However she failed to get admitted to Ateneo due to failing the entrance examinations which was written in English. In August 2015, she underwent try-outs to play for the National University which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risa Ozaki
is a former professional Japanese tennis player. In her career, Ozaki won six singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 24 April 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 70. On 6 March 2017, she peaked at No. 246 in the WTA doubles rankings. Ozaki made her WTA Tour debut at the 2013 Tashkent Open, having entered the qualifying tournament and defeating Veronika Kapshay and Ksenia Palkina for a spot in the main draw. She was thereby pitted against fellow qualifier Kateryna Kozlova and defeated the Ukrainian in straight sets, simultaneously recording her first main-draw win at the WTA Tour-level. She was subsequently beaten in the second round by Nastassja Burnett Nastassja Burnett (born 20 February 1992) is an Italian former professional tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each play ... in a final-set tiebreak. Performance timelines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risa Ohki
is a Japanese vocalist, most famously featured on '' Final Fantasy: Pray'' and '' Final Fantasy: Love Will Grow'' albums. She sings in at least five languages: Japanese (her primary language), English, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and Italian (on Genso Suikoden Vocal album "La passione commuove la Storia"). She also sang an image song for Sailor Uranus from ''Sailor Moon'', which was called "Inisharu U" (Initial U.) However Ohki was not the voice actress for the character, she was filling in whilst Megumi Ogata was busy with her role as Shinji Ikari in ''Neon Genesis Evangelion''. She sang as part of a six-member backing choir for the song "At the Gala" in the Japanese dub of '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'', and voiced the mother of Whale in the Japanese dub of ''Magic Adventures of Mumfie ''Magic Adventures of Mumfie'' is a British animated children's television series and movie, inspired by the works of Katharine Tozer (1907-1943) with an original music score con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risa Shimizu (actress)
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator. She was born and raised in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Filmography Television animation Original net animation Original video animation Theatrical animation Video Games Dubbing roles Live-action Animation References External links * Official agency profile * * 1988 births Living people Japanese child actresses Japanese musical theatre actresses Japanese video game actresses Japanese voice actresses Kunitachi College of Music alumni Voice actresses from Kanagawa Prefecture {{Japan-voice-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risa Nishioka
, nicknamed Haku, is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for Mitsubishi Electric Koalas of the Women's Japan Basketball League . She also plays for Japan women's national 3x3 team. Personal Her father Tsuyoshi Nishioka is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines and Hanshin Tigers, as well as Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins. Nishioka played in the 2006 ... is a former professional baseball pitcher. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Nishioka, Risa 1997 births Living people 3x3 basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Japanese women's 3x3 basketball players Japanese women's basketball players Olympic 3x3 basketball players of Japan Sportspeople from Nara Prefecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
