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Satoru Satō Art Museum
is a Japanese verb meaning "to know" or "understand". It is a common masculine Japanese given name. Satoru is the root of the Zen Buddhist word . Possible writings ''Satoru'' can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *悟る, "be spiritually awakened" or "attain higher perception" ;as a given name *悟, "enlightenment" *聡, "smart" *智, "wisdom" *知, "knowledge" *了, "understanding" *哲, "philosophy" *聖, "virtuous" *暁, "daybreak" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with the name * Satoru Abe (born 1926), American painter and sculptor *, Japanese scriptwriter, novelist and manga author * Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese sprinter *, fourth president and CEO of Nintendo *, Japanese table tennis player *Satoru Kobayashi (other), multiple people *, Japanese professional baseball player *, Japanese music composer *, Japanese ski jumper *, Japa ... [...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] |
Satoru Komiyama
, born September 15, 1965, is a former professional baseball player from Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan. He last played with the Chiba Lotte Marines, and played in the major leagues with the New York Mets in 2002. He is currently the manager for the Waseda University baseball team. Biography Komiyama was a star on the Waseda University college baseball team, and was drafted by the Lotte Orions (current Chiba Lotte Marines) in the first round in 1989. He won 6 games as a rookie in 1990, and won 10 games in 1992, becoming the team's ace. He would be the opening-day starter for three consecutive years after this. In 1997, he won only 11 games, but recorded a 2.49 ERA, the best in the league. The Marines cut Komiyama in 1999, and he signed with the Yokohama BayStars, playing two seasons where he posted ERA's under 4.00 as a starter. He became a free agent, and signed with the New York Mets in 2002, but returned to Japan after the season. He spent 2003 in semi-retirement, working as a baseball c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoru Otomo
is a Japanese dentist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. According to the Minor Planet Center, he is credited with the discovery of 148 asteroids between 1991 and 1997, 15 of which were co-discoveries with Osamu Muramatsu. As of 2016, he ranks 81st place just behind Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova (russian: Тама́ра Миха́йловна Смирно́ва; 1935–2001) was a Soviet Union, Soviet/Russian astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets. Career From 1966 to 1988, Smirnova was a sta ... in the MPC's asteroid discovery listings. List of discovered minor planets References External links Minor Planet Discoverers (Alphabetically) {{DEFAULTSORT:Otomo, Satoru 1957 births Discoverers of asteroids * People from Mitaka, Tokyo 20th-century Japanese astronomers Living people Japanese dentists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoru Okada
Satoru Okada (岡田 智 ''Okada Satoru'', born January 10, 1947) is the former general manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering, the division designing and developing Nintendo handheld game consoles. He is best known for creating the original Game Boy and its successors. He was also assistant producer and director of and contributor to several Nintendo games, notably '' Metroid'', released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986. Okada entered Nintendo in 1969 and went on to work as an engineer at Nintendo Research & Development 1 with Gunpei Yokoi, who developed the hugely successful Game & Watch and Game Boy handheld game consoles. In 1996, Yokoi left Nintendo which caused R&D1 to split, its engineers creating a portable hardware division of which Okada became the general manager. His team lacked Yokoi but nevertheless developed hugely successful handheld consoles: the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP and Nintendo DS. Okada initially opposed the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoru Nomura
is a Japanese Yakuza from Fukuoka Prefecture. He is the fifth president of the yakuza group Kudo-kai. Early life Nomura was born in 1946 as the sixth and youngest child in a rich peasant family. As a teenager, he was addicted to gambling and dedicated his fortunes to this habit and became a delinquent. He was often sent into a juvenile home for various crimes, including stealing a car. Nomura did not graduate from secondary school. It was only in his 20s when he joined Kudo-kai, a Yakuza gang. During his years in the underworld, Nomura was involved in crimes such as real estate fraud and illegal gambling dens, which earned him huge revenues. He also rose through the ranks to later become a Yakuza leader. At the peak of his criminal career in 2008, he had over 1,200 members under his wing, although by 2020 that number had fallen to around 400. In 1998, Nomura publicly shot a leader of a fishery business. In 2012, a retired police officer who had been probing Kudo-kai was shot in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoru Noda (footballer)
is a Japanese former football player. Club career Noda was born in Muroran on March 19, 1969. After graduating from Kokushikan University, he joined Nissan Motors (later ''Yokohama Marinos'') in 1991. In 1992, he became a regular player as defensive midfielder. The club won the champions 1991, 1992 Emperor's Cup and 1995 J1 League. In Asia, the club won the champions 1991–92 and 1992–93 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. In 1999, he moved to Avispa Fukuoka. Although he played as regular player, the club was relegated to J2 League in 2002. In 2002, his opportunity to play decreased and he moved to Regional Leagues club Volca Kagoshima in 2003. He retired end of 2004 season. National team career In 1988, when Noda was a Kokushikan University student, he was selected Japan national "B team" for 1988 Asian Cup. At this competition, he played 1 game. However, Japan Football Association don't count as Japan national team match because this Japan team was "B team" not "top team" Futsal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoru Noda (artist)
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series ''Golden Kamuy'', for which he won the 2016 Manga Taishō and the 2018 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Biography Noda was born in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido, Japan. His great-grandfather was a military settler in Hokkaido and veteran of the Russo-Japanese War; Noda named the protagonist of his manga series ''Golden Kamuy'' after him. After moving to Tokyo at the age of 23, he entered the manga industry as an artist assistant. Noda was an assistant to Mitsurou Kubo for two years, and later worked under . He made his debut as a manga artist in 2003, with the one-shot published in '. His second one-shot story, 2006's , won a in the Young Artist division. After working as an artist assistant for nearly a decade, Noda made his serialized manga debut in 2011 with '' Supinamarada!'', serialized in ''Weekly Young Jump''. After ''Supinamarada!'' was a commercial failure, Noda took a year before developing his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoru Nakano
is a Japanese former swimmer. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve .... References External links * 1947 births Living people Japanese male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers of Japan Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Hiroshima Universiade medalists in swimming Universiade bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1967 Summer Universiade 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoru Nakajima
is a Japanese former racing driver. He is a five-time Japanese Top Formula champion, and was the first full-time Japanese Formula One driver. Accordingly, he is responsible for several firsts for Japanese drivers in Formula One, including being the first to score championship points (at the 1987 San Marino Grand Prix, where he finished sixth in only his second F1 race), and being the first to record a fastest lap (at the 1989 Australian Grand Prix). Early life Nakajima was born into a farming family living just outside Okazaki, Japan. He began driving cars in his early teens in the family's garden with his older brother giving him tips, careful that their father didn't catch them. He felt exhilaration behind the wheel of a car, and from then on knew what he wanted to do. Career He started racing after he finished school and passed his driver's licence. In 1973 he was a rookie in the Suzuka Circuit series, which he won. Five years later, he won his first race in Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoru Mizushima
is a Japanese filmmaker and nationalist. He graduated from Waseda University majoring in German literature. He can often be seen and heard during nationalist rallies in Tokyo, especially during anti-Chinese protests. He denies Japan's destructive role in World War II. He is the main host of the right-wing Japanese media organization, Channel Sakura, which maintains an active YouTube broadcasting account "SakuraSoTV". ''The Japan Times'' has said Channel Sakura "is widely known for its glorification of Japan’s role in World War II and for airing shows that deny the Japanese military forced Korean women into sexual slavery." In 1988, he released his first film, ''The Story of the Panda'', about a Japanese woman who helps Chinese people raise a panda. In 1992, he released his second film, ''Goodbye Heiji'', about a blind girl and her seeing-eye dog. Historical negationism In 2007, he released ''The Truth about Nanjing'', a Japanese film that denies the occurrence of the Nanji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoru Miyoshi
is a Japanese rower. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October .... References 1963 births Living people Japanese male rowers Olympic rowers of Japan Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Asian Games medalists in rowing Rowers at the 1986 Asian Games Rowers at the 1990 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games {{Japan-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoru Miyano
is a professor and the director of the M&D Data Science Center at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. He was awarded fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2013 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. Career In 1977 Miyano graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University. He also got his master's degree in 1979 and became an assistant professor at Kyushu University. In 1985 he also received his PhD with hierarchy theorems in automata theory. In 1987 Miyano became an associate professor at the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University. In 1993 he became a professor at the aforementioned university. In 1996 he became a professor at the Human Genome Center at the University of Tokyo. From 2000 to 2005, excluding a year from March 2003, Miyano was the vice director of the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo. In July 2013 he became the first Japane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
