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Seiko (given Name)
Seiko is a Japanese given name, almost exclusively feminine. Its meaning depends on the kanji used to write it. Kanji and meaning The "ko" in Seiko is generally written with a kanji meaning "child" (), and in that case is exclusively feminine; the kanji for "Sei" varies, for example: * ("clear weather"); also read Haruko * ("upright", "correct"); also read Masako or Shōko, and also used in Korean to write the name Jeong-ja * ("clean", "pure"); also read Kiyoko or Sayako * ("holy"); also read Kiyoko or Shōko, and also used in Korean to write the name Seong-ja * ( "blue" or "green"); also read Aoko Rarely, the "ko" may be written with a kanji meaning "lake" (). Written this way, the name may be either masculine or feminine. People People with this name include: * , Japanese male martial artist * , Japanese politician, House of Councillors member, former ice speed skater and track cycling sprinter * , Japanese painter and poet * , Japanese volleyball player * Seiko Lee Japanes ...
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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 ...
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Seiko Noda
is a Japanese politician who served as Minister-in-charge of Measures against Declining Birthrate from October 2021 to August 2022. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, she previously served as Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications from 2017 to 2018 under Shinzo Abe. Noda also serves in the House of Representatives, serving her fifth term for the 1st District of Gifu Prefecture. She is a self-described conservative and was a candidate in the 2021 Liberal Democratic Party Leadership Election, however she was eliminated in a run-off, placing fourth in the first round. Early life She was born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka. Her grandfather, Uichi Noda (1903–1997) was a Ministry of Finance Vice Minister, and later became an elected member of the lower house serving as Economic Planning Agency Chief Secretary and Minister of Construction. She was born Seiko Shima, but before entering politics she was officially adopted and took her grandfather's name.''Japan Times'', ...
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Rin Seikō
was a scholar-bureaucrat and diplomat of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. He was known for leading a movement to petition the government of Qing Dynasty China to rescue the Ryūkyū Kingdom from annexation by Imperial Japan. It was standard at the time for members of Ryūkyū's aristocratic class to have two names: and . "''Rin Seikō''" was his Chinese style name, while or was his Japanese style name. Life Rin Seikō was born in Kumemura, a community descended from Chinese immigrants in the Ryūkyū Kingdom. He had studied in the in his early years. Having been chosen to start on the track to becoming a bureaucrat, he traveled to China to study at the age of 26, remaining at the Imperial Academy in Beijing for seven years. Upon returning to Okinawa, he was made instructor to the Crown Prince Shō Ten. Many people believed he would be elevated in position and power after King Shō Tai's death. But the government of Meiji Japan wanted to annex Okinawa, and unilaterally abolished the R ...
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Japanese Phonology
The phonology of Japanese features about 15 consonant phonemes, the cross-linguistically typical five-vowel system of , and a relatively simple phonotactic distribution of phonemes allowing few consonant clusters. It is traditionally described as having a mora as the unit of timing, with each mora taking up about the same length of time, so that the disyllabic ("Japan") may be analyzed as and dissected into four moras, , , , and . Standard Japanese is a pitch-accent language, wherein the position or absence of a pitch drop may determine the meaning of a word: "chopsticks", "bridge", "edge" (see Japanese pitch accent). Unless otherwise noted, the following describes the standard variety of Japanese based on the Tokyo dialect. Consonants *Voiceless stops are slightly aspirated: less aspirated than English stops, but more so than Spanish. *, a remnant of Old Japanese, now occurs almost always medially in compounds, typically as a result of gemination (as in 切符 ''k ...
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List Of Danganronpa Characters
The following is a list of characters from the Spike Chunsoft video game series ''Danganronpa''. The series follows the students of Hope's Peak Academy who are forced into a life of mutual killing by a sadistic teddy bear named Monokuma. The series consists of three games, '' Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc'', '' Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair'' and '' Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls'', along with a standalone sequel game, '' Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony'', various spin-off novels and manga including '' Danganronpa Zero'' and '' Killer Killer'', and two anime television series, one an adaptation of the first game and the other a sequel and finale, '' Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School''. Where available, this article uses spellings and terminology featured in the English video games. Monokuma :Voiced by (English): Brian Beacock (game); Greg Ayres (anime)Voiced by (Japanese): Nobuyo Ōyama (2010–2015); Tarako (2016 – present) is the anta ...
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Corpse Party
is an adventure game, adventure, and dōjin soft video game series originally created by Makoto Kedōin and developed by Team GrisGris. The first game in the series was developed using the RPG Maker game development tool, software version RPG Tsukūru Dante 98 and released on April 22, 1996 for the PC-9801. It was followed by three remakes: ''Corpse Party: NewChapter'', which was released incomplete for mobile phones from October 3, 2006 to December 26, 2007, ''Corpse Party: Blood Covered'', which was released for Microsoft Windows from March 8, 2008 to July 28, 2011, and ''Corpse Party: Blood Covered ...Repeated Fear'', which was released for the PlayStation Portable on August 12, 2010, and iOS on February 9, 2012. The game was released in North America and Europe by Marvelous USA under the title ''Corpse Party''. Marvelous USA planned to release a localized version ''Corpse Party Blood Covered'' for PC in North America in 2015, but the title was delayed until 2016. A 3DS version ...
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Seiko Yoshida
is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Mausu Promotion. Biography Filmography Television animation ; 2008 * ''Nijū Mensō no Musume'' as Spectator A (ep 5) ; 2009 * '' Umineko: When They Cry'' as Belphegor * ''Tatakau Shisho'' as Ia Mira ; 2010 * ''Princess Jellyfish'' as Lina * '' HeartCatch PreCure!'' as Toshiko Sakuma ; 2011 * ''I Don't Like You at All, Big Brother!!'' as Girl (ep 10) * '' Naruto: Shippuden'' as Headman's Granddaughter (ep 195) * '' Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts'' as 3rd grade girl A (ep 11) * ''Blood-C'' as Woman (ep 5) * ''Blade'' as Yati (ep 6) * ''Manyū Hiken-chō'' as Kayo (ep 3) * '' Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' as Kyōsuke Kamijō * ''Level E'' as Announcer (ep 1); Demon King (ep 7); Robert's Wife (ep 11); Saki's Friend A (eps 8–9); Younger Brother (ep 4) ; 2012 * '' Another'' as Mizuno * ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' as Reporter (ep 11) * '' Fate/Zero'' as Child (ep 19) * '' Naruto: Shippuden'' as Ruka ; 2013 * ''Amnesia'' as Rika ; ...
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Seiko Yamamoto
is a Japanese wrestler who won four world titles and two Asian Wrestling Championships in her career. Her father is Ikuei Yamamoto, who also competed in the Olympics as a wrestler. Her older brother is mixed martial artist Norifumi Yamamoto. Her sister Miyuu Yamamoto is female wrestler and mixed martial artist who won three world titles and one Asian Wrestling Championship in her career. In four years from 1999 till 2003, she collected four gold medals at the World Wrestling Championships. Because she lost at the Japan Queen's Cup to Saori Yoshida, she was unable to participate at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2006 she married team handball player Hideaki Nagashima and later retired, and in 2007 gave birth to a son. Two years later she came back and won another championship at the Poland Open. On July 30, 2015, San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish announced on Twitter Yamamoto gave birth to their son on July 29. Awards *''Tokyo Sports is a Japanese daily sports newspaper f ...
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Seiko Yamada
is a Japanese badminton player. Together with Shizuka Yamamoto, she won the women's doubles national champion in 2000 and 2003. Yamada competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Shizuka Yamamoto. They were defeated by Chin Eei Hui and Wong Pei Tty of Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ... in the round of 32. She is currently ranked #7 in Japan. Achievements IBF World Championships ''Women's doubles'' BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 4 runners-up) ''Women's doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament References External links * 1978 births Living people Sportspeople from Toyama Prefecture Japanese female badminton players Badminton players at t ...
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Seiko Tanabe
was a Japanese author. She graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature of Shōin Joshi Senmon Gakkō (now Osaka Shoin Women's University). Author of numerous novels, she won the Akutagawa Prize, Yomiuri Prize, and Asahi Prize, and received the Order of Culture for her contributions to literature. The honorific nicknamed the ''L. M. Montgomery of Japan'' after her death in 2019. Biography Tanabe was born on 27 March 1928. Her father was a photographer and operated a photography studio. She was familiar with the Japanese classic literatures since her young days. The cultures and tradition of her birthplace, Osaka, largely affected her life and literature. After World War II, she engaged in the coterie activities while working in a company. Her novel ''Hanagari'' () in this period was nominated in the literature competition and adopted as a radio drama. In 1956, she won the Osaka Citizen Award for literature for her story ''Niji'' (). After that she became a professional ...
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Seiko Shimakage
is a Japanese former volleyball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. .... She was born in Sakata. In 1972 she was part of the Japanese team which won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. She played all five matches. External links * * 1949 births Living people Olympic volleyball players for Japan Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Japan Japanese women's volleyball players Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics {{japan-volleyball-bio-stub ...
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Seiko Oomori
is a Japanese singer-songwriter. Her musical career began in the underground music culture of Tokyo's Kōenji neighborhood, briefly playing in the punk band Kuchuu Moranko before going solo and releasing two independent albums until signing with major record label Avex Trax in 2014. Oomori's music style is influenced by idol culture and punk rock among other clashing musical styles, and she is considered one of the early pioneers of the "anti-idol" and alternative idol scenes led by groups like BiS that would eventually give way to the more popular Kawaii metal movement, utilizing shock value and performance art throughout the early parts of her career. Career Born in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Oomori moved to Tokyo to attend Musashino Art University in Kodaira. Starting from 2007, Oomori performed in one of Kōenji's "live houses" named Muryoku Muzenji, singing while playing an acoustic guitar. In 2011, Oomori formed a band named . During her time in Kōenji, Oomori's m ...
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