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Shimomura
Shimomura (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese politician *, Japanese Nihonga painter *, Japanese chemical engineer *, Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist *, Japanese economist *Roger Shimomura (born 1939), American artist and academic *, Japanese general *, Japanese footballer *, American physicist and computer security expert *, Japanese composer and pianist *, Japanese footballer and manager See also *Shimamura Shimamura (written: 島村 or 嶋村 lit. "island village") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Arthur P. Shimamura Arthur Paul Shimamura (June 26, 1954 – October 6, 2020) was a professor of psychology and faculty m ... {{surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoko Shimomura
is a Japanese composer and pianist primarily known for her work in video games. She graduated from the Osaka College of Music in 1988 and began working in the video game industry by joining Capcom the same year. She wrote music for several games there, including ''Final Fight'', ''Street Fighter II'', and ''The King of Dragons''. Shimomura left Capcom and joined Square (now Square Enix) in 1993, with her first project there being ''Live A Live''. She would later become better known for writing the music for '' Kingdom Hearts'', which was her last game at Square before leaving to become a freelancer in 2002. She founded a music production company, Midiplex, the following year. Despite leaving Square Enix, she has continued to compose for the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series and other games such as ''The 3rd Birthday'' and ''Final Fantasy XV''. Other well-known games Shimomura has worked on include ''Super Mario RPG'', the ''Mario & Luigi'' series, ''Parasite Eve'', ''Legend of Mana' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Shimomura
Roger Shimomura (born Roger Yutaka Shimomura in 1939 in Seattle) is an American artist and a retired professor at the University of Kansas, having taught there from 1969 to 2004. His art, showcased across the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and Israel, often combines American popular culture, traditional Asian tropes, and stereotypical racial imagery to provoke thought and debate on issues of identity and social perception.a/p/a Artist in residence:Roger Shimomura; http://www.nyu-apastudies.org/2012/roger-shimomura/ retvd 7 14 15 Early life Roger Shimomura was born on June 26, 1939, at the Shimomura family home in Seattle, Washington's Central District. He was delivered by his grandmother, Toku, a professional midwife who would become an important figure in his life and art. His father, Eddy Kazuo Shimomura, was a pharmacist, and his mother, Aya, was a homemaker. Both parents were U.S.-born ''nisei'' whose parents had emigrated from Japan in the early 1900s.C-SPAN: Rog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osamu Shimomura
was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and Professor Emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two American scientists: Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Roger Tsien of the University of California-San Diego. Biography Born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto in 1928, Shimomura was brought up in Manchukuo (Manchuria, China) and Osaka, Japan while his father served as an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. Later, his family moved to Isahaya, Nagasaki, 25 km from the epicenter of the August 1945 atomic bombing of the city. He recalled hearing, as a 16-year-old boy, the bomber plane ''Bockscar'' before the atom bomb exploded.Nobelprize.org Nobel laureate lecture.December 8, 2008. The explosion flash blinded Shimomura for about thirty seconds, and he was later dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsutomu Shimomura
is a Japanese-born American physicist and computer security expert. He is known for helping the FBI track and arrest hacker Kevin Mitnick. ''Takedown'', his 1996 book on the subject with journalist John Markoff, was later adapted for the screen in ''Track Down'' in 2000. Shimomura was a founder of semiconductor company Neofocal Systems, and served as CEO and CTO until 2016. Biography Born in Japan, Shimomura is the son of Osamu Shimomura, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, and attended Princeton High School. At Caltech he studied under Nobel laureate Richard Feynman. After Caltech, he went on to work at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he continued his hands-on education in the position of staff physicist with Brosl Hasslacher and others on subjects such as Lattice Gas Automata. In 1989, he became a research scientist in computational physics at the University of California, San Diego, and senior fellow at the San Diego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadamu Shimomura
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Hakubun Shimomura
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Early life and education A native of Takasaki, Gunma, Shimomura was born on 23 May 1954. He lost his father at the age of nine and endured severe financial hardship in order to complete his education, but obtained scholarships to complete high school and university. He operated a cram school while enrolled as a student at Waseda University. Career Shimomura had served in the assembly of Tokyo for two terms since 1989. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996. He is a representative of the district of Tokyo No. 11 in the lower house. He was deputy chief cabinet secretary in the first government of Shinzo Abe in 2006. Shimomura was again appointed to the Cabinet by Shinzo Abe as minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology on 26 December 2012. As minister, Shimomura expanded the ability of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osamu Shimomura (economist)
Osamu Shimomura (下村 治 ''Shimomura Osamu'', 1910 – November 27, 1989), born in Saga Prefecture, Kitagawa Village, was a Japanese economist considered to be the "father of the Japanese economic miracle". Biography Upon graduation from the Economics Faculty of Tokyo Imperial University in 1934, he joined the Economic Stabilization Board of Japan until his retirement in 1959. In 1956, he received his Ph.D. in economics from Tohoku University with the doctoral thesis "Multiplier analysis of economic fluctuations." A key advisor to Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, Shimomura was the primary architect of Ikeda's famous Income Doubling Plan The was a long-term economic development plan initiated by Japanese prime minister Hayato Ikeda in the fall of 1960. The plan called for doubling the size of Japan's economy in ten years through a combination of tax breaks, targeted investment, a ... of 1960, and played a central role in economic planning during Ikeda's time in office, help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanzan Shimomura
was the art-name, pseudonym of a nihonga painter in Meiji era, Meiji through to the early Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Shimomura Seizaburō. Biography Kanzan was born in 1873 in Wakayama, Wakayama, Wakayama city, Wakayama Prefecture into a family of hereditary Noh actors. Having moved to Tokyo at the age of eight, Kanzan studied under Kanō Hōgai, and after Hōgai's death, under Hashimoto Gahō. He graduated first in his class at the ''Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō'' (the forerunner of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music), and became a teacher at the same institution in 1894. When Okakura Tenshin left government service to establish the Japan Fine Arts Academy (''Nihon Bijutsuin''), Kanzan joined him, together with Yokoyama Taikan and Hishida Shunsō. However, Kanzan returned to his teaching post at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakkō from 1901–1908, with a hiatus from 1903–1905, when he went to study in England. From 1914, he helped reestablish the Japan Fine Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukio Shimomura
is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team. He also managed Japan national team. Club career Shimomura was born in Hiroshima on January 25, 1932. After graduating from Shudo High School, he joined his local club Toyo Industries in 1950. The club won the 2nd place at 1954 and 1957 Emperor's Cup. At 1954 Emperor's Cup, it was first Emperor's Cup finalist as a works team. He retired in 1961. National team career On October 9, 1955, Shimomura debuted for Japan national team against Burma. In 1956, he was selected Japan for 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. But did not compete, as he was the team's reserve goalkeeper behind Yoshio Furukawa. Coaching career After retirement, Shimomura became a manager for Toyo Industries in 1964. In 1965, Toyo Industries joined new league Japan Soccer League. In 1965 season, the club won first champions in the league. He led the club through their first golden era as five-time champions of the league ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotaro Shimomura
was a Japanese chemical engineer known for many famous inventions. Early life and education When about 12 years of age, he attended the Kumamoto Yogakko where American soldier Capt. L. L. James was engaged. In 1876, he was studying theology in Doshisha. He went to America in 1885 when 25 years of age, and he entered the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He took the degree of B.S. He went to Johns Hopkins University where he worked in organic chemistry under Prof. Ira Remsen. He also obtained practical technique of Solvay in Bruxelles. Coke-oven and Coke manufacture Dr. Shimomura was the first to produce coke on a large scale in quality and hardness equal to best English and German coke by suitable blending of materials and suitable method of heating, which eventually superseded the foreign articles entire He erected the first by-product ovens in Japan, and when built and started, the enterprise was considered to be a reckless endeavor. But gradually the number of ovens has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomi Shimomura
is a former Japanese 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. Club statistics References External links * 1980 births Living people Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences alumni Association football people from Hokkaido Sportspeople from Sapporo Japanese footballers J1 League players J2 League players Cerezo Osaka players JEF United Chiba players Montedio Yamagata players Shonan Bellmare players Giravanz Kitakyushu players Japanese people of Austrian descent Association football midfielders {{Japan-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiji Shimomura
is a Japanese former volleyball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon .... References 1959 births Living people Japanese men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players of Japan Volleyball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics {{Japan-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
