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Setsuko Hara
Setsuko (written: or in hiragana) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, later of Japan *, actress *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese actress and model * Setsuko Klossowska de Rola (born 1942), Japanese painter * Setsuko Kobori Japanese table tennis player * Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi (1921–2012), Japanese pioneering community activist and researcher *, Japanese yōga painter *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese novelist *, Japanese–Canadian nuclear disarmament campaigner *, Japanese novelist *, Japanese volleyball player Fictional characters *Setsuko, a character in the film '' Grave of the Fireflies'' References {{given name Japanese feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of 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 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 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 characters that exist. There are nearly 3,000 kanji used in Japanese names and in comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Migishi Setsuko
Migishi Setsuko (三岸節子, January 3, 1905 – April 18, 1999) was a Japanese ''yōga'' (Western-style) painter. Known for employing vivid colors and bold strokes for still-life and landscape, Migishi contributed greatly to the establishment and elevation of the status of female artists in the Japanese art scene. Early Years Born Setsuko Yoshida in Nakashima-gun (later Oniishi, now Ichinomiya), Aichi Prefecture, into a wealthy family who built a textile factory in Owari, she was the sixth of ten children. Her birth family was a wealthy landowner who ran a woolen cloth manufacturing business. Due to a congenital dislocation of the hip joint, Migishi had a major operation during her infant times at a hospital in Nagoya. After attending Koshin Nakajima Elementary School, she enrolled in Kihatsu Elementary School in 1915 and graduated from the school in 1917. She entered Shukutoku High School for Girls in Nagoya. While at school, her roommate at the school's dorm, Suzu Toda, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setsuko Yoshida
(born November 4, 1942) is a female Japanese former volleyball player who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics. She was born in Aichi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectur .... In 1968 she was part of the Japanese team which won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. She played six matches. External links profile 1942 births Living people Japanese women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players of Japan Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in volleyball Asian Games medalists in volleyball Volleyball players at the 1962 Asian Games Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Japan {{japan-volleyball-bio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setsuko Tsumura
is a Japanese novelist. She is a 1965 recipient of the Akutagawa Prize. Early life Tsumura was born in the capital city of Fukui, Japan. Her mother died when she was nine years old. Two years later, she moved to Tokyo. Her father, a silk weaver, died when she was sixteen. Between 1947 and 1948, at the age of nineteen, Tsumura ran her own dressmaking shop, employing three other seamstresses. Despite the success of her business, she closed the shop to attend Gakushuuin Women's Junior College, where she studied literature and edited the student literary magazine. She met her husband, Akira Yoshimura (1927 - 2006), while contributing to the literary magazine at his college. Tsumura graduated in 1953 and married soon after. Career Tsumura was nominated for the Naoki Prize in 1959 for her short story, "Kagi" (Key), which she wrote for the Bungakukai magazine. She was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1965 for her short story "Gangu" (Playthings), a story about an expectant mother w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setsuko Thurlow
, born , is a Japanese–Canadian nuclear disarmament campaigner and Hibakusha who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. She is mostly known throughout the world for being a leading figure of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons (ICAN) and to have given the acceptance speech for its reception of the 2017 Nobel peace prize. Earlier life Setsuko Thurlow was born in Hiroshima Kojin-machi (today suburb of Minami) in 1932 and is the youngest of 7 children. She comes from a comfortable background. Her brothers and sisters being older and therefore having left the family home, she was the last one to live with her parents. In 1944, she entered in the girls only Hiroshima Jogakuin high school. Three weeks before the bomb, she was selected to participate in a student state program to decode American military communications as an assistant. Experience of the nuclear atomic bomb On Monday August 6, 1945, she was working as a member of the student ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setsuko Shinoda
is a Japanese writer of genre fiction. She has won the ''Shōsetsu Subaru'' Literary Prize for Newcomers, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, the Naoki Prize, the Shibata Renzaburo Prize, a MEXT Award, and the Chuo Koron Literary Prize. Several of her works have been adapted for television. Early life and education Setsuko Shinoda was born in 1955 in Tokyo. As a child she read manga by Sanpei Shirato as well as books by foreign authors such as L. Frank Baum, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mark Twain, and aspired to become a manga artist. She graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University. Before beginning her writing career she worked as a municipal employee in Hachiōji, including working at City Hall and the municipal library. She began taking writing lessons at the Asahi Cultural Center intending to move into public relations, but ended up taking novel writing classes and writing her first novel. Writing career In 1990 Shinoda's debut novel ', a science fiction story about a biotech disast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setsuko Shimada
is a Japanese former swimmer. She competed in the women's 100 metre freestyle at the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, whi .... References External links * 1938 births Living people Olympic swimmers of Japan Swimmers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Asian Games medalists in swimming Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Swimmers at the 1958 Asian Games Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games Japanese female freestyle swimmers {{Japan-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setsuko Sasaki
is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion. She was a member of the Japanese winning team, , at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...."1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Volleyball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 7, 2008) References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi
Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi (née Setsuko Matsunaga; October 17, 1921 – November 18, 2012) was a pioneering community activist and researcher in the area of American race relations as well as professor of sociology at the City University of New York where she taught the first courses on Asian American studies. Early life and education Born in Los Angeles, Nishi was the daughter of Hatsu and Tahei Matsunaga who had emigrated to the United States from Kumamoto, Japan. Her father was a hotel owner in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles. She attended Theodore Roosevelt High School before enrolling as a music student at the University of Southern California. A trained classical pianist, she often played with her sister Helen who was a violinist. Despite writing a telegram to President Roosevelt complaining about "internment as undemocratic", she had to interrupt her studies and her music career in spring 1942 when, as Japanese Americans, she and her family were incarcerated at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setsuko Kobori
Setsuko Kobori is a former international table tennis player from Japan. Table tennis career She won a bronze medal at the 1971 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's doubles with Yukiko Kawamorita. She also won an Asian Championship medal. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed). Men's singles Medal table Women's singles The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ... References Living people Japanese female table tennis players World Table Tennis Championships medalists Year of birth missing (living people) {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setsuko Klossowska De Rola
Setsuko Klossowska de Rola (born January 1 1942) is a Japanese painter. She has exhibited her work internationally, and is also a writer. She became UNESCO's Artist For Peace in 2005. She is the widow of the French painter, Balthus, and is honorary president of the Balthus Foundation.Countess Setsuko Klossowska de Rola designated Artist for Peace UNESCO. Retrieved: 2011-06-01. Biography Setsuko was born Setsuko Ideta in , in 1942. She graduated from Tokyo Morimura Gakuen High School in 1961 and entered the department of French language at |
