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Shuntarō
Shuntarō, Shuntaro or Shuntarou (written: or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese businessman *, Japanese physician *, Japanese historian and educator *, Czech sumo wrestler *, Japanese poet and translator *, Japanese journalist and activist {{DEFAULTSORT:Shuntaro Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takanoyama Shuntarō
Takanoyama Shuntarō (born 21 February 1983 as Pavel Bojar) is a former sumo wrestler from Prague, Czech Republic. He is the first man from the Czech Republic to join the professional sport in Japan. He reached the third highest ''makushita'' division in 2004, but due to his light weight he had difficulty in regularly beating his opponents, despite his skill. However, in May 2011 he finally earned promotion to the ''sekitori'' ranks. After becoming only the third new ''sekitori'' since 1958 to pass through ''jūryō'' division in just one tournament, he made his debut in the top ''makuuchi'' division in September 2011. He retired on 24 July 2014. Early life and sumo background Bojar practised judo in the Czech Republic before becoming interested in sumo. Sumo is more popular in the Czech Republic than in any other European country, with ten sumo clubs containing some 600 members, and he was trained by , president of the Czech Sumo Association. After winning the bronze medal in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuntarō Tanikawa
(born December 15, 1931 in Tokyo City, Japan) is a Japanese poet and translator. He is one of the most widely read and highly regarded of living Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad, and a frequent subject of speculations regarding the Nobel Prize in Literature. Several of his collections, including his selected works, have been translated into English, and his ''Floating the River in Melancholy'', translated by William I. Eliott and Kazuo Kawamura, won the American Book Award in 1989. Tanikawa has written more than 60 books of poetry in addition to translating Charles Schulz's ''Peanuts'' and the Mother Goose rhymes into Japanese. He was nominated for the 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Award for his contributions to children's literature. He also helped translate ''Swimmy'' by Leo Lionni into Japanese. Among his contributions to less conventional art genres is his open video correspondence with Shūji Terayama (''Video Letter'', 1983). Since the 1970s Tanikawa also provid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuntarō Itō
is a Japanese scholar of the history of science and the study of comparative civilization. Itō is an honorary professor of University of Tokyo and International Research Center for Japanese Studies, and a professor of Reitaku University, and the Chairman of Japan Seaology Promotion Organization. He is also a former president of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. Itō was born in Tokyo, and obtained his bachelor's degree in literature from Tokyo University in 1953, his master's in 1955, and Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964. Itō taught at the University of Tokyo, as Professor, from 1978 to 1989, and in International Research Center for Japanese Studies from 1989 to 1995, and in Reitaku University from 1995. Bibliography *Ito, S. ''The Medieval Latin Translation of the Data of Euclid''. Tokyo University Press, 1980 and Birkhauser, 1998. Honours *Person of Cultural Merit is an official Japanese recognition and honor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuntaro Furukawa
is a Japanese businessman and executive. He is the sixth and current president of the video game company Nintendo in Japan. He took over as company president in June 2018, succeeding Tatsumi Kimishima. Early life Furukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan as the son of illustrator Taku Furukawa on January 10, 1972. He grew up playing games on Nintendo's Famicom console. Furukawa is a graduate of Kunitachi Senior High School, and graduated from Waseda University's School of Political Science and Economics in 1994. Career In 1994, he joined Nintendo and worked as an accountant at the European headquarters for a decade. By the mid-2010s, he rose up in the corporate office, working in global marketing, the executive department. He also became an outside director of the partly owned The Pokémon Company as the Nintendo representative in the board of directors of the company, due to Nintendo owning 32% shares in the joint venture. In 2015, he was promoted to the General Manager of Corpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuntaro Torigoe
(born 13 March 1940) is a Japanese journalist and political activist. Journalism career Torigoe was born in present-day Ukiha, Fukuoka and graduated from Kyoto University. He began his reporting career with the ''Mainichi Shimbun'' in 1965. He served at one point as the ''Mainichi'' correspondent in Tehran, and traveled to the front lines of the Iran–Iraq War in 1984, becoming the only Japanese journalist to do so. He left Mainichi in 1989 and thereafter was known for his role as a commentator on TV Asahi news programs. He was named editor-in-chief of OhMyNews Japan in 2006. Torigoe was diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer in 2005 and underwent several years of treatment, including four operations. He published a book on the experience entitled ''Cancer Patient''. Political career Torigoe became active in the opposition to collective security legislation in 2015 and took part in demonstrations at the National Diet Building. 2016 Tokyo gubernatorial election Shortly foll ... [...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] |
Shuntaro Hida
Shuntaro Hida (1 January 1917 – 20 March 2017) was a Japanese physician who was an eyewitness when the ''Little Boy'' atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the ''Enola Gay'' on 6 August 1945. He treated survivors as a medical doctor and wrote about the effects of radiation on the human body. The night before the bomb was dropped 28-year-old Dr. Hida left the Hiroshima Military Hospital where he was stationed as an army medical officer to attend to a sick child in the village of Hesaka. He was therefore approximately 6 kilometers from ground zero when the bomb was dropped and he looked up and saw the Boeing B-29 Superfortress aircraft which he described as appearing like a "tiny silver drop". He then felt the heat and blast from the explosion and saw the mushroom cloud over the city. As a medical doctor he treated the wounded and saw the short- and long-term effects of radiation on the human body. After the war he continued to treat atomic bomb survivors (known as Hibakusha) fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Masculine Given Names
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
