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Takeharu Onishi
Takeharu (written: 武春, 武治 or 丈晴) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese video game composer *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese musician {{given name Japanese masculine given names ... [...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] |
Dejima Takeharu
Dejima Takeharu (出島 武春, born March 21, 1974) is a former sumo wrestler from Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. A former amateur champion, he made his professional debut in 1996, reaching the top ''makuuchi'' division the following year. In July 1999 he won the ''yūshō'' or tournament championship and earned promotion to the second highest rank of '' ōzeki''. He lost the rank in 2001 and, for the most part, remained a ''maegashira'' until his retirement in 2009. He won ten special prizes and six gold stars over his long career. He wrestled for Musashigawa stable. He is now an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name Ōnaruto Oyakata. Early career Dejima did sumo at elementary school, where he was a rival of fellow top division wrestler Tochinonada. He was an amateur champion at Chuo University. Dejima joined professional sumo in March 1996 at the age of 22, recruited by Musashigawa stable, home to then ''ōzeki'' Musashimaru. Due to his amateur success he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeharu Ishimoto
is a Japanese video game composer and musician. Formerly employed by Square Enix, he joined them in 1999 as a synthesizer programmer on ''Legend of Mana'', and worked for them on several games. In 2002, he was promoted to the role of composer, beginning with ''World Fantasista''. He has since composed for several large-budget games, such as ''The World Ends with You'', '' Dissidia: Final Fantasy'', and ''Final Fantasy Type-0''. In addition to his work for Square Enix, he is a composer and guitar player for the bands The Death March and SAWA. He left Square Enix at the end of 2017, becoming a freelancer. Biography Ishimoto first got into music as, according to him, he lived in the country and there was nothing else to do. He first worked as a synthesizer programmer before becoming a composer; he began working as such in 1999 with ''Legend of Mana''. Several games later, he began to also work as a composer with the PlayStation 2 soccer game ''World Fantasista''. In 2004 he began t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeharu Kato
is a retired Japanese professional pitcher. External links Living people 1978 births Baseball people from Yamagata Prefecture Tokyo Gakugei University alumni Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Yokohama BayStars players Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters players Japanese baseball coaches Nippon Professional Baseball coaches {{Japan-baseball-pitcher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeharu Kunimoto
was a prominent Japanese '' shamisen'' player and '' rōkyoku'' singer. In addition to performing and recording traditional music, he was also the only prominent ''shamisen'' player to perform and record bluegrass music; he spent some time in the 2000s in the bluegrass program of East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. He also performed and recorded in a rock music-influenced style. At the age of 14 Kunimoto attended a Bill Monroe concert in Tokyo and shook his hand, thus inspiring Takeharu to play bluegrass. Kunimoto died at the age of 55 on December 24, 2015, following an illness. Discography ;Contributing artist * '' The Rough Guide to the Music of Japan'' (1999, World Music Network World Music Network is a UK-based record label specializing in world music. The World Music Network website features news, reviews, live music listings, and guide sections on world music. It also features an online "Battle of the Bands" competit ...) * The Last Frontier: A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
