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Takuo Hinuma
Takuo (written: 卓雄, 拓央 or 択生) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese engineer *, Japanese naval architect, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and government minister *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese astronomer *Takuo Miyagishima Takuo Miyagishima (March 15, 1928 – August 4, 2011) was a Japanese-American design engineer who worked for Panavision. He was responsible for many of the company's innovations in motion picture photography and projection. In 2005, Miyagishima ... (1928–2011), Japanese-American design engineer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese conductor {{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] |
Takuo Aoyagi
was a Japanese engineer, known for his work leading to the modern pulse oximeter. Early life, education and career Aoyagi was born February 14, 1936, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. His parents were Monshichi and Tatsu Aoyagi. His father was a mathematics teacher and his mother was a homemaker. Aoyagi received an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Niigata University in 1958. He then worked for a time for the scientific instrumentation company Shimadzu Corporation, before moving to the research division of the medical equipment company Nihon Kohden in 1971. Pulse oximetry An earlier oximeter had been invented by Glen Millikan, building on work by Karl von Vierordt, Karl Matthes, and others. Earl Wood and his PhD student J. E. Geraci made some improvements. These early devices were inaccurate and difficult to use. The main idea was to measure the difference in how blood absorbed red light versus infrared light. An obstacle was that the pulse of blood cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takuo Godō
was a naval architect, vice admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, entrepreneur and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan. Background Godō was born in Tokyo to an ex-medical doctor (goten-i) family. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1901 with a degree in naval engineering, and was accepted into the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Engineering Department. He rapidly rose through the ranks, serving as a military attaché to the United Kingdom as a lieutenant commander from June 1911 to July 1913, and to the United States as a captain from May 1917 to January 1918, and June 1919 to June 1920. He was promoted to rear admiral in December 1922 and became commandant of Kure Naval Arsenal in June 1924. In December 1926, he was promoted to vice admiral. In 1928, Godō left the navy to accept the post of president of Showa Steel Works, based in Anshan, Manchuria, and the following year became one of the directors of the South Manchurian Railway Company. In 1937, Prime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takuo Kawamura
is a male Japanese voice actor from Saitama, Japan. Filmography Anime * Baki the Grappler as Gym Member B (ep 6); Naito *Demonbane as Stone * Detective Loki as Thief (ep 2) *Fullmetal Alchemist as Examinee (ep 6) * Happiness! as Hachisuke Takamizo *Higurashi no Naku Koro ni as Katsuya Kumagai *Hikaru no Go as Baseball Team member (ep 64); Chinese Pro (ep 67); Natsume *Knight Hunters Eternity (eps 1,3,5,6) *Kokoro Library as Gentleman (ep 2) *Naruto as Shigure *Please Twins! as Gonta *Kimi ga Nozomu Eien as Coach *Saiyuki as Guard *Shrine of the Morning Mist as Blue Demon (eps 8–9) * Sugar: A Little Snow Fairy as Neighbor (ep 15) Drama CDs *''Danna-sama, Ote wo Douzo'' (Kunihiro Murata) Video Games * Puyo Puyo Fever - Tarutaru, Hohow Bird * Puyo Puyo Fever 2 - Tarutaru, Hohow Bird * Puyo Puyo!! Quest - Tarutaru, Hohow Bird * Puyo Puyo!! Quest Arcade - Tarutaru Dubbing *'' Black Hawk Down'', PFC Todd Blackburn ( Orlando Bloom) *''District 9'', Fundiswa Mhlanga (Mandla Gaduka) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takuo Kojima
is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planet According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''mino ...s. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 45 asteroids he made between 1987 and 2000. Takuo Kojima also writes a regular column for the astronomy magazine Gekkan Temmon titled the "Comet Observers Guide. The main-belt asteroid 3644 Kojitaku is named after him. List of discovered minor planets References 20th-century Japanese astronomers Discoverers of asteroids * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Japanese astronomers {{japan-astronomer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takuo Miyagishima
Takuo Miyagishima (March 15, 1928 – August 4, 2011) was a Japanese-American design engineer who worked for Panavision. He was responsible for many of the company's innovations in motion picture photography and projection. In 2005, Miyagishima received the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for his achievements and successful career at the 77th Academy Awards. Early years Miyagishima was born in Gardena, California in 1928. He had one brother and two sisters. His parents had immigrated from Shizuoka in Japan. Miyagishima grew up in Long Beach and Terminal Island. He was attending junior high school in 1941 when World War II began, and was able to avoid the Japanese American internment by moving to Utah to live with relatives. He graduated from Davis High School in Kaysville, Utah. Career He worked for Panavision from 1954 until his retirement in 2009, by which time he was Senior Vice-President of Engineering. His first project was the Super Panatar projection lens in 1955. He help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takuo Ōkubo
is a Japanese 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 diaspor ... football player currently playing for Shimizu S-Pulse. Club statistics ''Updated to 24 July 2022''. References External links Profile at FC Tokyo * 1989 births Living people [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takuo Yuasa
is a Japanese conductor. Biography Takuo Yuasa was born in Osaka, Japan, where he studied piano, cello, flute, and clarinet. At age 18, he received a scholarship to study in the US at the University of Cincinnati, eventually completing a bachelor's degree in Theory and Composition. Later on, he moved to Europe to study conducting at the Hochschule in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky, after which he studied with Igor Markevitch in France and Franco Ferrara in Siena. He then became assistant to Lovro von Matačić, working with him in Monte Carlo, Milan, and Vienna. Since winning a Special Award at The Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors in Katowice, Poland, Yuasa has frequently conducted the major orchestras there, including the Warsaw National Philharmonic and the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestras. Back in his home of Japan, Yuasa conducts several major Japanese orchestras. In the UK, Yuasa has worked with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
