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Yoshie Hayasaka
is a Japanese actress and singer. Along with the ranking in the top 100 in the Oricon Singles Chart for several of her songs, her single "Zettai! Part 2" reached number 42. In 2003, she married the Japanese pro wrestler known as Super Delfin. Discography * "Zettai! Part 2" (1990) ''Ranma ½'' opening theme Films * '' Buta no Mukui'' (1999) * '' Izure no Mori ka Aoki Umi'' (2004) TV programs * ''Waratte Iitomo!'' (1991–1992) * ''Anime Himitsu no Hanazono ''Anime Himitsu no Hanazono'' is an anime television series aired in Japan from 1991 to 1992. It is an adaptation of the 1911 novel ''The Secret Garden'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Cast Major: *Ben Weatherstaff (Japanese: Yoichi Miyakawa) *Co ...'' (sings the opening and closing music) References External links * * Japanese idols Japanese television personalities 1975 births People from Naha Living people Musicians from Okinawa Prefecture {{Japan-actor-stub ...
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Naha, Okinawa
is the capital city of Okinawa Prefecture, the southernmost prefecture of Japan. As of 1 June 2019, the city has an estimated population of 317,405 and a population density of 7,939 persons per km2 (20,562 persons per sq. mi.). The total area is Naha is located on the East China Sea coast of the southern part of Okinawa Island, the largest of Okinawa Prefecture. The modern city was officially founded on May 20, 1921. Before that, Naha had been for centuries one of the most important and populous sites in Okinawa. Naha is the political, economic and education center of Okinawa Prefecture. In the medieval and early modern periods, it was the commercial center of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Geography City center Central Naha consists of the Palette Kumoji shopping mall, the Okinawa Prefecture Office, Naha City Hall, and many banks and corporations, located at the west end of Kokusai-dōri, the city's main street. boasts a 1.6 kilometer (1 mile) long stretch of stores, restaurants ...
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Vocals
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument (as in art song or some jazz styles) up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music, Japanese music, and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, ghazal, and popular music styles such as pop, rock, and electronic dance music. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged, or improvised. It may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual as part of music education or ...
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Japanese Pop
J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s pop and rock music. J-pop replaced '' kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music", a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s) in the Japanese music scene. J-rock bands such as Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-country had popularity during the international popularity of Westerns in the 1960s1970s as well, and it still has appeal due to the work of musicians like Charlie Nagatani and venues including Little Texas, Tokyo. J-rap became mainstream with producer Nujabes and his work on '' Samurai Champloo'', Japanese pop culture is often seen with anime in hip hop. Other tre ...
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Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, 2 ...
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Super Delfin
is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently runs Kaisen Puroresu and is also working as a wrestler there. He is better known by his stage name . Professional wrestling career New Japan Pro-Wrestling (1989, 1994) Hiroto Wakita joined New Japan Pro-Wrestling's dojo. He was affiliated with the Takeshi Puroresu Gundan, a Japanese take on the "Rock 'n Wrestling" concept espoused by the WWF at the time in the United States, using comedian and director Takeshi Kitano as the manager of Riki Choshu and others who had returned from All Japan Pro Wrestling. As fans were not receptive to the angle, Kitano and New Japan parted ways, which left Wakita and his fellow dojo students, the future Jado and Gedo, without a home. The three men began training almost on their own, with Wally Yamaguchi as their trainer. In 1994 he competed in the Best of the Super Juniors Tournament organised by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. He finished second by losing to Jyushin Thunder Liger in the finals. He a ...
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Nikkan Sports
is the first-launched Japanese daily sports newspaper founded in 1946. It has a circulation of 1,661,000, and is an affiliate newspaper of the ''Asahi Shimbun''. Companies and regions ;Nikkan Sports News (Tokyo) :Tokyo HQ: 5-10, Tsukiji Sanchome, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan ;Hokkaido Nikkan Sports News (Hokkaido) :Hokkaido HQ: KN Building, 1-30, Kita-Sanjo-Higashi Sanchome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Japan ;Nikkan Sports News West Japan (Osaka, Nagoya, Kyushu) :Osaka HQ: Hanshin Diamond Building, 14-24, Fukushima Sanchome, Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Japan :Nagoya HQ: Asahi Kaikan, 3-3, Sakae Itchome, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Japan :Seibu HQ: Fukuoka Asahi Building, 1-1, Hakata Ekimae Nichome, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan See also * Nikkan Sports Film Award * Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix The Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix is an award given by the Nikkan Sports newspaper to Japanese television dramas. The 14th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix was canceled due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ...
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Ranma ½
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It was serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from August 1987 to March 1996, with the chapters collected into 38 ''tankōbon'' volumes by Shogakukan. The story revolves around a teenage boy named Ranma Saotome who has trained in martial arts since early childhood. As a result of an accident during a training journey, he is cursed to become a girl when exposed to cold water, while hot water changes him back into a boy. Throughout the series Ranma seeks out a way to rid himself of his curse, while his friends, enemies and many fiancées constantly hinder and interfere. ''Ranma ½'' has a comedic formula and a sex-changing main character, who often willfully transforms into a girl to advance his goals. The series also contains many other characters, whose intricate relationships with each other, unusual characteristics, and eccentric personalities drive most of the stories. Although the characte ...
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Buta No Mukui
Buta may refer to: People * George Buta, Romanian biathlete * Buta (rapper), Kosovo-Albanian rapper Places * Buta, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a town in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo * Buta Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo * Boota, a village in Punjab, Pakistan * Buta, Burundi, a town in Burundi * Buta, a village in Negrași commune, Argeș County, Romania * Buta, a village in Crâmpoia commune, Olt County, Romania * Buta (Jiu), a tributary of the Jiul de Vest in Hunedoara County, Romania * Buta, a tributary of the Lotru in Vâlcea County, Romania * Buta Mică, a tributary of the river Buta in Hunedoara County, Romania Other * Buta language * ''Buta'' (film), a 2011 Azerbaijani film * Buta (ornament), an almond-shaped ornament with a sharp-curved upper end * Paisley (design) or buta, an Iranian droplet/flame shaped motif used in carpet design * ''Buta'', a Philippine term for karst caves and holes where edible bird's nests are found * Buta A ...
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Waratte Iitomo!
was a Japanese variety show aired every weekday on Fuji TV. The show was hosted by Tamori (Kazuyoshi Morita) and ran from 1982 to 2014. The show was produced in the Studio Alta building in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The show featured a series of regular members who only appeared on a particular day of the week. These regular members were changed periodically. In October 2011, Johnny's Jr. members Yuki Nozawa and Yuma Sanada, known together as the "Noon Boyz", joined as the show's 16th "Iitomo Seinentai" team of assistants and dancers. The final broadcast of the program took place on March 31, 2014 after thirty-two years on the air. Guests appearing on the program's daily "Telephone Shocking" interview segment during the final week included Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Beat Takeshi, and Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. The show had 8,054 episodes, making it the highest episode count in Japan. Cast As well as the long-running presenter (Tamori) and "Noon Boyz", the show featured certain regular members ...
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Anime Himitsu No Hanazono
''Anime Himitsu no Hanazono'' is an anime television series aired in Japan from 1991 to 1992. It is an adaptation of the 1911 novel ''The Secret Garden'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Cast Major: *Ben Weatherstaff (Japanese: Yoichi Miyakawa) *Colin Craven (Japanese: Minami Takayama) *Craven ("''Clevin''") (Japanese: Osamu Saka) possibly Archibald Craven (Colin's father) or Dr. Craven (Archibald's brother) *Dickon Sowerby (Japanese: Mayumi Tanaka) *Helen McCoy (Japanese: Masako Katsuki) *Mary Lennox (Japanese: Miina Tominaga) *Martha Phoebe Sowerby (Japanese: Chika Sakamoto) *Mr. Pitcher (Japanese: Fumihiko Tachiki) *Narrator (Japanese: Tomoko Munakata) *Sarah Ann Medlock (Japanese: Toshiko Ota or Yoshiko Oota) *Susan Ann Sowerby (Japanese: Kazuyo Aoki) Other: *Bunny (Japanese: Yoshiko Kamei) *Camilla (Japanese: Fumi Hirano) *Hawkins (Japanese: Akio Ohtsuka) *Henry (Japanese: Rokuro Naya) *Jim (Japanese: Urara Takano) *Natalie (Japanese: Midori Nakasawa) *Patty (Japanese: Minami ...
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Japanese Idols
This is a list of Japanese idols; a type of celebrity in Japan. The following list includes both female and male idols as well as both solo idols and idol groups. 0 - 9 * =LOVE (group) * ≠Me (group) * °C-ute (group) * 22/7 (group) * 3B Junior (group) * 9nine (group) A * Aa! (group) * AAA (group) * A.B.C-Z (group) * AKB48 (group) * Akishibu Project (group) * Arcana Project (group) * Ali Project (group) * Angerme (group) * Arashi (group) * Athena & Robikerottsu (group) * Ayumikurikamaki (group) * Asami Abe * Nagisa Abe * Natsumi Abe * Shizue Abe * Yumi Adachi * Shoko Aida * Masaki Aiba * Himika Akaneya * Jin Akanishi * Sayaka Akimoto * Mari Amachi * Jun Amaki * Chihiro Anai * Yuko Anai * Sakura Andō * Anza * Hiroko Anzai * Maria Anzai * Yui Aragaki * Momoka Ariyasu * Miyoko Asada * Nao Asahi * Yui Asaka * Nana Asakawa * Aiko Asano * Megumi Asaoka * Mamiko Asō * Aqours (group) * Haruka Ayase * Rion Azuma B * B.I Shadow (group) * BaBe (duo) * Babyraids Jap ...
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