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Yoshihara Saburo
Yoshihara is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Daijiro Yoshihara (born 1978), Japanese racing driver *Jiro Yoshihara (1905–1972), Japanese painter * Kota Yoshihara (born 1978), Japanese footballer *Mari Yoshihara (born 1968), American academic * Masato Yoshihara (born 1991), Japanese footballer * Yoshihara Shigetoshi (1845–1887), Japanese diplomat *Shinya Yoshihara (born 1978), Japanese footballer *Tomoko Yoshihara (born 1970), Japanese volleyball player *Yukari Yoshihara (born 1973), Japanese Go player *Yoshindo Yoshihara Yoshindo Yoshihara (1943) is a Japanese swordsmith based in Tokyo. His family have made swords for ten generations, and he himself learned the art from his grandfather, Yoshihara Kuniie. Yoshindo himself gained his licence as a smith in 1965. Yos ... (born 1943), Japanese swordsmith * Nancy Yoshihara, American journalist and co-founder of the Asian American Journalists Association {{surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daijiro Yoshihara
(born December 24, 1978), more commonly known as Dai Yoshihara, is a Japanese professional driver with experience in Drifting, Road Racing, Time Attack, and Hill Climb. Background Before entering professional driving, Yoshihara enjoyed drifting but saw no real economic opportunity in the sport. Yoshihara instead worked at various companies including a car dealership, a telephone company, and a trucking service. However, in 2003, Yoshihara was offered a chance to compete in the 2003 D1 Grand Prix in its inaugural season in the United States, and accepted the offer, although he had never been prior or even competed in a drift competition. Yoshihara entered the D1 driving for Pacific Rim Motorsport in a Nissan Silvia (S13). Yoshihara was a rookie with no competition experience but qualified and finished in the top half out of 32 competitors. Yoshihara then competed in the Drift Showoff in Irwindale, California, and took a podium spot to finish 2nd overall. Yoshihara ended his ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiro Yoshihara
was a Japanese painter, art educator, curator, and businessman. Mainly known for his gestural abstract impasto paintings from the 1950s and Zen-painting inspired hard-edge ''Circles'' beginning in the 1960s, Yoshihara’s oeuvre also encompasses drawings, murals, sculptures, calligraphy, ink wash paintings, ceramics, watercolors, and stage design. Yoshihara was a key figure of postwar Japanese art and culture through his work as painter, art educator, promoter of the arts, and networker between the arts, commerce, and industry in the Kansai region and beyond, and, especially, as the leader of the postwar avant-garde art collective Gutai Art Association, which he co-founded in 1954. Under Yoshihara’s guidance, Gutai explored radically experimental approaches, including outdoor exhibitions, performances, onstage presentations, and interactive works. Fueled by Yoshihara’s global ambitions, Gutai developed artistic strategies to communicate internationally and insert themselves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kota Yoshihara
is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. Club career Yoshihara was born in Fujiidera on February 2, 1978. After graduating from high school, he joined Japan Football League club Consadole Sapporo in 1996. The club won the champions in 1997 and was promoted to J1 League. However the club was relegated to new league J2 League in 1999. He moved to his local club Gamba Osaka in 2000. Although he became a regular player from 2001, his opportunity to play decreased from 2003. He moved to Omiya Ardija in 2006. He moved to Mito HollyHock in 2009. He made an announcement to retire on 2 February 2013, on his 35th birthday. National team career In June 1999, Yoshihara was selected Japan national team for 1999 Copa América. At this competition, on July 2, he debuted against Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Yoshihara
is an American academic. She is a professor of American studies, American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and specializes in American cultural history and Foreign relations of the United States, US-Asian relations. She is also an amateur pianist. Biography Yoshihara was born in New York City and grew up in Tokyo. She attended high school in Yokohama and graduated from the University of Tokyo before earning a master's degree and doctorate from Brown University. Yoshihara has taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa since 1997 and served as chief editor of the journal ''American Quarterly'' since 2014. She played the piano since the age of three, but took a break from playing while in graduate school. As an adult, she has entered competitions like the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition as an amateur, and won in the 2014 Aloha International Piano Festival's amateur division. Selected bibliography * * References External links mariyoshihara.com - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masato Yoshihara
is a Japanese football player. He is currently playing for Cambodia Tiger in Cambodian League. Career A tall but technical striker, he has played for Japan at U-15 level before being called into the Avispa Fukuoka first team at age 18. Has experienced European football during a short study period at FC Girondins de Bordeaux Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux (), commonly referred to as Girondins de Bordeaux ( oc, Girondins de Bordèu) or simply Bordeaux, is a French professional Association football, football club based in the city of Bordeaux in Gironde (de ..., he is considered good with his feet for someone his size. Club statistics References External links * 1991 births Living people Association football people from Fukuoka Prefecture Japanese footballers J1 League players J2 League players Avispa Fukuoka players Alemannia Aachen players Expatriate footballers in Cambodia Association football forwards Angkor Tiger FC players Japanese expatriat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshihara Shigetoshi
was a Japanese diplomat and first Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ).Bank of Japan (BOJ)1st Governor/ref> Biography Early life Yoshihara was born in Satsuma Domain (modern Kagoshima Prefecture as the son of a samurai retainer to the Shimazu clan. As a youth, he was the youngest of the ''Sonnō jōi'' samurai to participate in the "Terada-ya Incident", an assassination attempt against Sakamoto Ryōma at the Terada-ya inn in Kyoto. During the Anglo-Satsuma War of 1863, he fought alongside Ōyama Iwao and Saigō Tsugumichi. After the end of the conflict, he was sent to Edo, and then to Hakodate, where he was ordered to study '' rangaku'' and western customs under Takeda Ayasaburō. He then went to Yokohama to learn English from Samuel Robbins Brown. Leaving Japan In May 1866, with the assistance of Thomas Blake Glover, Yoshihara was one of five Satsuma samurai smuggled out of Japan on a Portuguese cargo ship to England, in violation of the national seclusion laws of the Toku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinya Yoshihara
is a former Japanese Association football, football player. He is married to well-known Go professional, professional Go player Yukari Yoshihara (née Yukari Umezawa), who is known for her work in spreading and teaching Go (game), Go, especially in the worldwide-distributed manga and anime series Hikaru no Go. Club career When Yoshihara was in junior high school, he received a recommendation from his former teacher to play football at Ibaraki Prefectural Hitachi Technical High School, one of the most competitive teams in the prefecture. He played as a regular member from his first year on the team and contributed to leading his school to the All Japan High School Soccer Tournament. In his second and third years, Yoshihara was selected as a Kanto region all-star member as well as an all-Japan member for the U-18 division. He played with Takayuki Suzuki, two years his senior. Following his graduation, Yoshihara began his professional career playing for Yokohama F. Marinos, Yokoha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomoko Yoshihara
Tomoko Yoshihara (吉原知子 ''Yoshihara Tomoko'', born 4 February 1970 in the Uryū District, Hokkaido) is a former volleyball player from Japan, who competed in the 1992, 1996, and 2004 Summer Olympics. She captained the 2004 Olympic squad. Yoshihara played as a middle-blocker. She was named ''Best Server'' at the 1994 FIVB Women's World Championship. After retiring in 2006, she completed a master's programme at the University of Tsukuba. Since 1 June 2015, she has been the head coach of the JT Marvelous volleyball team. Honours *1990: 8th place in the World Championship *1991: 7th place in the World Cup *1992: 5th place in the Olympic Games *1994: 7th place in the World Championship *1995: 6th place in the World Cup *1996: 9th place in the Olympic Games *2003: 5th place in the World Cup *2004: 5th place in the Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukari Yoshihara
Married and maiden names, née is a Japanese Go (board game), Go professional. Biography Yukari Umezawa was born in Tokyo in 1973, and graduated from Keio University in 1996. She first played Go at the age of 6 and she became a professional Go (board game), Go player in 1996. She then attained the rank of Go ranks and ratings, 5-dan in 2002 at the age of 29, and was married in the same year. Umezawa supervised the production of ''Hikaru no Go'', a manga about Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. She also became a consultant for the anime version of ''Hikaru no Go'' and hosted Go educational programs on NHK. Umezawa's sensei was Masao Kato. Umezawa is married to Shinya Yoshihara. They have a son (born 2011). Titles External links Yukari Umezawa's home pageSensei's Library's page on Yukari UmezawaYukari Umezawa mangaat Media Arts Database Yukari Yoshihara mangaat Media Arts Database Yukai Umezawa anime at Media Arts Database 1973 births Japane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshindo Yoshihara
Yoshindo Yoshihara (1943) is a Japanese swordsmith based in Tokyo. His family have made swords for ten generations, and he himself learned the art from his grandfather, Yoshihara Kuniie. Yoshindo himself gained his licence as a smith in 1965. Yoshihara uses traditional techniques in his work, and uses ''tamahagane'' steel. Until 1970 he produced swords primarily in the ''Soshu'' tradition of Masamune , was a medieval Japanese blacksmith widely acclaimed as Japan's greatest swordsmith. He created swords and daggers, known in Japanese as ''tachi'' and ''tantō'', in the ''Sōshū'' school. However, many of his forged ''tachi'' were made into ..., but switched in the 1970s to creating swords in the ''Bizen'' style. Yoshihara has trained nine apprentices, including his son Yoshikazu who was to take over the business but his son died unexpectedly. References Japanese swordsmiths 1943 births Living people {{Japan-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Yoshihara
Nancy Yoshihara is an American journalist. In 1981 she co-founded the Asian-American Journalists Association with the goal of representing Asian Americans and their perspectives in U.S. newsrooms and in the media. For many years she worked for ''The Los Angeles Times'' as an editorial writer, features writer, and reporter. She later served as content manager for the University of Southern California Annenberg's Knight Digital Media Center, where she developed programs and materials on the innovative use of digital media. Her published works include a 1992 study of Asian American demographics and changing experiences in the United States. Education, career, and family Nancy Yoshihara developed her interests in journalism while studying English as an undergraduate at UCLA. In 1981, with colleagues Bill Sing and David Kishiyama (also then from ''The Los Angeles Times''), Frank Kwan and Tritia Toyota (then of KNBC-TV News), and Dwight Chuman (from ''Rafu Shimpo'', a local Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian American Journalists Association
The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational and professional organization based in San Francisco, California with more than 1,500 members and 21 chapters across the United States and Asia. The current president is Washington Post reporter Michelle Ye Hee Lee. The executive director is Naomi Tacuyan Underwood. The organization's goals are: * To provide a means of association and support among Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) journalists, and to advance AAPI journalists as news managers and media executives. * To provide encouragement, information, advice and scholarship assistance to AAPI students who aspire to professional journalism careers. * To provide to the AAPI community an awareness of news media and an understanding of how to gain fair access. * To research and point out when news media organizations stray from accuracy and fairness in the coverage of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and AAPI issues. The organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
