Maekawa (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*, Japanese tennis player
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese sport wrestler
*, Japanese industrialist and philanthropist
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese architect
*, Japanese fencer
*, Japanese
woodblock printer
*, Japanese rice farmer and namesake of Mykawa, Texas
*, Japanese writer
*Kazuhiro Maekawa (前川 和彦, born 1947), Japanese doctor, responsible for the care of two victims from the
1999 Tokaimura nuclear accident
Fictional characters
*, protagonist of the manga series ''
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is a Japanese '' shōjo'' manga series written and illustrated by Kaneyoshi Izumi. The story follows Ai Maekawa, a teenager who gives herself a total makeover during a school break in a bid to reinvent her image and become popular. It was s ...
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*, a character in the visual novel ''
Ayakashi''
*, a character in the video game ''The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls''
*, a character in the manga series ''Ultimate Muscle''
See also
*
Maekawa's algorithm Maekawa's algorithm is an algorithm for mutual exclusion on a distributed system. The basis of this algorithm is a quorum-like approach where any one site needs only to seek permissions from a subset of other sites.
Algorithm Terminology
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Japanese-language surnames