Mizuho () literally means "abundant rice" in Japanese and "harvest" in the figurative sense. It was also an ancient name of

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

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Places

* Mizuho, Gifu, a city in Gifu * Mizuho, Tokyo, a town in Tokyo *

Mizuho Plateau The is a mainly featureless ice plateau in Antarctica, situated eastward of the Queen Fabiola Mountains and southward of the Shirase Glacier in Queen Maud Land. A field party of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition studied the plateau in Nov ...

in Antarctica **

Mizuho Station (Antarctica) The was a permanent Japanese Antarctic transshipment station. Located on Mizuho Plateau The is a mainly featureless ice plateau in Antarctica, situated eastward of the Queen Fabiola Mountains and southward of the Shirase Glacier in Queen Maud ...

* Mizuho Township, former name during the Japanese colonial period of the town of Ruisui, Hualien in Taiwan

People

Mizuho Ōta was the pen-name of , a Japanese poet and scholar of Japanese literature, active in Shōwa period Japan. He also occasionally used another pen name, ''Mizuhonoya''. Early life Ōta was born in Chikuma District, Nagano prefecture in what is now p ...

(1876–1955), Japanese poet * Mizuho Suzuki (born 1927), Japanese actor * Mizuho Fukushima (born 1955), Japanese female politician *

Mizuho Aimoto is a Japanese manga artist. Works * * * * * * * * * * * * * External links Mizuho Aimoto's Japanese Homepage
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(born 1964), Japanese female manga artist *

Mizuho Yoshida (born September 12, 1965 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actor. He is best known for playing Godzilla in the 2001 Millennium film '' GMK''. He also provided motion capture for several video games. Films * 1991 - ''Zeiram'' as Zeiram * 1994 ...

(born 1965), Japanese actor *

Mizuho Katayama Mizuho Katayama (born 27 November 1969) is a synchronized swimming coach in Japan. Born to a Korean family in Japan, she participated in Japanese domestic synchronized swimming competitions under the name Mizuho Kōchi, and represented South Kor ...

(born 1969), female synchronized swimming coach in Japan who represented South Korea at the 1988 Olympics *

Mizuho Kusanagi (born February 3, 1979) is a Japanese manga artist from Kumamoto, Japan. She is mainly known for her work, Yona of the Dawn(''暁のヨナ'', ''Akatsuki no Yona''). Career Kusanagi's debut series, ''Yoiko no Kokoroe'', was published in 200 ...

(born 1979), Japanese female manga artist *, Japanese long-distance runner * Mizuho Sakaguchi (born 1987), Japanese female association footballer * Mizuho Saito, member of the former Japanese band Zone

Fictional characters and places

* Mizuho Kazami, a character in the anime ''

Please Teacher! is an anime television series directed by Yasunori Ide, written by Yōsuke Kuroda, and produced by Bandai Visual. It was later adapted into a manga and light novel and centers on a group of friends and the odd things that happen to them a ...

'' * Mizuho Miyanokouji, a character in the game and anime ''

Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru , commonly known as , is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Caramel Box and released on January 28, 2005 playable on Windows PCs. The game was later ported to the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable (PSP) with the adult cont ...

'' * Mizuho, a fictional ninja village in the video game ''

Tales of Symphonia is an action role-playing game released for the Nintendo GameCube on August 29, 2003, in Japan. It was published by Namco and is the fifth core product of the ''Tales'' series. The game was localized and released in North America on July 13, ...

'' * Mizuho Asano, a side-character in the anime & manga ''

Bleach Bleach is the generic name for any chemical product that is used industrially or domestically to remove color (whitening) from a fabric or fiber or to clean or to remove stains in a process called bleaching. It often refers specifically, to ...

Other

* * Mizuho (train), a train service in Japan *

2090 Mizuho 2090 Mizuho, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 18 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid was discovered on 12 March 1978, by Japanese astronomer Takeshi Urata at the JCPM Yakii ...

, an asteroid * Mizuho Financial Group, a Japanese banking conglomerate {{disambiguation, geo, given name Japanese unisex given names