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 Ozu Park is a city located in Gifu, Japan. , the village had an estimated population of 54,686 and a population density of 1900 persons per km2, in 20866 households. The total area of the village was . Geography Mizuho is located in south-west G ...

, a city in Gifu *

Mizuho, Tokyo is a town located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 32,458, and a population density of 1900 persons per km². The total area of the town is . Geography Mizuho is located in the foothi ...

, a town in Tokyo * Mizuho Plateau in Antarctica **

Mizuho Station (Antarctica) The was a permanent Japanese Antarctic transshipment station. Located on Mizuho Plateau 2230 m above sea level, it was opened in 1970. It was operated by the Japanese National Institute of Polar Research, and closed in 1987. It was occasionall ...

* Mizuho Township, former name during the Japanese colonial period of the town of

Ruisui, Hualien Ruisui Township is a rural township located in southern Hualien County, Taiwan, and has a population of 12,107 inhabitants in 11 villages. The population is composed of Hoklo, Hakka, and Taiwanese aborigines, most of whom are Amis. Agricu ...

in Taiwan

People

* Mizuho Ōta (1876–1955), Japanese poet *

Mizuho Suzuki (born October 23, 1927) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Manchukuo. He is a drop-out of Kyoto University. Filmography Film *'' Yogiri yo Kon'yamo Arigatō'' (1967) *''Zatoichi the Outlaw'' (1967) *''The Snow Woman'' (1968) *''The Sands o ...

(born 1927), Japanese actor *

Mizuho Fukushima is a Japanese politician, attorney. A native of Nobeoka, Miyazaki, she has been a member of the House of Councillors since 1998, was re-elected in 2004 and 2010, and was the head of the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDP), from 2003 to 2013. S ...

(born 1955), Japanese female politician * Mizuho Aimoto (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 is a Japanese football player. She plays for Omiya Ardija Ventus in the WE League. She also plays for the Japan national team. Club career Sakaguchi was born in Sakai on October 15, 1987. In 2003, at the age of 15, she debuted in the L.Leag ...

(born 1987), Japanese female association footballer * Mizuho Saito, member of the former Japanese band

Zone Zone or The Zone may refer to: Places Climate and altitude zones * Death zone (originally the lethal zone), altitudes above a certain point where the amount of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span * Frigid zone, ...

Fictional characters and places

* Mizuho Kazami, a character in the anime '' Please Teacher!'' * 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 co ...

'' * 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 ...

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Mizuho (train) The is a limited-stop shinkansen service operated between and in Japan since 12 March 2011, following the completion of the Kyushu Shinkansen. The name was formerly used for a limited express sleeping car service operated by JNR from 1961, ...

, 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 Yaki ...

, an asteroid *

Mizuho Financial Group , abbreviated as MHFG, or simply called Mizuho, is a banking holding company headquartered in the Ōtemachi district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The name "" literally means "abundant rice" in Japanese and "harvest" in the figurative sense. Upon ...

, a Japanese banking conglomerate {{disambiguation, geo, given name Japanese unisex given names