Ogawa (written: lit. "small river" or in hiragana) is the 30th most common Japanese surname.
Less common variants are (also "small river") or ("tail river"). Notable people with the surname include:
*, American poet
*, Japanese footballer
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Frank H. Ogawa (1917–1994), the first Japanese American to serve on the Oakland, CA City Council
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Hiroshi Ogawa (disambiguation), several people
*, Japanese racing driver
*, Japanese cabinet minister
*, a Japanese novelist, lyricist and translator, born in 1973
*, Japanese ice hockey player
*, Japanese photographer
*, Japanese boxer
*, Japanese sprinter
*, Japanese noted kamikaze pilot
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Koki Ogawa (disambiguation), multiple people
*, retired Japanese army aviator
*, Japanese pop singer and actress best known as a former member of Morning Musume
*, Japanese television personality and gravure idol
*, Japanese chemist
*, a.k.a.
Shido Nakamura Shido may refer to:
*A 'slight' or minor penalty in judo
*Ali Shido Abdi, senior Somali politician and elder
*Shido Fuyuki, a character in the Japanese manga and anime series ''GetBackers''
*Shido, Kagawa, a former town located in Ōkawa District, ...
*, Japanese judoka/wrestler/mixed martial artist
*, Japanese sailor
*, Japanese classical pianist
*, Japanese actress
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese developer of Functional MRI, 2003 winner of the Japan Prize
*, Japanese documentary film director
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Shoot Ogawa
Shoot Ogawa (born 1975) is a magician from Tokyo, Japan
He has been interested in magic from the age of 10. Ogawa has been featured on television in Japan and is a corporate entertainer.
Some of his most renowned tricks include the ''Ninja Rings ...
(born 1974), magician
*, Japanese daimyō
*, Japanese musician
*, Japanese basketball player and coach
*, Japanese volleyball player
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese author
*, Japanese businesswoman
*, Japanese wrestler
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese judoka
Fictional characters
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Alyssa Ogawa (''
Star Trek
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The franchise has expanded into vari ...
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Good Luck!!
is a 2003 Japanese television drama starring Takuya Kimura. The story revolves around an up-and-coming pilot, Hajime Shinkai, and portrays his interactions with others as he progresses along the road to becoming a captain. As is common in many J ...
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Kamen Rider Ryuki
is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. The twelfth installment in the Kamen Rider Series, it was a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei, and it was shown on TV Asahi from February 3, 2002 to January 19, 2003. The series ...
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* (''
F3: Frantic, Frustrated & Female'')
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High School Girls
is a Japanese manga series, created by Towa Oshima, which was originally serialized in Futabasha's ''Weekly Manga Action'' magazine from 2001, and then subsequently ''Comic High!'' from 2004.
It was adapted in 2006 into an anime television ...
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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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''Red String'')
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Gender-Swap at the Delinquent Academy'')
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Battle Royale'')
* Sanshiro Ogawa (''
Natsume Soseki no Sanshiro'')
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Kocchi Muite! Miiko
is a Japanese '' shōjo'' comedy manga series by Eriko Ono. It has been published by Shogakukan in '' Ciao'' since 1995 and collected in 32 bound volumes. It is a sequel to an earlier series, , and depicts the home and school life of a chee ...
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See also
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Japanese name
in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name, in that order. Nevertheless, when a Japanese name is written in the Roman alphabet, ever since the Meiji era, the official policy has been to cater to Western expecta ...
References
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Japanese-language surnames