Ozawa (written: or lit. "small swamp") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Eitaro Ozawa
, also credited as Sakae Ozawa (小沢栄), was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1988, directed by notable filmmakers such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita and Kaneto Shindō.
Selected fi ...
(1909-1988), Japanese actor
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Ichirō Ozawa
is a Japanese politician and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1969, representing the Iwate 3rd district (Iwate 2nd district prior to the 1996 general election and Iwate 4th district prior to the 2017 general election). H ...
(born 1942), Japanese politician
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Hideaki Ozawa
is a Japanese former football goalkeeper.
Career
Ozawa was born in Namegata on March 17, 1974.
Kashima Antlers
After graduating from high school, he joined Kashima Antlers in 1992. He could hardly play in the match behind Masaaki Furukaw ...
(born 1974), Japanese football goalkeeper
*, Japanese speed skater
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Jisaburō Ozawa
was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He was the last Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet. Ozawa has been noted for his unusual height, measuring in at over tall, although his exact height has not been reliabl ...
(1886-1966), Japanese admiral and last Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II
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Juri Osada
(''née'' Ozawa) is a Japanese figure skater who is now a coach. She won the 1983 Japan Figure Skating Championships and 1986 Winter Asian Games, 1985 Winter Universiade.
Early career
Osada showed much promise as a young skater in her mid-t ...
(née Ozawa), Japanese figure skater and coach
*, Japanese film director
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Kenji Ozawa
Kenji Ozawa (小沢 健二, ''Ozawa Kenji'') is a Japanese musician born on April 14, 1968 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa. His uncle Seiji Ozawa is a noted conductor. Ozawa's first claim to fame was as a member of the pop duo Flipper's Guitar.
He gradua ...
(born 1968), Japanese musician, nephew of Seiji Ozawa
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Maria Ozawa
is a Japanese model and a former pornographic film actress of Canadian and Japanese ancestry. Early in her career as a model, she also used the name .
Biography 1986–2002: Early life
Ozawa was born in Hokkaido, Japan. Her mother is Japanese a ...
(born 1986), Japanese adult video (AV) actress
*, Japanese composer, music arranger and guitarist
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Michihiro Ozawa
is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Club career
Ozawa was born in Utsunomiya on December 25, 1932. After graduating from Tokyo University of Education, he joined Toyo Industries in 1955. In 1962, he was s ...
(born 1932), Japanese former football player
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Natsuki Ozawa
; born April 19, 1972) is a Japanese singer, actress and AV actress who has appeared in mainstream films and adult videos.
Life and career
As a teenager, Ozawa had roles in two 1987 films, the youth action comedy '' Be-Bop High School: Koko yotar ...
(born 1972), Japanese singer, actress and adult video (AV) performer
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Narutaka Ozawa
(born 1974) is a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in operator algebras and discrete groups. He has been a professor at Kyoto University since 2013. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1997 from the University of Tokyo and a ...
(born 1974), Japanese mathematician
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Ryota Ozawa
is a Japanese actor best known for his role as Captain Marvelous/Gokai Red in the 2011 ''Super Sentai'' series ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger''.
Filmography
TV Drama
Films
Stageplay
*''Fushigi Yuugi
, often translated as ''Strange'' or ''Mys ...
(born 1988), Japanese actor
*, Japanese speed skater
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Sakihito Ozawa
is a Japanese politician and former banker. He is a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan and previously served as leader of the Vision of Reform party, which he formed in December 2015. A native of Kofu, Yamanashi, he gr ...
(born 1954), Japanese politician
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Seiji Ozawa
Seiji (written: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , or in hiragana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
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(born 1935), Japanese conductor
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Tsukasa Ozawa
is a Japanese football player for FC Imabari
FC Imabari (''FC今治'') is a Japanese football club based in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture. They play in the J3 League.
History
The club was founded in 1976 and were promoted to the Shikoku Footbal ...
(born 1988), Japanese football player
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Yuki Ozawa
is a Japanese football player currently playing for Kamatamare Sanuki
Kamatamare Sanuki (カマタマーレ讃岐、Kamatamare Sanuki) is a football club based in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Takamatsu, the capital city of Kagawa Prefecture of Japan. T ...
(born 1983), Japanese football player
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See also
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Ozawa v. United States
''Takao Ozawa v. United States'', 260 U.S. 178 (1922), was a US legal proceeding. The United States Supreme Court found Takao Ozawa, a Japanese American who was born in Japan but had lived in the United States for 20 years, ineligible for natural ...
'', a 1922 case in which the United States Supreme Court found Takao Ozawa, a Japanese-American, ineligible for naturalization
*''Osawari Tantei: Ozawa Rina'', a Nintendo DS game known as ''
Touch Detective
or ''Mystery Detective'' in Europe (except in France) is a point-and-click mystery adventure game for the Nintendo DS which makes use of the device's touch screen. It was developed by BeeWorks and released in Japan by Success Corporation. It was ...
'' in the United States and ''Mystery Detective'' in Europe
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Ōsawa
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