Taiyō is the romanization for some
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
words, such as ''太陽'' for
sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet, and infrared radi ...
and ''大洋'' for
ocean
The ocean (also the sea or the world ocean) is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of the surface of Earth and contains 97% of Earth's water. An ocean can also refer to any of the large bodies of water into which the wo ...
. It can also refer to:
People
A male Japanese given name
*, Japanese footballer
*
Taiyō Kea
Maunakea Mossman (born November 18, 1975) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler, better known under his stage name . He is the only wrestler to have held the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship, the World Tag Team Championship and t ...
(born 1975), American professional wrestler
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese professional wrestler
Organisations
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''Taiyō'' (magazine), a Japanese magazine
*
Taiyo Yakuhin or
Taiyo Pharmaceutical Industry, a pharmaceutical product manufacturing company located in
Takayama, Gifu
file:高山市役所.JPG, Takayama City Hall
is a Cities of Japan, city located in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 88,473 in 35,644 households, and a population density of 41 persons per km2. The total area of ...
, Japan
* Taiyō Whales, one of the previous names of the
Yokohama BayStars
The are a professional baseball team in the Japanese Central League. Their home field is Yokohama Stadium, located in central Yokohama. The team has been known by several names since becoming a professional team in 1950. It adopted its curren ...
*
Maruha Nichiro
is a Japanese seafood company, beginning its operation in 1880, when its founder, Ikujiro Nakabe, began a fish sale business in Osaka. The company is the largest of its kind in Japan, with Nippon Suisan Kaisha and Kyokuyo Co., Ltd. as its main co ...
, a Japanese seafood company once known as Taiyo
*
Taiyo Yuden
is a Japanese materials and electronics company, situated in Kyobashi, Chuo, Tokyo, that helped pioneer recordable CD technology (CD-R) along with Sony and Philips in 1988. Founded 70 years ago, Taiyo Yuden currently operates factories in Japa ...
, a manufacturer of electronic components
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Taiyo Department Store, a now-defunct department store in Kumamoto, Kumamoto famous for a
1973 fire
Other
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Japanese aircraft carrier ''Taiyō'', the first of the Taiyō class escort aircraft carriers
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''Taiyo'' (Chisato Moritaka album), 1996
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Taiyō (song), the first single by Japanese band GO!GO!7188
* Taiyō, a
sunflower
The common sunflower (''Helianthus annuus'') is a large annual forb of the genus ''Helianthus'' grown as a crop for its edible oily seeds. Apart from cooking oil production, it is also used as livestock forage (as a meal or a silage plant), as ...
variety
*
Taiyo, a
Japanese satellite launched in 1975 to study thermosphere and sun
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Japanese masculine given names