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Kyōko Uemura
is a very common feminine Japanese given name. Not to be confused with Kiyoko. Written forms The final syllable "ko" is typically written with the kanji character for child, 子. It is a common suffix to female names in Japan. The first syllable "Kyō" can be written several different ways, with different meanings. *恭, "respectful," *京, "of the city or of the capital," *今日, "of today," *杏, "apricot," *鏡, "mirror," *響, "echo", "influential" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with the name *Kyoko Aizome (恭子), an AV actress, singer, director, and writer *Kyoko Ariyoshi (京子), a Japanese shōjo manga artist *Kyoko Chan Cox, the daughter of Yoko Ono and jazz musician Anthony Cox *Kyoko Fukada (恭子), a Japanese actress, model, and singer * Kyoko Hamaguchi (京子), a Japanese freestyle wrestler *Kyōko Hasegawa (京子), a Japanese actress *Kyoko Hayashi (京子), a Japanese author *Kyoko Hikami (恭子), a Japanese voice actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanji
are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived Syllabary, syllabic scripts of and . The characters have Japanese pronunciations; most have two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing character components derived from other Chinese characters. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as , by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the general public. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characters that exist. There are nearly 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Inoue
is a Japanese female professional wrestler currently signed to World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana. She has held the WWWA World Single Championship three times, and is the first woman to win a men's title in Japan. Inoue is the founder of NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling. After leaving NEO in May 2010, Inoue founded World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana in January 2011. Professional wrestling career Early career (1988–1994) Inoue was trained by famous Japanese wrestler, Jaguar Yokota. Inoue made her debut on October 11, 1988. From 1991 to 1992 she worked for CMLL in Mexico. World Wrestling Federation (1994; 1995) On May 11, 1994, Inoue made her first appearance on World Wrestling Federation (WWF) during a live event in Japan, where she unsuccessfully challenged Alundra Blayze for the WWF Women's Championship. On November 19, 1995, at Survivor Series, Inoue joined the team of Blayze in the traditional Survivor Series elimination match. Blayze's team lost, as Aja Kong rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Mizuki
is one of the pen names of , a Japanese writer who is best known for being the author of the manga and anime series ''Candy Candy''. Kyoko Mizuki won the Kodansha Manga Award for Best '' Shōjo'' Manga for ''Candy Candy'' in 1977 with Yumiko Igarashi. Keiko Nagita won the Japan Juvenile Writers Association Prize for ''Rainette, Kin Iro no Ringo'' (''Rainette - The Golden Apples'') in 2007. Her short story ''Akai Mi Haziketa'' is printed in Japanese Primary School Textbook for 6th grade (''Mitsumura Tosho'' Publishing Co., Ltd.). Her picture book ''Shampoo Ōji'' series (art by Makoto Kubota) was adapted into an anime television series in October 2007. Biography When she was 12 years old, her father died. Then she created "imaginary family Andrews" to relieve her loneliness and wrote their stories on a notebook. Mizuki said: "I feel Andrews family have watched me affectionately. They are the origin of my story writing". She spent a few years as an actress of Shiki Theatre C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Miyagi
is a very common feminine Japanese given name. Not to be confused with Kiyoko. Written forms The final syllable "ko" is typically written with the kanji character for child, 子. It is a common suffix to female names in Japan. The first syllable "Kyō" can be written several different ways, with different meanings. *恭, "respectful," *京, "of the city or of the capital," *今日, "of today," *杏, "apricot," *鏡, "mirror," *響, "echo", "influential" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with the name * Kyoko Aizome (恭子), an AV actress, singer, director, and writer *Kyoko Ariyoshi (京子), a Japanese shōjo manga artist * Kyoko Chan Cox, the daughter of Yoko Ono and jazz musician Anthony Cox *Kyoko Fukada (恭子), a Japanese actress, model, and singer * Kyoko Hamaguchi (京子), a Japanese freestyle wrestler * Kyōko Hasegawa (京子), a Japanese actress *Kyoko Hayashi (京子), a Japanese author * Kyoko Hikami (恭子), a Japanese voice act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Mano
is a Japanese gymnast. She competed in six events at the 1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal .... References 1956 births Living people Japanese female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Japan Gymnasts at the 1976 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Japanese sportswomen {{Japan-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Kubota
is a Japanese gymnast. She competed in seven events at the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December .... References 1933 births Living people Japanese female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Japan Gymnasts at the 1956 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Japanese sportswomen {{Japan-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōko Koizumi
(born February 4, 1966) is a Japanese singer and actress. She is signed to Victor Entertainment. Career In 1981, Kyoko Koizumi participated in and won the Star Tanjo! programme and released her first single in March 1982. She obtained several number one hits on the Oricon charts in 1984: "Nagisa no Haikara Ningyo / Kaze no Magical", "Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge" and "The Stardust Memory", the latter holding the top spot over the end of 1984 and the beginning of 1985, and thereafter established herself as one of Japan's most popular pop idols, alongside rivals Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori. Her biggest hit (あなたに会えてよかった) came in 1991, which sold more than a million copies in Japan alone. Koizumi went on to release another single (優しい雨) which also sold over a million copies in 1993. Koizumi had singles reach the Top Ten for 12 consecutive years between 1983 and 1994, a female solo artist record, until this was broken by Namie Amuro. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Kitamura
Kyoko Kitamura is a vocal improviser and composer residing in New York City. Background Kitamura is a Japanese-American musician born in New York City and raised partially in Tokyo. She studied piano at the Juilliard School of Music pre-college division but later chose to become a TV reporter with Fuji Television, a national network in Japan and was based in Paris for many years as their French news correspondent. After quitting her job, she moved back to NYC in 1997, worked as a freelance magazine writer for a few years before getting back into music after a hiatus of close to 15 years. Unusual for a vocalist, she honed craft as a sideperson-vocalist with NYC musicians such as bassists Reggie Workman and William Parker (musician), William Parker, saxophonist Steve Coleman, cornet player Taylor Ho Bynum, among others. Since 2010, she has been working with saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton as one of his vocalists and as the director of communication for his organization, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kano Sisters
and , known collectively as the , are Japanese media personalities. Early life and background The Kano sisters say they are half-sisters with different mothers. There is also a third "sister" who initially made appearances with the two. She eventually withdrew from the scene, according to industry sources, and now only intermittently appears with them. The lack of resemblance between them as well as their refusal to answer any questions about their age (even their reported ages are speculation) or past fuels speculation the three are not sisters at all, but just another group of tarento with a carefully crafted gimmick. Career Long before the Hiltons or the Kardashians got famous for being famous, Japan had been fascinated by the Kano sisters. In 1997, the oldest sister Kyoko debuted in ''25ans'', an upscale women's fashion magazine, together with her real (younger) sister H.K. as one of its ''"supaa dokusha"'' (super readers). This success led to various TV offers. H.K. did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōko Kagawa
is a Japanese actress. During her career spanning 70 years, she has worked with directors like Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse, appearing in films such as ''Tokyo Story'', ''Sansho the Bailiff'', '' The Bad Sleep Well'', '' Mothra'', and '' High and Low''. Biography Kagawa was born in Asō (currently Namegata), Ibaraki Prefecture, and graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Tenth High School for Girls in 1949. She was discovered in the "New Face Nomination" contest run by the '' Tokyo Shimbun'' in 1949 and gave her film debut the following year in ''Mado kara tobidase''. A prolific actress, she collaborated with directors like Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Shiro Toyoda, Kozaburo Yoshimura, Ishiro Honda, Yuzo Kawashima, Hiroshi Inagaki and Hirokazu Koreeda. Kagawa married in 1963. After appearing in Kurosawa's '' Red Beard'' (1965), she followed her husband, a reporter for the ''Yom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōko Kishida
was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Biography Kishida was born in Tokyo in 1930 as the second daughter of playwright Kunio Kishida. Her older sister was the children's author and poet Eriko Kishida and she was cousins with actor Shin Kishida. She joined the Bungakuza theatre company in 1950, making her breakthrough in Yukio Mishima's stage production of Oscar Wilde's ''Salome''. In 1963, she left the Bungakuza and joined the Kumo Theatre Company. Kishida gave her film debut with a small role in Tadashi Imai's '' An Inlet of Muddy Water'' (1953). Her first leading film roles were in Hiroshi Teshigahara's ''Woman in the Dunes'' and Yasuzō Masumura's '' Manji'' (both 1964). Other film credits include Kon Ichikawa's '' Her Brother'' (1960), Yasujirō Ozu's ''An Autumn Afternoon'' (1962), Kaneto Shindō's '' Akuto'' (1965), Teshigahara's '' The Face of Another'' (1966) and '' Rikyu'' (1989), and Isao Yukisada's '' Spring Snow'' (2005), based on the Mishima novel of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Kimura
is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Throughout her 14-year career, she competed in Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Ibuki, Ice Ribbon, JWP Joshi Puroresu, NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling and World Wonder Ring Stardom, among other promotions. She is best known for her Jamaican flag shirt and puffed afro that at one point stood at roughly one foot tall. She is known for wrestling in barbed wire deathmatches as well as her singles bouts. She retired from professional wrestling in January 2017. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2003-2017) Kimura started her professional wrestling career in the JWP Joshi Puroresu promotion, making her debut on July 20, 2003. She remained with the promotion in a small role for over two years, before quitting in late 2005 and becoming a freelancer. During the following years, Kimura made appearances for promotions such as Ibuki, Oz Academy, and Pro Wrestling Wave, while also making her debut in death matches. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
