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Saburō Toida
is a masculine Japanese given name. Written forms Saburō can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *三郎, "third son" *三朗, "three, bright" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with the name *, Japanese soldier *, Japanese linguist *, Japanese actor *, Japanese politician *, Japanese golfer *, Japanese calligrapher and painter *, Japanese politician *, Japanese admiral *, Japanese historian *, Japanese actor *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese footballer and manager *, Japanese film and literary critic *, American lobbyist, attorney, and newspaper editor *, Japanese Enka singer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese diplomat *, Japanese Scout leader *, Japanese composer *, Japanese visual and performance artist *, Japanese artist *, Japanese economist and politician *, Japanese World War II fighter pilot *, Japanese sailor *, Japanese-American actor *, Japanese actor *, Japanese diplomat and businessman *, Japanes ... [...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] |
Saburo Kamei
was a Japanese voice actor who worked for 81 Produce. Voice roles *'' Batman: The Animated Series'' ( Rupert Thorne) *'' City Hunter'' (Mohammed (ep.2)) *'' Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital'' (Seizo Sakura) *''Fist of the North Star'' (Dragon, Katoujutsu Commander) *'' Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor'' (Hamilcar Barcas) *''Legend of the Galactic Heroes'' (Glaeser (ep. 44)) *''Mobile Fighter G Gundam'' (Keiun) *'' Planetes'' (managing director (ep.8)) *'' Starship Operators'' (Truman (ep.13)) *''Texhnolyze'' (Keitarou Mizuno) External linksSaburo Kamei at 81 Produce is a voice talent management firm in Japan founded on 3 February 1981 (thus the year is the company's namesake). A hybrid CD-ROM featuring voice talent data for members of 81 Produce was released on 19 October 1997. The company is located in Sh ... *Mention of Saburo Kamei's death 1938 births 2013 deaths 81 Produce voice actors Japanese male voice actors 20th-century Japanese male actors 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saburo Sato
is a Japanese sailor. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represe .... References External links * 1960 births Living people Japanese male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Japan Sailors at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Flying Dutchman Sailors at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Flying Dutchman Place of birth missing (living people) Sailors at the 1986 Asian Games Sailors at the 1990 Asian Games Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Asian Games medalists in sailing 20th-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saburō Sakai
was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace (''"Gekitsui-O"'', ) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Sakai had 28 aerial victories, including shared ones, according to official Japanese records, though he and his ghostwriter Martin Caidin claimed much higher numbers. Early life Saburō Sakai was born on 25 August 1916 in Saga Prefecture, Japan. He was born into a family with an immediate affiliation to the samurai and their warrior legacies. Their ancestors were themselves samurai and had taken part in the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) but were later forced to take up a livelihood of farming after '' haihan-chiken'' in 1871. He was the third-born of four sons (his given name literally means "third son") and had three sisters. Sakai was 11 when his father died, which left his mother alone to raise seven children. With limited resources, Sakai was adopted by his maternal uncle, who financed his education in a Tokyo high school. However, Sakai failed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saburo Okita
Saburō Ōkita (大来 佐武郎 ''Ōkita Saburō'') (3 November 1914 – 9 February 1993) was a Japanese economist and politician noted for his role in the postwar development of the Japanese economy and Japan-US relations. Early life and education Ōkita was born in Dalian, Kwantung Leased Territory on 3 November 1914. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University, and later earned a PhD from Nagoya University in 1962. Career In 1937, Ōkita worked as an engineer with the Ministry of Posts. Later on he held numerous government positions, including chief of research for the Economic Stabilization Board in 1947, chief of the economic cooperation unit for the Economic Planning Agency in 1953 and later director general of their planning bureau in 1957, and then in 1963 the director general of the EPA development bureau. In each of these positions, he played an important role under the economic plan of then prime minister Hayato Ikeda, which greatly helped Japan's postwar economy. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saburo Muraoka
Saburō Muraoka ( 村岡三郎, ''Muraoka Saburō'', 25 June 1928 – 3 July 2013) was a Japanese modern and contemporary artist born in Osaka. Career Known primarily as a sculptor, Muraoka first received artistic recognition in 1949 as a student at the Osaka City Art Institute (大阪市立美術研究所), a school associated with Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, with his plaster bust "Neck." With this work he received the second Osaka Mayor prize while exhibited at the annual Osaka City Exhibition. He became affiliated with the Nika Society (二科会) in 1950 and showed in the annual Nika Exhibition from 1950 until 1969 when he withdrew from the Society. At a young age he became fascinated by astronomy, an interest that would turn into an ongoing engagement with the sciences in his artistic practice. His experiences as a youth during and after the Second World War, during which his brother died in Manchuria, also influenced his decision to become an artist. He is known for his us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saburo Murakami
was a Japanese visual and performance artist. He was a member of the Gutai Art Association and is best known for his paper-breaking performances (''kami-yaburi'') in which he burst through kraft paper stretched on large wooden frames. Paper-breaking is a canonical work in the history of Japanese post-war art and for the history of performance art. Murakami's work includes paintings, three-dimensional objects and installation as well as performance, and is characterized by a highly conceptual approach that transcends dualistic thinking and materializes in playful interactive forms and often thematizes time, chance and intuition. Biography Saburo Murakami was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1925, as the third son of an English teacher at Kwansei Gakuin Junior High School. He entered Kwansei Gakuin University in 1943, joined the university's painting club Gengetsu-kai and began studying oil painting under Hiroshi Kanbara. After World War II, he resumed his studies, graduating from Kwanse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saburō Moroi
was a Japanese composer. Life Moroi was self-taught in composition while studying at the Tokyo Imperial University before moving in 1932 to Germany to study in the Berlin Musikhochschule under Leo Schrattenholz and Walter Gmeindl. While Moroi had been active in the Tokyo musical scene, forming with other colleagues a society named Surya, he claimed that his creative life truly started from his Berlin days. Returning to Japan in 1934, he built a successful career in subsequent years. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Soon after completing his Symphony No. 3 in 1944 he was called up by the Japanese Army to serve in the Second World War. Following the country's surrender he focused on teaching and writing books on music theory, composing just eight works in the following three decades, including two more symphonies. In his last works he turned to the twelve-tone system. Pupils of Moroi include Ikuma Dan, Toriro Miki, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saburō Matsukata
of Japan, a journalist, businessman and mountaineer, served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and was the sixth President of the Boy Scouts of Japan, contributing to the success of the 13th World Scout Jamboree held August 2 to 10, 1971 on the western side of Mount Fuji. Background Matsukata was son of the early Meiji Period Finance Minister and genrō, Matsukata Masayoshi. In 1972, Matsukata was awarded the ''Bronze Wolf'', the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting. In 1973 he posthumously received the highest distinction of the Scout Association of Japan, the Golden Pheasant Award. An experienced mountaineer and lifelong alpinist, Matsukata led Japan's 39-person expedition to Mount Everest in 1970.Haru Matsukata Reischauer, "Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage", Harvard University Press, 1986, page 317 See al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saburō Kurusu
was a Japanese diplomat. He is remembered now as an envoy who tried to negotiate peace and understanding with the United States while the Japanese government under Emperor Hirohito was secretly preparing the attack on Pearl Harbor. As Imperial Japan's ambassador to Germany from 1939 to November 1941, he signed the Tripartite Pact along with the foreign ministers of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on September 27, 1940. Biography Kurusu was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1886.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005) ''Japan Encyclopedia,'' p. 580./ref> He graduated from Tokyo Commercial College (now Hitotsubashi University) in 1909. The following year, he entered diplomatic service and, in 1914, first came to the United States as the Japanese Consul in Chicago. During his six-year service in Chicago, Kurusu married Alice Jay Little. He had three children, a son Ryō, and a daughter Jaye were both born in the United States; another daughter, Teruko Pia, was born i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saburo Komoto
is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Early life Komodo is a native of Aioi, Hyōgo and graduated from Nihon University. Political career Komoto was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1992 as a member of Morihiro Hosokawa is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister of Japan from 1993 to 1994. He led an eight-party coalition government which was the first Japanese government not headed by a Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Libera ...'s Japan New Party. He was then elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996. He lost the seat in the 2000 election, but was reelected in 2003 and served until 2009, when he announced his retirement from politics after losing his seat in the 2009 election. References * External links Official websitein Japanese. 1950 births Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saburō Kitajima
is a Japanese enka singer, lyricist, actor and composer. Background He was born Minoru Ōno (大野 穣), in Shiriuchi, Hokkaidō, to a fisherman. He was very poor due to the effects of World War II, and was forced to work while he studied. Music career When he was about to graduate from high school, he decided to become a singer. His debut single was called "Bungacha-Bushi," which was released in 1962. He has many famous songs, including "Namida Bune" (1962), "Kyōdai Jingi" (1965), "Yosaku" (1978) and "Kita no Ryōba" (1986). His 1965 song "Kaerokana" was written by lyricist Rokusuke Ei and composer Hachidai Nakamura. He is very popular in Japan partly due to his looks of a physical laborer, and he mostly sings in the spirit of Japan's working class and rural laborers. Kitajima regularly appeared on ''Kōhaku Uta Gassen'', an annual end-of-year TV program where many major Japanese singers gather to perform, before announcing his retirement from the show in 2013. He par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
