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Emperor Jimmu ( was the first Emperor of Japan), according to the traditional order of succession. He is also known as Kamuyamato Iwarebiko, his personal names are Wakamikenu no Mikoto or Sano no Mikoto.
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Mri Terumoto ( , January 22, 1553 April 27, 1625), son of Mri Takamoto and grandson and successor of the great warlord Mri Motonari, fought against Toyotomi Hideyoshi but was eventually overcome, participated in the Kysh campaign (1587) on Hideyoshi's side and built Hiroshima Castle, thus essentially founding Hiroshima.
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Uesugi Kagekatsu (?, 8 January 1556 19 April 1623) was a daimyo during the Sengoku and Edo periods of Japanese history.
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Niwa Nagashige (?, May 11, 1571 - April 1, 1637) was a Japanese daimyo who served the Oda clan. Nagashige was the eldest son of Niwa Nagahide and married an adopted daughter of Oda Nobunaga. He took part in his first campaign in 1583, assisting his father in the battles against Shibata Katsuie. In the Battle of Nagakute, at the age of thirteen, Nagashige led a troop of Niwa clan in the place of his father, who was ill.
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Arima Yoriyuki (Japanese: ; December 31, 1714 December 16, 1783) was a Japanese mathematician of the Edo era. He was the lord of Kurume Domain and approximated the value of and its square, 2. In 1766, he found the following rational approximation of pi, correct to 29 digits.
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Sakamoto Ryma ( , January 3, 1836 December 10, 1867) was a leader of the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate during the Bakumatsu period in Japan. Ryma used the alias Saidani Umetar (?) as a cover name during his work to keep Japan united in the creation of a modern government which would allow his country to join the rest of the world which was in a colonizing mode, while keeping its own sovereignty intact.
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Yamaoka Tessh (, June 10, 1836 - July 19, 1888) also known as Ono Tetsutar, or Yamaoka Tetsutar, was a famous samurai of the Bakumatsu period, who played an important role in the Meiji Restoration. He is also noted as the founder of the Itto Shoden Muto-ryu school of swordsmanship.
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Sub-Lieutenant Sabur Sakai (, Sakai Sabur?, August 25, 1916 September 22, 2000) was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace ("Gekitsui-O", ) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Sakai was the Imperial Navy's fourth-ranking ace and Japan's second leading fighter pilot to survive the war (after Tetsuzo Iwamoto).
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Kenichi Fukui ( Fukui Ken'ichi, October 4, 1918 January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist.
Kenichi Fukui was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981 with Roald Hoffman, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of chemical reactions. His prize-winning work focused on the role of frontier orbitals in chemical reactions: specifically that molecules share loosely bonded electrons which occupy the frontier orbitals, that is the Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital (HOMO) and the Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital (LUMO).
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yama Masutatsu (?, July 27, 1923 April 26, 1994), also known as Mas Oyama, was a karate master who founded Kyokushinkai, arguably the first and most influential style of full contact karate. He was born Choi Yeong-eui (Korean: , Hanja: ). A Zainichi Korean, he spent most of his life living in Japan and chose to become a Japanese citizen in 1964.
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Yoshiro Nakamatsu ( , Nakamatsu Yoshir?), born June 26, 1928, also known as Dr. NakaMats, is a Japanese inventor claiming to hold the world record for number of inventions with over 3,000, including "PyonPyon" spring shoes and the basic technology for the floppy disk, the CD, the DVD, the digital watch, CinemaScope, armchair "Cerebrex", sauce pump, and the taxicab meter.
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Toshiko Akiyoshi ( or , Akiyoshi Toshiko?, born December 12, 1929) is a Japanese American jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best Arranger and Composer awards in Down Beat magazine's Readers Poll. In 1984, she was the subject of a documentary film titled Jazz Is My Native Language. In 1996, she published her autobiography, Life With Jazz and in 2007 she was named an NEA Jazz Master by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts.
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Sawako Ariyoshi (, Ariyoshi Sawako?, 20 January 1931- 30 August 1984) was a Japanese writer.
Born in Wakayama City and a graduate of Tokyo Women's Christian College, Sawako Ariyoshi spent part of her childhood in Java. A prolific novelist, she dramatises significant issues in her fiction such as the suffering of the elderly, the effects of pollution on the environment, and the effects of social and political change on Japanese domestic life and values, especially on the lives of women. Her novel The Twilight Years depicts the life of a working woman who is caring for her elderly, dying father-in-law. Among Ariyoshi's other novels is The River Ki, an insightful portrait of the lives of three rural women: a mother, daughter, and granddaughter. Her novel The Doctor's Wife, a historical novel dramatising the roles of nineteenth-century Japanese women as it chronicles the experience of a pioneer doctor with breast cancer surgery, has identified her as one of the finest postwar Japanese women writers. The Doctor's Wife (1966) is considered as her best novel. Starting in 1949, Ariyoshi studied literature and theatre at the Tokyo Women's Christian College until she graduated in 1952. In 1959 she spent a year at the Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She then worked with a publishing company and also wrote for journals, joined a dance troupe, and wrote short stories and scripts for various media. She travelled extensively, getting material for her serialized novels of domestic life, mostly dealing with social issues. Recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 1959, Ariyoshi had received some Japanese literary awards and was at the height of her career when she died quietly in her sleep.
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Toshiaki Karasawa ( , Karasawa Toshiaki, born June 3, 1963) (real name Kiyoshi Karasawa ( Karasawa Kiyoshi)) is a Japanese theatre and film actor. He made his theatrical debut in the play Voice Review Stay Gold ( Bizu Reby Sutei Grudo) in 1987. He specialises in theatrical action sequences such as swordplay and fighting. He dubbed over the roles of Tom Hanks in the Toy Story series and The Polar Express.
He has been nominated for two Japanese Academy Awards, being named as Best Newcomer in 1992. His hobbies are watching the Academy Awards and their recipients. He married actress Tomoko Yamaguchi on December 15, 1995.
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Hitoshi Matsumoto (, Matsumoto Hitoshi, born September 8, 1963), or Matchan () as he is commonly known, is a Japanese comedian best known as the boke half of an extremely popular owarai duo Downtown alongside Masatoshi Hamada. Born in Hygo Prefecture, he usually speaks in the Kansai dialect.
He directed, produced, and starred in the 2007 movie Big Man Japan, which was shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section.
Susumu Terajima ( , Terajima Susumu, born 12 November 1963) is a Japanese actor who has appeared in over 100 films, 15 television commercials, three PVs, and numerous television dramas in a career spanning over 20 years. He rarely is the star of the films he is in but he is widely respected for taking every job seriously and diving into his work, regardless of how minor his role might be. Terajima is best known for his portrayal of yakuza figures, most notably in the films of colleague and close friend Kitano. He often works along with Takeshi and Ren Osugi as well.
Terajima was born in Tokyo, Japan, where he still resides. He made his acting debut in 1986's A-Homance, and has been steadily furthering his career ever since. He is part of Office Kitano, the production company of actor/director/comedian Takeshi Kitano.
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Crown Princess Masako (, Ktaishihi Masako, the Crown Princess Masako) (born 9 December 1963) is the wife of Crown Prince Naruhito, the first son of the Emperor Akihito and the Empress Michiko, and a member of the Imperial House of Japan through marriage.
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Ai Orikasa ( , Orikasa Ai), born Kikue Orikasa ( , Orikasa Kikue, December 12, 1963 -) is a popular Japanese seiy and singer from Tokyo. She works for Production Baobab. Orikasa is also the Japanese dub voice for Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Her debut work was Shoukoushi Cedie in 1988. She is most known for the roles of Pururun (Kyattou Ninden Teyandee), Ryoko (Tenchi Muyo!), and Quatre Raberba Winner (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing).
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Naoki Sano (, Sano Naoki) is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. He currently goes by the name Takuma Sano.
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Yoriko Douguchi ( , yoriko douguchi, born 18 March 1965) is a Japanese actress.
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Fumihito, The Prince Akishino ( Akishino-no-miya Fumihito shinn: born 30 November 1965) is a member of the Japanese imperial family. He is the second son of the Emperor Akihito and the Empress Michiko and currently second in line to the Chrysanthemum throne.
Since his marriage in June 1990, he has held the title of Akishino-no-miya (generally translated into English as Prince Akishino) and headed his own branch of the imperial family.
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Makiko Esumi ( , Esumi Makiko), ne Makiko Hirano ( Hirano Makiko, born 18 December 1966 in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese model, actress, writer, essayist, and lyricist. Esumi is most well known for her role as Chinatsu Tsuboi in the Japanese television drama series Shomuni.
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Megumi Hayashibara ( , Hayashibara Megumi) (born March 30, 1967) is a Japanese seiy, singer, radio personality, and lyricist from Tokyo. She is currently affiliated with Aksent. Her nicknames include: Megu-san, Megu-nee, Bara-san, Kakka, and Daijin. She is best known for her roles in Ranma (as Ranma Saotome (female voice)), Neon Genesis Evangelion (as Rei Ayanami), Cowboy Bebop (as Faye Valentine), Slayers (as Lina Inverse), Detective Conan (as Ai Haibara), Pokmon (as Musashi/Jessie of Team Rocket), and Shaman King (as Anna Kyoyama). She is also a fully qualified and registered nurse.
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Kazuya Nakai ( , Nakai Kazuya, born November 25, 1967) is a Japanese seiy who was born in Hygo-ku, Kobe. He is currently attached to Aoni Production.
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