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Cho Hun Hyun
Cho Hun Hyun is a South Korean retired Go player and politician. He graduated from Shinmei Middle School and later in life, he was granted an honorary Ph.D. in Physical Education from Mokpo National University. He began learning Go at the age of four and passed the test for becoming a professional in…
Kitaura Akiyoshi
Kitaura Akiyoshi is a Japanese actor born in Nagasaki, Japan, and affiliated with Geiei (芸映). Raised in Hiroshima, he was exposed to the atomic bomb at the age of five in the summer of 1945 but survived with only minor burns. After graduating from Hiroshima University of Economics High School (広島経済大学附属高等学校),…
Sugi Giichi
Sugi Giichi, born Sugi Yoshikazu (杉義一) in Uzumasa, Ukyo, Kyoto, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was the eldest son of actor Sugi Kyoji (杉狂児). In 1941, while attending Meisei Gakuen (明星学園), he joined the children’s theater troupe Kamoshikaza (かもしか座) and made his stage…
Higashi Yoichi
Known in the West mainly for one film, Village of Dreams (E no naka no boku no mura, 1996), Higashi has in fact produced an oeuvre of consistent intelligence and unobtrusive political commitment along liberal and progressive lines. His feature debut, People of the Okinawa Islands (Okinawa rettō, 1969),…
Naraoka Tomoko
Tomoko Naraoka is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongou (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel…
Hitoto Yo
Hitoto Yo, born September 20, 1976 in Taiwan, is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. Hitoto is best known for her extremely popular debut single "Morai Naki". She is Taiwanese through her father and Japanese through her mother. Hitoto Yo lived in Taipei until her kindergarten years, then moved to Japan…
Kinoshita Keisuke
Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…
Tsuburaya Eiji
Tsuburaya Eiji was a Japanese special effects director, film director, camera operator, and inventor born in Sukagawa Town, Fukushima Prefecture. He was the first president of the company Tsuburaya Special Skills Productions. He was the leading expert in special effects technology in the Showa era and…
Tomosaka Rie
Tomosaka Rie is a Japanese actress and pop star from Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, born on October 12, 1979, in Nagano-shi, Nagano. She works for Itoh Company. From 1996 to 1997, she has also released music under the name Eri Sakatomo. In 1992, Rie Tomosaka joined the entertainment world with the commercial film…
Uchida Maaya
Maaya Uchida (内田 真礼, Uchida Maaya, born December 27, 1989) is a Japanese voice actress and singer who works for I'm Enterprise. She won the Best New Actress Award at the 8th Seiyu Awards. She debuted as a singer under Pony Canyon with the song "Soushou Innocence", which is produced by Tomita…
