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24 unusual facts about Japanese people


Actroid

In most cases, the robot's appearance has been modeled after an average young woman of Japanese descent.

Art of War Fighting Championship

In addition, Art of War FC has featured some of the world's top fighters including WKN European Muay Thai champion Filippo Cinti of Italy, DEEP veteran Jeong Ho Lee of Korea, and Japanese Karate and ju-jutsu expert, Setsuma Takeda.

Burton Crane

He remained until 1936, and gained a reputation as an authority on the Japanese economy.

Cage Force

Cage Force(former name Demolition Octagon Gear (D.O.G.)) is a defunct Japanese Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) organization operated by Greatest Common Multiple (GCM) Communication.

Deathrash Bound

Deathrash Bound is the 1st full length album released by the Japanese metal band Aion.

Earl T. Ricks

At the end of the Pacific campaign, Ricks piloted the Japanese delegation from Ie Shima to Manila to receive surrender terms from General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.

Irthes

The performance featured complex choreography and lighting, as well as an overall Japanese inspired theme on the background video screen and with the dancers' costumes.

Katharine Lane Weems

In preparation for this project, she studied animals at the Bronx Zoo in New York City and also Japanese and Chinese treatments of animals, especially those found on Han Dynasty tombs.

Koichi Yamaguchi

Koichi Yamaguchi (山口弘一) is a noted Japanese bicycle frame builder, based in the United States.

Kouzou Sasaki

Kouzou Sasaki (佐々木 更三 Sasaki Kouzou) was a Japanese politician and chairman of the Japan Socialist Party from 1965 to 1967.

María Eugenia Suárez

Suárez was born to Guillermo Suárez and Marcela Riveiro in Buenos Aires; she had a Japanese grandmother, Marta Mitsumori born in Kochi Prefecture.

McGehee, Arkansas

During World War II, the outskirts of McGehee was the site of an American detention camp used to house Japanese and Japanese-American civilians who had previously lived on the U.S. West Coast.

Mr. Driller

He is Japanese, has brown hair and eyes, and wears a pink and light blue jumpsuit and helmet.

Pirate Ship Higemaru

The player controls a Japanese sailor by the name of Momotaro, who must use barrels to defeat the titular pirate crew.

Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center

In 1942, the Center suspended livestock exposition operations and served as a Civilian Assembly Center under President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, which allowed for the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans.

Run!

Hiro tells Hope that he is Japanese, not Chinese, to which she responds "Whatever. Thanks for your help, Sulu."

Sohei Miyashita

Sohei Miyashita (10 November 1927 – 10 October 2013) was a Japanese politician.

St. Louis Japanese School

Louis Japanese School is a non-profit organization that focuses on teaching Japanese children Japanese, Math, Culture, History, and Geography.

Takano

Takano is a common Japanese surname.

The Checks

Kramer meets some Japanese businessmen on vacation and he takes them on a tour around the city.

The King of Fighters

In addition to previous established fighting game stars Terry Bogard and Ryo Sakazaki, the game introduces a new hero: a young Japanese martial artist named Kyo Kusanagi, who serves as the lead character in the early KOF games.

Tudor Lodge

In 1999 Tudor Lodge played two successful gigs in Tokyo, where Whiteland and Stannard were joined on stage by Green and Japanese musicians Bice (keyboard and vocals) and Shimizu Hirotaka (bass).

W-inds discography

The discography for the Japanese boy band W-inds consists of 27 singles and 9 studio albums since their major label debut in 2001.

Yaponchik

Literally, yaponchik means little Japanese, though none of the two above had any Japanese ancestry.


Agent Aika

Aika Sumeragi is a Japanese woman (voiced by Rei Sakuma) who works as a salvager for hire, but gets caught up in a plot for world domination.

Ajo Motorsport

In 2003, the team expanded to two bikes, with Kallio being joined by the Japanese competitor Masao Azuma.

Cantonese slang

In Hong Kong slang terms for members of minority groups include "gweilo," (ghost man) meaning White people, "ga tau" and "lo baat tau" (carrot head) meaning Japanese people, "bak gwei" (white devil) meaning Caucasians, "hak gwei" (black devil) meaning Black people, "bun mui" meaning Filipina domestic employees, and "ah cha" meaning Indian people and Pakistani people.

Delfina Herbosa de Natividad

Delfina Rizal Herbosa was born on December 20, 1879 in Calamba, Laguna to Mariano Herbosa and Lucia Rizal, sister of José Rizal, and she is of Spanish, Chinese and Japanese descent.

Fumihiro Suzuki

Fumihiro Suzuki (鈴木 郁洋, born May 23, 1975 in Nishigō, Fukushima) is a retired Japanese professional baseball catcher and current coach for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Haplogroup O-M122

Another brother clade, Haplogroup O-P31, has an impressive extent of dispersal, as it is found among the males of populations as widely separated as the Kolarians of India and the Japanese of Japan; however, Haplogroup O-P31's distribution is much more patchy, and the Haplogroup O-P31 Y-chromosomes found among the Mundas and the Japanese belong to distinct subclades.

Hiroko Shimabukuro

Hiroko Shimabukuro (島袋 寛子 Shimabukuro Hiroko, 7 April 1984, Okinawa, Japan), best known mononymously as hiro, is a Japanese singer.

Hoppy Kamiyama

Hoppy Kamiyama (born 1960) is a Japanese keyboardist and music producer who has worked with artists such as eX-Girl, The Pugs, Bradford Reed, Bill Laswell, Jan Linton, Marc Ribot, Hugh Hopper/Elton Dean and Damo Suzuki.

Jamsil Arena

It has also been used to host various entertainment events, to include World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) events and concerts, by Iron Maiden, Alicia Keys, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Incubus, and Japanese band L'Arc-en-Ciel, among others.

Kyudo Nakagawa

Kyudo Nakagawa (中川 球童, February 12, 1927—December 29, 2007), or Nakagawa Kyūdō, was a Japanese-born Rinzai rōshi who for many years led Soho Zen Buddhist Society, Inc. in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Like Life

There have been four character light novels based on the game written by Japanese author Jōji Kamio, with illustrations by Hirokō Buda and Araiguma, published by Softgarage.

Mutsuro Nakazono

Mutsuro Nakazono (December 20, 1918 – 1994) (first name also spelled "Mitsuro" or "Masahiro") was a Japanese acupuncturist, an Oriental medicine practitioner and a 7th dan Aikikai aikido master with a strong judo background.

Nagi, Okayama

Masashi Kishimoto (Japanese manga artist) - Notable for creating the anime/manga series Naruto.

Nemuri Kyoshirō

The stories take place during Edo period under the Tokugawa shogunate and the rule of Tokugawa Ienari and center around the title character, a sleepy-eyed, outlaw swordsman who is the son of a Japanese mother and a foreign father, who was conceived during a Black Mass.

Ni-Oh

Originally announced by Koei in 2004 (before their merger with Tecmo made them Tecmo Koei), the game is based on an unfinished script by legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa titled Oni (named for a type of Japanese demon).

Nobuko Albery

Nobuko Albery (born 1940) is a Japanese author and theatrical producer and the widow of noted English theatrical impresario, Sir Donald Albery.

Nokuthula Ngwenyama

Nokuthula Ngwenyama (born June 16, 1976) is an American solo violist of Ndbele and Japanese descent.

Patrick Giles-Jones

Patrick Giles-Jones (born 9 December 1982 in Waratah, New South Wales) is an Australian born Japanese cricketer.

Tamotsu Suzuki

Tamotsu Suzuki (鈴木 保, born 29 April 1947 in Urawa, Saitama, Japan) is a former Japanese football player.

Tatsuro Hirooka

Tatsuro Hirooka (広岡 達朗, Hirooka Tatsurō born February 9, 1932 in Kure, Hiroshima, Japan) is a retired Japanese professional baseball player and manager.

Tetsuya Shiokawa

Tetsuya Shiokawa (塩川鉄也 Shiokawa Tetsuya) is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives for the Japanese Communist Party.

Uchu no Mama

宇宙のママ (Uchu no Mama) is an album by Japanese singer/pianist Misako Odani, released November 11, 2000 on the Universal label.

Vitaly Nikolayenko

He helped conduct an inquiry after Michio Hoshino, the renowned Japanese bear photographer, was pulled out of his tent and eaten by a bear in 1996 in the southern reserve, a more remote region neighbouring the 2.8 million acre (11,000 km²) Kronotsky state reserve where Nikolayenko was based.

Wataru Kaji

Kaji, along with Yuki Ikeda, and another Japanese named Kazuo Aoyama, were involved with the re-education of captured Japanese soldiers, and psychological warfare against the Empire of Japan for the Kuomintang which was conducted by the Japanese People's Anti-war Alliance.

William Loeb, Jr.

When Roosevelt took to learning judo (then known as jiu-jitsu) from Yamashita Yoshiaki in March and April 1904 and trained in the White House, Loeb and the President's Japanese naval attaché, Isamu Takeshita, were his training partners.

Yamato Glacier

Yamato is the symbol of the political unity and the national consciousness of the Japanese people.

Yuhei Nakaushiro

Yuhei Nakaushiro (中後悠平, born September 17, 1989 in Kumatori, Osaka) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Yuka Sakurai

Yuka Sakurai (櫻井由香 Sakurai Yuka, born September 2, 1974) is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Denso Airybees.