Kimura
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Kimura is the 18th most common Japan
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Kimura may also refer to:
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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Surname
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Kimura may also refer to:
People
- Asami KimuraAsami Kimurais a J-pop singer and former member of Hello! Project. She joined the group Country Musume in 2000 and became the group leader in 2002. She also played on the Gatas Brilhantes H.P. futsal team. She graduated from Hello! Project on January 28, 2007...
, singer - Ayaka KimuraAyaka Kimura, currently known by her stage name as Ayaka Nagate , is an actress currently signed to Tristone Entertainment...
, singer - Doreen KimuraDoreen KimuraDoreen Kimura is a professor at Simon Fraser University. She holds a PhD in psychobiology. Among other interests, her interests include the relationship between sex and cognition and promoting academic freedom; she is the founding president of the .While some criticized Lawrence Summers' claims...
, psychobiologist - Gary KimuraGary KimuraGary Dean Kimura is a Professor for the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and a software developer who worked for Microsoft....
, software developer - Hidefumi KimuraHidefumi Kimurais a Japanese artist, writer and animator. He is a member of gímik, along with Keiji Gotoh and Megumi Kadonosono, and is responsible for composing the scenarios and writing most of the episodic screenplays for their anime, and for writing some of the related manga and light novels.- Television...
, manga author - Hisashi KimuraHisashi Kimurawas a Japanese astronomer originally from Kanazawa, Ishikawa.He devoted his career to the study and measurement of variation in latitude, building upon the work of Seth Carlo Chandler, who discovered the Chandler wobble. He was director of the International Latitude Observatory at Mizusawa,...
, astronomer - Ihei KimuraIhei KimuraBorn on 12 December 1901 in Shitaya-ku , Tokyo, Kimura started taking photographs when very young but his interest intensified when he was around 20 and living in Tainan, Taiwan, where he was working for a sugar wholesaler. He opened a photographic studio in Nippori, Tokyo in 1924...
, photographer - Ikue KimuraIkue Kimurais a Japanese voice actress best known for her voice role as Kyoko Tokiwa in Full Metal Panic!. Other roles include Liquiy in Kiddy Grade.Ikue Kimura also did the theme song for Tokyopop's Anime "Samurai Girl: Real Bout High School"...
, voice actor - Jiroemon KimuraJiroemon KimuraJiroemon Kimura is a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the age of , is currently the world's oldest living man, since the death of Walter Breuning on 14 April 2011. Being 113 years 361 days at the succession , Kimura is the oldest man ever to gain the title of oldest living man...
, supercentenarian - Jon Kimura ParkerJon Kimura ParkerJon Kimura Parker, OC is a Canadian pianist.- Biography :He was born in Vancouver, Canada, the son of Keiko Parker and the nephew of Edward Parker.He appeared with the Vancouver Youth Orchestra when he was five...
, pianist - Kan KimuraKan Kimurais a Japanese scholar of Political Studies and Area Studies. He is now a professor at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, Japan....
, political scientist - Kaela KimuraKaela Kimura, born , is a Japanese pop rock singer, songwriter, model, and TV presenter.- Career :Born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan to a British father and Japanese mother, Kaela started working as a model in 2002 for the Japanese magazine Seventeen...
, singer - Kazushi KimuraKazushi KimuraKazushi Kimura is a former Japanese football player a current coach. He is currently a manager at Yokohama F...
, footballer - Keichi KimuraKeichi KimuraKeichi Kimura was a portrait painter and illustrator. He was born in Waiʻanae, Hawaiʻi in 1914. He attended the University of Hawaii, where he met fellow art student and future wife, Sueko. Keichi continued his education at Chouinard Art Institute , Columbia University and the Brooklyn Museum...
, artist - Keigo Kimura, film director and writer
- Ko Kimura, DJ
- Koji KimuraKoji KimuraKoji Kimura is a male former table tennis player from Japan. From 1961 to 1967 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships and in the Asian Table Tennis Championships....
, table tennis player - Madoka KimuraMadoka Kimurais a Japanese voice actress and singer working for Production Baobab.- Notable voice roles :* Kimie Sugawara in Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru* Yuuna Akashi in Negima!* Miki Tachibana in Night Head Genesis...
, voice actress - Mamoru Kimura, sumo wrestler known as Kimurayama
- Mari KimuraMari Kimurais a Japanese violinist and composer best known for her use of subharmonics, which, achieved through special bowing techniques, allow pitches below the instrument's normal range...
, violinist - Masahiko KimuraMasahiko Kimurawas a Japanese judoka who is widely considered one of the greatest judoka of all time. Kimura was born on September 10, 1917 in Kumamoto, Japan...
, judoka - Masahiko Kimura (bonsai artist)
- Motoo KimuraMotoo Kimurawas a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968. He became one of the most influential theoretical population geneticists. He is remembered in genetics for his innovative use of diffusion equations to calculate the probability of fixation of...
, theoretical population geneticist - Sakae Kimura, actor
- Saori KimuraSaori Kimurais a Japanese volleyball player who plays for the Toray Arrows. She also plays for the All-Japan women's volleyball team, was a participant at the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics. Her nicknames are Japan's future, Infinite Saorin and Miracle Saorin...
, volleyball player - Shinya KimuraShinya kimuraShinya Kimura is a Japanese born custom bike builder and founder of Zero Engineering and Chabott Engineering, he originated the "zero style" custom bike.-Zero Engineering:...
, bikebuilder - Sueko Matsueda KimuraSueko Matsueda KimuraSueko Matsueda Kimura was an American artist. She was born in Honolulu in 1912. She received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Hawaii, where she met her fellow art student and future husband Keichi Kimura...
, artist - Susumu KimuraSusumu Kimura-External links:*-Notes:...
, admiral in World War II - Takeo KimuraTakeo Kimurawas a Japanese art director, writer and film director. Beginning his career in 1945 he art-directed well over 200 films. He was one of Japan's best known art directors, most famously for his collaborations with cult director Seijun Suzuki through the 1960s at the Nikkatsu Company, exemplified by...
(1918-2010), filmmaker - Takuya KimuraTakuya Kimura, nicknamed , is a Japanese singer and actor. He is also a member of the Japanese idol group SMAP. Most of the TV dramas he starred in produced high ratings in Japan...
(born 1972), actor and singer - Takuya Kimura (baseball)Takuya Kimura (baseball)was a Japanese baseball player for the Yomiuri Giants. He previously played for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp before being traded to the Giants in 2006. He played for the Giants through the 2009 season before retiring as a player, returning to the Giants for 2010 in a coaching capacity.Kimura was born in...
(1972-2010), baseball player - Victoria Kimura](estudante)
Fictional characters
- Kimura (comics)Kimura (comics)Kimura is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe. She first appeared in New X-Men #31 as the handler of X-23. She is X-23's greatest foe to date, someone she was never able to defeat.-Origin:...
, a female assassin in Marvel Comics' title New X-Men - Kouichi Kimura, a character in anime series, Digimon Frontier
- Mr. Kimura, a character in the manga/anime series, Azumanga Daioh
- Tatsuya KimuraTatsuya Kimurais a Japanese film producer and a critic, and also as known as , a music producer.- Biography :Tatsuya Kimura was born in 1964 in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Debuted as a critic in his high school days. Gradueted Waseda University in Tokyo, 1987....
, a character in the manga/anime series, Hajime no Ippo - Kaere Kimura, a character in the manga/anime series Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei
Other
- Kimura-gumoKimura-gumoThe kimura-gumo or kimura spider is an Old World spider, found primarily in Japan and named after Kimura Arika, who discovered it in 1920. It belongs to the sub-order Mesothelae and can reach up to 3 cm in length...
, a spider named after its discoverer, professor Arika Kimura - Kimura lock, a type of armlock named after Masahiko Kimura