Miyagi
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Places

  • Miyagi Prefecture
    Miyagi Prefecture
    is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku Region on Honshu island. The capital is Sendai.- History :Miyagi Prefecture was formerly part of the province of Mutsu. Mutsu Province, on northern Honshu, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Emishi, and became the...

    , one of the 47 major divisions of Japan
  • Miyagi, Gunma
    Miyagi, Gunma
    Miyagi was a village located in Seta District, Gunma, Japan.On December 5, 2004 Miyagi, along with the town of Ōgo, and the village of Kasukawa, all from Seta District, was merged into the city of Maebashi and no longer exists as an independent municipality.As of 2003, the village had an estimated...

    , a village in Japan, merged into Maebashi in 2004

People

  • Michio Miyagi
    Michio Miyagi
    was a Japanese musician, famous for his koto playing.He was born in Kobe. He lost his sight in 1902, when he was 8 years old, and started his study in koto under the guidance of Nakajima Kengyo II, dedicating the rest of his life to the instrument. In 1907 he moved with his family to Incheon, in...

     (1894-1956), Japanese koto musician
  • Chōjun Miyagi
    Chojun Miyagi
    was an Okinawan martial artist who founded the Goju-ryu school of karate.-Early life and training:Miyagi was born in Higashimachi, Naha, Okinawa on April 25, 1888, the adopted son of a wealthy businessman. He began his study in Karate-do at the age of nine . He first learned martial arts from Ryuko...

     (1888-1953), Japanese martial artist
  • Mimi Miyagi
    Mimi Miyagi
    Melody Damayo is a Filipina porn star best known as Mimi Miyagi.-Early life and education:Melody Damayo was born in Davao City, the second of four children born to conservative Seventh Day Adventist parents...

     (born 1973), screen name of Filipina porn star and aspiring politician Melody Damayo
  • Kyoko Miyagi
    Kyoko Miyagi
    , usually credited as , is a Japanese voice actress who retired for a time in 1992, when her husband was transferred to Milan, Italy.She returned to Japan and voice work there late in the same decade, now chiefly involved with dubbing of foreign movies and television programs. Her most recent...

     (born 1955), aka Kyouko Tonguu, Japanese voice actress

Fictional characters

  • Keisuke Miyagi, mentor in The Karate Kid movie series
  • Ryota Miyagi, in the manga Slam Dunk
    Slam Dunk (manga)
    is a sports-themed manga series written by Takehiko Inoue about a basketball team from Shōhoku High School. It was first serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from 1990 to 1996 and had also been adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation which had been broadcast worldwide,...

  • Miyagi Yo, in the manga Junjo Romantica
    Junjo Romantica
    , stylized as Junjo Romantica ~Pure Romance~, is a yaoi series by Shungiku Nakamura. It focuses on three storylines; the main couple, which comprises the bulk of the books, and two other male couples which provide ongoing side stories...

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