Okada
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Okada may refer to:
- Okada (commercial motorcycle)Okada (commercial motorcycle)Okada refers to commercial motorcycles used as vehicles for hire in Nigeria. The name Okada was borrowed from Okada Air, a now defunct local airline in Nigeria.-Naming:...
, commercial motorcycles in Nigeria - Okada (岡田 hill rice-paddy), a Japanese nameJapanese namein modern times usually consist of a family name , followed by a given name. "Middle names" are not generally used.Japanese names are usually written in kanji, which are characters of usually Chinese origin in Japanese pronunciation...
. People with the name include:- Doris MatsuiDoris MatsuiDoris Okada Matsui is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district consists of the city of Sacramento and the surrounding area...
(Doris Okada Matsui), American politician of the Democratic Party - John OkadaJohn OkadaJohn Okada was a Japanese-American writer. Born in Seattle, Washington, he was a student at the University of Washington when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Okada and his family were interned at Minidoka in 1942...
, Japanese-American writer - Junichi OkadaJunichi Okadais a member of Japanese boy band V6, which is under the management of Johnny & Associates. He joined Johnny & Associates at the age of 14.- Music career :...
, Japanese singer and actor - Katsuya OkadaKatsuya Okadais a Japanese politician. A member of the House of Representatives of Japan, he is Secretary-General of the Democratic Party of Japan and was previously its President. From September 2009 to September 2010, he was Foreign Minister of Japan....
, former Democratic Party of Japan president and foreign minister of Japan - Kazuchika OkadaKazuchika Okadais a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling. From February 2010 until October 2011, he was on a developmental tour, working for American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the name Okada.-Training and debut:Trained by Último Dragón at his Toryumon...
, Japanese professional wrestler - Keisuke OkadaKeisuke Okadawas an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, politician and the 31st Prime Minister of Japan from 8 July 1934 to 9 March 1936.-Early life:Okada was born in what is now Fukui Prefecture to an ex-samurai family. He attended the 15th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, graduating 7th out of...
, 31st Prime Minister of Japan - Masaki OkadaMasaki Okadais a Japanese actor, best known for his roles as Sekime Kyogo in the drama Hanazakari no Kimitachi e and as Takuma Kakinouchi in the 2009 film Boku no Hatsukoi wo Kimi ni Sasagu.-Films:* Ahiru to Kamo no Coinlocker * Tennen Kokekkō...
, Japanese actor - Masumi OkadaMasumi Okadawas a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer. Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the "Mermaid...
- Mokichi OkadaMokichi OkadaMokichi Okada was the founder of the Church of World Messianity, in which he is known by the honorific title Meishū-sama...
, founder of the Church of World Messianity - Okada IzōOkada Izowas a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, feared as one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period. He was born in Tosa to the gōshi Okada Gihei, who had been a peasant but had bought the gōshi rank...
, member of the Hitokiri - Satoru OkadaSatoru OkadaSatoru Okada is the general manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering, the division designing and developing Nintendo handheld game consoles...
, general manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering - Tadayuki OkadaTadayuki OkadaTadayuki 'Taddy' Okada is a retired Japanese professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He was runner-up in the 1994 250cc and in the 1997 500cc World Championship.-Early career:...
, former Grand Prix motorcycle racing and Superbike racing motorcycle racer - Takeshi OkadaTakeshi Okadais a former football player that was head coach of the Japanese national football team between 2007 and 2010.-International career:Okada played 24 games and scored one goal for the Japan national football team between 1980 and 1985.-Coaching career:...
, coach of the Japanese national football team - Tokihiko OkadaTokihiko Okadawas a Japanese silent film star in Japan during the 1920's and early 1930's. A Tokyo native, he first started at the Taikatsu studio and later he was a leading player for such legendary Japanese directors as Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi. Film critic Tadao Sato recounts that Okada was among the...
, a silent Japanese Actor - Tomohiro OkadaTomohiro OkadaTomohiro Okada is an interdisciplinary creative and innovation developer, resercher, and policy maker, Director of . Since 1995 he nas been active in electronic media and creative innovation in Japan especially promoting young talent in new media art, interaction design as a resercher, producer,...
, Japanese new media art and design curator, thinker of creative economics - Toshio OkadaToshio Okadais an anime producer, author, and lecturer. He is a co-founder and former president of the production company Gainax.-Childhood:Okada was born on July 1, 1958 in Osaka, Japan and attended Osaka University of Arts....
, founder of the anime company Gainax - Yukiko OkadaYukiko Okadawas a singer and winner of the talent show, Star Tanjō! in Japan.-Early life:Okada was born on August 22, 1967, the second daughter of the Satō family in the Ichinomiya Hospital and later moved to Nagoya. At elementary school, Okada loved to read books, especially comic books and she was a talented...
, a Japanese idol
- Doris Matsui