What profession do John Rich and Shingai Shoniwa have in common?
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John Rich John Rich (born January 7, 1974) is an American country music singer-songwriter. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the country music band Lonestar, in which he played bass guitar and alternated with Richie McDonald as lead vocalist. After departing from the band in 1998, he embarked on a solo career on BNA Records in the late 1990s, releasing two singles for the label and recording "Underneath the Same Moon", which was not released until 2006. In 2001, he self-released "Rescue Me", an album he was inspired to record by a cancer patient named Katie Darnell. By 2003, he joined Big Kenny to form the duo Big & Rich, who released three albums on Warner Bros. Records as well as ten singles, including the Number One "Lost in This Moment". After Big & Rich went on hiatus in 2007, Rich began work on a third solo album, "Son of a Preacher Man", which has produced two more chart singles. In 2011, Rich released two Extended Plays, "Rich Rocks" and "For the Kids" before re-establishing Big & Rich in 2012.
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Shingai Shoniwa Shingai Elizabeth Maria Shoniwa ( ; born on 1 September 1981) is an English singer, best known as the vocalist and bassist for the UK indie rock band Noisettes. Her first name, Shingai, means "be bold/courageous/strong" in the Shona language.
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William Tsutsui William M. "Bill" Tsutsui is an American academic, author, economic historian, Japanologist and university administrator.
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Kan Mukai Kan Mukai (向井寛 , "Mukai Kan" ) a.k.a. Hiroshi Mukai and Patrick Kan (カン・パトリック , Kan Patorikku ) was a Japanese film director, cinematographer, producer and screenwriter, known for his pioneering work in the "pink film" genre. In the realm of "pink" cinema, Japanese critics have estimated that Mukai is "the only serious rival of Kōji Wakamatsu." As a producer, Mukai helped the early careers of many prominent directors, including Hisayasu Satō and Academy-Award winner Yōjirō Takita. In his career, he directed nearly 200 films and produced approximately 500.
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Shō Aikawa (screenwriter) Shō Aikawa (會川 昇 , Aikawa Shō , born Noboru Aikawa (会川 昇 , Aikawa Noboru ) on August 9, 1965) is a Japanese screenwriter. His writing credits include Jikuu Senshi Spielban, Mister Ajikko, Dangaioh, and Urotsukidōji. He has recently written the anime adaptations of "Love Hina" and the first "Fullmetal Alchemist" series, as well "Kamen Rider Blade" and "Kamen Rider Decade". He has created and written the Bones original series "Hiwou War Chronicles", "Tenpō Ibun Ayakashi Ayashi" and "Concrete Revolutio".
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Nakamura Baijaku II Shinichi Mitsui (三井 進一 , Mitsui Shin'ichi , born December 12, 1955) , better known as Nakamura Baijaku II (二代目 中村 梅雀 , Nidaime Nakamura Baijaku ) , is a Japanese actor, bassist, and composer. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Ogikubo High School and later graduated from Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music.
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Matsudaira Norikata Count Matsudaira Norikata (松平 乗謨 , December 18, 1839 – January 26, 1910) was the 8th and final "daimyō" of Okutono in Mikawa Province, and 1st (and final) "daimyō" of Tanoguchi Domain in Shinano Province. He served in the Tokugawa shogunate in the positions of "Rōjū" and "Wakadoshiyori", and became a leader in the Meiji government following the Meiji Restoration as a politician. He was one of the founders of the Japanese Red Cross. He is also known as Ōgyū Yuzuru (大給恒 ) .
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John Olatunde Ayeni John Olatunde Ayeni (born April 4, 1967) is a Nigerian lawyer, investor and business magnate. He holds board positions on companies throughout Nigeria.
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Jonathan Richman Jonathan Michael Richman (born May 16, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970 he founded the Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or with low-key, acoustic and electric, backing. Currently, he plays only acoustic to protect his hearing. He is known for his wide-eyed, unaffected and childlike outlook, and music that, while rooted in rock and roll, is influenced by music from around the world.
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John Castagnini John Castagnini (born December 3, 1970) is an ontologist, public speaker on consciousness, and publisher of the best-selling "Thank God I" series of self-help books.
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Toei Company Toei Company, Ltd. (東映株式会社 , Tōei Kabushiki-gaisha ) (pronounced "toe ay") is a Japanese film, television production, and distribution corporation. Based in Tokyo, Toei owns and operates thirty-four movie theaters across Japan, studios at Tokyo and Kyoto; and is a shareholder in several television companies. It is notable for anime, live action dramas known as tokusatsu which use special visual effects, and historical dramas (jidaigeki). It is a member of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ), and is one of Japan's Big Four film studios.
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Kijirō Nambu Kijirō Nambu (南部 麒次郎 , Nanbu Kijirō , September 22, 1869 – May 1, 1949) was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army and the founder of Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of many of the firearms the Japanese military would use in World War II. A prolific small arms designer, he was sometimes called the "John Browning of Japan". He was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure (2nd class) in 1914.
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Michael D. Rich Michael Rich is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the RAND Corporation, the institution's highest-ranking position, which he has held since November 2011. Rich became the fifth president and CEO of the Santa Monica, California-based research institution, succeeding James A. Thomson, who led RAND since 1989. His father, Ben Rich, was a prominent aeronautical engineer with the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, most famous for developing the F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter.
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Kazuaki Tanahashi Kazuaki Tanahashi (棚橋一晃 , c. 1933) is an accomplished Japanese calligrapher, Zen teacher, author and translator of Buddhist texts from Japanese and Chinese to English, most notably works by Dogen (he began his translation of "Shobogenzo" in his twenties). He first met Shunryu Suzuki in 1964, and upon reading Suzuki's book "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" he stated, "I could see it's Shobogenzo in a very plain, simple language." He has helped notable Zen teachers author books on Zen Buddhism, such as John Daido Loori. A fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science—Tanahashi is also an environmentalist and peaceworker.
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Judy Ongg Judy Ongg (, born January 24, 1950) is a Taiwanese-Japanese actress, singer, author, and woodblock-print artist. Born in Taipei, she graduated from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, and after which, she became a naturalized Japanese citizen. Her career has spanned more than four decades.
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Shin Terai Shin Terai is a Japanese musician and producer most known for his work with Bill Laswell and Buckethead. On his albums he combines ambient and electronic music with dub and avant-garde jazz.
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Shin-yo-sha Shin-yo-sha Publishing Ltd. (株式会社新曜社 , Kabushiki-gaisha Shinyōsha ) is a publishing company based in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1969, it specializes in academic publishing, especially in philosophy, psychology, and related areas. Their publications include Japanese translations of Donald Norman's 1988 work "The Psychology of Everyday Things", Thomas Gilovich's 1991 work "How we know what isn't so", and Gerald Edelman's 1992 work "Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind."
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John Breen (scholar) John Lawrence Breen (born 3 March 1956) is a British academic and Japanologist. He is a specialist in Japanese history at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (国際日本文化研究センター , Nichibunken ) in Kyoto. He writes in English and Japanese on the history of Shinto and the imperial institution.
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John A. Rich John Armand Rich is Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was a 2006 MacArthur Fellow.
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Kiyoshi Aki Kiyoshi Aki (安藝 清 , Aki Kiyoshi ) (born September 13, 1947) is the owner and founder of Aeon Corporation, one of the "Big Four" eikaiwa (conversational English) schools in Japan.
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Hinako Sugiura Hinako Sugiura (杉浦日向子 , Sugiura Hinako , November 30, 1958 – July 22, 2005) was a manga artist and researcher in the lifestyles and customs of Japan's Edo period. Born Junko Suzuki in Minato, Tokyo, into a tradition-steeped family of kimono merchants, she studied design and took an increasing interest in old Japan. She attended Nihon University, but gave up her formal studies to pursue research under the direction of author Shisei Inagaki. Inagaki specialized in the Edo period and taught Sugiura how to do the background surveys that would later ensure the historical accuracy of her manga and other works.
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Shochiku Shochiku Company Limited (松竹株式会社 , Shōchiku Kabushiki gaisha ) () is a Japanese movie studio and production company for kabuki. It also produces and distributes anime films. Its best remembered directors include Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita and Yōji Yamada. Shochiku has also produced films by highly regarded independent and "loner" directors such as Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa and Taiwanese New Wave director Hou Hsiao-hsien. It is a member of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ), and is one of Japan's Big Four film studios.