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Yoshiko Yamaguchi

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(12 February 1920 – 7 September 2014) was a Chinese-born Japanese actress and singer who made a career in China, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United States. [1]

63 relations: Akira Kurosawa, Aktsuki no daso, Asian Women's Fund, Aya Ueto, Chinese characters, Coloratura soprano, Comfort women, Debasement, Eternity (1943 film), Fei Yu-ching, First Opium War, Fuji TV, Fushun, Gong Qiuxia, Hirokazu Kore-eda, House of Bamboo, House of Councillors (Japan), Ian Buruma, Internment of Japanese Americans, Isamu Noguchi, Jacky Cheung, Japan, Japanese Americans, Japanese War Bride, Jazz, Judy Garland, Kishima District, Saga, Li Lili, Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Mainichi Shimbun, Manchukuo Film Association, Manchuria, Masahiko Amakasu, National Diet, Ogg, Order of the Sacred Treasure, Palgrave Macmillan, Pan Jinlian, Popular music, Ri Kōran (film), Ryō Ikebe, Sacramento, California, Saga Prefecture, Sakura Wars, Sayon's Bell, Scandal (1950 film), Seven Great Singing Stars, Shangri-La (musical), Shiki Theatre Company, Soprano, ..., South Manchuria Railway, Standard Chinese, Teresa Teng, The Legend of the White Serpent (1956 film), The New York Times, Tokyo, TV Tokyo, University of Chicago, University of Hawaii Press, Vietnam War, White émigré, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Yoshiko Yamaguchi. Expand index (13 more) »

Akira Kurosawa

was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.

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Aktsuki no daso

(Escape at Dawn) is a 1950 Japanese film which revolves around a tragic affair between a soldier involved in the Manchurian campaign and a prostitute.

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Asian Women's Fund

, also abbreviated to アジア女性基金 in Japanese, was a fund set up by the Japanese government in 1994 to distribute monetary compensation to comfort women in South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and Indonesia.

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Aya Ueto

is a Japanese actress, singer and television personality.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.

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Coloratura soprano

A coloratura soprano is a type of operatic soprano voice that specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs, leaps and trills.

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Comfort women

Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied territories before and during World War II.

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Debasement

Debasement is the practice of lowering the value of currency.

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Eternity (1943 film)

Eternity is a controversial 1943 Chinese film made in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during the Second World War.

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Fei Yu-ching

Fei Yu-ching (born 17 July 1955), birth name Chang Yen-ting, is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter and the younger brother of television personality Chang Fei.

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First Opium War

The First Opium War (第一次鴉片戰爭), also known as the Opium War or the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice in China.

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Fuji TV

is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's call sign "JOCX-DTV".

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Fushun

Fushun (formerly romanised as Fouchouen, using French spelling, also as Fuxi (撫西)) is a prefecture level city in Liaoning province, China, about east of Shenyang, with a population of 2,138,090 inhabitants (2010 census) and a total area of, of which is the city proper.

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Gong Qiuxia

Gong Qiuxia, also romanized as Kung Chiu-hsia, was born in 1916 under the name (龚莎莎 Gong Shasha and 龚秋香 Gong Qiuxiang) and died 2004, China.

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Hirokazu Kore-eda

is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor.

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House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo is a 1955 American film noir shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color.

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House of Councillors (Japan)

The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan.

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Ian Buruma

Ian Buruma (馬毅仁, born December 28, 1951) is a Dutch writer, editor and historian who lives and works in the United States.

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Internment of Japanese Americans

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000Various primary and secondary sources list counts between persons.

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Isamu Noguchi

was a Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward.

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Jacky Cheung

Jacky Cheung Hok-yau (born 10 July 1961) is a Hong Kong singer, songwriter and actor.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese Americans

are Americans who are fully or partially of Japanese descent, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics.

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Japanese War Bride

Japanese War Bride (also known as East is East) is a 1952 drama film directed by King Vidor.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Judy Garland

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian.

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Kishima District, Saga

is a district located in Saga Prefecture, Japan.

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Li Lili

Li Lili (2 June 1915 – 7 August 2005) was a Chinese film actress and singer.

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Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

The, frequently abbreviated to LDP or, is a conservative political party in Japan.

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Mainichi Shimbun

The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by.

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Manchukuo Film Association

(Chinese: 株式會社滿洲映畫協會), also known as the "Manchuria Film Production", was a Japanese film production company in Manchukuo in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Manchuria

Manchuria is a name first used in the 17th century by Chinese people to refer to a large geographic region in Northeast Asia.

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Masahiko Amakasu

was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army imprisoned for his involvement in the Amakasu Incident, the extrajudicial execution of anarchists after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, who later became head of the Manchukuo Film Association.

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National Diet

The is Japan's bicameral legislature.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Order of the Sacred Treasure

The is a Japanese order, established on 4 January 1888 by Emperor Meiji as the Order of Meiji.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan is an international academic and trade publishing company.

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Pan Jinlian

Pan Jinlian is a fictional character in the 17th-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase), and a minor character in Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Ri Kōran (film)

is a two-part historical and biographical film portraying the turbulent life and times of legendary pan-Asian singer and actress Ri Koran.

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Ryō Ikebe

(11 February 1918 – 8 October 2010) was a Japanese actor.

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Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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Saga Prefecture

is a prefecture in the northwest part of the island of Kyushu, Japan.

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Sakura Wars

is a Japanese media franchise created by Ouji Hiroi, and is developed and formally licensed by Red Entertainment and Sega (who also owns the franchise).

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Sayon's Bell

was a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Shimizu and based on the true story of a 17-year-old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'ao village, Giran district, Taihoku Prefecture, Taiwan, who went missing and was thought to have drowned whilst helping carry the luggage of her teacher Masaki Takita during a storm in 1938.

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Scandal (1950 film)

is a 1950 film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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Seven Great Singing Stars

The Seven Great Singing Stars were the seven most renowned singers of China in the 1940s.

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Shangri-La (musical)

Shangri-La is a musical with a book and lyrics by James Hilton, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee and music by Harry Warren.

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Shiki Theatre Company

is one of Japan's best-known and largest theatre companies.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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South Manchuria Railway

The South Manchuria Railway (南滿洲鐵道: Japanese Minamimanshū Tetsudō; Chinese Nánmǎnzhōu Tiědào), officially South Manchuria Railway Company (南満洲鐵道株式會社: Minamimanshū Tetsudō Kabushikigaisha; Nánmǎnzhōu Tiědào Zhūshìhuìshè), or 南鐵 Mantetsu for short (Mǎntiě in Chinese), was a large National Policy Company (国策会社) of Japan whose primary function was the operation of railways on the Dalian–Fengtian (Mukden)–Changchun (called Xinjing from 1931 to 1945) corridor in northeastern China, as well as on several branch lines.

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Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Mandarin, Standard Mandarin, or simply Mandarin, is a standard variety of Chinese that is the sole official language of both China and Taiwan (de facto), and also one of the four official languages of Singapore.

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Teresa Teng

Teresa Teng (29 January 1953 – 8 May 1995) was a Taiwanese singer.

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The Legend of the White Serpent (1956 film)

aka Madame White Snake is a 1956 color (Eastmancolor) Japanese film directed by Shirō Toyoda.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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TV Tokyo

is a television station headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Hawaii Press

The University of Hawaii Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiokinai.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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White émigré

A white émigré was a Russian subject who emigrated from Imperial Russia in the wake of the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War, and who was in opposition to the contemporary Russian political climate.

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Yasuko Sawaguchi

is a Japanese actress.

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Yoshiko Yamaguchi

(12 February 1920 – 7 September 2014) was a Chinese-born Japanese actress and singer who made a career in China, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Yamaguchi

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