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Hiroshige (Mercurian crater)
Hiroshige is a 138-km impact crater on Mercury, centered at −13.34°, 26.96°, named in 1976 after the Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige (1797–1858) under the IAU's Mercury artist-naming convention.
Hiroshige (歌川広重)
Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重, 1797–1858), also Andō Hiroshige, Edo-period ukiyo-e landscape printmaker, pupil of Utagawa Toyohiro; famed for the Hōeidō Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.
Hiroshima (book)
Hiroshima (book), John Hersey's 1946 New Yorker report and Knopf book, tells six Hiroshima survivors' stories; filled an entire issue, sold over 3.5 million copies, banned in Japan until 1949.
Hiroshima (district)
Hiroshima (広島) is an administrative district established in 1878 and the name of the castle district at the heart of Hiroshima City, named "Wide Island" by Terumoto Mori.
Hiroshima (広島市)
Hiroshima (広島市) is a Japanese city on the Seto Inland Sea, founded as a castle town in 1589 and municipalized in 1889. Destroyed by the first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945, it rebuilt as a peace symbol and is now a designated city of about 1.17 million.
Hiroshima AI Process
The Hiroshima AI Process (HAIP) is a Group of Seven initiative on governing advanced AI, launched by Japan at the G7 Hiroshima Summit in May 2023.
Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park
Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park (広島市安佐動物公園, Asa Zoo), a municipal zoo in Asakita-ku, Hiroshima, opened 1971, keeping about 150-160 species; known for Japanese giant salamander and black rhino breeding, distinct from Hiroshima's botanical garden and insectarium.
Hiroshima Diary
Hiroshima Diary (ヒロシマ日記) is the journal of physician Michihiko Hachiya, a wounded survivor who directed relief at a Hiroshima hospital after the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945.
Hiroshima Gas
Hiroshima Gas (広島ガス) is a Japanese city gas utility headquartered in Hiroshima, founded in 1909 and supplying natural gas to about 419,000 customers in Hiroshima Prefecture.
Hiroshima mon amour
Hiroshima mon amour (1959) is Alain Resnais's first feature, scripted by Marguerite Duras, about a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) in Hiroshima; a France-Japan New Wave landmark that won FIPRESCI at Cannes 1959.
Hiroshima Notes
Hiroshima Notes (Hiroshima nōto, ヒロシマ・ノート) is a 1965 collection of essays and reportage on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the Japanese novelist Ōe Kenzaburō, the 1994 Nobel laureate.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial, commonly called the Genbaku Dome, is the preserved ruin of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall left standing after the 1945 atomic bombing.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (広島平和記念公園)
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (広島平和記念公園) is a Hiroshima park near the 1945 atomic bombing hypocenter, designed by Kenzo Tange after his 1949 competition win, hosting the annual August 6 Peace Memorial Ceremony, the Cenotaph, and the Peace Memorial Museum within the Genbaku Dome's UNESCO buffer zone.
Hirosi Ooguri (大栗博司)
Hirosi Ooguri (大栗博司), born 1962, is a Japanese theoretical physicist, the Fred Kavli Professor at Caltech, known for the OSV conjecture relating black hole entropy to topological string theory.
Hirota Koki
Hirota Koki (広田弘毅) was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as foreign minister twice and as the 32nd prime minister of Japan from 1936 to 1937.
Hirotake Yano
Hirotake Yano (矢野 博丈) was a Japanese retail entrepreneur who founded Daiso Industries, Japan's largest 100-yen shop chain, beginning as a truck-based street vendor in 1972 and dying in 2024.
Hiroto Okayama
Hiroto Okayama (岡山 博人) is a Japanese molecular biologist who developed the Okayama–Berg full-length cDNA cloning method at Stanford, cloned the human oxytocin receptor, and studied cell-cycle checkpoints.
Hirotsu Kazuo
Hirotsu Kazuo (広津和郎, 1891–1968) was a Japanese novelist and critic from Tokyo, son of novelist Hirotsu Ryuro, known for The Neurotic Age and criticism that helped exonerate the Matsukawa trial defendants.
Hirotugu Akaike
Hirotugu Akaike (赤池弘次) was a Japanese statistician at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo who formulated the Akaike Information Criterion, published in 1973 and 1974, and received the 2006 Kyoto Prize.
Hiroya Kuroda
Hiroya Kuroda, also known as Tokubei Kuroda (黒田徳米), was a Japanese malacologist, born in 1886, who led Japan's first generation of professional malacological taxonomists and published from 1907 to 1984.
Hiroya Saito
Hiroya Saito (斎藤浩哉, born 1970), Japanese ski jumper for Snow Brand; won team large hill gold at Nagano 1998, two individual World Cup wins, and three World Championship medals.
Hiroyasu Shimizu
Hiroyasu Shimizu (清水宏保), born 1974 in Obihiro, Japan, is a retired long-track speed skater, 1998 Nagano Olympic 500 m gold medalist and first Japanese Olympic champion in speed skating, with four 500 m world records and five world titles. Not the alpine skier or MMA fighters of the same surname.
Hiroyoshi Nishikawa
Hiroyoshi Nishikawa (西川 博嘉, born 1970) is a Japanese tumor immunologist known for work on regulatory T cells in cancer immunity and the immuno-genomic cancer progression hypothesis.
Hiroyoshi Sasagawa
Hiroyoshi Sasagawa is a Japanese Liberal Democratic Party politician who serves as Minister of the Environment and Minister of State for Nuclear Emergency Preparedness in the Takaichi Cabinet.
Hiroyuki Aoyama (青山博之)
Hiroyuki Aoyama (青山博之) is a Japanese reinforced-concrete structural engineer who researched earthquake-resistant design and high-strength concrete as a professor at the University of Tokyo and later Nihon University.
Hiroyuki Furuta
Hiroyuki Furuta (古田弘幸) is a Japanese organic chemist known for discovering N-confused porphyrin in 1994 and building near-infrared dyes on it; he is Emeritus Professor at Kyushu University.
Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石洋之)
Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石洋之), born 1971, Japanese anime director and animator; ex-Gainax, co-founder of TRIGGER; directed Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, known for high-speed Kanada-style action.
Hiroyuki Isobe
Hiroyuki Isobe (磯部寛之, born 1970 in Tokyo) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for synthesizing molecular nanocarbons, including phenine nanotubes and molecular peapods.
Hiroyuki Mano
Hiroyuki Mano (間野博行) is a Japanese cancer genomics researcher who discovered the EML4-ALK fusion oncogene in lung cancer in 2007, enabling ALK inhibitors, and has been President of the National Cancer Center in Tokyo since 2025.
Hiroyuki Nishide
Hiroyuki Nishide (西出 宏之, born 1947) is a Japanese polymer chemist at Waseda University, a professor from 1987 to 2018, known for redox-active radical polymers and the organic radical battery.