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Koira

Koira ("dog") is a Finnish two-phase beating card game for 3-8 players, related to Norwegian Mattis and Swedish Skitgubbe; players collect tricks, then shed cards, and the last player holding cards loses.

Koirala family (कोइराला परिवार)

Koirala family (कोइराला परिवार), Nepal's leading political dynasty of the Nepali Congress: four prime ministers, Matrika, BP, Girija Prasad, and Sushil Koirala, descending from Krishna Prasad Koirala.

Oct 20, 2026

Koishikawa Botanical Gardens

Koishikawa Botanical Gardens (小石川植物園), the University of Tokyo's botanical research garden in Bunkyo, Tokyo; Japan's oldest, founded as a 1684 shogunal medicinal herb garden, holding Herbarium TI specimens and Ogasawara rare-plant conservation projects.

Koishikawa Kōrakuen

Koishikawa Kōrakuen (小石川後楽園) is a strolling pond garden in Bunkyō, Tokyo, begun in 1629 by Tokugawa Yorifusa and completed around 1669 under his son Mitsukuni.

Sep 24, 2026

Koitalel arap Samoei

Koitalel arap Samoei (c. 1860–1905) was the orkoiyot, spiritual and military leader of the Nandi people of Kenya, who organized resistance to British colonial incursion until 1905.

Koitelainen Mires

Koitelainen Mires (Koitelaiskaira), Ramsar Site no. 12 in Finnish Lapland near Sodankylä, designated 28 May 1974; a 48,938-ha aapa mire watershed between the Luiro and Kitinen rivers, Natura 2000 area with threatened rich-fen species and old spruce forests.

Oct 3, 2026

Koizora (恋空)

Koizora (恋空, Sky of Love) is Mika's 2005 cell phone novel from Mahou no i-rando, published in books in 2006, adapted into a 2007 Toho film directed by Natsuki Imai starring Yui Aragaki and Haruma Miura, and a 2008 TBS drama.

Kojak

Kojak: CBS police drama (1973–1978) starring Telly Savalas as lollipop-sucking NYPD Lt. Theo Kojak, created by Abby Mann from the pilot movie The Marcus-Nelson Murders; Emmy and Golden Globe winner.

Koje-do prisoner-of-war camp riots

The Koje-do prisoner-of-war camp riots were uprisings by communist and anti-communist prisoners at the UN camp on Geoje Island, South Korea, peaking between February and June 1952.

Kōji (food)

Kōji (麹) is steamed grain cultured with Aspergillus oryzae mold, the enzyme starter behind sake, miso, soy sauce, mirin, and shio koji; incubated about 40–48 hours at 40–45 °C and named Japan's national fungi in 2006.

Koji Gushiken

Koji Gushiken (具志堅幸司), Japanese artistic gymnast born 1956 in Osaka; 1984 Los Angeles Olympic all-around and rings champion with five Olympic medals, 10 World Championship medals, later Japanese national team coach and 2023 Hall of Fame inductee.

Koji Kimata

Koji Kimata (木全弘治) is a Japanese cell biologist and glycobiologist known for expression-cloning a eukaryotic hyaluronan synthase and showing the three mammalian HAS isoforms differ enzymatically.

Kōji Kobayashi (electronics engineer)

Kōji Kobayashi (小林宏治) was a Japanese electronics engineer who spent his career at NEC, becoming president in 1964 and conceiving the C&C strategy of integrating computers and communications.

Koji Kondo (近藤浩治)

Koji Kondo (近藤浩治, born 1960) is Nintendo's veteran composer, creator of the Super Mario Bros. Ground Theme and The Legend of Zelda scores; his 1985 Mario theme was the first video game music in the National Recording Registry.

Koji Murofushi

Koji Murofushi (室伏広治), born 1974, Japanese hammer thrower; 2004 Athens Olympic gold and 2011 World champion; Asian record 84.86 m; later Japan Sports Agency commissioner and Institute of Science Tokyo professor.

Koji Nakanishi

Koji Nakanishi (1925–2019) was a Japanese organic chemist at Columbia University who determined structures of biologically active natural products and developed the exciton chirality method.

Koji Nishio

Koji Nishio (Koryan, コーリャン), born 1977, is a Japanese classic NES Tetris player and caster, TGM grandmaster, 2019 CTWC runner-up to Joseph Saelee, and eleven-time CTM champion.

Koji Suzuki

Koji Suzuki (鈴木光司, 1957–2026) was a Japanese horror writer whose novel Ring, published in 1991, launched a boom in Japanese horror and was filmed in Japan and Hollywood.

Kôji Uchida

Kôji Uchida (内田浩二) is a Japanese food chemist and redox biologist, a Project Professor at the University of Tokyo who studies protein modification in aging and inflammation.

Koji Uehara (上原浩治)

Koji Uehara (上原浩治), born 1975, Japanese right-handed pitcher, two-time Sawamura Award winner with Yomiuri, MLB reliever 2009-2017, dominant 2013 Red Sox closer, ALCS MVP, 2013 World Series champion.

Koji Yamamuro

Koji Yamamuro (山室光史), Japanese artistic gymnast born 1989, Konami club; Olympic team gold Rio 2016 and silver London 2012, world all-around and rings bronze 2011, vault injury at London 2012.

Kojic acid

Kojic acid (5-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-4H-pyran-4-one) is a fungal metabolite from Aspergillus fermentation, discovered 1907 in Japan, used as a tyrosinase-inhibiting skin-lightening cosmetic ingredient, EU-safe up to 1%, and as a food antioxidant.

Kojidan

Kojidan is a six-book Japanese setsuwa collection compiled between 1212 and 1215 by Minamoto no Akikane, a court noble of the Murakami Genji, gathering anecdotes from the Nara period onward.

Kojiki (古事記)

Kojiki (古事記), also Furukotobumi or Records of Ancient Matters, is Japan's oldest extant book, a three-fascicle compilation of myths, songs, and imperial genealogies by Ō no Yasumaro, presented to Empress Genmei's court in 712.

Kojiki and Nihon Shoki

The Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, together called the Kiki, are Japan's two oldest extant historical records, compiled in 712 and 720 to legitimize the imperial line.

Sep 24, 2026

Kojiki-den

Kojiki-den (古事記伝) is a 44-volume commentary on the 712 CE Kojiki by the Edo-period kokugaku scholar Motoori Norinaga, completed in 1798 and printed in full in 1822, and regarded as his magnum opus.

Kojima Productions

Kojima Productions (コジマプロダクション), independent Tokyo studio founded by Hideo Kojima on December 16, 2015 after leaving Konami; maker of Death Stranding and Death Stranding 2, using the Decima engine, with OD (Xbox) and Physint projects.

Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson

Kojo S.J. Elenitoba-Johnson is an American molecular pathologist specializing in lymphoma and leukemia, inaugural chair of pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2022.

Kojo Osei

Kojo Osei is a venture capitalist and Partner at Matrix Partners in New York City, investing from first check through Series A out of the firm's $800 million 12th fund.