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Minahasan people
Minahasan people, also called the Manado people, are an Indigenous Christian ethnic group of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, formed from eight tribes united in the eighteenth century, speaking Minahasan Austronesian languages related to Philippine languages.
Minakami Biosphere Reserve
Minakami Biosphere Reserve (みなかみユネスコエコパーク), a UNESCO MAB site designated 14 June 2017 in Gunma and Niigata, Japan; 91,368 ha of forest at the Tone River source, with core, buffer, and transition zones and the Akaya Project conserving golden eagles.
Minako Yoshida (吉田美奈子)
Minako Yoshida (吉田美奈子), born 1953 in Saitama, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and producer who debuted in 1973 with Tobira no Fuyu, recorded city pop landmarks like FLAPPER and MONOCHROME, and wrote Yume de Aetara's first version.
Minamata (film)
Minamata is a 2020 drama directed by Andrew Levitas, starring Johnny Depp as photojournalist W. Eugene Smith documenting Chisso's mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, in 1971; premiered at Berlin 2020, US release December 2021.
Minamata disease
Minamata disease (水俣病) is methylmercury poisoning from contaminated seafood, first recognized 1956 in Kumamoto, Japan, caused by Chisso and Showa Denko acetaldehyde wastewater; it prompted the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury.
Minami (Martian crater)
Minami is an 80-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 37.49 S, 33.17 E, named for Masatsugu (1938-2019), Japanese astronomer who observed Martian dust storms; IAU-approved February 3, 2025.
Minami (Minami Kuribayashi)
Minami, also known as Minami Kuribayashi (栗林みな実), is a Japanese anison singer, songwriter, and voice actress born in 1976, known for songs in the Kimi ga Nozomu Eien and Muv-Luv franchises.
Minami Alps Biosphere Reserve
Minami Alps Biosphere Reserve (南アルプスユネスコエコパーク), a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Yamanashi, Nagano, and Shizuoka, Japan, designated 12 June 2014; 302,474 ha of 3,000-m peaks, renewed 2025.
Minami Chita Beach Land
Minami Chita Beach Land (南知多ビーチランド), opened 1980 in Mihama, Aichi, is an interactive aquarium on Ise Bay where visitors touch dolphins, seals, and turtles and feed penguins and fish, billed as Japan's top hands-on aquarium.
Minami Chita Beach Land Dolphin Theater
Minami Chita Beach Land Dolphin Theater (南知多ビーチランド) is the dolphin show arena of an interactive aquarium in Mihama, Aichi, Japan, opened 1980 by Meitetsu, known for barrier-free 'Distance Zero' seating and daily shows at 10:30, 13:00, and 15:30.
Minami Chita Beach Land Oceanic Hall
Minami Chita Beach Land Oceanic Hall (海洋館) is the indoor aquarium hall of Minamichita Beach Land in Mihama, Aichi, Japan, opened 1980, with a 1,000-ton Ise Bay main tank (display ended November 30, 2025) and sunken-ship displays.
Minami Hamabe (浜辺美波)
Minami Hamabe (浜辺美波) is a Japanese actress born in 2000 in Ishikawa, a 7th Toho Cinderella New Generation winner known for Let Me Eat Your Pancreas, Kakegurui, Shin Kamen Rider, Ranman, and Noriko in Godzilla Minus One and Godzilla -0.0.
Minami Kamada
Minami Kamada (鎌田 美南, born 2004) is a Japanese ice hockey forward for DK Peregrine and Japan's national team, a 2020 Youth Olympics gold medalist.
Minami Kosetsu
Minami Kosetsu (南こうせつ), born 1949 in Oita Prefecture, is a Japanese folk singer-songwriter who fronted Kaguyahime on the million-selling 'Kandagawa' and went solo in 1975.
Minami Takahashi
Minami Takahashi (高橋みなみ), born 1991 in Tokyo, is a Japanese television personality and singer who led AKB48 as its first general manager until graduating in 2016.
Minami Umezawa
Minami Umezawa (Umezawa Minami, born 1999) is a Japanese idol and model who was a member of Nogizaka46 from 2016 to 2026, serving as its third captain from 2023.
Minami Yokohama thermal power station
Minami Yokohama thermal power station (南横浜火力発電所) is an LNG-fired power station in Isogo-ku, Yokohama, Japan, where the world's first LNG-only thermal power unit began operating in 1970.
Minami-Nagaoka Gas Field
Minami-Nagaoka Gas Field (南長岡ガス田) is one of Japan's largest onshore natural gas fields, about 10 kilometers southwest of Nagaoka City, Niigata, producing since 1984 under operator INPEX.
Minamidaitōjima (南大東島)
Minamidaitōjima (南大東島), Minami-Daito Island, is a raised coral atoll in the Daito Islands, Okinawa, Japan, about 360 km east of Okinawa Island; 30.52 km², population 1,204, discovered 1820 by the Russian ship Borodino, settled 1900 from Hachijō.
Minaminaka Gun
Minaminaka Gun (南那珂郡, Minaminaka District) was a district of Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, created in 1884 from the split of Naka District, centered on Obi, and abolished March 30, 2009 when Kitago and Nango merged into Nichinan City.
Minamirinkan
Minamirinkan (南林間) is a residential district of Yamato City, Kanagawa, Japan, centered on Minami-Rinkan Station (OE-03) on the Odakyu Enoshima Line, opened 1929, about 31,000 daily passengers.
Minamoto clan (源氏)
Minamoto clan (源氏, Genji), Japanese aristocratic house created by Emperor Saga in 814 through dynastic shedding; its Seiwa Genji branch defeated the Taira in the Genpei War (1180–1185) and produced shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo, founder of the Kamakura shogunate.
Minamoto no Masazane
Minamoto no Masazane (源雅実, 1059–1127) was a late Heian court noble of the Murakami Genji, the first Minamoto to hold the office of Daijō-daijin in 1122.
Minamoto no Michitomo
Minamoto no Michitomo (源通具, 1171–1227) was a Japanese court noble and waka poet who served as one of the six compilers of the imperial anthology Shinkokin Wakashū, completed in 1205.
Minamoto no Mitsunaka
Minamoto no Mitsunaka (源満仲) was a mid-Heian warrior, traditionally dated 912 to 997, who served the Fujiwara and founded the Settsu Minamoto line at Tada.
Minamoto no Noriyori
Minamoto no Noriyori (源範頼, c. 1150–1193) was a Japanese warrior commander of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods who led Minamoto armies in the Genpei War.
Minamoto no Sanetomo
Minamoto no Sanetomo (源実朝) was the third shogun of the Kamakura shogunate from 1203 to 1219, a noted waka poet whose collection is the Kinkai Wakashū.
Minamoto no Shigeyuki
Minamoto no Shigeyuki (源重之), a mid-Heian Japanese waka poet who died around 1000, is counted among the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals and appears in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Minamoto no Shitagō
Minamoto no Shitagō (源順, 911–983) was a mid-Heian period Japanese poet and scholar who compiled the Wamyō Ruijushō, Japan's oldest surviving semantically classified dictionary, and served as one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber.
Minamoto no Tametomo
Minamoto no Tametomo (源為朝), 1139 to 1170, was an eighth son of Minamoto no Tameyoshi who fought in the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156 and became legendary as an archer of unmatched power.