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Mitsubishi Starion
The Mitsubishi Starion, also sold as the Dodge, Plymouth, and Chrysler Conquest, is a rear-wheel-drive turbocharged sports coupe built by Mitsubishi Motors from 1982 to 1989.
Mitsubishi Triton
The Mitsubishi Triton, sold in many markets as the Mitsubishi L200, is a one-ton pickup truck from Mitsubishi Motors, first launched in Japan in 1978 as the Mitsubishi Forte.
Mitsubishi X-2 Shinshin
The Mitsubishi X-2 Shinshin (心神), formerly designated ATD-X, is a Japanese experimental stealth technology demonstrator built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, first flown on April 22, 2016.
Mitsubishi Xpander
The Mitsubishi Xpander is a seven-seat crossover MPV produced by Mitsubishi Motors, launched in Indonesia in 2017 and sold across ASEAN, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Mitsubishi zaibatsu
Mitsubishi zaibatsu (三菱財閥) was a Japanese business group controlled by the Iwasaki family, Japan's second-largest zaibatsu after Mitsui, founded in 1870 and dissolved by the Allied Occupation in 1946.
Mitsuharu Kaneko
Mitsuharu Kaneko (金子光晴, 1895–1975), real name Yasukazu, was a Japanese poet known for antiwar and anti-establishment verse through the wartime years, most notably the collection Same (Sharks, 1937).
Mitsuharu Misawa
Mitsuharu Misawa (三沢 光晴), Japanese pro wrestler (1962–2009), AJPW's Tiger Mask II then Four Pillars ace, 8-time world champion, founder of Pro Wrestling NOAH and first GHC champion, died in a Hiroshima ring in 2009.
Mitsuhashi Susumu
Mitsuhashi Susumu (三橋進) was a Japanese microbiologist who named R factors, the plasmids carrying transferable antibiotic resistance, proved their transfer required cell-to-cell contact, and led research on drug-resistant Shigella in Japan.
Mitsuhiko Shionoya
Mitsuhiko Shionoya (塩谷光彦) is a Japanese inorganic and supramolecular coordination chemist, first in the world to develop metal complex-type artificial DNA, now a professor at Tokyo University of Science.
Mitsuhiro Ikeda
Mitsuhiro Ikeda is the Japanese businessman who founded HAL Laboratory in Tokyo in February 1980 and was its first president until March 1984, before the Nintendo era.
Mitsuhiro Shibayama
Mitsuhiro Shibayama (柴山充弘) is a Japanese soft matter physicist known for small-angle neutron scattering studies of polymer gels, including tetra-PEG gels, and professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo.
Mitsuhiro Yanagida
Mitsuhiro Yanagida (柳田 充弘) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for deciphering how chromosomes segregate during cell division, working on fission yeast at Kyoto University and OIST.
Mitsui (三井)
Mitsui (三井), or Mitsui Group, is a Japanese group of firms descended from the Mitsui zaibatsu, Japan's largest prewar business group, dissolved in 1946 and reassembled as a keiretsu.
Mitsui Chemicals
Mitsui Chemicals is a Japanese chemical manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, formed in 1997 by merging Mitsui Petrochemical Industries and Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, with roots in coal chemistry from 1912.
Mitsui Kinzoku
Mitsui Kinzoku, formerly Mitsui Mining and Smelting until 2025, is a Japanese nonferrous metals company producing electrodeposited copper foil for circuit boards, lithium-ion cathode materials, and the A-SOLiD solid electrolyte for all-solid-state batteries.
Mitsui OSK Lines
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), also known as Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. or 株式会社商船三井, is one of Japan's three major shipping companies, with the world's largest dry bulk and LNG carrier fleets.
Mitsui zaibatsu
The Mitsui zaibatsu (三井財閥) was one of the great Japanese family-controlled business conglomerates, organized in 1909 around the holding company Mitsui Gomei Kaisha and dissolved in 1946.
Mitsuki (ミツキ) (Naruto)
Mitsuki (ミツキ) is a fictional character created by Masashi Kishimoto for the Naruto franchise, a synthetic human clone of Orochimaru who becomes a member of Team 7 alongside Boruto Uzumaki.
Mitsuki Ono
Mitsuki Ono (小野光希), Japanese snowboard halfpipe rider born 2004 in Saitama; 2020 Youth Olympic gold, Beijing 2022 ninth, Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic bronze, World Championship bronzes 2023 and 2025, World Cup overall champion 2023 and 2024.
Mitsuko Nakamura
Mitsuko Nakamura (中村美律子) is a Japanese enka singer from Higashiōsaka, Osaka, who debuted in 1986 and became nationally known through her 1989 hit 河内おとこ節, first appearing on Kōhaku in 1992.
Mitsuko Tottori (鳥取三津子)
Mitsuko Tottori (鳥取三津子), also known as Tottori Mituko, is a Japanese business executive who became Japan Airlines' first female president on April 1, 2024, rising from cabin attendant.
Mitsuko Uchida (内田光子)
Mitsuko Uchida (内田光子), Japanese-British classical pianist born 1948 in Atami, trained in Vienna, based in London. Known for Mozart and Schubert sonata cycles, Grammys, DBE, and 2027 Léonie Sonning Music Prize.
Mitsunobu Okada (Astroscale)
Mitsunobu Okada, also known as Nobu Okada, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Astroscale in Singapore in 2013, the first private company aiming to remove space debris.
Mitsunobu reaction
The Mitsunobu reaction is an organic reaction that converts primary or secondary alcohols into substituted products using triphenylphosphine and DEAD or DIAD, first reported by Oyo Mitsunobu in 1967.
Mitsuo Fuchida (淵田美津雄)
Mitsuo Fuchida (淵田美津雄, 1902–1976) was a captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service who led the first wave of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, signaling "Tora, Tora, Tora".
Mitsuo Ikebe
Mitsuo Ikebe (池部満雄) is a biochemist who studies the myosin molecular motor, known for light chain phosphorylation in smooth muscle and the 2002 Nature study of myosin-V's large step size.
Mitsuo Iwata (岩田光央)
Mitsuo Iwata (岩田光央, born 1967) is a Japanese voice actor with Aoni Production, known as Kaneda in AKIRA, Itsuki in Initial D, Ivankov in ONE PIECE, and Zaboera in Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai.
Mitsuo Kawato
Mitsuo Kawato (川人光男), born 1953, is a Japanese computational neuroscientist at ATR in Kyoto, known for the cerebellar internal-model theory, decoded neurofeedback, and brain-machine interfaces.
Mitsuo Kira
Mitsuo Kira (吉良 満夫) is a Japanese organometallic chemist specializing in silicon chemistry, a professor emeritus at Tohoku University who isolated the first stable dialkylsilylene in 1999.
Mitsuo Sawamoto
Mitsuo Sawamoto (澤本光男, born 1951) is a Japanese polymer chemist and Kyoto University professor emeritus who developed living cationic polymerization and the first metal-catalyzed living radical polymerization.