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Ryō no Shūge
Ryō no Shūge (令集解) is a privately compiled ninth-century commentary on the Yōrō Code, Japan's eighth-century administrative law, assembled by the legal scholar Koremune no Naomoto.
Ryo Ogawa
Ryo Ogawa (小川嶺) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Timee, Inc. in 2017 at age 20 and leads Japan's largest spot-work platform as its CEO.
Ryo Sakazaki
Ryo Sakazaki (リョウ・サカザキ, 坂崎亮) is SNK's Kyokugen-ryu karate fighter, protagonist of Art of Fighting (1992) and a King of Fighters regular; created as a Ryu homage, first fighting-game guest character via Fatal Fury Special.
Ryo Shintani
Ryo Shintani (新谷 亮) is a Japanese organic chemist, professor at Osaka University's Graduate School of Engineering Science since 2017, known for the rhodium-catalyzed stitching reaction and stitching polymerization.
Ryoan-ji
Ryoan-ji (竜安寺) is a Rinzai Zen temple in northwestern Kyoto, founded in 1450 and best known for its rock garden of fifteen stones on raked white gravel.
Ryobi (brand)
Ryobi is a brand name used for a Japanese die-casting manufacturer founded in Hiroshima in 1943 and for power tools sold under license by Hong Kong-based Techtronic Industries.
Ryoga Okunishi
Ryoga Okunishi (奥西 亮賀) is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder and CEO of IVRy, a Tokyo voice-AI company that automates business phone answering, which he founded in 2019 after leaving Recruit Holdings.
Ryōgen
Ryōgen (良源, 912–985), posthumously named Jie, was a Japanese Tendai Buddhist monk and eighteenth abbot of Enryakuji on Mount Hiei from 966 to 985, remembered as its second founder.
Ryogo Kubo
Ryogo Kubo (久保亮五, 1920–1995) was a Japanese theoretical physicist at the University of Tokyo whose 1957 Kubo formula linked conductivity to atomic interactions, earning the 1977 Boltzmann Medal.
Ryōgoku Bridge
Ryōgoku Bridge (両国橋) is a steel bridge over the Sumida River in Tokyo, first built in wood in 1659 and known for its Edo-period entertainment quarter.
Ryogoku Kokugikan
Ryogoku Kokugikan, the national sumo arena of Japan in Sumida, Tokyo, opened in January 1985 as the third hall of that name and hosts three annual Grand Sumo Tournaments.
Ryohei Kato
Ryohei Kato (加藤凌平), Japanese artistic gymnast born 1993 in Numazu, Shizuoka; Konami Sports Club and Juntendo University. Olympic team silver London 2012, team gold Rio 2016; 2013 world all-around silver; retired August 2024.
Ryōhei Kimura (木村 良平)
Ryōhei Kimura (木村 良平, Kimura Ryōhei), Japanese voice actor, actor, and singer of Gekidan Himawari; anime debut 1996, lead in Eden of the East (2009), Trignal member, 2012 Seiyu Award winner.
Ryohei Oiwa
Ryohei Oiwa (大岩 陵平, born 1998) is a Japanese NJPW wrestler, TMDK member, ex-NOAH excursion trainee, and G1 Climax 36 winner with the shortest debut-to-G1 career in history.
Ryohei Yasuda
Ryohei Yasuda is a Japanese biophysicist and neuroscientist who studies biochemical signaling in single dendritic spines, and is Scientific Director at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.
Ryoichi Hayatsu
Ryoichi Hayatsu is a cosmochemist known for work on organic compounds in coal and carbonaceous meteorites, including the 1973 proposal that meteoritic organics formed catalytically in the solar nebula.
Ryoichi Nakagawa
Ryoichi Nakagawa (中川良一, 1913–1998) was a Japanese engineer who designed the Nakajima Sakae engine powering the Zero fighter and led Nissan's ECCS electronic engine control, introduced in 1979.
Ryoichiro Kageyama
Ryoichiro Kageyama is a Japanese developmental neuroscientist who directs the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Kobe, known for work on Hes oscillators and the segmentation clock.
Ryoji Kanno
Ryoji Kanno (菅野了次) is a Japanese battery materials chemist and Institute Professor at Institute of Science Tokyo, known for developing the sulfide solid electrolyte LGPS, reported in 2011.
Ryoji Kuribayashi
Ryoji Kuribayashi (栗林良吏), born 1996 in Aisai, Aichi, is a Hiroshima Toyo Carp right-handed pitcher, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist, and former NPB closer (134 saves, 2.22 career ERA) who became a starter in 2026.
Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori (野依良治), born 1938 in Kobe, is a Japanese organic chemist who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for asymmetric hydrogenation and later served as President of RIKEN.
Ryōjin Hishō
Ryōjin Hishō (梁塵秘抄) is a Japanese anthology of popular imayō court songs, compiled in the late 12th century by retired emperor Go-Shirakawa and rediscovered in the Meiji era.
Ryokan (inn)
A ryokan (旅館) is a traditional Japanese inn unique to Japan, offering tatami rooms, futon bedding, kaiseki meals, and communal baths often fed by natural hot springs.
Ryoko Kui (九井 諒子)
Ryoko Kui (九井 諒子) is a Japanese manga artist, debut 2011, creator of Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi), Harta 2014–2023, 14 volumes, 14 million copies, 2024 Studio Trigger-era anime and second season announced.
Ryoko Tamura Tani
Ryoko Tamura Tani (谷亮子), Japanese judoka born 1975 in Fukuoka; won judo medals at five straight Olympics 1992–2008 (gold 2000, 2004) and seven world titles in the 48 kg class, then entered Japanese politics.
Ryokuoushoku Shakai (緑黄色社会)
Ryokuoushoku Shakai (緑黄色社会, "Ryokushaka") is a four-member Japanese pop-rock band formed in 2012 in Aichi Prefecture: Nagaya, Kobayashi, peppe, and Anami. Known for "Mela!" (500 million streams), first Budokan shows in 2022, and the 2026 album Atamago.
Ryoma Kimata
Ryoma Kimata (木俣 椋真, born 2002, Nagoya) is a Japanese snowboarder in big air and slopestyle. 2020 Youth Olympic big air champion, 2025 world big air champion, and silver medalist in men's big air at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics.
Ryomen Sukuna (両面宿儺)
Ryomen Sukuna (両面宿儺), the King of Curses, is the main antagonist of Jujutsu Kaisen: a sorcerer from a thousand years ago whose twenty fingers survive as cursed objects and who possesses Yuji Itadori, named after a two-faced legendary figure of the Nihon Shoki and Hida folklore.
Ryon Healy
Ryon Cristopher Healy (Bubba), born 1992, American MLB first/third baseman for Oakland, Seattle, and Milwaukee, 2016-2020; career .261, 69 HR; later KBO Hanwha Eagles and Rays minor leaguer.
Ryong Ryoo
Ryong Ryoo (유룡) is a South Korean chemist who directed the IBS Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions and is known for CMK-n mesoporous carbons and mesoporous zeolites.