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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川龍之介)

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川龍之介, 1892–1927), also known as Chōkōdō Shujin, was a Tokyo-born Japanese short-story writer of the Taishō period, author of Rashōmon, Hell Screen, In a Grove, and Kappa, praised by Natsume Sōseki and commemorated by the Akutagawa Prize.

Ryunosuke Kamiki (神木隆之介)

Ryunosuke Kamiki (神木隆之介, born 1993) is a Japanese actor from Saitama, a former child actor and voice actor known for Godzilla Minus One, Your Name., and Spirited Away, married in 2026.

Ryūnosuke Satō (佐藤 龍之介)

Ryūnosuke Satō (佐藤 龍之介), Japanese attacking midfielder born 2006 in Nishitokyo; FC Tokyo academy product, 2025 Fagiano Okayama loan, AFC U-23 Asian Cup 2026 MVP, Japan senior debutant, and July 2026 Valencia CF signing, the club's first Japanese player.

Ryusei (rocket)

Ryusei (流勢, ascending dragon) is a handmade gunpowder rocket flown for about 400 years at the Muku Shrine festival in Chichibu, Japan, to pray for a good harvest.

Ryushen

Ryushen (緑仙) is a Japanese VTuber singer with the group Nijisanji, who debuted in 2018 and made a solo major-label debut in 2023 on Altonic Records.

Ryusou

Ryusou (琉装), or Uchinā-sugai, is Okinawa's traditional attire from the Ryukyu Kingdom (1429–1879): wider ventilated sleeves, a front-tied sash instead of an obi, bingata dyeing, and bashofu textiles.

Ryutaro Umeno

Ryutaro Umeno (梅野 隆太郎, born 1991) is a Hanshin Tigers catcher in NPB, a 2013 fourth-round draftee, multi-year Golden Glove winner, and gold medalist in men's baseball for Japan at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Ryūtei Tanehiko

Ryūtei Tanehiko (柳亭種彦, 1783–1842) was a Japanese writer of popular illustrated fiction of the late Edo period, known for Nise Murasaki inaka Genji, an adaptation of The Tale of Genji.

Ryutin Affair

The Ryutin Affair (Дело Рютина) was the 1932 discovery and suppression of the Union of Marxists-Leninists, an underground group led by Martemyan Ryutin that circulated a platform denouncing Stalin.

Ryūzō Torigata

Ryūzō Torigata (鳥潟隆三) was a Japanese surgeon, professor emeritus of Kyoto Imperial University, and president of the Japan Surgical Society who advocated the normal-pressure thoracotomy in 1925.

Ryuzo Yanagimachi

Ryuzo Yanagimachi (柳町隆造, 1928–2023) was a Japanese-born reproductive biologist at the University of Hawaii whose work established mammalian IVF, ICSI, and the first reproducible cloning of mice from adult cells.

Ryūzōji Takanobu

Ryūzōji Takanobu (龍造寺隆信) was a Japanese sengoku daimyo of Hizen Province known as the Bear of Hizen, killed at the Battle of Okitanawate in 1584.

Ryze Tello

The Ryze Tello is a small camera drone by Shenzhen Ryze Technology, announced in 2018 with DJI flight control and an Intel processor, popular in education.

Ryzen

Ryzen is AMD's family of x86 microprocessors, first launched March 2, 2017 with the Ryzen 7 desktop line built on the Zen core architecture, replacing the FX line.

Ryzon GmbH

Ryzon GmbH is a German premium sportswear brand based in Cologne, founded in 2016 by brothers Mario and Markus Konrad with designer Fabian Jung, selling direct to consumers.

RZ Cassiopeiae

RZ Cassiopeiae, or RZ Cas, is a semidetached Algol-type eclipsing binary in Cassiopeia about 240 light-years away, with deep eclipses every 1.195 days and a δ Scuti pulsating primary.

RZA

RZA (Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, born 1969), also known as the Abbott and Bobby Digital, is the de facto leader and chief producer of the Wu-Tang Clan, known for 36 Chambers (1993), Gravediggaz, Ghost Dog, and A Ballet Through Mud.

Rzeszów

Rzeszów, capital of Podkarpackie Voivodeship in southeastern Poland, about 200,000 residents; since 2022 its Jasionka airport, 90 km from Ukraine, is the main Western air hub for military aid and politicians bound for Kyiv.

Rzhanitsa Corona

Rzhanitsa Corona is a 450-km-wide corona on Venus at 17.6S, 214.6E, in the Taussig quadrangle, named for a Russian goddess of rye fields and mapped with associated volcanic flow units.

RZR (TV series)

RZR is a 2024 American cyberpunk sci-fi thriller series created by and starring David Bianchi as Grimm, a hacker with a brain-computer implant in dystopian Los Angeles. Eight 14-minute episodes premiered April 14, 2024 on Gala Film, the Web3 platform's first series, with Mena Suvari, Richard Cabral, and Danny Trejo, and earned a Primetime Emmy nomination.

RZZ complex, subunit Zwilch

Zwilch is a ~75 kDa protein subunit of the metazoan Rod–Zw10–Zwilch (RZZ) kinetochore complex, identified in Drosophila in 2003; it recruits dynein and Mad1–Mad2 to kinetochores for spindle checkpoint activation and silencing.