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Shōgun (novel)
Shōgun (1975) is James Clavell's historical novel of Japan in 1600, part of his Asian Saga, following shipwrecked English navigator John Blackthorne, based on William Adams, amid Toranaga's (Tokugawa Ieyasu's) rise; it sold over six million copies by 1980.
Shogun Assassin
Shogun Assassin (1980) is an American English-dubbed re-edit of the first two Lone Wolf and Cub samurai films, released by New World Pictures, known for Daigoro's baby narration, synth score, UK video-nasty notoriety, and influence on GZA and Tarantino.
Shogun Audio
Shogun Audio is a drum & bass record label based in Brighton, England, founded in 2004 by DJ and producer Friction and business partner K-Tee, credited with shaping modern drum & bass.
Shogun: Total War
Shogun: Total War is a 2000 Windows strategy game by Creative Assembly, the first in the Total War series, casting the player as a daimyo vying to become shogun of Japan.
Shogunal succession dispute of 1858
The shogunal succession dispute of 1858 (将軍継嗣問題) was the Tokugawa shogunate's conflict over succeeding the heirless shogun Iesada, settled by Ii Naosuke in favor of Iemochi.
Shohachi Ishii
Shohachi Ishii (石井庄八, 1926–1980), Japanese freestyle wrestler; won bantamweight gold at Helsinki 1952, the first Japanese Olympic champion after World War II and Japan's only 1952 gold medalist.
Shohei Ohtani (大谷 翔平)
Shohei Ohtani (大谷 翔平), born 1994, is a Japanese two-way MLB pitcher and designated hitter for the Dodgers, formerly the Angels and Nippon-Ham Fighters; two-time unanimous AL MVP, 2024 NL MVP, first 50-homer/50-steal season, $700 million contract.
Shohei Ooka
Shohei Ooka (大岡昇平, 1909–1988) was a Japanese novelist who began writing after being taken prisoner in the Philippines in 1945; his war works include Fires on the Plain.
Shoheiko
Shoheiko (昌平坂学問所), also called Shoheizaka Gakumonjo, was the Tokugawa shogunate's Confucian academy at Yushima in Edo, formally established in 1797 and closed after the Meiji Restoration.
Shohimardon
Shohimardon (Shakhimardan) is an Uzbek mountain-resort exclave in Kyrgyzstan's Batken region, 90 km2, 5,000-10,000 people, 55 km south of Fergana, home of the Kulikubbon lake and Hazrati Ali shrine.
Shohini Ghose
Shohini Ghose is a Canadian quantum information physicist, professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, and Chief Technology Officer of the Quantum Algorithms Institute, known for first experiments showing chaos's effect on quantum entanglement.
Shohreh Aghdashloo (شهره آغداشلو)
Shohreh Aghdashloo (شهره آغداشلو), born 1952 in Tehran, is an Iranian-American actress, a 1970s star of Iranian cinema who later earned an Oscar nomination for House of Sand and Fog, an Emmy for House of Saddam, and played Chrisjen Avasarala in The Expanse.
Shōichi Saba
Shōichi Saba (佐波正一) was a Japanese electrical engineer who led Toshiba as president and chairman, investing in 1-megabit DRAM that made it a world semiconductor leader.
Shoichi Sakata
Shoichi Sakata (坂田 昌一, 1911–1970) was a Japanese theoretical physicist at Nagoya University known for the 1956 Sakata model of hadrons and the 1962 Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata neutrino mixing framework.
Shoichi Yokoi (横井庄一)
Shoichi Yokoi (横井庄一, 1915–1997), Imperial Japanese Army sergeant, hid in Guam's jungles for 28 years after the 1944 US recapture, was found in January 1972 near Talo'fo'fo, returned to Japan saying he returned with embarrassment, and became a national figure.
Shöichiro Tsukita
Shoichiro Tsukita (1953–2005) was a Japanese cell biologist and Kyoto University professor who led the molecular dissection of tight junctions, identifying occludin, the claudins, and tricellulin.
Shoji (障子)
Shoji, also known as shoji screens, are translucent Japanese sliding panels of washi paper over a wooden lattice, used as doors, windows, and room dividers since the Heian period.
Shoji Takeuchi
Shoji Takeuchi (竹内昌治) is a Japanese bioengineer and professor at the University of Tokyo known for biohybrid robotics, odor sensors using insect receptors, and a muscle-powered hand.
Shoji Tsuji
Shoji Tsuji (辻 省次) is a Japanese neurologist and molecular geneticist known for identifying genes underlying neurological diseases, from Gaucher disease in 1987 to repeat-expansion epilepsies.
Shōji Ueda
Shōji Ueda (植田正治, 1913–2000) was a Japanese photographer known for staged, surrealistic group portraits set against the sand dunes of Tottori Prefecture, a style called Ueda-chō.
Shojiro Ishibashi
Shojiro Ishibashi (石橋正二郎) was a Japanese industrialist who founded Bridgestone Tire in Kurume in 1931, Japan's first domestic tire maker, and later endowed the Artizon Museum in Tokyo.
Shojo A
"Shojo A" (少女A) is a 1982 single by Japanese singer Akina Nakamori, her second, whose dark delinquent image broke with her debut and reached No. 5 on the Oricon chart.
Shōjo bungaku
Shōjo bungaku (少女文学, girls' literature), also called shōjo shōsetsu, is Japanese fiction written for adolescent girls. It developed in girls' magazines from the early twentieth century, with Yoshiya Nobuko as its representative author.
Shōjo manga (少女漫画)
Shōjo manga (少女漫画, girls' comics) is Japanese manga marketed to female readers through girls' magazines, from prewar titles like Shōjo Club and Ribon no kishi (1953) to the weekly 1963 era, the Year 24 Group, and international hits like Fruits Basket.
Shōjo Tsubaki (少女椿)
Shōjo Tsubaki (少女椿) is Maruo Suehiro's 1984 ero-guro manga about the orphan Midori in a freak-show troupe, adapted into the 1992 anime by Hiroshi Harada, a 2011 stage play, and the 2016 live-action film Midori: The Camellia Girl.
Shōka Sonjuku
Shōka Sonjuku (松下村塾) was a small private school in Hagi, Japan, founded in 1842 and led by Yoshida Shōin, who trained Meiji Restoration leaders like Itō Hirobumi.
Shokichi
Shokichi (Yagi Shokichi, 八木将吉), born 1985 in Hokkaido, is a Japanese singer, dancer, and songwriter, a Vocal & Performer of the group EXILE and member of EXILE THE SECOND.
Shoko Aida
Shoko Aida (相田翔子) is a Japanese singer and actress, born in 1970, who debuted in 1988 as half of the pop duo Wink and went solo in 1996.
Shoko Asahara
Shoko Asahara (麻原彰晃), born Chizuo Matsumoto, was the founder and guru of the Japanese new religious movement Aum Shinrikyo, executed in 2018 for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.
Shoko Takayanagi
Shoko Takayanagi (高柳昌子, later Yoshida 吉田昌子), born 1954 in Oita, is a Japanese volleyball player, 1976 Montreal Olympic gold medalist with Japan, Hitachi right-side player, 1978 world silver medalist.