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Akira Mori
Akira Mori (森章), born in 1936, is a Japanese real estate developer who chairs Mori Trust, a closely held Tokyo developer of central-Tokyo office towers and hotels and resorts.
Akira Nakai (中井 啓)
Akira Nakai (中井 啓) is a Japanese automotive customizer and founder of RAUH-Welt Begriff (RWB), a Porsche tuner in Kashiwa, Japan, known for hand-built widebody 911 conversions he builds personally worldwide.
Akira Sawa
Akira Sawa is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Schizophrenia Center and studies the molecular causes of schizophrenia and mood disorders.
Akira Shinohara
Akira Shinohara is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at Osaka University's Institute for Protein Research whose research on homologous recombination established that Rad51 is a RecA-like protein.
Akira Sone
Akira Sone (素根 輝), Japanese judoka born 2000 in Kurume, women's +78 kg. Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion and mixed team silver medallist, double world champion (2019, 2023), 7th at Paris 2024.
Akira Suzuki
Akira Suzuki (鈴木章), born in 1930 in Hokkaido, Japan, is a chemist who spent his career at Hokkaido University and shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Suzuki–Miyaura coupling.
Akira Takeshita
Akira Takeshita (竹下彰, 1940–2009) was a Japanese cardiologist who led Kyushu University's Institute of Angiocardiology, pioneered research on endothelial dysfunction and microvascular angina, and served as president of the Japanese Circulation Society.
Akira Tonomura
Akira Tonomura (外村 彰, 1942–2012) was a Japanese physicist at Hitachi who developed electron holography into a practical tool, verified the Aharonov–Bohm effect in 1986, and filmed magnetic vortices in superconductors.
Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明)
Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明), Japanese manga artist and character designer; creator of Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball (42 volumes, 260+ million copies) and Dragon Quest character designer from 1986; died March 1, 2024, aged 68, of acute subdural hematoma; final work Dragon Ball DAIMA (2024); Eisner Hall of Fame inductee.
Akira Tozawa (戸澤 陽)
Akira Tozawa (戸澤 アキラ), born 1985, is a Japanese WWE wrestler on Raw with Alpha Academy. Third Dragon Gate dojo graduate, former WWE Cruiserweight Champion, 16-time 24/7 Champion, ex-PWG and Dragon Gate standout.
Akira Yamamura
Akira Yamamura (山村 章, 1944–2024) was a Japanese business executive who led the semiconductor-equipment group Ferrotec from its 1980 founding, becoming its chairman in 2020.
Akira Yamaoka (山岡晃)
Akira Yamaoka (山岡晃), born 1968, is a Japanese composer and sound designer who scored Konami's Silent Hill series 1999–2009 and from 2024, produced Silent Hill 3 and 4, and composed for its films, Shadows of the Damned, and Slitterhead.
Akira Yoshida
Akira Yoshida is a biochemist in biochemical genetics known for research on G6PD deficiency and hemolytic anemia, working at the University of Washington and City of Hope.
Akira Yoshino
Akira Yoshino is a Japanese chemist at Asahi Kasei who developed the first commercially viable lithium-ion battery in 1985 and shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Akira Yuki (結城 晶)
Akira Yuki (結城 晶) is the mascot of Sega's Virtua Fighter series, a Japanese fighter using Bājíquán (Hakkyoku-ken), known for few but powerful single-hit moves and the Stun Palm of Doom.
Akishino-no-miya (秋篠宮)
Akishino-no-miya (秋篠宮), the House of Akishino, is the Japanese imperial cadet branch founded by Prince Fumihito on his 1990 marriage; its head is first in line to the throne and father of Prince Hisahito, second in line.
Akita LNG Terminal
Akita LNG Terminal (秋田LNG基地) is an LNG import and regasification terminal in Akita Port, Akita City, Japan, owned by Tobu Gas and opened in December 2015 to supply city gas across Akita Prefecture.
Akita Prefecture (秋田県)
Akita Prefecture (秋田県) is a Tohoku prefecture on the Sea of Japan, capital Akita City, founded 1871. Sixth-largest by area, leading rice and sake producer, Japan's fastest-shrinking, oldest population, and an offshore wind hub.
Akita Shinkansen (秋田新幹線)
Akita Shinkansen (秋田新幹線), a JR East mini-Shinkansen Komachi service from Tokyo to Akita via Morioka over the regauged Tazawako and Ōu lines; E6 sets, 320/130 km/h, fastest 3:37.
Akito Arima (有馬朗人)
Akito Arima (有馬朗人) was a Japanese nuclear physicist who co-created the interacting boson model with Francesco Iachello, and later served as president of the University of Tokyo, RIKEN, and Minister of Education.
Akito Watabe (渡部暁斗)
Akito Watabe (渡部暁斗) is a retired Japanese combined (ski jumping and cross country) athlete, who won four Olympic medals and the 2017/18 Overall World Cup title across six Games.
Akitoye
Akitoye was Oba of Lagos in two reigns, 1841 to 1845 and 1851 to 1853, restored by the British after his nephew Kosoko deposed him.
Akitu Sulcus
Akitu Sulcus is a 365 km east-west groove lane (sulcus) in northern Marius Regio on Ganymede, connecting Byblus and Nippur/Philus Sulci; IAU named it in 1997 from the Assyro-Babylonian festival of Marduk's statue.
Akītu-Temple of Ištar
Akītu-Temple of Ištar: the New Year's House (bīt akīti) of Ištar of Nineveh, attested from Tukultī-Ninurta I's reign, unlocated, renovated by Ashurbanipal, used in his Tebētu akītu festival.
Akiva Goldsman
Akiva Goldsman (born 1962), nicknamed Keevie, is an American screenwriter, producer, and director who won the 2002 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for A Beautiful Mind and co-created Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Akiva Schaffer
Akiva Schaffer (born 1977, Berkeley, California) is an American comedy writer-director, Lonely Island member with Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone, SNL Digital Shorts creator, and director of Hot Rod, Popstar, and The Naked Gun (2025).
Akiyoshi Fukamizu
Akiyoshi Fukamizu (深水 昭吉), born 1959, is a Japanese molecular biologist at the University of Tsukuba known for transgenic mouse models of human and pregnancy-induced hypertension.
Akizuki Rebellion
The Akizuki Rebellion (秋月の乱) was an armed uprising of former Akizuki-domain samurai that began at Akizuki in Fukuoka Prefecture on 27 October 1876 and was crushed by Imperial Japanese Army garrison troops within days.
Akizzi
Akizzi was a king of Qatna, at Tell Mishrifeh in Syria, who flourished in the mid-14th century BC and is known chiefly as a correspondent of Pharaoh Akhenaten in the Amarna letters.
Akıncı corps
The Akıncı corps (آقنجی, Akincilar) was the Ottoman light raiding cavalry of the Balkan frontier, organized under hereditary frontier-bey families and formally abolished in 1826.