Some notable Japanese players who have gone on to play in North America's Major League Baseball include Norichika Aoki, Yu Darvish, Hideo Nomo, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Ichiro Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Tadahito Iguchi, Kenji Johjima, Hideki Matsui, So Taguchi, Hideki Irabu, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hideki Okajima, Kazuo Matsui, Kazuhito Tadano, Hiroki Kuroda, Akinori Iwamura, Akinori Otsuka, Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Kosuke Fukudome, Koji Uehara, Kenshin Kawakami, Takashi Saito, and Tsuyoshi Nishioka.

* Daisuke Namikawa voices Turk ( Rod ), Ginpei Sato voices Turk ( Two Guns ), Hōchū Ōtsuka voices Turk ( Martial Arts ), Mayuko Aoki voices Turk ( Shotgun ), and Megumi Toyoguchi voices Turk ( Gun ).

Daisuke Yamamoto, an orphan lost in the Amazon has grown up with an Amazon tribe and lead a peaceful life until his tribe was attacked by Gorgos.

Iceman was a three-man Japanese electronica / pop rock group, consisting of Daisuke Asakura ( keyboards ), Kenichi Ito ( guitar ), and Michihiro Kuroda ( lead vocals ).

And though Michihiro Kuroda was the lead singer, Kenichi Ito and Daisuke Asakura had their hand at performing many of the songs.

* Daisuke Aurora, a Heat Guy J character

In the Japanese version of Kingdom Hearts II as well as in the movies he's voiced by Daisuke Hirakawa, who was also the Japanese voice for Legolas, another famous character portrayed by Bloom.

The TV character Machine Gun Dandy looks like Daisuke Jigen of Lupin III fame.

* Benkei is a central character in Sogo Ishii's 2000 film Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle, portrayed by Daisuke Ryu.

Recently, Daisuke, along with Yoshihiro Kusano, also wrote the music for BlazBlue, as well as painting the character selection portraits for the sequel, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift

Japanese businessman Daisuke Enomoto sued Space Adventures as his trip was canceled by them for medical reasons after he paid $ 21, 000, 000 and no refund was given.

no: Daisuke Matsuzaka

Yamane states that there is no way to kill Godzilla, and that Dr. Daisuke Serizawa, the inventor of the Oxygen Destroyer, had died and burned the formula.

* Ore no Imoto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai, ( Daisuke Kosaka )

no: Daisuke Matsui

* Shu no Bon: Daisuke Gōri

: Voiced by: Toku Nishio, Jiro Daruma ( Ashita no Joe 2 ), Shiro Kishibe ( Film ), Daisuke Gōri ( Boxing Mania Video Game )

: Kyosuki Aoki is another one of the few male students at the school, arguably the most energetic and is also the tallest ; comparable to Miho Umeda to the girls.

: Another enrolled male student at the school and a close friend of Kyosuke Aoki.

Masakazu Morita and Mayuko Aoki, both debuted as the lead characters of Final Fantasy X, are motion actors for video games turned voice actor.

According to activist Guy Aoki " if that was his intention, he failed miserably ,” and “ what you had instead was every character going on for pages about how unfair Japanese business practices are [...] the book was a very one-sided view of what the Japanese are doing, saying that there's reason to not trust them and not like them.

Yoshino Aoki is also known for her vocal role in the song " Kaze yo, Tsutaete ", often used as the theme song for the Mega Man character Roll.

* Aoki, a minor character of Hikaru no Go

* Aoki, a character of Yoko Tsuno

* Hisae Aoki, a character of Vampire Princess Miyu

* Junko Aoki, a character of Crossfire

* Junya Aoki, a character of Mysterious Thief Apricot

* Masaru Aoki, a character of Fighting Spirit ( Hajime no Ippo )

The character of Ban Mido was originally meant to appear in another series from Aoki, but his editor liked it and wanted it to be one of the manga's protagonists.

* Mouryou no Hako ( Bunzou Aoki )

• Aoki Tamotsu ( 青木保 ) Bunka no hiteisei 1988 ( 文化の否定性 ) Tokyo, Chūō Kōronsha

* Games used in: Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse ( NA / EU ), Just Breed, Metal Slader Glory, Laser Invasion, Uchuu Keibitai SDF, Nobunaga's Ambition II, Nobunaga no Yabou-Sengoku Gunyuu Den, Bandit Kings of Ancient China, Romance of the Three Kingdoms II, Uncharted Waters, Aoki Ookami to Shiroki Mejika-Genchou Hishi, Gemfire, L ' Empereur, Ishin no Arashi, Shin 4 Nin Uchi Mahjong-Yakuman Tengoku

Hirotada was the son of Matsudaira Kiyoyasu ( 7th head of Mikawa Matsudaira clan ) and an unknown lady, probably the daughter of Aoki Kaga no Kami Norimune.

* Izure no Mori ka Aoki Umi ( いずれの森か青き海 ) （ 2003 ）

* Hikaru no Go as Aoki

* Aoki, Yayoi ( 1959 ): “ Ai no dsensetsu – Betoven to ‘ fumetsu no koibito ’” ( Love-legends – Beethoven and the " Immortal Beloved ”), Philharmony 31, no.

* Aoki, Yayoi ( 1968 ): Ai no densetsu – geijutsuka to joseitachi ( Love-legends – Artists and Women ) Tokyo: San ’ ichishobo, 1968.

Although female roles were performed by castrati in some of the papal states, this was increasingly rare ; by 1680, they had supplanted " normal " male voices in lead roles, and retained their position as primo uomo for about a hundred years ; an Italian opera not featuring at least one renowned castrato in a lead part would be doomed to fail.

Transgender individuals, both male to female and female to male, often experience problems that often lead to dismissals, underachievement, difficulty in finding a job, social isolation, and, occasionally, violent attacks against them.

After appearing in the B-movie drama Pilot # 5 he took the male lead in Cole Porter's Du Barry Was a Lady opposite Lucille Ball.

He was due to play the male lead opposite Garland in Easter Parade ( 1948 ), but broke his ankle playing volleyball.

Cukor wanted Cary Grant for the male lead and went so far as to read the entire script with him, but Grant, while agreeing it was the role of a lifetime, steadfastly refused to do it, and Cukor never forgave him.

Spiegel sent Katharine Hepburn the book and she suggested Bogart for the male lead, firmly believing that " he was the only man who could have played that part ".

This is often commemorated by having the new adults, male only in the Orthodox tradition, lead the congregation in prayer and publicly read a " portion " of the Torah.

Jesus said: Behold, I shall lead her, that I may make her male, in order that she also may become a living spirit like you males.

After the female accepts his advances, she will lead the male into plants, moss or another form of cover, where she can release eggs for fertilization.

Many also argue that giving traditionally male roles to women will only detract from both women's and men's ability to lead truly fulfilling lives.

In mammals, the sex of the offspring is determined by the sperm cell: a spermatozoon bearing a Y chromosome will lead to a male ( XY ) offspring, while one bearing an X chromosome will lead to a female ( XX ) offspring — the X chromosome.

After cancellation of The Westerner, Brian Keith was cast as the male lead in the 1961 Western film The Deadly Companions.

The male and female lead singers switched leads, depending on what characters they needed.

As the series began taking shape, they changed the lead character from a male, the norm for an action-mecha series, to a high school girl as the lead character.

A Romano-Celtic temple-mausoleum complex was constructed around 300 AD to hold the bodies of two young people, those of a male and a female, in lead coffins.

Not only did the monkeys produce nothing but five pages consisting largely of the letter S, the lead male began by bashing the keyboard with a stone, and the monkeys continued by urinating and defecating on it.

Why this self-inflicted skin injury does not lead to bacterial infections is not yet understood ( though likely related to the enzymes used to deteriorate the skin or facilitate the transfer of viable genetic material from male to female ).

At the time, the major male star was Wallace Reid, with a fair complexion, light eyes, and an All American look, with Valentino the opposite, eventually supplanting Sessue Hayakawa as Hollywood's most popular " exotic " male lead.

He made his stage debut in June 1921, playing the male lead in The Truth.

The search for a testis-determining factor ( TDF ) lead a team of scientists in 1990 to discover a region of the Y chromosome that is necessary for the male sex determination, which was named SRY ( Sex-determining Region of the Y chromosome ).