Coincidentally, the " state of Jefferson " was one of the few places in the continental USA to be the subject of an attack during World War II, when Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita dropped bombs on the Oregon Coast near Brookings on September 9, 1942.

* Guest: Shigezō Sasaoka, Michitaka Kobayashi, Tamie Minami, Kunihiko Kitagawa, Ryōichi Tanaka, Sanae Takagi, Junko Noda, Machiko Toyoshima, Masaharu Satō, Kōichi Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Kōno, Tomohisa Asō, Kaori Harada, Eiji Maruyama, Kazumi Tanaka, Yasunori Masutani, Junko Shimakata, Shinobu Satouchi, Yasuhiko Kawazu, Jin Domon, Nanae Sumitomo, Toshio Kobayashi, Ikuko Tatsu, Takkō Ishimori, Ginzō Matsuo, Bin Shimada, Shōgo Sakamoto, Miho Aoyama, Yoshio Kawai, Shiho Niiyama, Hiroyuki Satō, Yasuhiro Takato, Mizue Ōtsuka, Yuri Shiratori, Shōzō Iizuka, Yūsaku Yara, Asako Dodo, Wakana Yamazaki, Yutaka Aoyama, Chiaki Maeda, Nobuhiko Kazama, Jōji Yanami, Atsushi Kisaichi, Kōji Yada, Ikue Ōtani, Yūko Sumitomo, Masato Hirano, Megumi Urawa, Kōichi Kitamura, Chie Katsuragawa, Hitoshi Masuda, Yūko Nagashima, Yuka Ono, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Taiki Matsuno, Makiko Ōmoto, Emi Uwagawa, Shino Kakinuma, Osamu Saka, Mariko Suzuki, Asako Satō, Chie Satō, Hisao Egawa, Reiko Suzuki, Shinichi Yamada, Takashi Matsuo, Takeshi Aono, Rihoko Yoshida, Rumi Kasahara, Hiromi Nishikawa, Chiyoko Kawashima, Kinpei Azusa, Takeo Yoshida, Kenji Nojima, Masako Miura, Hirohiko Kakegawa, Chafurin, Ryūzaburō Ōtomo, Kae Araki, Yukimasa Kishino, Kazunari Tanaka, Ryō Horikawa, Isshin Chiba, Yuri Amano, Reiko Mutō, Takeshi Kusao, Nana Yamaguchi, Kazuya Nakai, Kan Tokumaru, Hōko Kuwashima, Kimiyoshi Kibe, Wataru Takagi, Ai Maeda, Michiko Neya, Miki Nagasawa, Tamotsu Nishiwaki, Chikao Ōtsuka, Tesshō Genda, Tetsu Inada, Yoshiko Kamei, Ikuya Sawaki, Kiyoyuki Yanada, Sakura Tange, Yūko Mita, Ayumi Furuyama, Yukana Nogami, Yōko Kawanami, Kazue Ikura, Akiko Hiramatsu, Shunsuke Shima, Toshiya Ueda, Nobuo Tobita, Kaneto Shiozawa, Tsutomu Kashiwakura, Fū Suzuki, Kazuo Oka, Hiroko Emori, Hiromi Tsuru, Yōko Tebbōzuka, Michiko Ishii, Katsue Miwa, Hidenari Ugaki, Tomoko Naka, Konami Yoshida, Akemi Okamura, Yukitoshi Hori, Misao Kitagawa, Airi Takeda, Kazuyuki Sogabe, Marina Ōno, Fumihiko Tachiki, Michiko Abe, Yūko Tsuga, Takuma Suzuki, Eri Morigami, Tomoko Fujino, Saori Kaneda, Hideyuki Tanaka, Kujira, Kanako Okada, Atsushi Ii, Maria Kawamura, Tomokazu Seki, Rika Komatsu, Tōru Furuya, Mahito Ōba, Aya Hisakawa, Nobuyo Tsuda, Reizō Nomoto, Madoka Sakamoto, Masaya Takatsuka, Issei Futamata, Shinichirō Ōta, Takeshi Endō, Yōko Sōmi, Takashi Nagasako, Yoshiko Okamoto, Miki Inoue, Tomoko Sugiura, Shin Aomori, Airi Yoshida, Manami Yamamoto, Nobuo Tanaka, Makiko Mizogami, Takayuki Inoue, Sayuri Fujita, Miina Tominaga, Yukari Hikida, Sumie Baba, Ryūji Nakagi, Junpei Takiguchi, Masako Katsuki, Daisuke Gōri, Toshio Furukawa

* 1959 – Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese video game composer

* March 21 – Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer

Akai, Nobuo and Masayo Sakata ( 2002 ), ‘ Fiscal Decentralization Contributes to Economic Growth: Evidence from State-Level Cross-Section Data for the United States ’, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 93 – 108.

* Chrono Trigger ( 1995 ) – with Nobuo Uematsu and Noriko Matsueda

* Front Mission: Gun Hazard ( 1996 ) – with Nobuo Uematsu, Junya Nakano, and Masashi Hamauzu

* Final Fantasy Tactics Advance ( 2003 ) – with Ayako Saso, Kaori Oukoshi, and Nobuo Uematsu

* Final Fantasy XII ( 2006 ) – with Masaharu Iwata, Hayato Matsuo, and Nobuo Uematsu

* 2012 Best Live Concert: Symphonic Odysseys – Tribute to Nobuo Uematsu, Annual Original Sound Version Awards 2011

* 2011 Outstanding Production – Concert: Symphonic Odysseys – Tribute to Nobuo Uematsu, Annual Game Music Awards 2011

* Final Fantasy Legend II ( 1990 ) – with Nobuo Uematsu

My Goddess: The Movie ( 2000 ) – with Nobuo Uematsu

* Nobuo Uematsu – keyboards ( 2002 – 2010, TBA )

* Nobuo Kato ( 加藤 延夫 )-Bacteriologist, former President of Nagoya University ( 1992 – 1998 )

* 1956: Sazae-san – d. Nobuo Aoyagi

* 1957: Sazae's Youth ( Sazae-san no seishun ) – d. Nobuo Aoyagi

* Final Fantasy XI ( 2002 ) – with Nobuo Uematsu and Naoshi Mizuta

* Hanjuku Hero 4: 7-Jin no Hanjuku Hero ( 2005 ) – with Nobuo Uematsu, Kenji Ito, Naoshi Mizuta, Hirosato Noda, Ai Yamashita, and Kenichi Mikoshiba

* Final Fantasy VII Advent Children ( 2005 ) – with Nobuo Uematsu and Keiji Kawamori

The band was formed in 1997 with four members, Shiibashi Takeshi, Urayama Ichigo, Satou Masatoshi, and Ohki Nobuo, who first met in a military academy in Saitama.

* Numerical simulation ( 2. 6 MB ) ( or see 6. 2 MB version ), produced by Professor Nobuo Shuto of the Disaster Control Research Center, Tohoku University, Japan, shows the 1923 Kanto tsunami.

Composers who made a name for themselves with their software include Nobuo Uematsu ( Final Fantasy ), Koji Kondo ( Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda ), Koichi Sugiyama ( Dragon Quest ), Miki Higashino ( Gradius, Yie-Ar Kung Fu, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ), Hiroshi Miyauchi ( Space Harrier, Hang-On, Out Run ), Rob Hubbard ( Monty On the Run, International Karate ), Hirokazu Tanaka ( Metroid, Kid Icarus, EarthBound ), Martin Galway ( Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Stryker's Run, Times of Lore ), Yuzo Koshiro ( Dragon Slayer, Ys, Shinobi, ActRaiser, Streets of Rage ), Mieko Ishikawa ( Dragon Slayer, Ys ), and Ryu Umemoto ( visual novels, shoot ' em ups ).

In 1991, he also formed a series called Orchestral Game Concerts, notable for featuring other talented game composers such as Yoko Kanno ( Nobunaga's Ambition, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Uncharted Waters ), Nobuo Uematsu ( Final Fantasy ), Keiichi Suzuki ( Mother / Earthbound ), and Kentaro Haneda ( Wizardry ).

*" Ordinary " Oki Bondo ( 大木凡人, born 1 July 1949 ), Takayuki Yokomizo, Nobuo Yana and Koji Sekiyama — They participated in the Karaoke game.

The film stars Mika Nakashima as the punk star Nana Osaki, Aoi Miyazaki as Hachi ( Nana Komatsu ), Ryuhei Matsuda as Ren Honjo, Tetsuji Tamayama as Takumi Ichinose, Hiroki Narimiya as Nobuo Terashima, and Matsuyama Kenichi as Shinichi Okazaki.

Perhaps the most explicitly violent film of this era was Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku ( 1960 ), which included numerous scenes of flaying and dismemberment in its depiction of the Buddhist underworld.

* Phantasmagoria ( Nobuo Uematsu album ), a 1994 album by Nobuo Uematsu

Inside the Nikon SalonIn Japan, Nikon runs the Nikon Salon exhibition spaces, runs the Nikkor Club for amateur photographers ( to whom it distributes the series of Nikon Salon books ), and arranges the Ina Nobuo Award, Miki Jun Award and Miki Jun Inspiration Awards.

He is best known for his work on Final Fantasy XI ( with Nobuo Uematsu and Kumi Tanioka ), but has also composed music for Mega Man & Bass, Street Fighter Alpha, and Parasite Eve II.

* Nobuo Tanaka ( b. 1950 ), Japanese former Executive Director of the International Energy Agency

* Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi ( 怪談累が渕 ), by Nobuo Nakagawa, 1957

* Japanese composer Nobuo Uematsu used portions of " O Fortuna ", " Estuans interius ", and " Veni, veni, venias " for the final boss theme " One-Winged Angel " in Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII.

Nobuo Kojima's short story " The American School " portrays a group of Japanese teachers of English who, in the immediate aftermath of the war, deal with the American occupation in varying ways.

The Japanese Military tries in vain to stop Nobuo, causing immense collateral damage to the Japanese countryside, but to no avail, as the chemicals on Nobuo smell cause interference on the targeting systems of its heat-seeking missiles.

The U. S. military, who have been observing the situation to that point, utilizes Japanese policy to take over the operation, and calls in a NASA unit with space suits to try capture Nobuo alive.

Unaware of this operation, the Japanese army collapses part of the bridge to prevent Nobuo from escaping, trapping him in a tunnel.

Many Japanese video game industry composers worked on the recordings, from people like Chrono series composer Yasunori Mitsuda to Nobuo Uematsu's former band The Black Mages.

In 1970, Nobuo Okuchi, Japanese consul general in Sāo Paulo, was kidnapped, while Curtis C. Cutter, U. S. consul in Porto Alegre, was wounded in the shoulder but escaped kidnapping.

His subsequent film career saw him parody a whole parade of Japanese historical personages, including Kondo Isami and Sakamoto Ryoma, in a series of " jidai-geki " ( historical dramas ) and " chanbara " ( samurai drama ) films, including some directed by Kajirō Yamamoto, Nobuo Nakagawa and Akira Kurosawa.

The Black Mages were a Japanese instrumental rock band formed in 2002 by Nobuo Uematsu, Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito-three composers for Square Enix.

The Japanese voice actor cast is notable, with such famous names as Tomokazu Seki playing Dee, Nobuo Tobita playing Ryo, and Rica Matsumoto both playing Bikky and singing the closing theme, " Starlight Heaven ".

It was written by Nobuo Uematsu and Kazushige Nojima and was sung by Japanese folk singer Ritsuki Nakano, known as " RIKKI ", whom the music team contacted while searching for a singer whose music reflected an Okinawan atmosphere.

Japanese manga artist Takehiko Inoue headed the game's artistic team, while famed game composer Nobuo Uematsu was recruited to create a more contemporary soundtrack.

The Japanese ambassador to the U. S., Nobuo Matsunaga, said " I believe this garden to be the most authentic Japanese garden, including those in Japan.

Japanese Voice: Nobuo Tobita ( Tales of Destiny 2 )

* Japanese Swords, Nobuo Ogasawara ; Hoikusha Publishing Co, Ltd. ISBN 4-586-54022-2

In a separate piece about Japanese RPG composers, IGN named Yasunori Mitsuda the second best out of ten behind Nobuo Uematsu.