Sessue Hayakawa ( left ) with actress and wife Tsuru Aoki in a screen shot of the 1919 film The Dragon Painter.

Three fundamental kata emerged during this period: Tenshingoso ( which Aoki had created by April 1966 ), Eiko ( which the Rakutenkai discovered during a late-night practice on 1 December 1966 ; and Hikari ( see below ).

Finally the order came down for us to halt production on Aoki Uru.

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.

* Tatsuyuki Aoki on Drums ( died 5 / 2 / 1999 )

The controversy led Asian activist and community leader Guy Aoki to appear on the talk show Politically Incorrect along with Sarah Silverman.

The Aoki Residence is located on 3, 590 m² of land, with a 2 m high wall surrounding it.

Her Japanese father, Hiroaki " Rocky " Aoki, a former wrestler, was the founder of the Benihana restaurant chain and owned it until his death on July 10, 2008.

Early on in her career Aoki made cameo appearances in several music videos, including Duran Duran's " Electric Barbarella ", Primal Scream's " Kowalski " ( with Kate Moss ), Elton John's " Something About the Way You Look Tonight " and, later, in Ludacris ' " Act a Fool ".

Aoki has been on the cover of I-D magazine three times.

On April 26, 2006, Carolla had the head of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, Guy Aoki on his show.

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.

" Conversely, another reviewer described it as " a fairly well done vampire comic book " with a " pitch perfect mood " and pleasant artwork, and About. com's Deb Aoki ranked it fifteenth on her list of the twenty-two best vampire manga.

His first title defense was on 6 October 2009 when he lost the title to Shinya Aoki.

In 1998, Gibernau replaced an injured Takuma Aoki on the Honda NSR500V v-twin motorcycle.

The Japanese embassy hostage crisis began on 17 December 1996 in Lima, Peru, when 14 members of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) took hostage hundreds of high-level diplomats, government and military officials and business executives who were attending a party at the official residence of Japan's ambassador to Peru, Morihisa Aoki, in celebration of Emperor Akihito's 63rd birthday.

Performers have included The Faint, Basement Jaxx, Crystal Method, DJ Steve Aoki, Crystal Castles, MSTRKRFT, Underworld, DJ Shadow, and many other electronic and rock artists that are regularly featured on the station's Saturday night show, Subsonic.

A timely meeting with Japanese ambassador to Germany, Aoki Shūzō introduced Roesler to a new opportunity, and Roesler became one of several legal experts from Germany and France working on development of the Japanese legal system.

In January 2010, a cut from the album, " I'm In the House ", a collaboration with Steve Aoki, was released as a single, charting at # 29 on the UK Singles Chart due to strong downloads.

The company was founded in 1964 on West 56th Street in New York City by 25-year-old Hiroaki " Rocky " Aoki.

Aoki brought in consultant Hardwicke Companies ( its founder Charles H. Stein was the original developer of Six Flags Great Adventure and also operated various New York restaurants including Tavern on the Green ) as a partner to run the company in 1976.

His dedication and commitment were said to have had a positive influence on younger players on the team like Norichika Aoki, Takashi Toritani, Toshimitsu Higa and Shintaro Yoshida ( all of whom later went pro ), the core that later led Waseda to four consecutive league titles for the first time in Tokyo Big6 history.

In 1894, as ambassador to Great Britain, Aoki worked with Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu towards the revision of the unequal treaties, successfully concluding the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation for Japan in London on July 16, 1894.

Aoki married the daughter of a German aristocrat, Elisabeth von Rhade, and they had among others a daughter named Hanna Aoki ( Tokyo, December 16, 1879 – Wissen, June 24, 1953 ), who married at Tokyo on December 19, 1904 Alexander Maria Hermann Melchior, Graf von Hatzfeldt zu Trachenberg ( Berlin,

Entering the final round, Aoki had caught Nicklaus after three consecutive rounds of 68, but over the course of the last day, Nicklaus pulled away by two shots.

In the final, Hansen faced Japanese submission-specialist Shinya Aoki, who had previously defeated Hansen at Pride Shockwave 2006.

Square trademarked Seiken Densetsu in, intending to use it for a game project subtitled The Emergence of Excalibur, and led by Kazuhiko Aoki for the Famicom Disk System.

If it were to spearhead the new culture that he aspired for, Aoki realised that he needed system that could be learned relatively easily.

Kumiko Takeda and Kaori Aoki wrote the game's script and Naohiko Aoyama was the art director responsible for the game's distinctive graphical style.

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

Square trademarked Seiken Densetsu in, intending to use it for a game project subtitled The Emergence of Excalibur, and led by Kazuhiko Aoki for the Famicom Disk System.

Deb Aoki, planist and Manga editor for About. com, stated that this was exactly what scanlation aggregator sites provided consumers.

Aoki has modeled for the fashion houses Lancôme, Chanel, Versace, despite her relatively short height for a runway model.

Aoki has done ad campaigns for Chanel Ready-to-Wear, Chanel Couture by Karl Lagerfeld, Versace by Steven Meisel, YSL by Juergen Teller, Alessandro Dell ' Acqua, Hugo Boss, Moschino, Ungaro, Fendi, Junko Shimada by Bettina Kimenda, Baby Phat by Kimora Lee Simmons, Lancome, Tiffanys and co.

Aoki has joined L. A .' s International Creative Management for representation and The Firm for management.

Aoki posed for Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee for Kee's 2006 charity photo-book " Super Stars ", dedicated to the victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster, which consists of photographs of 300 Asian celebrities by Kee.

The same year, Aoki posed for photographer Marc Baptiste ’ s book Nudes wearing a dress.

Aoki made a return to the runway, walking for the Chanel Pre-Fall 2008 show in London and the couture show in Paris where she was the bride.

Aoki has also sung tracks for the following Final Fantasy CDs.

One of Ibuse's first contributions was for the magazine Seiki, it was originally written for Aoki in 1919 and titled " The Salamander ," in 1923 it was renamed " Confinement.

* Award for Excellence: Yūji Aoki for Naniwa Kin ' yūdō ( The way of the Ōsaka loan shark )