From Japan, Sonny Chiba starred in the Karate Kiba in 1973.

They starred Kiyoyuki Yanada as Jotaro, Kenji Utsumi ( volumes 1-2 ) and Gorō Naya ( volume 3 ) as Joseph Joestar, Akio Ōtsuka as Avdol, Shō Hayami as Kakyoin, Ken Yamaguchi as Polnareff, Keiichi Nanba as Hol Horse, Shigeru Chiba as J. Geil and Norio Wakamoto as Dio.

Fukasaku continued his work with Sonny Chiba, who starred in Fukasaku's debut film, for several samurai period films such as Shogun's Samurai.

Chiba has starred in more than 125 films for Toei Studios and has won numerous awards in Japan for his acting.

He starred in the " Let's Make a Chiba Shigeru Promotion Film " project movie Kurenai no Gankyō, as well as the Mamoru Oshii films Cerberus, Hell's Watchdog and Talking Head.

In the war years, Naruse went through a slow breakup with his wife Sachiko Chiba ( who had starred in Wife!

" This creed was originally used as the opening scroll in the Sonny Chiba movie, Karate Kiba ( English title: The Bodyguard ), substituting the words, "... and they shall know that I am Chiba the Bodyguard ...," in the above passage

The film is an unrelated sequel to TOEI's gangster-martial film Bodyguard Fang from 1973, also starring Sonny Chiba.

It has a population of 103 million in 2005, ( 98, 352, 000 as of 1990 ; in 1975 it was 89, 101, 702 ), mostly concentrated in the available lowlands, notably in the Kantō plain where 25 % of the total population reside in the Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and Yokohama, Kawasaki, Saitama and Chiba cities.

After applied with such system, the Seibu Lions ( now Saitama Seibu Lions ), Chiba Lotte Marines and Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, which claimed the Pacific League Champion under such system, were all able to clinch the following Japan Series in that season.

* Captain ( manga ) ( キャプテン ), a baseball manga series by Akio Chiba

In the Asuka period ( 538 – 710 ), under the Taika Reform of 654, the administrative structure of present-day Chiba Prefecture changed significantly.

The most often used subdivision of the region is dividing it to consisting of Ibaraki, Tochigi, and Gunma Prefectures and consisting of Saitama ( sometimes classified North ), Chiba, the Tokyo Metropolis ( sometimes singulated ) and Kanagawa Prefectures.

* Keiko Chiba ( 景子 ), a politician

In the anime, however, she " dates " Mamoru Chiba in the first season ( though he thinks they're just friends ), and occasionally seems open to a relationship with Yūichirō, her grandfather's pupil.

* The Bullet Train ( Shinkansen Daibakuha ), a 1975 Japanese movie starring Sonny Chiba

For their next record, Stomping on Downbeat Alley, the band invited three guest singers: Yusuke Chiba ( Thee Michelle Gun Elephant ), Tajima Takao ( Original Love, Pizzicato Five ) and Tamio Okuda ( Unicorn ).

The Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū was founded by Iizasa Ienao, born 1387 in Iizasa village ( present day Takomachi, Chiba Prefecture ), who was living near Katori Shrine ( Sawara City, Chiba Prefecture ) at the time.

Inō was born in Kujūkuri, a coastal village in Kazusa Province, in what is now Chiba Prefecture, and was adopted ( aged seventeen ) by the prosperous Inō family of Sawara ( now a district of Katori, Chiba ), a town in Shimōsa Province.

The easternmost of the wards, it shares boundaries with the cities of Urayasu and Ichikawa in Chiba Prefecture ( to the east ) and with the wards of Katsushika ( to the north ), Sumida and Kōtō ( to the west ).

Chiba was even busier in the 1980s, doing dozens of movies as well as making forays into television, and with roles in such high profile adventures as the popular Hong Kong comic-based movie: The Storm Riders ( 1998 ), starring alongside Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok.

His younger brother, Jirō Yabuki ( also known as Jiro Chiba ), was also an actor.

It can also be asserted that this whole legal system was ideologically founded on the indigenous postulate which adhered to the shamanistic religio-political belief in polytheistic gods and which was called kami and later developed into Shintoism. Masaji Chiba, " Japan " Poh-Ling Tan, ( ed ), Asian Legal Systems, Butterworths, London, 1997 at 91.

* Kaori Chiba ( born 1981 ), Japanese field hockey player

* Kazuo Chiba ( born 1940 ), Japanese Aikido teacher

* Keiko Chiba ( born 1948 ), Japanese Minister of Justice

* Reiko Chiba ( born 1975 ), Japanese actress

* Ryohei Chiba ( born 1984 ), Japanese singer

Image: Nest of Oriental Turtle Dove. JPG | Oriental Turtle Dove, exposed after leaf fall, Chiba, Japan

These administrative units existed until they were abolished and merged into Chiba Prefecture after the Meiji restoration.

This was expanded to the Keiyo Industrial Zone in Chiba Prefecture along the north and east coasts of Tokyo Bay after World War II.

Kashiwa, like much of northern Chiba Prefecture, saw the development of numerous military installations in the 1930s, notably after the Mukden Incident in 1931.

Katsuura is historically known as a fishing port, and currently has the second largest catch in Chiba Prefecture after Chōshi City.

Sometime around 1960, he was discovered in a talent search ( called " New Face ") by the Toei film studio, and he began his screen career soon after as Shinichi Chiba.

The disease was also a problem for US troops stationed in Japan after WWII, and was variously known as " Shichitō fever " ( by troops stationed in the Izu Seven Islands ) or " Hatsuka fever " ( Chiba prefecture ).

On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003.

On November 8, 2009, JEF United Chiba was relegated to J2 after 44 seasons in the Japanese top division ; since 2010, JEF United Chiba is playing for J.

In the same year, Chiba and Ogata joined him as a unit after passing auditions held at their dance school.

Starffin also played for the Shochiku Robins ( now the Yokohama BayStars ) in 1947, Kinsei / Daiei Stars ( now the Chiba Lotte Marines ) after 1948, and finally signed with the Takahashi / Tombow Unions ( an offshoot of today's Chiba Lotte Marines ) in 1954-55.

Aside from being Toei's first superhero show, this series was also the debut of actor Sonny Chiba ( who was 19 at the time ), who took over the title role from Susumu Wajima after Episode 32.

* Characters appearing in Japanese manga and anime that possess psychometric abilities include Chiba Mamoru from Sailor Moon and Olivier Davis from Ghost Hunt.