When asked because of what, Hayakawa is said to have replied: " Words.

In 1985, Hayakawa gave this defense to an interviewer: " I wanted to treat general semantics as a subject, in the same sense that there's a scientific concept known as gravitation, which is independent of Isaac Newton.

The Cheat ( 1915 ) is a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, and Jack Dean, Ward's real-life husband.

U. S. English is the umbrella name for two American political advocacy groups founded in 1983 by Senator S. I. Hayakawa and Dr. John Tanton to advocate the adoption of the English language as the official language of the United States of America.

Hayakawa founded the political lobbying organization U. S. English, which is dedicated to making the English language the official language of the United States.

* Hayakawa is mentioned in the voice-over in the coda of Stevie Wonder's song " Black Man ," from the album Songs in the Key of Life.

Despite Democrat Jimmy Carter's victory in the Presidential election, Tunney lost to Hayakawa in a mild upset ( it is to be noted that Republican Gerald Ford carried California in the Presidential election ).

The story starts when Yota Moteuchi finds out that the girl he likes, Moemi Hayakawa, is in love with his best friend, Takashi Niimai.

The story and character of Hidehiko Hayakawa is based on real baseball player Masaaki Ikenaga of the Nishitetsu Lions.

Hayakawa is on the list of The Most Beautiful Villages in Japan, established in 2005.

Hayakawa is located in far southwestern Yamanashi Prefecture.

In his time Hayakawa was as well known and popular as Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks although today his name is mostly unknown to the general public.

Of his English-language films, Hayakawa is probably best known for his role as Colonel Saito in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1957.

In 1919 Hayakawa made what is generally considered one of his best films, The Dragon Painter, appearing opposite his wife, actress Tsuru Aoki.

Hayakawa sought to bring muga, or the " absence of doing ," closely akin to the concept of less is more to his performances, in direct contrast to the then-popular studied poses and broad gestures.

To date Hayakawa is one of the few Asian men to obtain romantic icon status in the US.

is a manga series written by Tomoko Hayakawa.

Hayakawa is a Japanese surname, which may refer to:

Ken Hayakawa ( played by veteran Hiroshi Miyauchi ), a private detective dressed in black & red gringo cowboy attire, actually just puts on his red & black " Zvasuit " ( hidden in his white guitar, which is opened with the push of a button ), which looks no different from that of a Sentai hero:

A parody of the 1977 Toei superhero show Swift Hero Zubat ( created by Shotaro Ishinomori ), the title hero of this series has the same exact alter-ego, Ken Hayakawa, only he is comically fat fanboyish young man wearing the same exact gringo cowboy attire!

As Noutenki, Ken Hayakawa is decked out in a pink & red jumpsuit ( with a " no "/ の on the chest ), fixed navy blue galoshes, blue gloves, white hood and yellow crash helmet fixed with a diddlybopper.

Ken Hayakawa / Noutenki is played by Yasuhiro Takeda, who also produced this series, and went on to produce many of Daicon / Gainax's projects.

* Misato Hayakawa: A waitress of the Desert Moon, Misato is a Japanese girl who has some significance to what is going on.

Hayakawa served from January 3, 1977, to January 3, 1983.

Some of the General Semantics tradition was continued by Samuel I. Hayakawa, who had a dispute with Korzybski.

He said that Dianetics " forms a bridge between " cybernetics and General Semantics ( a set of ideas about education originated by Alfred Korzybski, which received much attention in the science fiction world in the 1940s ) — a claim denied by scholars of General Semantics, including S. I. Hayakawa, who expressed strong criticism of Dianetics as early as 1951.

The decision was supported by a unanimous vote in both houses of the California State Legislature, the national Japanese American Citizens League, and S. I. Hayakawa, then a United States Senator from California.

In 1940, Gen Hayakawa, governor of Okinawa, assembled the Karate-Do Special Committee, composed by Ishihara Shochoku ( chairman ), Miyagi Chojun, Kamiya Jinsei, Shinzato Jinan, Miyasato Koji, Tokuda Anbun, Kinjo Kensei, Kyan Shinei, and Nagamine Shoshin.

* 2005: Hayakawa, Tokyo, ISBN 4-15-011531-1 ( pb ), translated by Makoto Yamagishi ( Japanese translation )

The first ascent in 1925 was made by members of the Japanese Alpine Club: S. Hashimoto, H. Hatano, T. Hayakawa, Y. Maki, Y. Mita, N. Okabe.

Sometimes in his lectures on semantics, he was joined by the respected traditional jazz pianist, Don Ewell, whom Hayakawa employed to demonstrate various points in which he analyzed semantic and musical principles.

They are led by ace pitcher, Ryo Hayakawa, a daughter of a former rising pitching star in Japan.

The first ascent was made in 1925 by a Japanese team consisting of S. Hashimoto, H. Hatano, T. Hayakawa, Y. Maki, Y. Mita and N. Okabe.

Anxious to return to his studies at the University of Chicago, Hayakawa decided to try to dissuade Ince by requesting the absurdly high fee of $ 500 a week.

With his rising stardom Hayakawa soon was offered a contract by Jesse L. Lasky.

In 1918 Hayakawa personally chose the highly popular American serial actress Marin Sais to appear opposite him in a series of films, the first being the 1918 racial drama The City of Dim Faces followed by His Birthright, which also starred his wife.

In 1937 Hayakawa went to France to act in Yoshiwara and found himself trapped by the German occupation.

Hayakawa made few movies during these years, but supported himself by selling watercolors.

* Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom by Daisuke Miyao ( Duke University Press, 2007 ).

In the second round she overtook team mate Charlotte Burgess with a score of 110-96, but in the third round she was eliminated by Nami Hayakawa from Japan, 106-97

Four of the Target Books Doctor Who serial novelisations were translated into Japanese by Yukio Sekiguchi and published in 1980 by Hayakawa Bunko books.

The mechanical pencil became successful in Japan with some improvements in 1915 by Tokuji Hayakawa, a metal worker who had just finished his apprenticeship.