Her compositions blend the timbres of World Music with her native Japanese culture.

Her album included raw and quite harsh vocals that were possibly influenced by Japanese opera, but bear much in common with sounds in nature ( especially those made by animals ) and free jazz techniques used by wind and brass players.

Her work is considered important because her writing reflects the creation and development of Japanese writing during a period when Japanese shifted from an unwritten vernacular to a written language.

Her release was part of a deal with the Japanese Red Army during the hijacking of a Japanese airliner to Bangladesh.

Her first experience in music was playing Ray Charles, Fats Domino and Professor Longhair songs on piano that she heard on Japanese radio.

Her second album, newly released at the start of the series, is called " Venus " and her most popular song is " C ' est La Vie ", which is a Japanese pun: in Japanese, the French phrase and the name of her alter-ego, Sailor V, are pronounced almost identically ( as sērāvī ).

Her Japanese name means " Butter Girl ".

Her poems have been translated into Italian, Japanese and Russian.

Her maternal grandmother was Ellen Oshey Matsumuro, a Japanese woman whose father was a Japanese artist.

Her works have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Greek, Japanese, and Burmese.

Her Paris home was a luxurious ground-floor apartment at 23, avenue du Bois de Boulogne ( now 23, avenue Foch ) that opened onto a Japanese garden.

Her father, a diplomat, had been imprisoned by the Japanese Empire for four years during World War II.

This is further supported by the translation of the Japanese spoken words from the beginning of " The Canyon Behind Her ": " This album was inspired by a painting titled ' Dream Caused By the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening '.

The war was ended with Komura's signature on behalf of the Japanese government of the Treaty of Portsmouth, which was highly unpopular in Japan, leading to the Hibiya Incendiary Incident < ref name =" nyt1905 ">" Japan's Present Crisis and Her Constitution ; The Mikado's Ministers Will Be Held Responsible by the People for the Peace Treaty -- Marquis Ito May Be Able to Save Baron Komura ," New York Times.

Her second Japanese single " Watashi no Sukina Chocolate " ( The Chocolate That I Like ) became a notable hit.

Her family was killed when her house ( and that of the local magistrate's ) was immolated in a Japanese bomb attack.

Her eighty-year old grandmother told her Japanese stories when she was growing up.

Her partner when she was at ACME was a Japanese man named Suhara, who left ACME after she did and appears to now be retired.

Her strong criticism of Japanese trade practices, going so far as to compare the Japanese to " yellow ants trying to take over the world ", has led some to consider her also to be a racist.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Her name was Mollie.

Her lips, moist and parted, spoke his name.

Her name was Sabella, and the strip of seaweed around her neck was an emerald necklace the King gave her as a token of his undying love.

Her name was Suzanne, and mine Stephen.

Her father was a man of consular rank ; her grandfather's name was Catulus.

Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek ( Androméda ) or ( Andromédē ): " ruler of men ", from ( anēr, andrós ) " man ", and medon, " ruler ".

Her name was clearly spelled Boudicca in the best manuscripts of Tacitus, but also Βουδουικα, Βουνδουικα, and Βοδουικα in the ( later and probably secondary ) epitome of Cassius Dio.

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

Her name is Carmilla.

In November 2011 there was an Australian tour by various artists involved with the " She Will Her Way " and " He Will Have His Way " projects, under the name " They Will Have Their Way.

Her nickname appears as a store name in the story " Christmas in Duckburg ", featured on page 1 of Walt Disney ’ s Christmas Parade # 9, published in 1958.

Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.

Her name was Angélique, after both Diderot's dead mother and sister.

Her character as mother-goddess is identified in the second element of her name meter () derived from Proto-Indo-European * méh₂tēr ( mother ).

Speaking of his wife, Desdemona, Othello the Moor says, " Her name that was as fresh / As Dian's visage, is now begrim'd and black / As mine own face.

and those followers who " chant the name of the Lord " are cleared as outlined thus: " Her account is cleared by the Righteous Judge of Dharma, when she chants the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

Her name may have to do with the fact that Hylas was the son of Theiodamas, the king of the Dryopes.

Her name was Patrice Amati del Grande, and she became his companion after he separated from his wife.

Her name is Mary spelled backwards.

Her name is Aroluz backwards.

Her name is an anagram of Grundy ( from Mrs. Grundy, a character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough ).