The award has drawn criticism in recent years because several players with experience in Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ) have won the award, such as Hideo Nomo in 1995, Kazuhiro Sasaki in 2000, and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.

He also built some racing frames for Suzuki Grand Prix motorcycles in 1968 and, it has been suggested that Suzuki engineers incorporated features of Cheney's designs, such as magnesium hubs and lower fork legs into production road going motorcycles.

Holden has offered badge engineered Chevrolet, Nissan, Suzuki, Toyota, and Vauxhall Motors models in sharing arrangements, with GM Korea, Opel and Isuzu-sourced models sold currently.

The Suzuki method of teaching music has a highly developed focus on playing by ear from a very young age.

Suzuki tells Butterfly that their money has almost run out and, if Pinkerton does not return quickly, they will suffer in a bad way.

Suzuki tells him that, for the last three years, Butterfly has studied every ship that entered the port.

While Pinkerton looks at the flowers, the picture of himself and the room that has remained unchanged for three years, Sharpless tells Suzuki that they can do nothing for Butterfly but that they must help her child.

In the Ian Fleming novel You Only Live Twice, Kissy Suzuki has a cormorant who is named " David " after the actor.

Yu Suzuki has stated on several occasions that during its early stages, Shenmue was a traditional style role-playing video game based on the characters and storyline of the hugely successful fighting game title Virtua Fighter.

Yu Suzuki has stated how gruelingly difficult it was to get the most from the Saturn, but that he is very proud of the visual quality he was able to achieve on the 32-bit system.

Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for his TV and radio series and books about nature and the environment.

Suzuki, in interviews, has many times credited his father for having interested him in and sensitized him to nature.

Since 1979, Suzuki has hosted The Nature of Things, a CBC television series that has aired in nearly fifty countries worldwide.

Suzuki has been a prominent proponent of renewable energy sources and the soft energy path.

In recent years, Suzuki has been a forceful spokesperson on global climate change, not always without controversy.

This skit has been retired after Suzuki refused to renew his contract with the show in 2007.

Cuban-born classical pianist Zeyda Ruga Suzuki has been recorded on labels in Japan and Canada.

Damo Suzuki returned to music in 1983, and since then he has been playing live improvisational shows around the world with local musicians and members of touring bands at various points, sometimes issuing live albums.

The band's post – Damo Suzuki period has been criticised for not being as groundbreaking and genre-defining as the earlier albums: although critics had praised Can's sound in the early 1970s as being ahead of its time, the band just used a two track recorder until the release of Landed in 1975.

Friedman has launched a new rock band entitled Lovefixer, with Shinichiro Suzuki on vocals.

This island has tall rugged rocks and is surrounded by a wall that prevents anything that goes through unless it goes into the main entrance which is difficult to find or a gate guarded by a receptionist named Suzuki who is beaten by Mink and runs off.

He has also endorsed the History Channel, Suzuki motorcycles, and Mountain Dew with whom he ended the contract in December 2010.

Earlier Suzuki versions were twin engined, from 1996 on the engine is a twin-turbocharged 2. 0 L V6, mated to a sequential 6-speed manual transmission.

North American Models were to be built in Cami's Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada plant alongside its almost identical twin the domestic-built Suzuki Sidekick ( Escudo ).

Suzuki has one younger sister named Yuka, who became a dance teacher.

The Carol has been updated alongside its sister, the Suzuki Alto

Rats & Star released a duet with Masayuki's older sister Kiyomi Suzuki called " Lonely Chaplain " in 1986, which also became a huge hit.

Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki are the only two players who have been named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same year, and Fernando Valenzuela is the only player to have won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in the same year.

At least five notable bands have named themselves in tribute to Can: The Mooney Suzuki for Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki ; the indie rock band Spoon after the hit " Spoon "; the electronic band Egebamyasi, formed by Scottish musician Mr Egg in 1984, after Can's album Ege Bamyasi ; Hunters & Collectors after a song on the Landed album ; and Moonshake, named for a track on Future Days, and formed by ex-Wolfhounds frontman David Callahan.

In December 2002, a 60-year-old mechanic named Leon Humphreys was fined £ 25 for failing to notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency that he had removed his Suzuki motorcycle from road usage.

In 1975, Suzuki received his 8th dan, the highest grade ever given ( at the time ) by the Federation of All Japan Karate-dō Organizations, and was named Hanshi-Go by the uncle of Emperor Higashikuni.

As with all OutRun games aside from OutRun 2, this is named by Yu Suzuki as an unofficial sequel.

In 1910, Japanese scientist Umetaro Suzuki succeeded in extracting a water-soluble complex of micronutrients from rice bran and named it aberic acid.

The Mazda Laputa is a clone of the aptly named Suzuki Kei ( which was a kei car from Mazda in Japan ).

Sometimes named as Suzuki.

Invisible files in the system RAM named " Hayashi " and " Suzuki " commemorate the names of designers Junji Hayashi and Jay Suzuki.

Red River is about a fifteen-year-old Japanese girl named Yuri Suzuki, who is magically transported to Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire in Anatolia.

The Orphnoch King eventually awakens within a young boy named Teruo Suzuki, whom Naoya Kaido and Keitaro Kikuchi saved and befriended.

The 1. 6-litre variant for the 3-door models were named the Suzuki Vitara Rebel.

* Variously named versions of the Suzuki Jimny / Samurai

British band The Fall recorded a song indebted to the Tago Mago track " Oh Yeah " entitled " I Am Damo Suzuki ," named after the Can singer, on their seminal 1985 LP This Nation's Saving Grace.

For example, an named Ichiro might be referred to as " Ichiro-senshu " rather than " Ichiro-san ", and a named Suzuki might be referred to as " Suzuki-tōryō " rather than " Suzuki-san ".

When speaking of one's own company to a customer or another company, the title is used by itself or attached to a name, so a department chief named Suzuki is referred to as Buchō or Suzuki-buchō.