Since the Taishō period, the manzai form of Japanese comedy has been developed in Osaka, and a large number of Osaka-based comedians have appeared in Japanese media with Osaka dialect ( See also Yoshimoto Kogyo ).

Yoshimoto Kogyo, a large entertainment conglomerate based in Osaka, introduced Osaka-style manzai to Tokyo audiences, and coined the term " 漫才 " ( one of several ways of writing the word manzai in Japanese ; see " etymology " below ) in 1933.

The company produces music under its wholly owed record label, R and C Limited ( co-owned with Yoshimoto Kogyo ), as well as owning a disco in Shanghai, China.

* R and C Ltd., label co-owned by Rojam and Yoshimoto Kogyo

Fayray was discovered by then-producer Hiroshi Ōsaki, now vice-president of Yoshimoto Kogyo, and landed a recording contract with the now-defunct Antinos Records label.

He is also a director of General Motors, Accenture, Baidu, Yoshimoto Kogyo and Nestlé.

Yoshimoto Kogyo also owns a community FM radio station, YES-fm 78. 1 ( callsign: JOZZ7AF-FM ), based in Namba, Osaka.

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As a result of their massive popularity and the relative domination of their employer, Yoshimoto Kogyo, the Kansai dialect ( in which both performers usually speak ) has come to be associated with Japanese comedy ( owarai ) as a whole.

Although Matsumoto's comedy talent agency of choice was Shōchicku Geinō, the two went with Hamada's choice and entered Yoshimoto Kogyo: NSC ( New Star Creation ) in Osaka.

Another best-selling contemporary author is Banana Yoshimoto.

( born July 24, 1964 ,) is the pen name of Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto ( 吉本 真秀子 Yoshimoto Mahoko ).

Her father is the famous poet and critic Takaaki Yoshimoto, and her sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan.

Ine is governed by mayor Yoshimoto Hideki, an independent.

The author is not known but is believed to be Nijō Yoshimoto.

* 1381 ( Kōwa 1 ): the kampaku Nijō Yoshimoto is elevated to the position of daijō daijin.

* 1387 ( Kakei 1, 1st month ): Nijō Yoshimoto is removed from his powerful position as sesshō and daijō daijin.

* 1381 ( Eitoku 1, 7th month ): the kampaku Nijō Yoshimoto is elevated to the position of daijō daijin.

“ inside looking ” or “ introspection ”) is a structured method of self-reflection developed by Yoshimoto Ishin ( 1916-1988 ) a business man and devout Jodo Shinshu Buddhist who, as a young man, had engaged in an ascetic ' contrition ' ( mishirabe ) practice involving sensory deprivation through dwelling in a dark cave without food, water or sleep.

Mishirabe practices from which Naikan is derived are also still conducted in a religious context within some Jodo Shinshu temples and communities but the harsh, ascetic nature of Yoshimoto Ishin's original practice is unusual given the Jodo Shinshu rejection of self-power practice.

Yoshimoto is said to be almost single-handedly responsible for the development of Japanese manzai after World War II and, in fact, the kanji that are now used for the word manzai were introduced by Yoshimoto in 1933, spelling a new era for the comedy style.

The current director of Yoshimoto is Isao Yoshino, who replaced the long-standing ex-senior director Masao Kimura in January 2005.

Fresh out of university, Yoshimoto is still the goal for many young comedians, and many of them hope to be accepted into the ' New Star Creation ' school in Osaka, or one of others across Japan.

Even though Yoshimoto is a seventh year student of a third-rate university, Shigeyuki ’ s marks become better and better.

Kitchen （ キッチン ） is a novel written by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto ( 吉本ばなな ） in 1988 and translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus.

The foreword is by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto.

His talent agency is Yoshimoto Corporation.

is an award-winning novella by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto, partly inspired by Mike Oldfield's song with the same title.

The company has two headquarters, Osaka HQ ( 大阪本部 ) and Tokyo HQ ( 東京本部 ) and a number of stages, namely Lumine the Yoshimoto ( ルミネtheよしもと ), 5 up Yoshimoto ( 5upよしもと ), NMB48 Theater ( NMB48劇場 ), Nanba Grand Kagetsu ( なんばグランド花月 ), and a new stage in the popular Shibuya district of Tokyo, Yoshimoto Mugendai Hall ( ヨシモト ∞ ホール ).

He became one of Nobunaga's sandal-bearers and was present at the Battle of Okehazama in 1560 when Nobunaga defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto to become one of the most powerful warlords in the Sengoku period.

Yoshimoto now boasts more than 650 entertainers, possibly the most famous being the owarai kombi ( duo ) Downtown, successors of the manzai duo Yasu-Kiyo in the 1980s.

He is one of the popular duo ( kombi ) Ninety-nine with Takashi Okamura, who are one of Yoshimoto Kogyo's most successful acts.

Yoshimoto also has an amusement park in downtown Osaka called Yoshimoto Shōtengai ( 吉本笑店街 ).

Yoshimoto Kōgyō is very much a Kansai operation, although it is not limited to people from Osaka and its surroundings.

Matsumoto has said that if the duo ever split up, they would like to perform their manzai one last time at Namba Grand Kagetsu, Yoshimoto Kogyo's theatre in Osaka and the very stage on which Downtown launched their career.

Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo on July 24, 1964.

also known as Ryūmei Yoshimoto, was a Japanese poet, literary critic, and philosopher from Tokyo.

Yoshimoto was born in 1924, in Tsukishima, Tokyo.

Yoshimoto attended Tashima Elementary School in the Kyobashi Ward of Tokyo, Yonezawa Engineering School ( Now Yamagata University ), and graduated in 1947 from the Engineering Division of Tokyo Institute of Technology with an a degree in Electrochemistry.

After graduation, Yoshimoto moved to industry, became a research student in 1950, and in 1952 took a position at Tokyo Ink Manufacturing Company Ltd.

In the 1990s, after characterizing the Yoga practices of Asahara Shoko of Aum Shinrikyo as expressing the inner core of early Buddhist asceticism, Yoshimoto was criticized along with Nakazawa Shin ' ichi as a defender of Aum following the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.