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Chicago Futabakai Japanese School (シカゴ双葉会日本語学校, Shikago Futabakai Nihongo Gakkō, CFJS; "Futabakai" means "two leaves" or "bud" organization, or "organization of growing sprouts"), alternately in Japanese Shikago Nihonjin Gakkō (シカゴ日本人学校, Chicago Japanese person School), is a Japanese elementary and junior high day school and Saturday education program in ...
With the depletion of new numbers in area codes 312 and 773, an overlay of both of them, area code 872, was created in November 2009, beginning ten-digit dialing within the city limits of Chicago. The remaining area without an overlay in the northern part of Illinois, 708, eventually received such with area code 464 taking effect on January 21 ...
The "Akira slide" scene is regarded as an iconic anime scene, widely imitated and referenced in many works of animation, film and television. The "Akira slide" refers to a scene where Kaneda slides into view with his motorbike, as he uses a sideways slide to bring his bike to a halt, while the bike gives off a trail of smoke and electric sparks ...
Akira (アキラ, stylized as AKIRA in English) is a Japanese cyberpunk media franchise based on Katsuhiro Otomo's seminal manga, Akira, published from 1982 to 1990.It was translated into more than a dozen languages and adapted into a 1988 anime film and three video games, among other adaptations.
Katsuhiro Otomo (大友 克洋, Ōtomo Katsuhiro, born April 14, 1954) is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator, and film director. He first rose to prominence as a pioneer founder of the New Wave in the 1970s. He is best known as the creator of Akira, both the original 1982 manga series and the 1988 animated film adaptation.
Toei Animation: American International — — March 1, 1962 [2] The Littlest Warrior Taiji Yabushita [3] Toei Animation [4] Signal International N/A N/A July 21, 1962 [2] [5] Sinbad the Sailor Taiji Yabushita [6] Yoshio Kuroda [7] Toei Animation [8] Signal International [2] January 1, 1964: The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon: Yūgo ...
Some Japanese in Chicago operated businesses such as restaurants, gift shops, and housing units. Some Japanese came to study at universities in the Chicago area. In 1893 Eiji Asada completed a PhD at the University of Chicago. [1] The pre-World War II Japanese population mostly lived in the Hyde Park/Kenwood/Woodlawn region. [3]
Akira No. 2 (アキラNo.2) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromasa Okushima. It was serialized between 2012 and 2014 in Shōnen Gahōsha 's Young King magazine. [ 1 ] It was adapted into a live action film that was released in the fall of 2014 in Japan.