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Ken Eto (衛藤 健 Etō Ken; October 19, 1919 – January 23, 2004), also known as Tokyo Joe and "The Jap", was an American mobster with the Chicago Outfit and eventually an FBI informant who ran Asian gambling operations for the organization.
Tokyo Joe is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Humphrey Bogart.This was Heisler's first of two features starring Bogart, the other was Chain Lightning that also completed in 1949 but was held up in release until 1950.
Joe Hisaishi Japan: July 12, 1997 United States: October 29, 1999 133 minutes 93% [9] 1999 My Neighbors the Yamadas: Isao Takahata Akiko Yano: Japan: July 17, 1999 103 minutes 78% [10] 2001 Spirited Away: Hayao Miyazaki Joe Hisaishi Japan: July 20, 2001 United States: September 20, 2002 125 minutes 96% [11] 2002 The Cat Returns: Hiroyuki Morita ...
Teru Shimada (島田輝 Shimada Teru, born Akira Shimada (島田明 Shimada Akira); November 17, 1905 – June 19, 1988) was a Japanese-born American actor.. A Nikkeijin (first-generation Japanese-American), Shimada emigrated to the United States in the early 1930s to follow in the footsteps of his idol Sessue Hayakawa, where he began acting in theatre before finding a steady career playing ...
A nighttime, torch-lit, gong-playing Chinese procession enters the Tigers' compound, carrying the injured Scott, who is bearing "Tokyo Joe" ' s Samurai sword. After a physical examination, despite Scott's assurances that he is fine, the doctor grounds him due to his age, combat fatigue , and recurring malaria .
Major Ted William Lawson (March 7, 1917 – January 19, 1992) was an American officer in the United States Army Air Forces, who is known as the author of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, a memoir of his participation in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942. The book was subsequently adapted into the 1944 film of the same name starring Spencer Tracy ...
New Horizon is an English language textbook used by junior high school students in Japan. It first came out in 1966. [1] It is published by Tokyo Shoseki. There are three volumes, one for each of the three years of school. As of 2003, around 40% of schools were using New Horizon as their English textbook. [2]
Gentosha Inc. (株式会社幻冬舎, Kabushiki-gaisha Gentōsha) is a Japanese publisher, headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. Gentosha publishes manga magazine Comic Birz, Web comic magazines GENZO, SPICA, Comic MAGNA, literary magazines Lynx, papyrus, as well as business magazine GOETHE.