Michiko Maeda, the first Japanese actress to appear nude in a mainstream film, was banned from Japanese cinema for 42 years for disobeying a director?
Ken Okuyama, a Japanese person, designed the Enzo Ferrari super car?
in 1976, Japanese pink film actor Mitsuyasu Maeno carried out a kamikaze attack on multi-millionaire and ultra-nationalist leader Yoshio Kodama?
in Shinto, a gongen represents a manifestation of a buddha from India to guide the Japanese people to salvation?
the Nikolayevsk Incident, in which Japanese people were killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries, was pretext for the invasion of Sakhalin island?
the 1914–1944 Japanese presence in the Marshall Islands resulted in about 10% of the present-day islanders having some Japanese ancestry?
Katsuhiko Nakajima, a Japanese professional wrestler, represented as a freelancer by Kensuke Office, is the youngest junior heavyweight champion in history?
Bernardo the Japanese, a disciple of Saint Francis Xavier, is the first Japanese person known to have set foot in Europe?
Japanese mathematician Yozo Matsushima received the Asahi Prize for his research on continuous groups in 1962?
Japanese manga artist Seizō Watase worked at an insurance company for 16 years before retiring to work on manga full time?
Japanese author Kodō Nomura, who patterned his fictional detective Zenigata Heiji after Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, wrote 383 detective stories set in Edo period Japan?
Japanese pop R&B singer-songwriter Mai Kuraki's 2009 album, Touch Me! became her first album in five years to top the Japanese album chart?
Arishima Ikuma, Japanese novelist, published his new-style poems and short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public?
Japanese film critic Nagaharu Yodogawa did not miss a single appearance in his 36 years as the host of TV Asahi's Sunday Western Movie Theatre until a week before his death?