- male, 87 years old
- Donald Lawrence Keene (b. June 6 1922, New York City) is a noted Japanologist, scholar, teacher, writer, translator and interpreter of Japanese...
- female, 40 years old
- Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer, songwriter, fashion designer and occasional actress. Stefani debuted in 1992 as the frontwoman of the t...
- male
- Confucius (lit. "Master Kung," 551 BCE - 479 BCE) was an esteemed Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have...
- female
- Liza Dalby is an anthropologist and a novelist. She is the only westerner to have become a geisha, which she did in the course of researching her...
- male
- Steven Heine, Ph.D., is a Professor of Religion and History as well as Director of the Institute for Asian Studies at Florida International...
- male, 77 years old
- Robert Garfias (b. 1932) is a key figure in ethnomusicology and musicology. He is a professor of Anthropology and a member of The Social Dynamics...
- male
- Keita Takahashi is a game director, his most notable titles being "Katamari Damacy" and its sequel, "We ♥ Katamari". The original "Katamari" game wa...
- male
- Dr. Hosekei Shinichi Hisamatsu was a philosopher, Zen Buddhist scholar, and Japanese tea ceremony ("sadō" or "chadō", 茶道, "the way of tea") master...
- female, 39 years old
- Apollo Smile (born Paula Apollo Anne Scharf on February 16, 1967 in New York City) is a pop music songwriter, singer and voice actress. Among her...
- male, deceased (1944)
- was a Japanese philosopher who condemned Christianity as incompatible with Japanese culture and considered its followers "inherently disloyal" to...
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