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• 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?