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    Okinawa Actors School (沖縄アクターズスクール, Okinawa Akutāzu Sukūru) is a school in Ginowan, Okinawa which has another branch in Osaka. It was founded in 1983...
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    Naha (redirect from Naha, Okinawa)
    by the Okinawa Prefectural Board of Education. Private schools include the Okinawa Actors' School. Naha-te, (Naha-hand), called Nawate by Gichin Funakoshi...
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  • Rising Production. Rina Chinen took lessons as a child from the Okinawa Actors School. By the time she reached junior high, she relocated to Osaka due...
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    Da Pump (category Musical groups from Okinawa Prefecture)
    Yukinari Tamaki and Shinobu Miyara. The band formed as students at Okinawa Actors School in 1996. They made their debut on the Avex Trax subsidiary avex...
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  • Speed (Japanese band) (category Musical groups from Okinawa Prefecture)
    and Hitoe Arakaki. All four members are former students of the Okinawa Actors School which also trained popular artists Namie Amuro and MAX. Speed made...
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    Hikari Mitsushima (category Actors from Kagoshima Prefecture)
    as of February 2023, and "In this World". She is a graduate of Okinawa Actors School. She began her music career in 1997 as a teenage 'idol singer' in...
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    Okinawa City (沖縄市, Okinawa-shi, Japanese: [okinawa]) is the second-largest city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, following Naha, the capital city. It is located...
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    Makino and Koji Shima. Her son is Masayuki Makino, the principal of Okinawa Actors School. Anna Makino, a former member of idol group Super Monkey's, is her...
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  • Mew Azama (category People from Okinawa Prefecture)
    in Hiroshima Prefecture and raised in Okinawa Prefecture. Azama is a graduate of the Okinawa Actor's School and was a member of B. B. Waves (or Baby...
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  • Meisa Kuroki (category Actors from Okinawa Prefecture)
    exclusively for the popular fashion magazine JJ. While studying at the Okinawa Actors School, from which she graduated in 2007, she was a member of the institution's...
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  • Anna Makino (category Singers from Okinawa Prefecture)
    Tokyo, going to dance school and appearing in musicals for a year before returning to Okinawa to teach at the Okinawa Actors' School, where her father, founder...
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    Aisa Senda (category Actors from Okinawa Prefecture)
    2007. Senda was born and raised in Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, where she had been attending Okinawa Actors School since the age of nine. In 2000, after the...
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  • arguably the most popular solo singer in the period, came from the "Okinawa Actors School", which also incubated the bands MAX and Speed. At first, while...
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    dance group Speed (thirteen strokes in uppercase), who trained at Okinawa Actors School. Due to Kawashima's exit and Ōmoto's entry, they gave a new meaning...
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    director of Rising Productions (Vision Factory) while attending the Okinawa Actors' School, subsequently signing to Avex Trax as part of the Japanese idol...
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  • nationality. In 1998, she was selected as a participant of the first Okinawa Actors School Tokyo and received singing and dancing lessons for about a year...
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    Namie Amuro (category Actors from Okinawa Prefecture)
    year later, Amuro was scouted by Masayuki Makino, the owner of Okinawa Actors School, and eventually she was enrolled there. In 1991, Makino placed her...
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    Okinawa Prefecture (Japanese: 沖縄県, Hepburn: Okinawa-ken) is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan. It has a population of 1,457,162 (as...
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    Tamlyn Tomita (category Actors from Okinawa Prefecture)
    emigrated to Okinawa after World War II. Her father became an LAPD officer upon returning to Los Angeles. Tomita graduated from Granada Hills High School and attended...
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  • Hisako Arakaki (category Singers from Okinawa Prefecture)
    the end of 1993, and later worked as a dance instructor at the Okinawa Actors School. "日本人氣組合MAX來華巡演再掀"日流"旋風" (in Chinese). CRI. 11 September 2006. Archived...
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  • Mizuki. In 1992, Rising Production formed a partnership with the Okinawa Actors School, which debuted the music group Super Monkey's that year. Super Monkey's...
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  • Super Monkey's (category Musical groups from Okinawa Prefecture)
    Makino returned to Okinawa Actors School following her departure from the group. She became chief dance instructor at the school before leaving her position...
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    Daichi Miura (category Singers from Okinawa Prefecture)
    Kamen Rider. This gave her the idea of bringing him to the Okinawa Actors' School. At the school, they taught him to sing and dance. In 1996, a television...
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  • D&D (band) (category Musical groups from Okinawa Prefecture)
    for the anime Nana in 2006. The three members of D&D attended the Okinawa Actors School, and were scouted by Rising Production for record company Avex Trax...
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  • Mr. Miyagi (category Okinawa Prefecture in fiction)
    China in 1625. He returned to Okinawa many years later with a wife, children, and the art of Karate. Once back in Okinawa, he developed the style of Karate...
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  • Gwinko (category Singers from Okinawa Prefecture)
    students from the Okinawa Actors School. In 1986, she passed an audition hosted by CBS Sony and moved to Tokyo, becoming Okinawa Actors School's first graduate...
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    a 14-year-old Japanese soldier in the episode "Okinawa". Kim then spent two years finishing high school and playing the part of Dale "Macca" McGregor,...
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  • J.C. Bonnin (category Actors from Okinawa Prefecture)
    Carlos "JC" Shinzato Bonnin (born February 2, 1968, Okinawa, Japan) is a retired Filipino actor. He was a matinee idol in the 1980s, best remembered...
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    Entertainment. "2.2版本PV:「等醒来再哭泣」". "Behind the Voice Actors - Final Fantasy XVI". Behind the Voice Actors. Retrieved 2024-10-19. "Shikioriori Anime Film's...
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  • Gordon Doversola (category Martial arts school founders)
    2011) was an American martial arts expert who specialized in the Okinawa-te school of Karate. He taught various film and television celebrities. Gordon...
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