Ishikawa
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Ishikawa (石川 "rocky river") is a Japanese surname, and the name of several places in Japan, primarily Ishikawa Prefecture.
Places named Ishikawa:
- Ishikawa Prefecture
- Ishikawa-gun, district, Ishikawa Prefecture
- Ishikawa-gun, district, Fukushima Prefecture
- Ishikawa-machi, town, Fukushima Prefecture
- Ishikawa-shi, city, Okinawa Prefecture
People named Ishikawa:
- Chiaki Ishikawa, musician
- Goemon Ishikawa, thief, would-be assassin
- Hideo Ishikawa, voice actor
- Jun Ishikawa, author
- Jun Ishikawa, video game music composer
- Kaoru Ishikawa, developer of the Ishikawa diagram
- Koji Ishikawa, artist
- Naohiro Ishikawa, football (soccer) player
- Rika Ishikawa, musician
- Takuboku Ishikawa, poet
- Yoji Ishikawa, photographer
- Travis Ishikawa, baseball player
Fictional characters named Ishikawa:
- Keiko Ishikawa, wife of Miles O'Brien, Star Trek
- Ishikawa, a member of Public Security Section 9, Ghost in the Shell
Other uses of Ishikawa:
- Ishikawa diagram, cause-and-effect diagram, developed by Kaoru Ishikawa
- Ishikawa clan, a Japanese clan mainly taking place during the Sengoku Period.