Ueno

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Ueno (上野 upper-field) can refer to a number of places in Japan:

  • Ueno, Mie: a former city in Mie Prefecture, now part of the city of Iga
  • Ueno, Gunma: a village in Gunma Prefecture:
  • Ueno, Okinawa: a village in Okinawa Prefecture:
  • Ueno, Tokyo: a neighborhood in Taito, Tokyo, as well as a famous park therein

Ueno is also a Japanese family name, as in:

  • Ueno Hikoma, a 19th century Japanese photographer
  • Ueno Chizuko, a noted Japanese feminist sociologist, currently a sociology professor at the University of Tokyo