Asahi
Appearance
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Asahi (Japanese 朝日, 旭, or あさひ 'morning sun') may refer to:
Places in Japan
[edit]Cities
[edit]- Asahi, Chiba (旭市; Asahi-shi)
Wards
[edit]- Asahi-ku, Osaka (旭区; Asahi-ku)
- Asahi-ku, Yokohama (旭; Asahi-ku)
Towns
[edit]- Asahi, Aichi (旭町; Asahi-chō)
- Asahi, Fukui (朝日町; Asahi-chō)
- Asahi, Hokkaido (朝日町; Asahi-chō)
- Asahi, Mie (朝日町; Asahi-chō)
- Asahi, Okayama (旭町; Asahi-chō)
- Asahi, Shimane (旭町; Asahi-chō)
- Asahi, Toyama (朝日町; Asahi-machi)
- Asahi, Yamagata (Nishimurayama) (朝日町; Asahi-machi)
Villages
[edit]- Asahi, Gifu (朝日村; Asahi-mura)
- Asahi, Ibaraki (旭村; Asahi-mura)
- Asahi, Nagano (朝日村; Asahi-mura)
- Asahi, Niigata (朝日村; Asahi-mura)
- Asahi, Yamagata (Tagawa) (朝日村; Asahi-mura)
- Asahi, Yamaguchi (旭村; Asahi-son)
Companies
[edit]- Asahi Breweries, a Japanese beverage company
- Asahi Soft Drinks, a subsidiary
- The Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper
- Asahi Production, a Japanese animation company
- TV Asahi, a Japanese television network
- Asahi Glass Company, a Japanese chemical products manufacturer
- Asahi Optical Corporation, now known as Pentax Corporation
- Asahi Kasei, a Japanese chemical products manufacturer
- Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court, a U.S. Supreme Court case (1987)
- Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a radio and television broadcaster in the Kansai region, Japan
- ASAHI Net, a major internet service provider based in Japan
- Asahi Motors, a Japanese bus company
People
[edit]- Asahi Haga (芳賀 日陽, born 2000), Japanese footballer
- Asahi Inoue (井上 あさひ, born 1981), Japanese announcer
- Asahi Uenaka (植中 朝日, born 2001), Japanese footballer
- Asahi Yada (矢田 旭, born 1991), Japanese footballer
- Kentaro Asahi (朝日 健太郎, born 1975), Japanese volleyball player
- Asahi Hamada (浜田 朝光, born 2001), Japanese singer, member of South Korean band Treasure
- Asahi (wrestler) (2002-2024), Japanese professional wrestler.
Other uses
[edit]- Asahi (automobile), a 1930s Japanese automobile
- Asahi (baseball team), a Japanese-Canadian baseball team
- Asahi (motorcycle), a Japanese motorcycle brand
- Asahi (train), a Japanese train service name
- Japanese battleship Asahi
- Asahi Azumane (東峰 旭), a character from Haikyu!! with the position of wing spiker from Karasuno High
- Asahi Gakuen (あさひ学園) Los Angeles Japanese School
- Asahi Health, a Finnish health exercise
- Asahi Karuizawa, a character in the anime series Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure
- Asahi Linux, an initiative to port Linux to recent Apple devices
- Asahi River (旭川), a river in Okayama Prefecture, Japan
- Asahi University, a private university in Mizuho, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
- "Asahi", a song by Animals as Leaders from the album Parrhesia
See also
[edit]- Asachi, a surname
- Hinode (disambiguation), Japanese word for 'sunrise'