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
• Ishikawa Goemon, thief, would-be assassin
• Hideo Ishikawa, voice actor
• Ishikawa Jun, author
• Ishikawa Jun, video game music composer
• Kaoru Ishikawa, developer of the Ishikawa diagram
• Ishikawa Koji, artist
• Naohiro Ishikawa, football (soccer) player
• Rika Ishikawa, musician
• Ishikawa Takuboku, poet
• Yoji Ishikawa, photographer
• Travis Ishikawa, baseball player

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Those pestiferous donations
Irregularities over political donations continue to annoy main political parties. The Democratic Party of Japan was rattled by the arrest in March of then party leader Ichiro Ozawa's chief secretary on suspicion of illegally handling political donations from two political bodies linked to Nishimatsu Construction Co. Mr. Ozawa resigned as party leader in May. Now the current DPJ leader, Yukio Hatoyama, is in hot water. But irregularities involving Liberal Democratic Party politicians also have surfaced. The situation is putting a drag on Japanese politics. Mr. Hatoyama has admitted that his office used the names of dead people and those who did not make donations in statements for a... Read the full story
Dwindling ability to lead
The mini-reshuffle of the Cabinet this week shows that Prime Minister Taro Aso's power to lead his Liberal Democratic Party in a direction he desires has dwindled. He had sought a substantial reshuffle of both the Cabinet and the party leadership to buoy his administration's sagging approval rate. But resistance from within the LDP left him leeway only to fill two Cabinet posts concurrently held by other ministers. Mr. Aso picked two LDP legislators to fill the posts of fiscal and economic policy minister and chairman of the National Public Safety Commission. This decision has lightened the load of Mr. Kaoru Yosano, who has played a triple role as finance minister, financial services... Read the full story
Osaka fails to report swine flu mutation
An Osaka health official found a genetic mutation of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu on June 18 — nearly two weeks before the "first" finding was reported in Denmark — but failed to disclose it, the health ministry said Thursday. The mutation, found in a woman in her 40s in Toyonaka who caught the H1N1 influenza A virus in May, is the first reported case of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu in Japan. Read the full story
Amano voted in as first Asian head of IAEA in sixth round of ballots
VIENNA (Kyodo) Yukiya Amano, Japan's ambassador to the Permanent Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna, was elected the next director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday. Amano, 62, won against South Africa's Abdul Samad Minty after six rounds of voting, making him the first IAEA chief from Asia. Read the full story
Aso fate rides on Tokyo showdown
The election campaign for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly that kicked off Friday is the preliminary battle for the looming Lower House election and could determine the fate of Prime Minister Taro Aso and his Cabinet, analysts said. Voting for the assembly will take place July 12, while the other ongoing political showdown, the Shizuoka gubernatorial election, will be decided Sunday. Victory is vital for Aso in both elections, said Etsushi Tanifuji, a political science professor at Waseda University. Read the full story
Tobacco Cafe an oasis for smokers
Salaried workers feeling cornered by the ever-expanding ban on smoking in Tokyo can rest easy at a recently opened cafe in the Shinbashi district that caters exclusively to smokers. At Cafe Tobacco, smoking is allowed on all three floors, according to its operator, Towa Food Service Co. Read the full story

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