Minami

Minami
Pronunciation	Minami
Gender	both
Origin
Word/Name	Japanese
Meaning	south
Region of origin	Japanese
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Minami (kanji 南, hiragana みなみ) is a Japanese word meaning "south".

Places

Japan

There are several Minami wards in Japan, most of them appropriately in the south part of a city:

• Minami, Tokushima, a village in Tokushima Prefecture
• Minami-ku, Sapporo
• Minami-ku, Niigata
• Minami-ku, Saitama
• Minami-ku, Yokohama
• Minami-ku, Sagamihara
• Minami-ku, Hamamatsu
• Minami-ku, Nagoya
• Minami-ku, Kyoto
• Minami-ku, Sakai
• Minami-ku, Okayama
• Minami-ku, Hiroshima
• Minami-ku, Fukuoka
• Minami ward of Osaka merged with Higashi ward and is now part of Chūō ward

Surname

• Akina Minami (南明奈), fashion model
• Dale Minami (born 1946), a Japanese-American lawyer
• Haruo Minami (三波春夫), enka singer
• Kousetsu Minami (南こうせつ), singer
• Jirō Minami (南次郎), general and convicted WWII war criminal
• Omi Minami (南央美), voice actor
• Katsuyuki Minami (南克幸), volleyball player
• Kaho Minami (南果歩), actress
• Yoshitaka Minami (南佳孝), musician^{[citation needed]}
• Yuta Minami (南雄太), football player
• Warren Minami, International Monetary Fund senior official

Given name

• Minami Aoyama (青山南), translator and essayist
• Minami Haruka (遥みなみ), manga artist^{[citation needed]}
• Minami Hinase (美波 みなみ, born 1986), model and actress
• Minami Hokuto (北都南), voice actor
• Minami Kuribayashi (栗林みな実), singer-songwriter and voice actor
• Minami Otomo (大友みなみ), actress and model^{[citation needed]}
• Minami Ozaki (尾崎南), manga artist
• Minami Takayama (高山みなみ), voice actor and singer
• Minami Sakioka (born, 1994), student in japan

Characters

• The Minami sisters (Haruka, Kana, and Chiaki) of Minami-ke
• Asakura Minami of Touch
• Kaori Minami of Battle Royale
• Ken Minami of Machine Robo Rescue
• Nanba Minami of Hana-Kimi and Hanazakari no Kimitachi e
• Iwasaki Minami of Lucky Star
• Youichi Minami of Gokusen
• Hayama Minami of Long Vacation
• Shimada Minami of Baka and test

Other

• Minami (magazine), a Spanish manga/anime magazine^{[citation needed]}

See also

Other directions:

• Nishi (West)
• Higashi (disambiguation) (East)
• Kita (disambiguation) (North)

References

1. ^ Minami - Meaning and origin of the name Minami

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