is a Japanese retired professional shogi player who achieved the rank of 7-dan.

is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one-fourth of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."

(informal) A scenario with no positive or favourable outcome; a no-win situation.

is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Office Osawa.

is a Japanese voice actress formerly affiliated with Production Baobab, and now with Sigma Seven.

, also known as for short, is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Suzu Enoshima and illustrated by Eihi.

(小林 照彦, Kobayashi Teruhiko, 17 November 1920 – 4 June 1957) a Japanese fighter pilot during World War II and a flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force.