What is "mizuho"

Mizuho literally means "abundant rice" in Japanese and "harvest" in the figurative sense. It was also an ancient name of Japan. It might refer to:

Places

• Mizuho, Gifu, a city in Gifu
• Mizuho, Tokyo, a town in Tokyo
• Mizuho Plateau in Antarctica
  • Mizuho Station (Antarctica)
• Mizuho Township, another name for the town of Ruisui, Hualien in Taiwan

People

• Mizuho Sakaguchi, a Japanese association footballer
• Mizuho, a member of the former Japanese band Zone
• Mizuho Fukushima, a Japanese politician

Fictional characters and places

• Mizuho Kazami, a character in the anime Please Teacher!
• Mizuho Miyanokouji, a character in the game and anime Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru
• Mizuho, a fictional ninja village in the video game Tales of Symphonia

Other

• Japanese seaplane carrier Mizuho, a Japanese seaplane carrier
• Mizuho (train), a train service in Japan
• 2090 Mizuho, an asteroid
• Mizuho Financial Group, a Japanese banking conglomerate

The is a limited-stop shinkansen service operated between and in Japan since 12 March 2011, following the completion of the Kyushu Shinkansen. The name was formerly used for a limited express sleeping car service operated by JNR from 1961, which ran from Tokyo to Kumamoto, and was discontinued in December 1994. The name "" literally means "abundant rice" in Japanese and "harvest" in the figurative sense. It was also an ancient name of Japan.