Asuka

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Asuka may refer to:

People

  • Asuka (name), a list of people
  • Asuka (wrestler) (born 1981), professional wrestler
  • Asuka (wrestler, born 1998), professional wrestler also known as Veny outside of Japan

Places

In Japan

  • Asuka, Yamato (飛鳥), an area in Yamato Province (now Nara Prefecture) in Japan, where imperial palaces and centers of government were built in the 6th and 7th centuries
  • Asuka, Nara (明日香), a village in Nara Prefecture in Japan, in the same area as ancient Asuka (飛鳥)
    • Asuka-dera (飛鳥寺), also known as Hōkō-ji (法興寺), a Buddhist temple in Asuka, Nara
  • Asukayama Park (飛鳥山公園), a park in Kita, Tokyo, Japan

Outside of Japan

  • Asuka, Estonia, a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, Estonia
  • Asuka Station (Antarctica)

Ships

  • MS Asuka (now MS Amadea), a cruise ship operated by Nippon Yusen Kaisha from 1991 to 2006
  • MS Asuka II, a cruise ship operated by Nippon Yusen Kaisha from 2006 onwards
  • JS Asuka, an experimental ship of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force commissioned in 1995

Popular media

  • Asuka (album), by the traditional/pop-rock group Rin'
  • Asuka (magazine), a Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Kadokawa

Fictional entities

Other uses

  • Asuka period (飛鳥時代), a Japanese era from 538 to 710 AD
  • ASTRO-D/ASCA (Asuka), satellite launched on 20 February 1993
  • Asuka, a subsidiary of the French manga publisher Kazé

See also

  • Aska (disambiguation)
  • Capital of Japan
  • All pages with titles beginning with Asuka
  • All pages with titles containing Asuka
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