Asuka (name)
Asuka (あすか) is both a Japanese surname and a feminine or masculine Japanese given name. It is also the name of an era in Japanese history, the Asuka Jidai (飛鳥時代), which was in turn named after the Indian Buddhist emperor Ashoka.[citation needed]
Notable people with the given name include:
- Asuka Cambridge (born 1993), (飛鳥), Japanese male track and field sprinter
- Asuka Fujita (藤田 明日香, born 1996), Japanese handball player
- Asuka Hachisuka (蜂須賀 明香, born 1992), Japanese biathlete
- Asuca Hayashi (born 1989), (明日香), a Japanese singer
- Asuka Hinoi (born 1991), (明日香), a Japanese singer who is the leader of the Hinoi Team (named after her)
- Asuka Katsura, (明日香), author of Le Portrait de Petit Cossette manga
- Asuka Kudoh (born 1991), (阿須加), a Japanese actor
- Asuka Kuramochi (born 1989), (明日香), a Japanese idol
- Asuka Rin (born 1991), (飛鳥), a Japanese actress
- Aska (singer-songwriter) (born Asuka Ryō in 1958), (飛鳥), a Japanese singer-songwriter, formerly a member of Chage and Aska
- Asuka Sakai, video game musicians notable for Katamari Damacy and Soulcalibur II
- Asuka (wrestler) (born 1981), a Japanese professional wrestler
Fictional Characters
- Asuka, a character from Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger
- Ryou Asuka, a character from Devilman
Surname
- Daiki Asuka or Asuka Jr., in Saint Tail
- Kenji Asuka or Midoranger, in Himitsu Sentai Goranger
- Momoko Asuka in Ojamajo Doremi
- Ryo Asuka in Devilman
- Shinn Asuka in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
Given Name
- Asuka, in the Senran Kagura series
- Asuka, in Log Horizon
- Asuka (InuYasha), a shikigami who serves the priestess Kikyo in the InuYasha series
- Asuka (maid) in the game Sweet Home
- Asuka Connell the daughter of Bisca and Alzack Connell in Fairy Tail
- Asuka Domon (土門 飛鳥), a character in the manga series Inazuma Eleven
- Asuka Kasen in Grand Theft Auto III
- Asuka Honda in Asuka 120%
- Asuka Kazama in Tekken
- Asuka Kojou, a supporting character in Danball Senki W
- Asuka Motomura in Battle Royale II
- Asuka Mizunokouji in Urusei Yatsura
- Asuka Murase, a former girlfriend of Yoji's in Weiss Kreuz
- Asuka Saginomiya in Ranma ½
- Asuka Shin, Dyna’s human form in the Ultra Series Ultraman Dyna
- Asuka Langley Soryu or Asuka Langley Shikinami in Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Asuka Sugo in Cyberformula
- Asuka Tachibana in the anime s-CRY-ed
- Asuka Tanaka (田中 あすか), a character in the novel series Sound! Euphonium
- Asuka Tenjouin (Alexis Rhodes) in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
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