Mizuho

Mizuho (瑞穂) 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, former name during the Japanese colonial period of the town of Ruisui, Hualien in Taiwan

People

• Mizuho Ōta (1876–1955), Japanese poet
• Mizuho Suzuki (born 1927), Japanese actor
• Mizuho Fukushima (born 1955), Japanese female politician
• Mizuho Aimoto (born 1964), Japanese female manga artist
• Mizuho Yoshida (born 1965), Japanese actor
• Mizuho Katayama (born 1969), female synchronized swimming coach in Japan who represented South Korea at the 1988 Olympics
• Mizuho Kusanagi (born 1979), Japanese female manga artist
• Mizuho Nasukawa (那須川 瑞穂, born 1979), Japanese long-distance runner
• Mizuho Sakaguchi (born 1987), Japanese female association footballer
• Mizuho Saito, member of the former Japanese band Zone

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
• Mizuho Asano, a side-character in the anime & manga Bleach

Other

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