Mizuho

Not to be confused with Mizuno.

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 Aimoto (born 1964), Japanese female manga artist
• Mizuho Fukushima (born 1955), Japanese female politician
• Mizuho Hasegawa (born 2010), Japanese skateboarder
• 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 Ōta (1876–1955), Japanese poet
• Mizuho Sakaguchi (born 1987), Japanese female association footballer
• Mizuho Suzuki (born 1927), Japanese actor
• Mizuho Yoshida (born 1965), Japanese actor
• 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