Mitsui (surname)

Last updated April 25, 2019

Mitsui (written: 三井 lit. "three wells") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Aika Mitsui, member of the J-pop group Morning Musume
Hideki Mitsui, Japanese screenwriter
Kōji Mitsui (三井弘次, 1910–1979), Japanese actor
Miyoko Mitsui (三井美代子, born 1919), Japanese hurdler
Takaharu Mitsui, Japanese philatelist
Mitsui Takatoshi, founder of the Mitsui conglomerate
Wakio Mitsui, Japanese politician
Yōko Mitsui (1936–2014), Japanese poet
Yuri Mitsui, Japanese model and actress

Aika Mitsui is a member of Hello! Project and a former member of the J-pop group Morning Musume, joining as a member of the eighth generation from the audition in Japan during December 2006. Mitsui's audition process was documented during the late 2006 episodes of Hello! Morning. She performed Ayumi Hamasaki's "Blue Bird" in round one of her audition and Morning Musume's "Furusato" and "Osaka Koi no Uta" in rounds two and three. She graduated from Morning Musume on May 18, 2012. She retired from the entertainment industry to pursue culinary studies in New Zealand on November 3, 2018.

Hideki Mitsui is a Japanese screenwriter. He has composed the script and series composition for numerous anime series.

Kōji Mitsui was a Japanese movie, TV, and stage actor. He appeared in more than 150 films from 1925 to 1975, including 29 of Kinema Junpo’s annual Top-10 winners and three of its Top-10 best Japanese films of all time.

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