Okada

Okada (written: 岡田 lit. "hill rice-paddy") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the name include:

  • Doris Matsui (Doris Okada Matsui), American politician of the Democratic Party
  • John Okada, Japanese-American writer
  • Junichi Okada, Japanese singer and actor
  • Katsuya Okada, former Democratic Party of Japan president and foreign minister of Japan
  • Kazuchika Okada, Japanese professional wrestler
  • Keisuke Okada, 31st Prime Minister of Japan
  • Mari Okada, Japanese screenwriter
  • Masaki Okada, Japanese actor
  • Masumi Okada, Japanese-Danish actor
  • Mokichi Okada, founder of the Church of World Messianity
  • Okada Izō, member of the Hitokiri
  • Satoru Okada, general manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering
  • Tadayuki Okada, former Grand Prix motorcycle racing and Superbike racing motorcycle racer
  • Takeshi Okada, coach of the Japanese national football team
  • Tokihiko Okada, a silent Japanese actor
  • Tomohiro Okada, Japanese new media art and design curator, thinker of creative economics
  • Toshio Okada, founder of the anime company Gainax
  • Wynn Las Vegas

    Wynn Las Vegas, often simply referred to as Wynn, is a luxury resort and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The US$2.7-billion resort is named after casino developer Steve Wynn and is the flagship property of Wynn Resorts Limited. The resort covers 215 acres (87 ha). It is located at the northeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sands Avenue, directly across The Strip from the Fashion Show Mall.

    The 614-foot (187 m)-high hotel has 49 floors, with the 2,716 rooms ranging in size from 640 sq ft (59 m2) to villas at 7,000 sq ft (650 m2). The complex also includes a 111,000 sq ft (10,300 m2) casino, a convention center with 223,000 sq ft (20,700 m2) of space and 76,000 sq ft (7,100 m2) of retail space. Together with the adjacent Encore, the entire Wynn resort complex has a total of 4,750 rooms, making it the world's sixth-largest hotel.

    The resort has earned AAA five diamond, Mobil five-star, Forbes five-star, Michelin five star, and Zagat Survey Top U.S. Hotel ratings, as well as one Michelin star for its restaurant Wing Lei. It is considered to be one of the finest hotels in the world. Wynn Las Vegas and its sister property Encore Las Vegas collectively hold more Forbes five-star awards than any other resort and casino in the world. Wynn Las Vegas also made Forbes Award history by earning five-star ratings in every category—Hotel, Restaurant, and Spa—for two consecutive years. It has held the distinction of winning the award in the hotel sector every year since 2007. The building is the first high-rise to be cleaned by an automatic window washing system. The resort is named to the Condé Nast Traveller Gold List as one of the "Top Hotels in the World".

    Okada (motorcycle taxi)

    In Nigeria, an okada (also: achaba, going, inaga) is a motorcycle taxi. The name was borrowed from Okada Air, a Nigerian local airline, now defunct.

    Motorcycle taxis or Okadas are also commonly used in many West African countries, including Togo (Oléyia), Benin (Zémidjans), Burkina Faso, Liberia (Phen-Phen) and Sierra Leone.

    Etymology

    In its time, Okada Air was the most popular Nigerian local airline, but was not known for its comfort. The airline was named after Okada town near Benin City, the hometown of its owner, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion. The motorcycle transports were nicknamed after the airline, because they could manoeuvre through the heavy traffic of Lagos, and take passengers to their destinations in a timely manner, in the same way as the airline. The ironic humour of an airline's name being used for commercial motorcyclists, as well as the local familiarity with Okada Air, caused the nickname of okada to outlive the airline from which it originated, which many Nigerians no longer remember.

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