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Mika Hoshino

Japanese table tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ11513173 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mika Hoshino (born 10 July 1965) is a former international table tennis player from Japan.

Table tennis career

She won a silver medal for Japan at the 1983 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with Emiko Kanda, Fumiko Shinpo and Tomoko Tamura.

Mika participated in two Olympic Games in 1988 and 1992.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mika Hoshino” is japanese table tennis player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mika, Hoshino and Japanese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1983, 1988, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-07-10. For this dossier, Mika, Hoshino and Japanese is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “japanese table tennis player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11513173. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1983, 1988 and 1992.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Mika Hoshino”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mika Hoshino primary sources, Mika Hoshino archive and Mika research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Mika Hoshino”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Mika Hoshino” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.