title: Asakawa
text: # Asakawa
  
  Asakawa (written: 朝河 or 浅川) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Asakawa brothers, Japanese academics
     * Noritaka Asakawa (浅川 伯教, 1884–1964)
     * Takumi Asakawa (浅川 巧, 1891–1931)
  * Kan'ichi Asakawa (朝河 貫一, 1873–1948), Japanese academic and historian
  * Maki Asakawa (浅川 マキ, 1942–2010), Japanese jazz singer and composer
  * Masatsugu Asakawa (浅川 雅嗣, born 1958), Japanese civil servant
  * Nana Asakawa (浅川 梨奈, born 1999), Japanese actress and former singer
  * Yū Asakawa (浅川 悠, born 1975), Japanese voice actress
  