We are an outgoing college students, we've decided to choose a Japanese name
for our class. We want it to be meaningful, it should represent our ambitions
to grow and further improve ourselves. We also want it to be applicable in
business, our seniors chose the word "Kaizen" as their class name, we want to
have something as meaningful as well. However, when I searched online,
'akasuki' means 'I like red' which is different from what we initially
thought.
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Does the Japanese word "akasuki" means "bright improvement" in English?
_Akasuki_ is not a Japanese word. It might be analyzed as a sentence, _Aka,
suki_ ("Red, (I) like"), but of course it's not suitable as a name.

There is a word [_akatsuki_ (あかつき in hiragana, 暁 in
kanji)](https://jisho.org/word/%E6%9A%81), meaning "dawn". This may be the
word you are looking for, and it's a nice word suitable for names. But it's
not a word that means something complicated like "bright improvement".

By the way, _kaizen_ is a prosaic word that simply means "improvement" in
Japanese. [Japanese Wikipedia does not have an article for
it](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%94%B9%E5%96%84) because it's just a word
with no significant meaning worth notable in an encyclopedia. If it has a
special meaning in English, it may be called an
[英製和語](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/18544/5010).
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