List of University of Tokyo people
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Notable alumni
[edit]Nobel prize laureates
[edit]Of UTokyo winners, five have been physicists, one chemists, two for literature, one for physiology or medicine and one for efforts towards peace.
- Yasunari Kawabata, Literature, 1968
- Leo Esaki, Physics, 1973
- Eisaku Satō, Peace, 1974
- Kenzaburō Ōe, Literature, 1994
- Masatoshi Koshiba, Physics, 2002
- Yoichiro Nambu, Physics, 2008
- Ei-ichi Negishi, Chemistry, 2010
- Takaaki Kajita, Physics, 2015
- Yoshinori Ohsumi, Physiology or Medicine, 2016
- Syukuro Manabe, Physics, 2021
In addition, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga and Satoshi Ōmura have obtained a UTokyo doctorate degree through dissertation review, and considered as UTokyo alumni as well.[1]
Prime Ministers
[edit]- Hara Takashi (1918–1921)
- Katō Takaaki (1924–1926)
- Wakatsuki Reijirō (1926-1927, 1931-1931)
- Osachi Hamaguchi (1929–1931)
- Kōki Hirota (1936–1937)
- Fumimaro Konoe (1937–1939, 1940–1941)
- Hiranuma Kiichirō (1939-1939)
- Kijūrō Shidehara (1945–1946)
- Shigeru Yoshida (吉田茂) (1946–1947, 1948–1954)
- Tetsu Katayama (1947–1948)
- Hitoshi Ashida (1948-1948)
- Ichirō Hatoyama (1954–1956)
- Nobusuke Kishi (岸信介) (1957–1960)
- Eisaku Satō (佐藤栄作), Nobel laureate (1964–1972)
- Takeo Fukuda (福田赳夫) (1976–1978)
- Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根康弘) (1982–1987)
- Kiichi Miyazawa (宮沢喜一) (1991–1993)
- Yukio Hatoyama (鳩山由紀夫) (2009–2010)
Mathematicians
[edit]- Tadatoshi Akiba
- Kiyoshi Itō
- Kenkichi Iwasawa
- Tosio Kato
- Kunihiko Kodaira, Fields Medal winner
- Shoshichi Kobayashi
- Mitio Nagumo
- Hidegorō Nakano[2]
- Narutaka Ozawa
- Mikio Sato
- Goro Shimura
- Teiji Takagi
- Yutaka Taniyama
- Kentaro Yano
- Kōsaku Yosida
Medical researchers
[edit]- Akito Arima
- Leo Esaki, Nobel laureate
- Chūshirō Hayashi
- Noriko Kamakura
- Jun Kondo
- Masatoshi Koshiba, Nobel laureate
- Ryogo Kubo
- Moi Meng Ling
- Hantaro Nagaoka
- Ukichiro Nakaya
- Yoichiro Nambu, Nobel laureate
- Yoshio Nishina
- Seiji Ogawa, discoverer of fMRI
- Fumio Takei
- Shohé Tanaka
- Morikazu Toda
- Yoji Totsuka
- Toshifumi Yokota, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
Chemists
[edit]Physicians
[edit]- Kunie Miyaji, pioneering woman physician in Japan
- Hajime Sakaki, first professor of psychiatry in Japan
- Kitasato Shibasaburō
- Katsusaburo Yamagiwa
Architects
[edit]- Arata Isozaki, Royal Gold Medal laureate
- Toyo Ito, Pritzker Prize laureate, Royal Gold Medal laureate
- Kisho Kurokawa, architect
- Fumihiko Maki, Pritzker Prize laureate
- Kenzo Tange, Pritzker Prize laureate
- Yoshikazu Uchida, main architect behind Hongo campus after the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923.
- Kenkichi Yabashi , architect, central figure of the project of constructing National Diet Building as a bureaucrat of Ministry of Finance
Authors
[edit]- Kōbō Abe
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Sachiya Hiro
- Shinichi Hoshi
- Otohiko Kaga
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Shiki Masaoka
- Shinpei Matsuoka
- Yukio Mishima
- Ōgai Mori
- Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- Kansuke Naka
- Atsushi Nakajima
- Wafu Nishijima
- Kenzaburō Ōe
- Dazai Osamu
- Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
- Naoya Shiga
- Natsume Sōseki
- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
- Kunio Yanagita
Entertainers
[edit]- Toshiya Fujita, film director
- Bai Guang, one of the seven great singing stars of China
- Teruyuki Kagawa, actor
- Tokiko Kato, singer
- Rei Kikukawa, actress
- Tamayo Marukawa, TV announcer
- Towa Oshima, manga artist
- Kenji Ozawa, musician
- Nam June Paik, video artist
- Koichi Sugiyama, music composer
- Isao Takahata, anime director
- Mayuko Takata, actress
- Kiyohiko Ushihara, film director
- Yoji Yamada, film director
- Yoshishige Yoshida, film director
- Anton Wicky, educator
Others
[edit]- Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima
- Naohiro Amaya, head of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)[3]
- Inokuchi Ariya, founder of Ebara Corporation
- Fang Chih, Statesman, 1923
- Toshihiko Fukui, Governor of the Bank of Japan
- Yoshimi Goda, Coastal Engineer and recipient of the Order of the Sacred Treasure[4]
- Minoru Harada, Buddhist leader, 6th President of Soka Gakkai
- Mantarō Hashimoto, linguist and sinologist
- Keizō Hayashi, General officer, first Chairman of the Joint Staff Council since Japan Self-Defense Forces' establishment.
- Ong Iok-tek, linguist
- Kanō Jigorō, creator of judo
- Takashi Kawamura, 9th President of Hitachi
- Furuichi Kōi
- Hirata Tosuke, was a Japanese statesman and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan, active in the Meiji and Taishō period Empire of Japan.
- Akihiko Kumashiro, politician, three-time member of the House of Representatives of Japan
- Susumu Kuno, linguist, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University
- Kiyozawa Manshi, Buddhist thinker
- Peng Ming-min, DPP Senior Advisor to President Chen Shui-Bian; former president of WUFI
- Shinrokuro Miyoshi (三好晋六郎)
- Tsunetaro Moriyama, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
- Toshirō Mutō, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan
- Makoto Nakajima, former Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office
- Yoshiro Nakamatsu, inventor
- Hiroaki Nakanishi (MS 1979), President of Hitachi
- John Nathan, translator, first American admitted as a regular student
- Kitaro Nishida, philosopher
- Namihei Odaira, entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of Hitachi
- Masaharu Ōhashi, Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan
- Hisashi Owada, International Court of Justice Judge
- Masako Owada, Crown Princess of Japan
- Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Buddhist scholar
- Toshizō Ido, Japanese politician, 52nd Governor of Hyōgo Prefecture
- Takejirō Tokonami, government minister and governor
- Eiji Toyoda, industrialist
- Anirban Mondal, Computer Scientist[5]
- Kazuhide Uekusa, economist
- Hidesaburō Ueno, agricultural scientist and owner of world's most loyal dog, Hachiko
- Yoichi Wada, president of Square Enix
- Toshizo Ido, Governor of Hyogo prefecture
- Tetsuro Watsuji, philosopher
- Charles Dickinson West, mechanical engineer
- Akira Yanabu, researcher in translation and comparative literature
- Toshiki Sumitani, President, Kobe Institute of Computing
- Katsuo Yakura, member of the House of Councillors for Saitama Prefecture
- Hakuo Yanagisawa, politician, Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
- Takashi Yuasa, lawyer, economist
- Hayato Sumino, pianist [6][7]
- Makoto Soejima, competitive programmer
- Shigeaki Sugeta, linguist
References
[edit]- ^ UTokyo by the Numbers | The University of Tokyo
- ^ "Hidegorô Nakano - Biography". Maths History. University of St Andrews,Scotland School of Mathematics and Statistics. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ Pollack, Andrew. "Naohiro Amaya, 68; Helped Industry in Japan" (obituary). The New York Times. September 1, 1994. Retrieved on January 20, 2014.
- ^ Goda, Y. (2008). 耐波工学 港湾・海岸構造物の耐波設計 [Wave-resistant engineering: Wave-resistant design of harbours and coastal structures] (in Japanese). Tokyo: Kashima Publishing. ISBN 978-4306023994. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
- ^ Professor Anirban's DBLP[1]
- ^ "東京大学工学部計数工学科（2018年度学科案内）" (PDF). 東京大学工学部計数工学科. Retrieved 2020-10-20."
- ^ 東京大学学生表彰選考会議 議長 (2020-03-06). "東京大学総長賞選考結果について". The University of Tokyo. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
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