List of University of Tokyo people explained

Notable alumni

Nobel prize laureates

See main article: List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Tokyo. 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Kikunae Ikeda
• Hiroshi Nishihara
• Umetaro Suzuki
• Jōkichi Takamine

Physicians

• Kunie Miyaji, pioneering woman physician in Japan
• Hajime Sakaki, first professor of psychiatry in Japan
• Kitasato Shibasaburō
• Katsusaburo Yamagiwa

Architects

• 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.
• , architect, central figure of the project of constructing National Diet Building as a bureaucrat of Ministry of Finance

Authors

• 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

• 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

• 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

1. https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/numbers.html UTokyo by the Numbers | The University of Tokyo
2. Web site: Hidegorô Nakano - Biography . 2024-03-28 . Maths History . University of St Andrews,Scotland School of Mathematics and Statistics . en.
3. Pollack, Andrew. "Naohiro Amaya, 68; Helped Industry in Japan" (obituary). The New York Times. September 1, 1994. Retrieved on January 20, 2014.
4. Book: Goda, Y. . 耐波工学 港湾・海岸構造物の耐波設計 . Kashima Publishing . 2008 . 978-4306023994 . Tokyo . ja . Wave-resistant engineering: Wave-resistant design of harbours and coastal structures . 5 July 2023.
5. Professor Anirban's DBLPhttps://dblp.org/pid/61/780.html
6. "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."
7. 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.

See also

• University of Tokyo