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Kyoto University
Kyoto University (京都大学, Kyōto daigaku), or Kyodai (京大, Kyōdai) is a major national university in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest university in Japan, and formerly one of the Imperial Universities of Japan. The university has a total of about 22,000 students enrolled in its undergraduate and...
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Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design, and for coining the phrase, "The best way to predict the future...
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Aida Yūji
Aida Yūji (会田雄次) was a leading Japanese historian specialising in the Renaissance. He was active as a conservative thinker, commentator and major exponent of the Nihonjinron. He was born in Kyōto on 5 March 1916. He graduated from Kyoto University...
Kazumi Takahashi
Kazumi Takahashi (高橋 和巳, Takahashi Kazumi, 31 August 1931—3 May 1971) was a Japanese novelist and scholar of Chinese literature in Showa period Japan. His wife was fellow writer Takako Takahashi.
Takahashi was born in Naniwa-ku, Osaka, and was a...
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Tetsuro Matsuzawa (松沢 哲郎, born October 15, 1950) is a primatologist who is director of the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University.
Matsuzawa is known for his research on chimpanzee intelligence both in the laboratory and in the wild. His...
Kazuya Kato
Kazuya Kato (加藤 和也, Katō Kazuya, born on January 17, 1952) is a Japanese mathematician. He grew up in the prefecture of Wakayama in Japan and is currently a professor at Kyoto University. He has joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. He...
Junichiro Itani
Itani Junichiro (1926 - August 19, 2001) ) is considered a founder of the discipline of Japanese primatology. He was an internationally renowned anthropologist and served as a professor emeritus at Kyoto University. He died at age 75 of pneumonia.
Mitsuhiro Shishikura
Mitsuhiro Shishikura (Japanese: 宍倉 光広 Shishikura Mitsuhiro) is a Japanese mathematician working in the field of complex dynamics. He is currently professor at Kyoto University in Japan.
Shishikura became famous for two of his earliest contributions,...
Masayoshi Nagata
Masayoshi Nagata (Japanese: 永田 雅宜 Nagata Masayoshi; February 9, 1927 – August 27, 2008) was a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in the field of commutative algebra.
In 1959 he brought forward a counterexample to the general case of Hilbert...
Shunsuke Tsurumi
Shunsuke Tsurumi (鶴見 俊輔, Tsurumi Shunsuke, born June 25, 1922) is a Japanese philosopher. Graduating from Harvard University in 1942, he taught at Kyoto University. In 1946, he started the magazine "Shiso-no Kagaku" (Science of Thought). He was a...
Hiroshi Okamura
Hiroshi Okamura (Japanese: 岡村 博 Okamura Hiroshi; November 10, 1905 – September 3, 1948) was a Japanese mathematician. He was a professor at Kyoto University, and studied analysis.
He discovered the necessary and sufficient conditions on initial...
Kawakami Hajime
Hajime Kawakami (河上肇, Kawakami Hajime), October 20, 1879 - January 30, 1946, was a Japanese Marxist economist of the Taishō and early Shōwa periods.
Born in Yamaguchi, he graduated from Tokyo University. After writing for Yomiuri shimbun, he earned...
Kazuhide Uekusa
Kazuhide Uekusa (植草一秀, Uekusa Kazuhide) was born December 18, 1960 in Edogawa, Tokyo. He is a Japanese economist, economic analyst, a former senior economist at Nomura Research Institute, and chairman of the Three-Nations Research Institute Co., Ltd...
Michio Morishima
Michio Morishima (森嶋 通夫, July 18, 1923 – July 13, 2004) was a Japanese economist, mathematician and econometrician, who was a faculty member at the London School of Economics from 1970-88 as the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics. He was also...
Masahisa Fujita
Masahisa Fujita (born in 1943) is a Japanese economist and professor at Kyoto university, who has studied regional science and Urban Economics and International Trade, Spatial Economy (New Economic Geography).
Fujita majored in urban planning as an...
Kinji Imanishi
Kinji Imanishi (今西錦司) (January 6, 1902 - June 15, 1992) was a Japanese ecologist and anthropologist. He was the founder of Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute, and together with Junichiro Itani is considered the founder of Japanese...
Tetsuro Watsuji
Tetsuro Watsuji (和辻 哲郎 Watsuji Tetsurō) (March 1, 1889–December 26, 1960) was a Japanese moral philosopher, cultural historian, and intellectual historian.
Watsuji was born in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture to a physician. During his youth he enjoyed...
Inazo Nitobe
Nitobe Inazō (新渡戸 稲造, September 1, 1862 - October 15, 1933) was a Christian, agricultural economist, author, educator, diplomat, and politician during Meiji and Taishō period Japan.
Nitobe was born in Morioka, Mutsu Province (present-day Iwate...
Nishitani Keiji
Keiji Nishitani (西谷 啓治, Nishitani Keiji, 1900, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan - 1990) was a Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School and a disciple of Nishida Kitaro. In 1924 Nishitani put forward his dissertation Das Ideale und das Reale bei Schelling...
Kenichi Fukui
Kenichi Fukui (福井謙一 Fukui Ken'ichi, October 4, 1918 – January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist.
Kenichi Fukui was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981 with Roald Hoffman, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of...
Naito Torajiro
Naitō Torajirō (内籐 虎次郎 Naitō Torajirō; August 27, 1866–June 26, 1934), commonly known as Naitō Konan (内藤 湖南 Naitō Konan), was a Japanese historian and Sinologist. He was the founder of the Kyoto School of historiography, and along with Shiratori...
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa FRSE (湯川 秀樹, Yukawa Hideki, 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) né Ogawa (小川), was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate.
Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan. In 1929, after receiving his degree from Kyoto...
Kuki Shuzo
Kuki Shūzō (九鬼周造), (b. Tōkyō, February 15, 1888 – d. Kyōto, May 6 1941) was a prominent Japanese academic, philosopher and university professor.
Shūzō was the fourth child of Baron Kuki Ryūichi (九鬼隆一) a high bureaucrat in the Meiji Ministry for...
Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori (野依良治, Noyori Ryōji) (born September 3, 1938) is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Noyori shared half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second...
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