Kyoto University: Students/Graduates



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Hidekatsu Yoshii

Hidekatsu Yoshii (吉井英勝, born December 19, 1942) is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives for Japanese Communist Party. A native of Kyoto, Kyoto and graduate of Kyoto University, he was elected to the first of his three...

Satoshi Inoue

Satoshi Inoue (井上哲士 Inoue Satoshi) is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Councillors for the Japanese Communist Party.

Frank Hsieh

Frank Hsieh Chang-ting (simplified Chinese: 谢长廷; traditional Chinese: 謝長廷; pinyin: Xiè Chángtíng; Wade-Giles: Hsieh Ch'ang T'ing; Pe̍h-oē-jī: Siā Tiông-têng or Chiā Tiông-têng; born May 18, 1946 in Dadaocheng, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese politician of...

Hitoshi Motoshima

Hitoshi Motoshima (本島等, Motoshima Hitoshi) (born February 20, 1922) is a retired Japanese politician. He served four terms as mayor of Nagasaki from 1979 to 1995. He has publicly made controversial statements about the responsibility of Japan and...

Masahide Kanzaki

Masahide Kanzaki (born in Suzuka, Mie, Japan in 1960) is a Semantic Web advocate, university lecturer and author of some web related books. He has published several web ontologies such as Music Vocabulary and Exif Vocabulary. He is also known as...

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Bachelor of Arts

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...

Makoto Kumada

Kumada Makoto (熊田誠, Kumada Makoto, born 17 January 1920) was a Japanese chemist and was a Professor of Chemistry first at Osaka University and till his retirement in 1983 at Kyoto University in Japan. He discovered the Kumada coupling in 1975.

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga or Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (朝永振一郎 Tomonaga Shin'ichirō, March 31, 1906 – July 8, 1979) was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in...

Goshi Hosono

Goshi Hosono (細野豪志, born 1971) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Ōmihachiman, Shiga and graduate of Kyoto University, he was elected...

Yasutomi Nishizuka

Yasutomi Nishizuka (1932–2004) is a Japanese biochemist who discovered protein kinase C (PKC) and made important contribution to the understanding of molecular mechanism of signal transduction across the cell membrane. Nishizuka was born in 1932 at...

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...

Umehara Takeshi

Umehara Takeshi (梅原猛) was born in Miyagi Prefecture in Tōhoku in 1925 and graduated from the philosophical faculty of Kyoto University in 1948 He taught philosophy at Ritsumeikan University and was subsequently appointed rector of the Kyoto...

Hirano Keiichiro

Keiichirō Hirano (平野啓一郎, Hirano Keiichirō) (born June 22, 1975), is a Japanese novelist. Hirano was born in Gamagori, Aichi prefecture, Japan. He published his first novel (Nisshoku, 日蝕) in 1998 and won the Akutagawa Prize the next year as one of...

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...

Junya Kondo

Junya Kondō (Japanese: 近藤淳也, Kondō Junya, born November 2, 1975 in Mie Prefecture, Japan) is the founder and CEO of Hatena Co., Ltd.. He is also known as one of the A-list bloggers in Japan. After he graduated from Yokkaichi Minami High School, he...

Tetsuji Takechi

Tetsuji Takechi (武智鉄二, Takechi Tetsuji, December 10, 1912 – July 26, 1988) was a Japanese theatrical and film director, critic and author. First coming to prominence for his theatrical criticism, in the 1940s and 1950s he produced influential and...

Kan Kimura

Kan Kimura (木村幹, Kimura Kan, born April, 1966) is a Japanese scholar of Political Studies and Area Studies. He is now a professor at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, Japan. He was born in 1966 in Higashiosaka,...

Isamu Akasaki

Isamu Akasaki (赤崎勇, Akasaki Isamu, born January 30, 1929), is a Japanese scientist, best known for inventing p-n junction blue LEDs using gallium nitride (GaN) in as early as 1989, first in the world. Born in Kagoshima Prefecture in 1929, Akasaki...

Akira Yamada

Akira Yamada (山田晶, 7 March 1922 - 29 February 2008) is a Japanese scholar and philosopher of the West European Medieval philosophy. Member of the Japan Academy since 1998. Yamada graduated from the Kyoto Imperial University, Philosophy section of...

Masayoshi Hamada

Masayoshi Hamada (浜田昌良, Hamada Masayoshi) is a Japanese politician. He is a former representative in Diet and is a member of the New Komeito Party. In 1980 he left Kyoto University's graduate school mid-term to work in the Biochemical-Industry...

Bunmei Ibuki

Bunmei Ibuki (伊吹文明, Ibuki Bunmei, born January 9, 1938) is a Japanese politician. He is a Member of the House of Representatives serving the constituency of Kyoto Prefecture, 1st district, where, as of October 2006, he has been elected eight times....

Sakyo Komatsu

Sakyo Komatsu (小松左京, Komatsu Sakyō) (born January 28, 1931 in Osaka) is a Japanese science fiction writer and screenwriter. He is a graduate of Kyoto University where he studied Italian literature. Reading Kobo Abe and Italian classics made Komatsu...

Noma Hiroshi

Hiroshi Noma (野間宏, Noma Hiroshi, February 23, 1915–January 2, 1991) was a noted Japanese author. Noma was born in Kōbe to a devout Buddhist family, and took up literature in 1932 after meeting the poet Takeuchi Shizuo. In 1935 he enrolled at Kyoto...

Naoto Tajima

Naoto Tajima (田島直人, Tajima Naoto) (August 15, 1912 - December 4, 1990) was a Japanese athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. He won a gold medal in the triple jump (setting a new world record in that event), and won a...

Hideyuki Sakai

Hideyuki Sakai (坂井秀至, Sakai Hideyuki, born April 23, 1973) is a professional Go player. Before becoming a professional, Sakai was majoring in medical science at Kyoto University. For a long time, Sakai was the strongest amateur player in Japan, and...

Shizuto Masunaga

Shizuto Masunaga (Japanese: 増永静人, 1925-1981) was a Japanese Shiatsu practitioner and author of books on Shiatsu. He was born in 1925 in Kure, Hiroshima Japan and graduated in Psychology from Kyoto University. In 1959, he graduated from the Japan...

Hirohiko Izumida

Hirohiko Izumida (泉田裕彦, Izumida Hirohiko) is the governor of Niigata Prefecture since October 25, 2004.

Eizaburo Nishibori

Eizaburo Nishibori (西堀栄三郎 Nishibori Eizaburō (January 28, 1903 – April 13, 1989) was a Japanese scientist, alpinist and technologist. And he is also known as the captain of the primary Japanese Antarctica wintering party. Born in Kyoto. In May 1928,...

Akimitsu Takagi

Akimitsu Takagi (高木彬光, Takagi Akimitsu, 25 September 1920–9 September 1995), was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer in Showa period Japan. His real name was Takagi Seiichi. Takagi was born in Aomori City in Aomori Prefecture in...

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,...

Miki Kiyoshi

Kiyoshi Miki (三木清, Miki Kiyoshi, January 5, 1897 – September 26, 1945) was a Japanese philosopher. Miki was a native of what is now part of Tatsuno, Hyōgo. He studied philosophy under Nishida Kitarō and Tanabe Hajime at the Kyoto Imperial...

Naoki Tanemura

Naoki Tanemura (種村直樹, Tanemura Naoki, born March 7, 1936) is a Japanese writer, essayist and critic. He calls himself a "railway writer". He has published commentaries on railways and travel writings including mysteries. He came from Ōtsu, Shiga...

Murata Makoto

Makoto Murata (村田真, Murata Makoto, born 1960) is a Japanese computer scientist. He participated in the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) XML Working Group. The Working Group designed XML1.0, a markup language specification. Murata and James Clark...

Tsunao Okumura

Tsunao Okumura (奥村綱雄 Okumura Tsunao; 5 March 1903 - 7 November 1972) was the president of Nomura Securities between 1948 - 1959. He was seen as the king of Japanese stockbroking in the 1950s. As the son of a wealthy confectioner, Okumura showed...

Akira Asada

Akira Asada (Japanese: 浅田彰, Asada Akira; born March 23, 1957) is a Japanese postmodern critic and curator, whose interests include contemporary arts, history of social thoughts, and economic philosophy. He is currently the Dean of the Graduate...

Seiji Maehara

Seiji Maehara (前原誠司 Maehara Seiji; born April 30, 1962) is a member of the House of Representatives of Japan, and a former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). He is known for expertise in national security and defense and a notable...

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...

Yoshitaka Murata

Yoshitaka Murata (村田吉隆; born July 30, 1944) is the Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, the Minister of State for Disaster Management and the Minister of State for National Emergency Legislation in Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro...

Shiro Ishii

Shirō Ishii (石井四郎, Ishii Shirō, June 25, 1892 – October 9, 1959) was a Japanese microbiologist and the lieutenant general of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and accused War...

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...

Kōichi Kido

Marquis Kōichi Kido (木戸幸一, Kido Kōichi) (July 18, 1889 – April 6, 1977) served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to Emperor Showa throughout World War II. Kido was the grandson of Kido Takayoshi, one of...

Susumu Tonegawa

Susumu Tonegawa (利根川進 Tonegawa Susumu, born September 6, 1939) is a Japanese scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for "his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity." Although he won the...

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...

Minoru Arakawa

Minoru Arakawa (荒川實, Arakawa Minoru) (born September 3, 1946) was the founder and first president of Nintendo of America (NOA) from 1980 to 2002. Born in Kyoto, Japan, he attended Kyoto University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In...

Issei Yamamoto

Issei Yamamoto (山本一清) (1889–1959) was a Japanese astronomer. He was professor of astronomy at Kyoto University. In 1920 he became the first president of the Oriental Astronomical Association. He was director of the Kwasan Observatory in Kyoto. Named...

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...

Kurokawa Kisho

Kisho Noriaki Kurokawa (黒川紀章, Kurokawa Kishō) (April 8, 1934 – October 12, 2007) was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement. Born in Kanie, Aichi, Kurokawa studied architecture at Kyoto University,...

Motoo Kimura

Motoo Kimura (木村資生, Kimura Motō), (November 13, 1924 - November 13, 1994) was a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968 . He became one of the most influential theoretical population...

Ooka Shohei

Shōhei Ōoka (大岡昇平, Ōoka Shōhei, 6 March 1909 – 25 December 1988) was a Japanese novelist, literary critic, and translator of French literature active in Shōwa period Japan. Ōoka belongs to the group of postwar writers whose World War II experiences...

Kiyoshi Oka

Kiyoshi Oka (岡潔, Oka Kiyoshi) (April 19, 1901 – March 1, 1978) was a Japanese mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of several complex variables. He was born in Osaka. He went to Kyoto Imperial University in 1919, turning to...

Motojiro Kajii

Motojirō Kajii (梶井基次郎, Kajii Motojirō, sometimes written Motojirou Kajii, February 17, 1901 - March 24, 1932) was a Japanese author of the early Shōwa period. He left masterpieces of poetic short stories such as "The Lemon", "Winter Days", and ...

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...