List of University of Tokyo people

This is a list of University of Tokyo (UTokyo) people.

List of presidents

The head of the University of Tokyo is known as the president (総長, socho) and it is a substantive leadership role. The president is elected by the university's board council from among the faculty members for a term of six years.

Notable alumni

Nobel prize laureates

Of UTokyo winners, five have been physicists, one chemists, two for literature, one for physiology or medicine and one for efforts towards peace.

• Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Physics, 1965
• 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
• Satoshi Ōmura, Physiology or Medicine, 2015
• Takaaki Kajita, Physics, 2015
• Yoshinori Ohsumi, Physiology or Medicine, 2016
• Syukuro Manabe, Physics, 2021

Shin'ichirō Tomonaga and Satoshi Ōmura have obtained a UTokyo doctorate degree through dissertation review, and considered as UTokyo alumni as well.

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)
• KijÅ«rō Shidehara (1945–1946)
• Shigeru Yoshida, (1946–1947, 1948–1954)
• Tetsu Katayama (1947–1948)
• Hitoshi Ashida (1948-1948)
• Ichirō Hatoyama (1954–1956)
• Nobusuke Kishi (1957–1960)
• Eisaku Satō, Nobel laureate (1964–1972)
• Takeo Fukuda (1976–1978)
• Yasuhiro Nakasone (1982–1987)
• Kiichi Miyazawa (1991–1993)
• Yukio Hatoyama (2009–2010)

Mathematicians

• Tadatoshi Akiba
• Kiyoshi Itō
• Kenkichi Iwasawa
• Tosio Kato
• Kunihiko Kodaira, Fields Medal winner
• Shoshichi Kobayashi
• Mitio Nagumo
• Hidegorō Nakano
• Narutaka Ozawa
• Mikio Sato
• Goro Shimura
• Teiji Takagi
• Yutaka Taniyama
• Kentaro Yano
• Kōsaku Yosida

Medical researchers

• Akito Arima
• Leo Esaki, Nobel laureate
• ChÅ«shirō 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
• Madichan Diaz

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
• RyÅ«nosuke 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
• Takushi Izawa, TV personality and YouTuber (QuizKnock)

Others

• Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima
• Naohiro Amaya, head of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)
• 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
• 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
• Kimie Iwata, businesswoman and government official
• 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
• 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
• Makoto Soejima, competitive programmer
• Shigeaki Sugeta, linguist

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