13 Notable alumni of
Chiba University
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Chiba University is 554th in the world, 107th in Asia, and 43rd in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Chiba University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Takashi Yanase
- Occupations
- journalistgraphic designerpoetillustratorchildren's writer
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Takashi Yanase was a Japanese writer, poet, illustrator and lyricist. He was best known as the creator of the picture book and animated series Anpanman. Yanase was chairman of the Japan Cartoonists Association from May 2000 to 2012.
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Norihisa Tamura
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- politician
- Biography
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Norihisa Tamura is a Japanese politician who served as the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from September 2020 to October 2021. He is also a member of the House of Representatives representing Mie Prefecture since 1996.
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Naoko Ogigami
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- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Naoko Ogigami is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. She first began gaining attention after winning several prizes at the PIA Film Festival for her short film Hoshino-Kun, Yumeno-Kun (2001). Among her most notable works are her films Kamome Shokudo and Megane. Her filmography is typified by their minimalistic quality and a common theme of questioning national identity. At the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival Megane won the Manfred Salzgeber Award, for "broadening the boundaries of cinema today."
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Ai Aoki
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- politiciansongwritertarentosinger
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Ai Aoki is a Japanese politician and current member of the People's Life Party. She is a native of Tokyo and graduate of Chiba University. After a career in education, Aoki entered politics in 2003 and has served a total of four terms in the national Diet of Japan, having sat in the House of Representatives from 2003 to 2005 and 2009–2014, and a partial term in the House of Councillors from 2007 to 2009. Aoki was returned to the House of Councillors in the election held on 10 July 2016.
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Yasushi Nagao
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- photographerjournalist
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Yasushi Nagao was a Japanese press photographer.
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Tomisaku Kawasaki
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- physicianuniversity teacherpediatrician
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Tomisaku Kawasaki was a Japanese pediatrician who first described the condition now known as Kawasaki disease in the 1960s. Alongside rheumatic heart disease, Kawasaki disease is considered to be the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children worldwide.
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Makoto Fujita
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- researcherchemist
- Biography
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Makoto Fujita is a Japanese chemist who specializes in supramolecular coordination chemistry.
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Eiji Kidoguchi
- Occupations
- politician
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Eiji Kidoguchi is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Councillors of Japan, serving for the Iwate at-large district as a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. Kidoguchi was first elected in 2016,, but lost the seat in 2022. Kidoguchi won the seat back in by-election in 2024 after the resignation of the incumbent, Megumi Hirose.
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Yoshinori Natsume
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- graphic designermangaka
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Yoshinori Natsume is a Japanese manga artist.
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Yasunao Tone
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- sound artistdraftspersoncomposerjazz musician
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Yasunao Tone is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Tokyo, Japan and working in New York City. He graduated from Chiba University in 1957 with a major in Japanese Literature. An important figure in postwar Japanese art during the sixties, he was active in many facets of the Tokyo art scene. He was a central member of Group Ongaku and was associated with a number of other Japanese art groups such as Neo-Dada Organizers, Hi-Red Center, and Team Random (the first computer art group organized in Japan). Tone was also a member of Fluxus and one of the founding members of its Japanese branch. Many of his works were performed at Fluxus festivals or distributed by George Maciunas’s various Fluxus operations. Relocating to the United States in 1972, he has since gained a reputation as a musician, performer and writer working with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Senda Nengudi, Florian Hecker, and many others. Tone is also known as a pioneer of “Glitch” music due to his groundbreaking modifications of compact discs and CD players.
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Sachiko Murata
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Sachiko Murata is a Japanese scholar of comparative philosophy and mysticism and a professor of religion and Asian studies at Stony Brook University.
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Shota Shakuno
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- coach
- Biography
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Shota Shakuno is the head coach of the Hiroshima Dragonflies U-15 in the Japanese B.League.
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Susumu Matsushima
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- photographerfashion photographer
- Biography
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Susumu Matsushima
