14 Notable alumni of
Hiroshima University
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Hiroshima University is 737th in the world, 150th in Asia, and 57th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from Hiroshima 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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Fumiyo Kōno
- Occupations
- visual artistwritermangakaillustrator
- Biography
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Fumiyo Kōno, commonly romanized Fumiyo Kouno, is a Japanese manga artist from Nishi-ku, Hiroshima, known for her 2004 manga Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms and her 2007 manga In This Corner of the World which got an anime film adaptation in 2016 by MAPPA.
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Akira Miyawaki
- Occupations
- ecologistuniversity teacherbotanist
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Akira Miyawaki was a Japanese botanist and an expert in plant ecology who specialized in seeds and natural forests. He was active worldwide as a specialist in natural vegetation restoration of degraded land.
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Chōbyō Yara
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Chobyo Yara was a Japanese politician. He served as the Chief Executive of the Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1968–1972) and Governor of Okinawa Prefecture (1972–1976). He graduated from Hiroshima Higher Normal School (now Hiroshima University).
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Osamu Fujimura
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- politician
- Biography
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Osamu Fujimura is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan and a former member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
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Akira Sakata
- Occupations
- jazz musicianwritersaxophonistactorclarinetist
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Akira Sakata is a Japanese free jazz saxophonist.
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Naganori Ito
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- engineer
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Naganori Ito is a Japanese automotive engineer, and was responsible for the development of the eighth generation R32 Nissan Skyline including the BNR32 Skyline GT-R.
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Hiroko Oyamada
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- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Hiroko Oyamada is a Japanese writer. She has won the Shincho Prize for New Writers, the Oda Sakunosuke Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize.
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Wataru Kubo
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- politician
- Biography
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Wataru Kubo was a Japanese politician from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and then from Democratic Party of Japan. He served as deputy prime minister and finance minister of Japan from 5 January 1996 to 7 November 1996.
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L.T. Handoko
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- physicistinternational forum participantcivil servant
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Laksana Tri Handoko is an Indonesian scientist and public official specializing in theoretical and particle physics. He formerly served as the deputy head of science and technology for the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (Indonesian: Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia, LIPI) from 2014 to 2018. In 2018, he replaced Bambang Subiyanto as the acting chairman of the institute.
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Motonori Matuyama
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- geophysicistgeologist
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Motonori Matuyama was a Japanese geophysicist who was (in the late 1920s) the first to provide systematic evidence that the Earth's magnetic field had been reversed in the early Pleistocene and to suggest that long periods existed in the past in which the polarity was reversed. He remarked that the Earth's field had later changed to the present polarity. The era of reversed polarity preceding the current Brunhes Chron of normal polarity is now called the Matuyama Reversed Chron; and the transition between them is called the Brunhes–Matuyama or Matuyama-Brunhes reversal.
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Tomoyuki Nishita
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Tomoyuki Nishita is a professor at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Nishita received a research award for computer graphics from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 1987, and also received the Steven Anson Coons Award from the ACM SIGGRAPH in 2005.
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Kazuki Murakami
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Kazuki Murakami is a Japanese football player for North Bangkok University in Thai League 3.
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Tsuguo Hongo
- Occupations
- biologistmycologist
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Tsuguo Hongo was a Japanese mycologist who specialized in the biogeography and taxonomy of Agaricales. Hongo entered the Department of Biology at what is now Hiroshima University in 1943, where he studied botany until graduating in 1946 with a B.Sc. Hongo received his Ph.D. degree, entitled "Agaricales of Japan", from Kyoto University in 1961 while working under Dr. Shiro Kitamura.
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Tsutomu Yanagida
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Tsutomu Yanagida is a Japanese physicist who first proposed the seesaw mechanism in 1979 and developed the model of leptogenesis. The name of the seesaw mechanism was given by him in a Tokyo conference in 1981. In 1994, he predicted, together with M. Fukugita, the nonzero cosmological constant Λ = four years prior to the observation in order to resolve the age discrepancy between the Universe and some old stars.
