22 Notable alumni of
International Christian University
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International Christian University is 653rd in the world, 131st in Asia, and 52nd in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 22 notable alumni from International Christian 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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Hio Miyazawa
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- tarentomodelfashion modelactor
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Hio Miyazawa is an American-born Japanese actor and model. He was born in San Francisco, United States.
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Princess Kako of Akishino
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- aristocrat
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Princess Kako of Akishino is the second daughter of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Japan and a member of the Japanese imperial family. She is a niece of Emperor Naruhito and the second-eldest grandchild of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko.
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Mako Komuro
- Enrolled in International Christian University
- In 2014 graduated with bachelor's degree in cultural heritage and art
- Occupations
- researcheraristocrat
- Biography
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Mako Komuro, formerly Princess Mako of Akishino (眞子内親王, Mako Naishinnō), is a Japanese art historian and former member of the Japanese imperial family. She is the eldest child of Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko, niece of Emperor Naruhito, and granddaughter of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and his wife, Empress Emerita Michiko. After marrying outside the imperial family in October 2021, she gave up her title as required by the Imperial Household Law.
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Jay Rockefeller
- Enrolled in International Christian University
- Studied in 1957-1960
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV is a retired American politician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia (1985–2015). He was first elected to the Senate in 1984, while in office as governor of West Virginia (1977–1985). Rockefeller moved to Emmons, West Virginia, to serve as a VISTA worker in 1964 and was first elected to public office as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1966–1968). Rockefeller was later elected secretary of state of West Virginia (1968–1973) and was president of West Virginia Wesleyan College (1973–1975). He became the state's senior U.S. senator when the long-serving Senator Robert Byrd died in June 2010.
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Jon Kabira
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- news presentertarento
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Jon Kabira, born Jion Kabira (川平 慈温, Kabira Jion, November 1, 1958 in Naha, Okinawa, Japan), is a Japanese freelance presenter, tarento, radio personality, narrator who is affiliated with Sony Music Artists. He is very popular in Japan having participated in various TV commercials, TV shows, among other Audio-visual-related activities. Kabira is well known in the West due to his narration in the Winning Eleven video game series. He comments alongside former ex-Japanese footballers Tsuyoshi Kitazawa and Hiroshi Nanami, in the past games he also comments alongside other ex-Japanese players like Yasutaro Matsuki, Kozo Tashima, Hiroshi Hayano and Tetsuo Nakanishi.
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Kazuo Hirai
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- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai is a Japanese businessman. He is best known as the former chairman of Sony Corporation, serving from April 2018 to June 2019, as well as president and CEO from April 2012 to April 2018. He also served as a board member of Sony Computer Entertainment and chairman and co-CEO of Sony Entertainment. He was noted by Entertainment Weekly as one of the most powerful executives in the entertainment industry. He led the Sony Computer Entertainment division between 2007 and 2012, and then became president and CEO of Sony in April 2012. Through his tenure as CEO, Sony experienced a resurgence during the 2010s. In 2018, Hirai stepped down as president and CEO, becoming chairman of Sony Corporation. He fully retired from Sony in June 2019, and retired from his role as a senior adviser to the company in June 2024.
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Karen Makishima
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- politicianpolitical scientist
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Karen Makishima is a Japanese politician. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, she has been a member of the House of Representatives from the Kanagawa 17th district since 2012.
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Toyohiro Akiyama
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- astronautjournalistreporter
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Toyohiro Akiyama is a retired Japanese TV journalist and professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design. In December 1990, he spent seven days aboard the Mir space station. He became the first person of Japanese nationality to fly in space, and his space mission was the second spaceflight to be commercially sponsored and funded. Akiyama was also the first civilian to fly aboard a commercial space flight and the first journalist to report from outer space.
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Oriza Hirata
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- impresariodirectorfilm directorwriterplaywright
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Oriza Hirata is a Japanese playwright, director, and academic. For the majority of his life, he has been best known for his work in theater and creating what he has coined, “contemporary colloquial theater,” or as theater critics call it, “quiet drama.”
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Arimura Haruko
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- politician
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Haruko Arimura is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. She is a descendant of Arimura Tsugizaemon, the ringleader of the Sakuradamon Incident, and Togo Heihachiro, the admiral of the Russo-Japanese War.
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Tsutomu Nishioka
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- critic
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Tsutomu Nishioka is a professor of International Christian Studies at Tokyo Christian University. He specializes in Japan-Korean relations, South Korea/North Korea Studies. His research focuses on the Comfort women and the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens. He is a chairman of the National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea (NARKN).
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Hirotaka Takeuchi
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- professoreconomist
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Hirotaka Takeuchi is a professor of management practice in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. He co-authored The New New Product Development Game which influenced the development of the Scrum framework.
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Hiroe Makiyama
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- lawyerpolitician
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Hiroe Makiyama is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature) representing the Kanagawa at-large district. Makiyama is part of the CDP's shadow cabinet 'Next Cabinet' as the shadow Minister of Justice.
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Kathy Matsui
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- economist
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Kathy M. Matsui is a General Partner of Japan's first ESG-focused global venture capital fund, MPower Partners. She is a former vice chair and chief Japan strategist for global investment bank Goldman Sachs. She was born in California in 1965. She was credited by Shinzō Abe, prime minister of Japan, with having coined the term "womenomics". She is a TEDx speaker.
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Masako Okawara
- Enrolled in International Christian University
- Studied in 1972
- Occupations
- politicianoffice ladysocial activist
- Biography
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Masako Ōkawara is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture and 1977 graduate of International Christian University, she had served in the assembly of Tokyo for three terms (10 years) since 1993. She was a member of the House of Councillors between 2007 and 2013.
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Hiroaki Kitano
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- computer scientistresearcherbiologistbusinessperson
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Hiroaki Kitano is a Japanese scientist. He is the head of the Systems Biology Institute (SBI); Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Sony Group Corporation, Chief Executive Officer of Sony Research Inc. and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.; a Group Director of the Laboratory for Disease Systems Modeling at and RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences; and a professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). Kitano is known for developing AIBO, and the robotic world cup tournament known as Robocup.
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Charles Honoris
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- politician
- Biography
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Charles Honoris is a member of the Indonesian House of Representatives from the Indonesian Democratic Party - Struggle (PDI-P). He was elected from the DKI Jakarta III (North Jakarta, West Jakarta and the Thousand Islands) electoral district with 102,408 votes. Currently he is serving as vice-chairperson of Commission IX of the House of Representatives overseeing Health Services and Manpower. He was previously a member of Commission I of the House of Representatives overseeing Defence, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, Communications and Informations. He is married to Irene Bertina Irawan and resides in West Jakarta. Charles is the son of Indonesian businessman Luntungan Honoris.
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Jonathan Schell
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- writerauthorjournalistnon-fiction writer
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Jonathan Edward Schell was an American reporter and writer whose work primarily dealt with American foreign policy from the Vietnam War to the War on Terror, as well as the threat posed by nuclear weapons and support for nuclear disarmament.
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Kurt Tong
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Kurt Walter Tong is an American businessman and former diplomat. He was Consul General of the United States of America to Hong Kong and Macau during the Umbrella Revolution. He joined The Asia Group in July 2019 and is a Managing Partner at the firm.
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Mariko Peters
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mariko Peters is a former Dutch politician and civil servant as well as lawyer. She was an MP from November 30, 2006, to September 19, 2012 (with two interruptions because of maternity leave). She focused on matters of foreign policy, judiciary, public administration, mass media and culture.
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Nozomi Watanabe
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- ice dancerfigure skating coach
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Nozomi Watanabe is a Japanese former ice dancer. She regularly danced with Akiyuki Kido. They are the three time Japanese national champions. They placed 15th at the Torino Olympics.
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Lydia Yu-Jose
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- scientist
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Lydia N. Yu-Jose was a Filipino professor of political science and Japanese Studies at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. A graduate of Sophia University, she was best known for her research into the history of Japan–Philippines relations, as well as aiding in the development of Japanese studies in the Philippines as a separate academic discipline.
