25 Notable alumni of
Kindai University
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Kindai University is 520th in the world, 103rd in Asia, and 40th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Kindai 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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Yoshihiro Akiyama
- Occupations
- mixed martial arts fighterjudoka
- Biography
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Yoshihiro Akiyama, also known as Choo Sung-hoon (추성훈) and by his nickname Sexyama, is a Japanese mixed martial artist and judoka of Korean descent who won the gold medal at the 2001 Asian Championships for South Korea and for Japan at the 2002 Asian Games. A fourth-generation Japanese of Korean descent, he acquired Japanese nationality in 2001. He is the former K-1 HERO's Light Heavyweight Grand Prix Tournament Champion.
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Yoshio Itoi
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Yoshio Itoi is a Japanese former professional baseball player who played for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, the Orix Buffaloes, and the Hanshin Tigers. Itoi bats left-handed and throws right-handed. He played for team Japan in WBC 2013, and hit for Japan in games against Brazil (4th batter) and China (5th batter).
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Tomohiro Nioka
- Occupations
- baseball coachbaseball player
- Biography
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Tomohiro Nioka is a Japanese former professional baseball player. He previously played for the Yomiuri Giants and Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. Nioka batted and threw right-handed.
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Yuhei Nakaushiro
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Yuhei Nakaushiro is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Chiba Lotte Marines and Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
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Aya Terakawa
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Aya Terakawa is a retired Japanese backstroke swimmer; she announced her retirement from competitions in early December 2013.
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Oze Hiroyuki
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Hiroyuki Oze was a Japanese baseball outfielder from Daitō, Osaka who played professionally for the Orix Buffaloes. He played two seasons for the club, hitting.262 in his rookie year in 2008 and.303 in 2009, his final professional season. Before joining the Buffaloes, he played at Jinsei Gakuen High School and Kinki University, where he was drafted in 2007. Oze received the memorable nickname "José" from Orix alum Ichiro Suzuki during the latter's visit to Buffaloes spring training.
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Ryosuke Irie
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Ryosuke Irie is a Japanese competitive swimmer who competes in backstroke events. He is a Kindai University student in Osaka.
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Seishū Hatake
- Years
- 1994-.. (age 30)
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Seishū Hatake is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants.
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Kazuya Fujita
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Kazuya Fujita is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He previously played with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
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Kenji Otonari
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Kenji Otonari, nicknamed "Tonarin", is a former Japanese baseball pitcher.
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Nobuhiro Ishida
- Occupations
- boxer
- Biography
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Nobuhiro Ishida is a Japanese former professional boxer. He is a former WBA interim super welterweight champion who is best known for knocking out James Kirkland in a middleweight bout at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in April 2011. Ishida has so far been promoted by Canelo Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions among others and has been co-trained by Rudy Hernández and Daisuke Okabe, while residing back and forth between Los Angeles, California, United States and Osaka, Japan.
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Asanoyama Hideki
- Occupations
- rikishi
- Biography
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Asanoyama Hiroki is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Toyama Prefecture. He wrestles for Takasago stable. He debuted in sumo in March 2016 and made his makuuchi debut in September 2017. His highest rank has been ōzeki. He has earned six special prizes, and one gold star for defeating a yokozuna. In May 2019 he won his first top division yūshō or tournament championship, the first of the Reiwa era. He was also runner-up in November 2019 and finished the calendar year with more top division wins than any other wrestler. He was promoted to ōzeki after the March 2020 tournament, and was a runner-up in his ōzeki debut in July 2020 and in January 2021.
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Toshimichi Takatsukasa
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Toshimichi Takatsukasa, son of Prince Nobusuke, was a Japanese researcher of railways and trains.
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Kōhei Morihara
- Years
- 1991-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Kōhei Morihara is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in NPB for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
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Midorifuji Kazunari
- Occupations
- rikishi
- Biography
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Midorifuji Kazunari is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Yaizu, Shizuoka. Known for being a katasukashi specialist, he debuted in sumo wrestling in September 2016 and made his makuuchi debut in January 2021. His highest rank has been maegashira 1. He wrestles for Isegahama stable.
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Takaharu Furukawa
- Occupations
- archer
- Biography
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Takaharu Furukawa is an archery athlete from Japan, competing in both individual and team archery events. He competed in the 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2020 Summer Olympics. He is the 2006 All-Japan National Champion,
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Yoshitaka Nakayama
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yoshitaka Nakayama is a Japanese politician and the current mayor of Ishigaki.
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Tetsuya Yamamoto
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Tetsuya Yamamoto is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
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Rudolf Pardede
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rudolf Matzuoka Pardede was an Indonesian businessman and politician. He was the 14th Governor of North Sumatra from 2005 until 2008. He previously was the deputy of Governor Tengku Rizal Nurdin and replaced Nurdin after his death in a plane crash.
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Ken Nishimura
- Occupations
- karateka
- Biography
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Ken Nishimura is a Japanese karateka. He won the gold medal in the men's kumite 75 kg event at the 2019 Asian Karate Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He represented Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in karate. He competed in the men's 75 kg event where he did not advance to compete in the semifinals.
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Miki Kanie
- Occupations
- archer
- Biography
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Miki Kanie is a Japanese archer who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She entered the Olympics with a world ranking of 332 but finished the preliminary ranking round for the women's individual event in sixth place. She was later eliminated in the third round of the competition by Mexico's Aída Román. In the women's team event Kanie and teammates Ren Hayakawa and Kaori Kawanaka won bronze medal after defeating Russia in the third-place match, earning Japan's first Olympic archery medal in a team event.
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Koki Yamamoto
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Koki Yamamoto is a Japanese rugby union player who plays as a prop.
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Ageha Tanigawa
- Years
- 2003-.. (age 21)
- Enrolled in Kindai University
- Studied in 2022
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Ageha Tanigawa is a Japanese swimmer. She competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 400 m individual medley.
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Kaori Kawanaka
- Occupations
- archer
- Biography
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Kaori Kawanaka is a Japanese archer who competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games.
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Tomomi Sugimoto
- Years
- 1994-.. (age 30)
- Occupations
- archer
- Biography
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Tomomi Sugimoto is a Japanese archer competing in women's recurve events. At the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, she won the gold medal in the mixed team recurve event and the bronze medal in the women's team recurve event.
