18 Notable alumni of
Kobe University
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Kobe University is 398th in the world, 76th in Asia, and 32nd in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Kobe 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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Sanae Takaichi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sanae Takaichi is a Japanese politician who has served as the Minister of State for Economic Security since August 2022. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, she has served in the House of Representatives since 2005, and had also served in several ministerial posts under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. In 2021, she was a candidate in the Liberal Democratic Party leadership election, but was ultimately eliminated in a run-off, placing third.
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Kuranosuke Sasaki
- Enrolled in Kobe University
- 1990-1992 studied biotechnology and sake
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Kuranosuke Sasaki is a Japanese actor, known primary for his roles in Japanese television drama.
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Shinya Yamanaka
- Occupations
- geneticistsurgeonphysicistresearcherphysician
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Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application, Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California; and as a professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).
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Sazō Idemitsu
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- politicianbusinesspersonart collector
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Sazō Idemitsu was a Japanese businessman and founder of the petroleum company Idemitsu Kosan. He was also an art collector, especially fond of Sengai Gibon. He is the father of the Japanese experimental video artist, Mako Idemitsu.
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Hidekazu Tanaka
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- music arrangercomposer
- Biography
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Hidekazu Tanaka is a Japanese composer and arranger best known for his work for anime and video games. He was affiliated with the music production company MONACA, but left in 2021 to be freelance.
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Kazumi Inamura
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kazumi Inamura is a Japanese politician. She has been mayor of Amagasaki since 13 December 2010. She is member of the Greens Japan political party and was its co-president from 2008 to 2010. She was a student at the University of Kobe during the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake. She was a member of the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly.
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Rizaburō Toyoda
- Occupations
- industrialistentrepreneur
- Biography
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Risaburo Toyoda was a Japanese entrepreneur. He was the son-in-law of Toyota Industries Co., Ltd founder Sakichi Toyoda, and brother-in-law of Toyota Motor Corporation founder, Kiichiro Toyoda (豊田 喜一郎, Toyoda Kiichirō, June 11, 1894 – March 27, 1952) His original surname was Kodama (児玉).
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Masahito Moriyama
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Masahito Moriyama is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Nishinomiya, Hyogo and graduate the University of Tokyo he joined the Ministry of Transport in 1977. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005.
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Hiroyuki Noritake
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- composermusiciandrummeruniversity teacher
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Hiroyuki Noritake is a Japanese jazz fusion drummer and a lecturer at the Showa Academia Musicae.
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Kumi Tanioka
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- pianistcomposer
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Kumi Tanioka is a Japanese composer and pianist. Born in Hiroshima, Japan, she graduated from Kobe University with a degree in musical performance, and began working as a video game composer in 1998. She joined video game developer and publisher Square that same year, and worked on over 15 games for them before leaving to work as an independent composer in 2010.
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Mitsujirō Ishii
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- politician
- Biography
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Mitsujirō Ishii was a Japanese politician who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1967 to 1969. A member of the House of Representatives from 1946 to 1947 and 1952 to 1972, he served in several cabinet positions throughout his career, such as Deputy Prime Minister under Nobusuke Kishi.
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Masato Sagawa
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- physicist
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Masato Sagawa is a Japanese scientist and entrepreneur, and the inventor of the sintered permanent neodymium magnet (NdFeB). Sagawa was awarded the Japan Prize and IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies for his efforts.
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Masayuki Naoshima
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
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Masayuki Naoshima is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Ikeda, Osaka and graduate of Kobe University, he was elected for the first time in 1992 and served until the 2016 Japanese House of Councillors election.Before becoming a politician, he worked for Toyota and its union for a long time.
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Haruko Wakita
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- historian
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Haruko Wakita was a Japanese academic, editor and expert in medieval Japanese women's history.
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Tomoko Sasaki
- Occupations
- prosecutorpoliticianlawyer
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Tomoko Sasaki is a Japanese lawyer, politician, novelist and former prosecutor.
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Ryosuke Nunoi
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- tennis player
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Ryosuke Nunoi was a tennis player from Japan.
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Masao Miyazaki
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Masao Miyazaki is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Councillors of Japan.
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Keiji Uematsu
- Occupations
- conceptual artistperformance artistphotographersculptorillustrator
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Keiji Uematsu is a Japanese sculptor and contemporary artist.
