20 Notable alumni of
Kokugakuin University
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Kokugakuin University is 433rd in the world, 88th in Asia, and 36th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from Kokugakuin 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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Momoko Tsugunaga
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- actorsingerchild actor
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Momoko Tsugunaga is a Japanese former singer, actress, and radio personality. Tsugunaga joined Hello! Project as a member of Hello! Project Kids at the age of 10 and later became part of the girl groups Berryz Kobo and Buono! Following Berryz Kobo's hiatus, she became the playing manager of Country Girls. In 2017, Tsugunaga retired from entertainment to become a kindergarten teacher.
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Matsumoto Kōshirō X
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- nihon-buyō dancerkabuki actoractor
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Matsumoto Kōshirō X is a Japanese actor and kabuki actor. His yagō is the Kōraiya. His mon is the Mitsu Ichō, and his kaemon (the alternative emblem) is Yotsu Hana-bishi.
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Toshihiro Sugiura
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Toshihiro Sugiura is a professional Japanese baseball player who currently pitches for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.
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Motohiro Shima
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- baseball player
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Motohiro Shima is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and Tokyo Yakult Swallows from 2007 to 2022. He is currently a coach for the Swallows.
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Toshiki Kashū
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- tarentoactortelevision actor
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Toshiki Kashu is a Japanese actor, best known for his role as Shouichi Tsugami, the main character of the Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Agito.
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Shunsuke Watanabe
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Shunsuke Watanabe is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher.
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Megumi Igarashi
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- women's rights activistmangakasculptorartist
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Megumi Igarashi, who uses the pseudonym Rokudenashiko (ろくでなし子 or 碌でなし子), is a Japanese sculptor and manga artist who creates works that feature female genitalia and are often modeled after her own vulva. Rokudenashiko considers it her mission to reclaim female genitalia as part of women's bodies and demystify them in Japan's male dominated society, where she believes that they are "overly hidden" and marginalized as “taboo” and “obscene” in comparison to phallic imagery. As such, the artist has created a variety of different representations of manko, the Japanese slang for vagina or pussy, using representations of her own body as the raw material to emphasize as return to experience within art and manga. Rokudenashiko has been called an international symbol of “manko positivity.”
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Shinobu Orikuchi
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- writerwaka poettheologiannovelistlinguist
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Shinobu Orikuchi, also known as Chōkū Shaku (釋 迢空, Shaku Chōkū), was a Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet. As a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he established an original academic field named "Orikuchiism" (折口学, Orikuchigaku), which is a mixture of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics, and Shintō. He produced many works in a diversity of fields covering the history of literature, folkloric performing arts, folklore itself, Japanese language, the classics study, Shintōology, ancient study, and so on. Yukio Mishima once called him the "Japanese Walter Pater".
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Hideo Ōnishi
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- politician
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Hideo Ōnishi is a former Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives, who represented Tokyo 16th district from 2012 to 2024. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.
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Ryo Hijirisawa
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- baseball player
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Ryo Hijirisawa is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Yoshihiro Ito
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- baseball player
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Yoshihiro Ito is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher who played for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball from 2008 to 2015.
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Hitomi Yamaguchi
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- professional shogi playerliterary criticessayistnovelistwriter
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Hitomi Yamaguchi was a novelist and essayist in Shōwa period Japan.
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Nao-cola Yamazaki
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- novelistessayistlyricist
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Nao-Cola Yamazaki is the professional name of Naoko Yamazaki (山崎 直子, Yamazaki Naoko), a Japanese writer. They pride themselves on writing "things no one else can say in words anyone can understand". They have won the Bungei Prize and the Shimase Award for Love Stories. They have been nominated multiple times for the Akutagawa Prize, and their work has been adapted for film. Nao-Cola has chosen not to make their gender public, and has stated that their pronoun is singular "they". They have two children.
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Chōgorō Kaionji
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- writernovelistscreenwriter
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Chōgorō Kaionji was the pen-name of Tōsaku Suetomi (末富 東作, Suetomi Tōsaku), a Japanese author. Noted for his historical novels, he was active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
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Natsuki Takeuchi
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- professional baseball player
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Natsuki Takeuchi is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
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Akimasa Ishikawa
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- politician
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Akimasa Ishikawa is a former Japanese politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives.
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Yōko Hanabusa
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Japan - Occupations
- mangaka
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Yōko Hanabusa is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She debuted in 1978 with the short story Koi wa Happy Snow ni Notte (monthly HITOMI, AKITA Publishing Co., Ltd.).
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Kouki Yamasita
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- 1993-.. (age 32)
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- baseball playerbaseball coach
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Kōki Yamashita is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
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Tsunetane Oda
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- judoka
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Tsunetane Oda was a judoka who was influential in the development of Kosen judo. His correct name was Tsunetane Oda, but through a misinterpretation of the kanji 常胤 he is more commonly known as Join.
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Oh Young-su
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- writerprose writer
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O Yeong-su or Oh Young-Soo was a South Korean writer.
