20 Notable alumni of
Kokugakuin University
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Kokugakuin University is 433rd in the world, 89th in Asia, and 37th 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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- child actorsingeractor
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Momoko Tsugunaga is a former Japanese 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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- actorkabuki actornihon-buyō dancer
- Biography
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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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Motohiro Shima
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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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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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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Toshiki Kashū
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- actortarentotelevision 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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Megumi Igarashi
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- sculptormangakawomen's rights activistartist
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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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Shunsuke Watanabe
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- baseball player
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Shunsuke Watanabe is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher.
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Shinobu Orikuchi
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- university teacherlinguistnovelisttheologianwaka poet
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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 Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives, representing the Tokyo 6th district. 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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- writernovelistessayistliterary criticprofessional shogi player
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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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- novelistlyricistessayist
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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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- novelistwriterscreenwriter
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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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Akimasa Ishikawa
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- politician
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Akimasa Ishikawa is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Representatives of Japan.
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Nobuyuki Ōura
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- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- film directorpainterfilmmakerprintmaker
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Nobuyuki Ōura is a Japanese artist and filmmaker. Ōura has also been referred to in English as Ohura Nobuyuki. He has been described as an artist who "constantly pushes the limits of expression," as his artworks and films delve into taboos within Japanese society. Ōura is best known for his controversial series of lithographs entitled Holding Perspective (1982–85), which include photographs Emperor Hirohito and have at been at the center of multiple high-profile incidences of censorship in Japan since the mid-1980s.
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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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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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- prose writerwriter
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O Yeong-su or Oh Young-Soo was a South Korean writer.
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Kouki Yamasita
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- 1993-.. (age 31)
- Occupations
- baseball coachbaseball player
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Kōki Yamashita is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
