47 Notable alumni of
Komazawa University
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Komazawa University is 270th in the world, 52nd in Asia, and 23rd in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 47 notable alumni from Komazawa 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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Takahiro Arai
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Takahiro Arai is a Japanese-Korean former professional baseball player. He is the manager of Hiroshima Toyo Carp in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball from the 2023 season.
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Shōta Imanaga
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Shōta Imanaga, nicknamed "The Throwing Philosopher", and "Mike Imanaga II", is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars from 2016 to 2023. Imanaga is a two-time NPB All-Star and he led the Central League in strikeouts in 2023 before signing with the Cubs during the 2023–24 offseason. In his first season as a Cub, Imanaga was an All-Star.
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Kiyoshi Nakahata
- Occupations
- baseball playertarento
- Biography
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Kiyoshi Nakahata is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball player. He played for the Yomiuri Giants (1976–1989).
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Shigekazu Mori
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Shigekazu Mori is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher who played for the Seibu Lions in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Yohei Oshima
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Yōhei Ōshima is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. Ōshima has 9 golden glove awards which is the most by any player in Chunichi Dragons history.
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Ryota Arai
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Ryota Arai is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder and the second-string hitting coach for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played with the Chunichi Dragons from 2006 to 2010 and with the Tigers from 2011 to 2017.
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Eishin Soyogi
- Occupations
- baseball playerprofessional baseball player
- Biography
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Eishin Soyogi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.
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Kenjiro Nomura
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Kenjiro Nomura is a retired Japanese baseball player. He was with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Japan's Central League.
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Hirotoshi Masui
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Hirotoshi Masui is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher.
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Daisuke Nasu
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Daisuke Nasu is a Japanese football player who plays for Iwate Grulla Morioka.
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Seiichiro Maki
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Seiichiro Maki is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He played for the Japan national team.
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Yasutaka Tobashira
- Years
- 1990-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Yasutaka Tobashira is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays catcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
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Kenichi Wakatabe
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Kenichi Wakatabe is a former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher, and current first squad pitching coach for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
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Kōichi Sekikawa
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Koichi Sekikawa is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball Catcher, Outfielder, and current the field player coordinator for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
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Shinji Hashimoto
- Occupations
- video game developer
- Biography
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Shinji Hashimoto is a Japanese former game producer at Square Enix and currently senior advisor at Sony Music Entertainment Japan and a board member at Forwardworks. He served as the Final Fantasy series brand manager for over a decade, was an executive officer at Square Enix board of directors and he was the Head of Square Enix's Business Division 3 for 6 years. He is also the co-creator of the Kingdom Hearts series. He served as corporate executive of the company's 1st Production Department during its entire existence.
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Hiroyuki Shirasaki
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Hiroyuki Shirasaki is a Japaneseprofessional baseball infielder who is currently a free agent.. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars and Orix Buffaloes.
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Akihiko Ohya
- Enrolled in Komazawa University
- Studied in 1966-1970
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Akihiko Ohya is a former Japanese baseball player and manager. He was the manager of the Yokohama BayStars baseball team in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball until he was fired on May 18, 2009, for not maintaining club standards.
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Hisashi Takeda
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Hisashi Takeda is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Japan's Pacific League.
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Kei Nomoto
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Kei Nomoto is a retired Japanese professional baseball outfielder who played for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He is now part of scouting department with the Dragons.
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Kobun Chino Otogawa
- Years
- 1938-2002 (aged 64)
- Occupations
- bhikkhu
- Biography
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Kōbun Otogawa was an American Sōtō Zen priest.
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Shogo Nakamura
- Occupations
- long-distance runnerathletics competitormarathon runner
- Biography
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Shogo Nakamura is a Japanese long-distance runner.
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Sanshiro Takagi
- Occupations
- professional wrestleramateur wrestler
- Biography
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Tadashi Takagi, better known by his ring name Sanshiro Takagi (髙木 三四郎, Takagi Sanshirō), is a Japanese professional wrestler and promoter who works for the Japanese wrestling promotion CyberFight, where he serves as executive vice president. He is one of the founding members and current chairman of United Japan Pro Wrestling. Takagi is the founder of DDT Pro-Wrestling, which is now part of the CyberFight umbrella. As a wrestler, Takagi's gimmick was that of a Stone Cold Steve Austin impersonator.
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Toshiya Miura
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Toshiya Miura is a Japanese football manager and former player. He was most recently the head coach of Thailand U20.
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Kōsuke Ukai
- Years
- 1999-.. (age 26)
- Occupations
- baseball playerprofessional baseball player
- Biography
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Kōsuke Ukai is a professional Japanese baseball player. He is an outfielder for the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
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Ren Tazawa
- Occupations
- long-distance runnerathletics competitor
- Biography
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Ren Tazawa is a Japanese long-distance runner, who specializes in the 10,000 metres. He won the 10,000 metres at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships.
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Kodo Sawaki
- Occupations
- military personnelrōshibhikkhu
- Biography
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Kodo Sawaki was a prominent Japanese Sōtō Zen teacher of the 20th century. He is considered to be one of the most significant Zen priests of his time for bringing Zen practice, in particular meditation, into the lives of laypeople and popularizing the ancient tradition of sewing the kesa.
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Susumu Watanabe
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Susumu Watanabe is a Japanese professional football manager and former player who is the manager of J2 League club Montedio Yamagata.
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Takuya Furuya
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Takuya Furuya is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Chiba Lotte Marines in 2006 and from 2009 to 2016.
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Shingo Akamine
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Shingo Akamine is a Japanese former footballer who played as a forward.
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Tsuyoshi Kawagishi
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Tsuyoshi Kawagishi is a former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Pacific League. In October 2021 he was named a coach of the Rakuten Monkeys of the Chinese Professional Baseball League.
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Kohei Morita
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Kohei Morita is a former Japanese football player.
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Yasutaka Hattori
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Yasutaka Hattori is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He played with the Chiba Lotte Marines from 2010 to 2011 and from 2013 to 2014.
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Masanori Taguchi
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Masanori Taguchi is a former Nippon Professional Baseball catcher.
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Takuya Yamada
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Takuya Yamada is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
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Kim Jung-ya
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Kim Jung-ya is a Japanese football player who plays for Fujieda MYFC.
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Taizan Maezumi
- Occupations
- bhikkhu
- Biography
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Hakuyū Taizan Maezumi was a Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist priest who substantially contributed to development of Zen in the USA.
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Gōsei Yamamoto
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gōsei Yamamoto is a Japanese politician and a former member of the House of Representatives.
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Dainin Katagiri
- Occupations
- bhikkhu
- Biography
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Jikai Dainin Katagiri, was a Sōtō Zen priest and teacher, and the founding abbot of Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he served from 1972 until his death from cancer in 1990. He is also the founder of Hokyoji Zen Practice Community in Eitzen, Minnesota. Before becoming first abbot of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, Katagiri had worked at the Zenshuji Soto Zen Mission in Los Angeles and had also been of great service to Shunryu Suzuki at the San Francisco Zen Center, particularly from 1969 until Suzuki's death in 1971. Katagiri was important in helping bring Zen Buddhism from Japan to the United States during its formative years. He is also the credited author of several books compiled from his talks.
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Kyowaan Hoshi
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Kyowaan Hoshi is a Japanese footballer currently playing as a defender for Blaublitz Akita.
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Hisanori Takahashi
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Hisanori Takahashi is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He began his professional career in NPB with the Yomiuri Giants, and played in Major League Baseball for the New York Mets, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Chicago Cubs.
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Shuntō Aoyama
- Years
- 1933-.. (age 92)
- Occupations
- bhikkhu
- Biography
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Shundo Aoyama Rōshi is a Japanese Buddhist nun and abbess. She is the first nun to be appointed to the rank of Daikyoshi in the Soto Zen school.
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Shohaku Okumura
- Occupations
- translatorbhikkhu
- Biography
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Shōhaku Okumura is a Japanese Sōtō Zen priest and the founder and abbot of the Sanshin Zen Community located in Bloomington, Indiana, where he and his family currently live. From 1997 until 2010, Okumura also served as director of the Sōtō Zen Buddhism International Center in San Francisco, California, which is an administrative office of the Sōtō school of Japan.
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Atsushi Watanabe
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Atsushi Watanabe is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima and graduate of Komazawa University, he was elected to the first of his two terms in the city assembly of Aizuwakamatsu in 1982, to the first of his four terms in the assembly of Fukushima Prefecture and to the first of his terms in the House of Representatives in 2005.
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Kin'ya Ōyanagi
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
- Biography
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Kinya Oyanagi is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. He has worked extensely in Toryumon Japan and Michinoku Pro Wrestling, where he is a former Tohoku Tag Team champion along with Kesen Numajiro.
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Mitsuhiro Seki
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Mitsuhiro Seki is a Japanese footballer. Seki previously played for Roasso Kumamoto in the J2 League.
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Kyudo Nakagawa
- Years
- 1927-2007 (aged 80)
- Biography
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Kyudo Nakagawa, or Nakagawa Kyūdō, was a Japanese-born Rinzai rōshi who for many years led Soho Zen Buddhist Society, Inc. in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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Soyu Matsuoka
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Dr. Soyu Matsuoka, along with Sokei-an and Nyogen Senzaki, was one of the early Zen teachers to make the United States his home.
