32 Notable alumni of
Kwansei Gakuin University
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Kwansei Gakuin University is 270th in the world, 53rd in Asia, and 24th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 32 notable alumni from Kwansei Gakuin 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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Yuriko Koike
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Yuriko Koike is a Japanese politician, who has served as the Governor of Tokyo since 2016. She graduated from the American University in Cairo in 1976 and was a member of the House of Representatives of Japan from 1993 until 2016, when she resigned to run for Governor of Tokyo. She also previously served as Minister of the Environment in the Junichiro Koizumi cabinet from 2003 to 2006 and briefly as Minister of Defense in the first cabinet of Shinzō Abe in 2007. Koike was elected Governor of Tokyo in 2016, becoming the metropolis's first female Governor. Koike was re-elected Governor in 2020, winning 59.7% of the vote.
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Yūmi Nagashima
- Occupations
- television presenterannouncer
- Biography
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Yūmi Nagashima is a Japanese announcer for Fuji TV. She is known for being the main caster of Mezamashi TV.
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Etsushi Toyokawa
- Occupations
- screenwriteractor
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Etsushi Toyokawa is a Japanese actor.
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Tadao Takashima
- Occupations
- television actortelevision presenterfilm actoractortarento
- Biography
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Tadao Takashima was a Japanese actor and jazz musician. He appeared in more than 100 films, including the Toho productions King Kong vs. Godzilla, Atragon, and Frankenstein vs. Baragon. He also performed in stage musicals such as My Fair Lady and appeared in several television shows.
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Ura Kazuki
- Occupations
- rikishi
- Biography
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Ura Kazuki is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Neyagawa, Osaka. After winning a gold medal in sumo at the 2013 World Combat Games, he made his professional debut in 2015, wrestling with the Kise stable and he won the jonokuchi division championship in his first tournament. He reached the top makuuchi division in March 2017, but a pair of serious injuries led to two extended layoffs, and his rank dropped to the lowest since his debut tournament, and it was three and a half years before he returned to top-level competition. He has two kinboshi, or gold stars, for defeating a yokozuna.
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So Taguchi
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- baseball player
- Biography
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So Taguchi is a Japanese former outfielder. After ten seasons with the Orix BlueWave of Nippon Professional Baseball, he played eight years in Major League Baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs, followed by a final two years in Japan with the Orix Buffaloes.
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Naoki Miyanishi
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Naoki Miyanishi is a Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Japan's Pacific League.
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Takashi Ogino
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Takashi Ogino is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder and shortstop for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Oniroku Dan
- Occupations
- screenwriternovelist
- Biography
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Oniroku Dan was a Japanese author who has been called, "the most celebrated writer of popular SM novels in Japan." Many of his stories have been filmed, most notably by Nikkatsu studio in their Roman Porno series. Dan had a close professional association with actress Naomi Tani throughout her career. He died on May 6, 2011.
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Yoshihiko Miyauchi
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Yoshihiko Miyauchi is a Japanese businessman. He is Senior Chairman of ORIX Corp. and was a former CEO of ORIX Corp. Miyauchi served as President of the Council for Promoting Regulatory Reform in Japan. As of 2007, ORIX was Japan's largest leasing and leading diversified financial services conglomerate with assets in excess of US$69 billion and subsidiaries & associates in 24 countries worldwide.
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Shinsuke Suematsu
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- politician
- Biography
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Shinsuke Suematsu is a Japanese politician who serves as a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. He has represented the Hyogo at-large district as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party since 2004. He served as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology from 2021 to 2022.
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Hiroto Goya
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- association football player
- Biography
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Hiroto Goya is a Japanese football player. He currently plays for JEF United Chiba.
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Takayuki Shimizu
- Occupations
- politicianannouncer
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Takayuki Shimizu is a Japanese television announcer and politician of the Initiatives from Osaka party. He is serving his first term as a member of the House of Councillors in the National Diet, representing the Hyogo at-large district.
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Hideyuki Yokoyama
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hideyuki Yokoyama is a Japanese economist and politician who has served as the incumbent mayor of Osaka since 9 April 2023. He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University with a degree in economics in 2004 and began a career under the Osaka prefectural government immediately. He was elected to the Osaka Prefectural Assembly in April 2011 and won a further two terms in April 2015 and April 2019. He was elected as Osaka Restoration Association / Nippon Ishin No Kai candidate for Mayor of Osaka in the April 2023 Osaka mayoral election following the previous incumbent, Ichirō Matsui's retirement from politics following the defeat of the Osaka Metropolis Plan in a 2020 referendum.
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Ken Naganuma
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- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Ken Naganuma was a Japanese football player and manager. A forward, he earned four caps for the Japan national team between 1954 and 1961 and later also served as the team's manager. He was also the president of the Japan Football Association from 1994 to 1998.
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Takashi Shimizu
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- baseball player
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Takashi Shimizu is a professional baseball catcher for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Central League.
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Jiro Yoshihara
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- painter
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Jirō Yoshihara was a Japanese painter, art educator, curator, and businessman.
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Kiyoshi Tanimoto
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- Methodist pastor
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Kiyoshi Tanimoto was a Methodist minister famous for his work for the Hiroshima Maidens. He was one of the six Hiroshima survivors whose experiences of the bomb and later life are portrayed in John Hersey's book Hiroshima.
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Yoshitaka Tokunaga
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- 1992-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Yoshitaka Tokunaga is a Japanese rugby sevens player. He competed for Japan 7s at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.
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Yoshihiro Seki
- Enrolled in Kwansei Gakuin University
- In 1989 studied faculty of economics
- Occupations
- politiciancashier
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Yoshihiro Seki is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Komatsushima, Tokushima and graduate of Kwansei Gakuin University, he was elected for the first time in the 2005 general election.
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Junko Hiramatsu
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- figure skatertechnical controllerfigure skating judge
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Junko Hiramatsu, née: Ueno is a Japanese former competitive figure skater who is now a coach and International Skating Union (ISU) official. She is a five-time Japanese national champion and represented Japan twice at the Winter Olympics, in 1960 and 1964. She was the flag bearer for Japan at the 1960 Winter Olympics.
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Hiroki Ogita
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- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Hiroki Ogita is a Japanese athlete who specialises in the pole vault. He competed in the pole vault event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China. He finished 21st in the pole vault event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Liu Kuo-tsai
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- 1911-1993 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- politician
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Liu Kuo-tsai was a Taiwanese politician. Elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1969, he was named deputy speaker in 1972. In 1988, he became the acting President of the Legislative Yuan. The interim designation was removed early next year and Liu stepped down from the position in 1990.
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Tiger Okoshi
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- composertrumpeteruniversity teacherjazz musician
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Toru "Tiger" Okoshi is an American jazz fusion trumpeter born in Ashiya, Japan.
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Iku Takenaka
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- poet
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Iku Takenaka was a Japanese poet from Hyogo prefecture. He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University. His best-known work is a cinepoem Rugby.
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Yasuhiro Yoshigaki
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- jazz musiciandrummer
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Yasuhiro Yoshigaki is a Japanese jazz drummer and percussionist. He is known as a founding member of the bands Altered States and Sights, as well as his work with composers Otomo Yoshihide and John Zorn.
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Susumu Hamamura
- Enrolled in Kwansei Gakuin University
- In 2000 studied policy studies
- Occupations
- politiciansalaryman
- Biography
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Susumu Hamamura is a member of Komeito serving in the Japanese House of Representatives, a position that he has been elected to two times. He is supportive of casinos in Japan, saying that they will help the economy and "will give foreigners something to do at night".
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Katsuya Nakano
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Katsuya Nakano is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Ryukyu.
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Masakatsu Nishikawa
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- rugby union player
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Masakatsu Nishikawa is a Japanese rugby union player who plays as a Flanker. He currently plays for Sunwolves in Super Rugby and Suntory Sungoliath in Japan's domestic Top League.
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Hara Otohiko
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- 1925-2018 (aged 93)
- Occupations
- business executivebusinessperson
- Biography
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Otohiko Hara, formerly known as Otohiko Yabashi, was a Japanese corporate executive. He was a chief executive officer of Unitika Tsusho [:ja:] (later, Unitika Trading [:ja:]). One of the first Japanese businesspersons who led Dai Nippon Spinning Co., Ltd. (later, Unitika), one of Japan's three largest textile makers, to the first overseas expansion of Japanese corporations after World War II.
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Kazuaki Kimura
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- scientist
- Biography
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Kazuaki Kimura was a professor and researcher of modern Japanese literature at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. Graduating from Kwansei Gakuin University in the field of Literature, Kimura became a professor at Ritsumeikan University, then served as Vice President at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and then as President of Poole Gakuin University, Osaka. His main research was about Atsushi Nakajima, a writer at the beginning of the Shōwa period.
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Fujii Norikazu
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- 1925-1992 (aged 67)
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Norikazu Fujii was a former Japanese international table tennis player.
