100 Notable alumni of
Meiji University
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Meiji University is 46th in the world, 7th in Asia, and 6th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Meiji 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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Mone Kamishiraishi
- Occupations
- seiyūnarratorsingeractor
- Biography
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Mone Kamishiraishi, is a Japanese actress and singer. She is the older sister of actress Moka Kamishiraishi.
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Takeshi Kitano
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directortelevision presenterpainteractor
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Takeshi Kitano, also known as Beat Takeshi (ビートたけし, Bīto Takeshi) in Japan, is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host.
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Kenjiro Tsuda
- Occupations
- actorseiyū
- Biography
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Kenjiro Tsuda is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and film director. His talent agency is ANDSTIR.
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Tomohisa Yamashita
- Occupations
- composerdancerfilm actorlyricisttelevision actor
- Biography
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Tomohisa Yamashita, also widely known as Yamapi (山P, YamaP), or Tomo, is a Japanese singer, actor, and TV host.
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Keiko Kitagawa
- Occupations
- film actormodelfashion modelactor
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Keiko Kitagawa is a Japanese actress. She was an exclusive model for the Japanese Seventeen magazine from late 2003 to mid-2006, and quit modeling when she left the magazine. Her first acting role was Sailor Mars in the Sailor Moon live action show Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (2003–2004), and after her role in the film Mamiya Kyōdai, she left modeling to concentrate on acting. She has appeared in several films, including The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) and Handsome Suit (2008), and has played leading roles in the TV Dramas Mop Girl (2007), Homeroom on the Beachside (2008), Buzzer Beat (2009), Lady Saigo no Hanzai Profile (2011), and Akumu-chan (2012).
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Zhou Enlai
- Occupations
- foreign ministerpoliticianminister
- Biography
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Zhou Enlai was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the inaugural premier of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1949 until his death in 1976, and concurrently as the inaugural Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1949 to 1958. Zhou was a key figure in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and ally of Mao Zedong during the Chinese Civil War, later helping consolidate its control, form its foreign policy, and develop the economy.
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Mizuki Yamamoto
- Occupations
- modelactorfashion model
- Biography
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Mizuki Yamamoto is a Japanese actress and model.
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Yutaka Matsushige
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- actorfilm director
- Biography
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Yutaka Matsushige is a Japanese actor.
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Yuto Nagatomo
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Yūto Nagatomo is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a full back for J1 League club FC Tokyo and the Japan national team.
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Mao Inoue
- Occupations
- child actoractor
- Biography
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Mao Inoue is a Japanese actress. She is best known to Japanese television drama audiences as Akane Imai (今井 茜, Imai Akane) in Kids War (キッズ・ウォー, Kid's War), as Makino Tsukushi in the Boys Over Flowers series, and as Sugi Fumi (ja) in the 54th taiga drama Burning Flower. She also appeared in a number of films including I Give My First Love to You, Rebirth and The Snow White Murder Case.
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Ren Ōsugi
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- seiyūfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Ren Osugi, born Takashi Osugi (大杉 孝, Ōsugi Takashi, September 27, 1951 in Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan – February 21, 2018) was a Japanese actor. For his work in Cure, Hana-bi and other films, Osugi was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 Yokohama Film Festival. He often worked alongside Takeshi Kitano and Susumu Terajima. In the DVD commentary to the MPD Psycho television series, director Takashi Miike said that he admired Osugi's experience to shift quickly from comic and imbecilic to authoritative and earnest. He died of heart failure at the age of 66 on February 21, 2018.
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Ken Takakura
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- film actorsingeractor
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Ken Takakura, born Goichi Oda (小田 剛一, Oda Gōichi, February 16, 1931 – November 10, 2014), was a Japanese actor and singer who appeared in over 200 films. Affectionately referred to as "Ken-san" by audiences, he was best known for his brooding style and the stoic presence he brought to his roles. He won the Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role four times, tied with Koji Yakusho for the most ever. Takakura additionally received the Japanese Medal of Honor with purple ribbon in 1998, the Person of Cultural Merit award in 2006, and the Order of Culture in 2013.
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Tatsurō Yamashita
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- recording artistfilm producerrecord producersingersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Tatsurō Yamashita, occasionally referred to as Tatsu Yamashita or Tats Yamashita, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and record producer, who is known for pioneering the city pop style of music.
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Toshiyuki Nishida
- Occupations
- seiyūnarratorsingeractor
- Biography
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Toshiyuki Nishida was a Japanese actor. He won two Japanese Academy Awards for best actor, for The Silk Road (1988) and Tsuribaka Nisshi 6 (1993). He also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor for Get Up! and Tsuribaka Nisshi 14 (2003). Outside Japan he was best known for his role as Pigsy (Cho Hakkai) in the TV series Monkey.
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Masahiko Tsugawa
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- child actorfilm directorcriticactor
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Masahiko Tsugawa, born Masahiko Katō (加藤 雅彦 Katō Masahiko; January 2, 1940 – August 4, 2018) was a Japanese actor and director.
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Senichi Hoshino
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- baseball managerprofessional baseball player
- Biography
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Senichi Hoshino was a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player and manager.
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Jun Mizutani
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Jun Mizutani is a retired Japanese table tennis player and Olympic champion. He became the youngest Japanese national champion at the age of 17. He has the distinction of being the first male singles titlist to achieve five consecutive national championships: 2007 to 2011.
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Akira Kobayashi
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- recording artistactorsingerfilm directorprofessional golfer
- Biography
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Akira Kobayashi is a Japanese actor and singer. His nickname is "Mighty Guy" (マイトガイ, Maito Gai).
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Tomiichi Murayama
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tomiichi Murayama is a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1994 to 1996. He was the country's first socialist premier since Tetsu Katayama in 1948, and is best remembered for the Murayama Statement on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, in which he officially apologized for Japan's past colonial wars and aggression.
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Yoshiko Mibuchi
- Enrolled in Meiji University
- In 1938 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Yoshiko Mibuchi was one of the first three women in Japan to become lawyers.
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Naomi Uemura
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- explorermountaineer
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Naomi Uemura was a Japanese adventurer who was known particularly for his solo exploits. For example, he was the first person to reach the North Pole solo, the first person to raft the Amazon River solo, and the first person to climb Denali solo.
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Kazufumi Miyazawa
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- singer-songwriteractorpoet
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Kazufumi Miyazawa is the founder of the Japanese bands The Boom and Ganga Zumba. The former was noted in the 1990s for a fusion of rock, pop, and local Okinawan folk music. Miyazawa is responsible for virtually all lyrics and music for The Boom, who are best known for their 1993 hit song "Shima Uta".
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Koichi Hagiuda
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kōichi Hagiuda is a Japanese politician who served as the Chairman of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party from August 2022 to December 2023. He previously served as Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, and was Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2015 to 2016 and Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology from 2019 to 2021.
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Asami Imai
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- television producerseiyūactorsinger
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Asami Imai is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Early Wing. She debuted as a voice actress in 1997 and as singer in 2009 by releasing her first single "Day by Day / Shining Blue Rain" under the 5pb. Records label. She is also well known for giving voices to Chihaya Kisaragi in THE IDOLM@STER (all related productions, except for IDOLM@STER: Xenoglossia), Kurisu Makise in Steins;Gate, Tsubaki Yayoi in BlazBlue, and Ayumi Shinozaki in Corpse Party. She along with Eri Kitamura formed the music unit Artery Vein which is also under the 5pb. label.
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Yoshitaka Sakurada
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yoshitaka Sakurada is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. He formerly served as Minister of State for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Fourth Abe Cabinet.
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Yōsuke Matsuoka
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Yōsuke Matsuoka was a Japanese diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan during the early stages of World War II. He is best known for his defiant speech at the League of Nations in February 1933, ending Japan's participation in the organization. He was also one of the architects of the Tripartite Pact and the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of war.
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Atsushi Onita
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- politiciantarentoprofessional wrestleractor
- Biography
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Atsushi Onita is a Japanese actor, politician, and semi-retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his work in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) and is credited with introducing the deathmatch style of professional wrestling to Japan. He is a former All Asia Tag Team Champions alongside Yoshitatsu.
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Naoki Inose
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- biographerpoliticiancritichistorianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Naoki Inose is a Japanese politician, journalist, historian, social critic and biographer of literary figures such as Yukio Mishima and Osamu Dazai. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Tokyo from June 2007 until becoming Acting Governor on 1 November 2012 following the resignation of Shintaro Ishihara. He was elected Governor in a historical landslide victory in December 2012, but announced his resignation on December 19, 2013, following a political funds-related scandal; his resignation was approved and became effective December 24, 2013.
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Yusuke Nomura
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Yusuke Nomura is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.
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Jūrō Kara
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- singerstage actornovelistwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Jūrō Kara was a Japanese avant-garde playwright, theatre director, author, actor, and songwriter. He was at the forefront of the Angura ("underground") theatre movement in Japan.
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Keita Sano
- Years
- 1994-.. (age 31)
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Keita Sano, nicknamed "Thanos" is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
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Koki Niwa
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Koki Niwa is a Japanese male table tennis player. He is the gold medalist at the 2010 Youth Olympics and he won the World Junior Table Tennis Championships in 2010 (doubles) and 2011 (singles).
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Kan Kikuchi
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- translatorwriterbusinesspersonplaywrightnovelist
- Biography
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Hiroshi Kikuchi, also known as Kan Kikuchi (which uses the same kanji as his real name), was a Japanese author and publisher. He established the publishing company Bungeishunjū, the monthly magazine of the same name, the Japan Writer's Association and both the Akutagawa and Naoki Prize for popular literature. He came to prominence for the plays "Madame Pearl" and "Father Returns", but his ample support for the Imperial Japanese war effort led to his marginalization in the postwar period. He was also the head of Daiei Motion Picture Company (currently Kadokawa Pictures). He was known to have been an avid player of mahjong.
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Wakaba Higuchi
- Occupations
- figure skater
- Biography
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Wakaba Higuchi is a Japanese figure skater. She is a 2022 Olympic team event silver medalist, the 2018 World silver medalist, the 2024 Skate America champion, a three-time Grand Prix silver medalist (2017 Cup of China; 2020 NHK Trophy; 2024 Grand Prix de France), a three-time Grand Prix bronze medalist (2016 and 2021 Grand Prix de France; 2017 Rostelecom Cup), a three-time Challenger Series medalist, and a six-time Japanese national medalist (bronze in 2015 and 2025, silver in 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2022). On the junior level, she is a two-time World Junior bronze medalist (2015, 2016), the 2014–15 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and a two-time Japan Junior national champion (2015, 2016).
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Shinosuke Tatekawa
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- comedianrakugoka
- Biography
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Shinosuke Tatekawa is a rakugo performer. His real name is Teruo Takeuchi (竹内 照雄, Takeuchi Teruo). With his comic group, Rokunin-no-Kai (Group of Six), formed in 2003, he has helped to popularise rakugo among young Japanese people. He is also well known as a TV presenter, and has presented the primetime NHK General show Tameshite Gatten (ためしてガッテン) since it started in 1995.
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Takeo Miki
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Takeo Miki was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1974 to 1976.
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Sachiya Yamasaki
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Sachiya Yamasaki is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
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Yu Tamura
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Yu Tamura is a Japanese rugby union player. Tamura currently plays for the Canon Eagles rugby team. His regular playing positions are fly-half and Centre.
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Eijirō Tōno
- Occupations
- actorseiyū
- Biography
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Eijirō Tōno was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting more than 50 years, appeared in over 400 television shows, nearly 250 films and numerous stage productions. He is best known in the West for his roles in films by Akira Kurosawa, such as Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961), and films by Yasujirō Ozu, such as Tokyo Story (1953) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). He also appeared in Kill! by Kihachi Okamoto and Tora! Tora! Tora!, a depiction of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His final film was Juzo Itami's A-ge-man (Tales of a Golden Geisha) in 1990. Tōno also starred as the title character in the long-running television jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon from 1969 to 1983. In the early years of his career he acted under the name of Katsuji Honjo (本庄克二).
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Katsunori Nomura
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Katsunori Nomura also called as Katsunori (カツノリ) is currently a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) coach for the Hanshin Tigers. Before coaching, he played in NPB from 1996 to 2006, primarily as a second or third-string catcher. Nomura was drafted in 1995 by the Yakult Swallows, the team managed by his father, catching-great and long-time manager Katsuya Nomura. Over the course of his playing career, his father managed him for five seasons with three different teams—two with the Swallows, two with the Hanshin Tigers and one with the Golden Eagles.
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Kento Itohara
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Kento Itohara is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Hidehiko Yoshida
- Occupations
- judokamixed martial arts fighter
- Biography
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Hidehiko Yoshida is a Japanese gold-medalist judoka and retired mixed martial artist. He is a longtime veteran of Japan's PRIDE Fighting Championships, competing in the Middleweight (93kg) and Heavyweight divisions. He won gold at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games at –78 kg. Yoshida also had two famous fights with MMA pioneer Royce Gracie that resulted in a no-contest and a time-limit draw.
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Masao Koga
- Occupations
- composerclassical guitaristguitarist
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Masao Koga was a Japanese composer, mandolinist, and guitarist of the Shōwa era who was dubbed "Japan's Irving Berlin" by Universal Press Syndicate. His melancholy style, based upon Nakayama Shimpei's yonanuki scale, was popularly known in Japan as "Koga melody" (古賀メロディー, Koga merodī). He was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure (Fourth Class) and the People's Honor Award for his contributions to Japanese music.
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Masatoshi Koshiba
- Occupations
- professorphysicistresearcher
- Biography
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Masatoshi Koshiba was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy. His work with the neutrino detectors Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande was instrumental in detecting solar neutrinos, providing experimental evidence for the solar neutrino problem.
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Miki Watanabe
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Miki Watanabe GCM is a Japanese entrepreneur and politician. He founded the Watami chain of izakaya restaurants and headed the company until 2011, when he resigned to run in the 2011 Tokyo gubernatorial election. Watanabe's run for the governorship of Tokyo was inspired by Michael Bloomberg's mayorship of New York City. Watanabe came in third with 16.8%, losing to incumbent governor Shintaro Ishihara.
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Yuya Yanagi
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Yūya Yanagi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He pitches for the Chunichi Dragons.
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Nozomi Nishida
- Occupations
- singerseiyū
- Biography
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Nozomi Nishida is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Gifu Prefecture. She began her voice acting career in 2014 and played her first major role in 2016 as the character Makina Nakajima in the anime series Macross Delta. She became part of the music group Walküre, which performs songs for the Macross franchise. She is also known for her roles as Satori Tamaba in Armed Girl's Machiavellism and Tsubasa Arihara in Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine.
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Yōhei Sasakawa
- Occupations
- entrepreneurphilanthropist
- Biography
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Yōhei Sasakawa is chairman of The Nippon Foundation, the World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, and Japan's Ambassador for the Human Rights of People Affected by Leprosy. He has been committed to the global fight against leprosy and its accompanying stigma and social discrimination for more than 40 years. As chairman of The Nippon Foundation, Japan's largest charitable foundation, he guides public-interest activities in Japan. Sasakawa received his degree from Meiji University’s School of Political Science and Economics. Sasakawa's father was businessman, politician, and philanthropist Ryōichi Sasakawa.
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Hiromi Oka
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Hiromi Oka is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Oka is known as person that he has the same name as heroine of Aim for the Ace!, Japanese animation. Oka is outfielder but he had worn No. 18, it is known as uniform number that great pitcher wear in Japanese professional baseball, from 2017 to 2018.
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Seishirō Sakamoto
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Seishirō Sakamoto is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays catcher for the Hanshin Tigers.
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Sohn Kee-chung
- Occupations
- long-distance runnerathletics competitormarathon runner
- Biography
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Sohn Kee-chung was a Korean Olympic athlete and long-distance runner. He became the first Korean to win a medal at the Olympic Games, winning gold in the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He was born in the Korean Peninsula, but he was forced to compete as a member of the Japanese delegation because Korea was under Japanese rule at the time. Sohn set an Olympic record of 2 hours 29 minutes 19.2 seconds.
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Shigeru Sugishita
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Shigeru Sugishita was a Japanese professional baseball pitcher and coach. Renowned for his forkball, Sugishita dominated the Central League from 1950–1955, winning more than 30 games twice (winning at least 23 games each season), and garnering three Eiji Sawamura Awards. Sugishita usually split his time between starting games and pitching in relief. He played 11 seasons, ten of them for the Chunichi/Nagoya Dragons.
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Takashi Uemoto
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Takashi Uemoto is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.
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Yoshitaka Shindō
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yoshitaka Shindō is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) for Saitama Prefecture 2nd District.
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Yōsuke Natsuki
- Occupations
- actorracing automobile driver
- Biography
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Yosuke Natsuki was a Japanese actor. He had participated twice in the Dakar Rally as a racing driver.
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Shogo Hama
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Shogo Hama is a Japanese actor.
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Shigeru Takada
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Shigeru Takada is a former general manager of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, and former manager of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He was previously an outfielder for the Yomiuri Giants and won the 1968 Central League Rookie of the Year award.
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Kenzo Suzuki
- Occupations
- professional wrestlerrugby union player
- Biography
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Kenzo Suzuki is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is perhaps best known for his appearances with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), in Mexico with Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) and in the United States with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he was a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion in the latter company. He currently performs for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) under the ring name Kenso, where he is a one-time World Tag Team Champion and a one-time Gaora TV Champion.
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Banboku Ōno
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Banboku Ōno was a Japanese politician who was a powerful faction leader within the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the early postwar period, serving stints as Speaker of the House of Representatives, Secretary General of the Liberal Party, and Vice President of the Liberal Democratic Party.
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Shuhei Fukuda
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Shuhei Fukuda is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Orix Buffaloes.
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Hiroaki Shimauchi
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Hiroaki Shimauchi is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Sei Muroya
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Sei Muroya is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Hannover 96 in the 2. Bundesliga and for the Japan national team.
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Yusuke Torigoe
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Yusuke Torigoe, nicknamed "Usuki", is a former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder.
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Kihachi Okamoto
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Kihachi Okamoto was a Japanese film director who worked in several different genres.
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Katsuo Hirata
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Katsuo Hirata is a former professional baseball player from Matsuura, Nagasaki, Japan.
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Shun Takayama
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Shun Takayama is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Takahiro Imanami
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Takahiro Imanami is a Japanese professional baseball player. He debuted in 2008. He had 11 runs.
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Takashi Sasagawa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Takashi Sasagawa is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
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Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Enrolled in Meiji University
- Studied in 1960-1964
- Occupations
- politicianjudokarancher
- Biography
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Ben Nighthorse Campbell is an American politician who represented Colorado's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993 and was a United States Senator from Colorado from 1993 to 2005. He serves as one of 44 members of the Council of Chiefs of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe. During his time in office, he was the only Native American serving in Congress. He was the last Native American elected to the U.S. Senate until the 2022 election of Cherokee Markwayne Mullin.
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Otomo Yoshihide
- Occupations
- record producermusiciandisc jockeyimprovisercomposer
- Biography
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Otomo Yoshihide is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist. He mainly plays guitar, turntables, and electronics.
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Morio Agata
- Occupations
- actoressayistfilm directorsongwritersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Agata Morio is a Japanese folk rock singer-songwriter and actor. He also directed three films.
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Kenoh
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
- Biography
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Daisuke Nakae is a Japanese professional wrestler and martial artist, better known by the ring name Kenoh (拳王, Ken'ō). He currently wrestles in Pro Wrestling Noah, where he is a 3-time GHC Heavyweight Champion. He is also a former GHC National Champion.
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Hiroshi Ohshita
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Hiroshi Ohshita, also spelled Oshita, was a Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder who began his career after World War II. Known for his trademark blue bat, he hit a record 20 home runs in a season and was home run king and leading hitter three times for the Toei Flyers. Ohshita was also a heavy hitter with the Nishitetsu Lions of the Pacific League during the 1950s.
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Norio Sasaki
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Norio Sasaki is a Japanese football coach and former player who is currently the general manager of Omiya Ardija Ventus and interim manager for Japan national women's team. He is best known for leading the Japanese women's national team to their first and only FIFA Women's World Cup win in 2011 over the United States on penalty shootouts. He retired as head coach in March 2016 after eight years. Sasaki also coached the Japan women's U-20 national team starting in 2007.
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Kenta Uehara
- Years
- 1994-.. (age 31)
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Kenta Uehara is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.
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Eiji Gō
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Eiji Gō was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1960 to 1982.
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Hideo Fujimoto
- Occupations
- baseball playerprofessional baseball player
- Biography
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Hideo Fujimoto was a Japanese baseball pitcher. He holds the Japanese records for lowest career ERA (1.90) and seasonal ERA (0.73), as well as best all-time winning percentage (.697). During his career, which spanned the one-league and two-league era, he played for the Tokyo Kyojin/Yomiuri Giants and the Chunichi Dragons. He was the player-manager of the Giants in 1944 and part of 1946 (the league cancelled all games in 1945 because of the Pacific War).
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Hiroko Suzuki
- Occupations
- promoterprofessional wrestlerpoliticianmanagerannouncer
- Biography
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Hiroko Suzuki, née Mizuno (水野, Mizuno), (born 1974) is a Japanese politician, professional wrestling valet, occasional professional wrestler and professional wrestling promoter best known in the United States for her work with World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown! brand under the ring name Hiroko. She graduated from Meiji University, and became an announcer of Fukushima Central Television. She is married to professional wrestler Kenzo Suzuki.
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Daisuke Ban
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Daisuke Ban, born Kiyonori Saito (斎藤 清憲, Saitō Kiyonori), is a Japanese actor. He was born on May 5, 1947, in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo. He is best known for portraying several heroic roles in tokusatsu, including Jiro in Android Kikaider and Goro Watari in Inazuman.
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Hiroyoshi Sasagawa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hiroyoshi Sasakawa is a Japanese politician and businessman. He is the member of the House of Representatives for Gunma 3rd district belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party.
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Tatsumi Yoda
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Tatsumi Yoda is a Japanese business magnate.
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Ryohei Michibuchi
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Ryohei Michibuchi is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Serbian second tier club Smederevo.
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Cho Man-sik
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cho Man-sik, also known by his art name Godang (고당), was a Korean independence activist.
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Masahiro Andoh
- Occupations
- composermusicianguitarist
- Biography
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Masahiro Andō is a Japanese composer and guitarist from Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. From 1976 to 2021, he was the guitarist and leader of the Japanese jazz-fusion band T-Square. He was also one-third of Ottottrio, a supergroup led by three Japanese guitarists: himself, Hirokuni Korekata of Rocket Jam and Issei Noro of Casiopea.
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Yuzo Kawashima
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Yūzō Kawashima was a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his lively comedies.
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Taisei Irie
- Occupations
- professional baseball player
- Biography
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Taisei Irie is a professional Japanese baseball player. He is a pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
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Sō Tsutsui
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Sō Tsutsui is a former professional baseball player from Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan.
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Fumiaki Matsumoto
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Fumiaki Matsumoto is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Matsumoto served as a vice minister for the Cabinet Office between August 2017 and January 2018. He resigned from his post after being recorded in the Diet mocking the gravity of US military helicopter accidents in Okinawa.
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Hiroki Yamada
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Hiroki Yamada is a Japanese footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a winger for Júbilo Iwata.
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Masako Nakata
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Masako Nakata, née Masako Tanaka (田中正子) (December 1, 1910 – October 15, 2002) was one of Japan's first women lawyers.
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Yukio Kasaya
- Occupations
- ski jumping coachski jumper
- Biography
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Yukio Kasaya was a Japanese ski jumper. At the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo he became the first Japanese athlete to win a gold medal and the second Japanese (after Chiharu Igaya) to win any medal at the Winter Olympics. Previously he placed second at the 1970 World Championships and won the first three jumping events at the 1971/72 Four Hills Tournament. He also took part in the 1964, 1968, and 1976 Olympics and served as the Olympic flag bearer for Japan in 1976 and 1998.
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Ai Kume
- Enrolled in Meiji University
- In 1939 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Ai Kume was one of the first three women in Japan to become lawyers.
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Masataka Morizono
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Masataka Morizono is a Japanese table tennis player. With doubles partner Yuya Oshima, he won the gold medal in the men's doubles event at both the 2015 and 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, as well as winning a silver medal in men's doubles at the 2017 World Championships.
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Koichi Tani
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Koichi Tani 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 Muraoka, Hyōgo and graduate of Meiji University, he was elected for the first time in 2003.
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Shun Ishikawa
- Years
- 1990-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- professional baseball player
- Biography
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Shun Ishikawa is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chunichi Dragons.
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Noboru Akiyama
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Noboru Akiyama was a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher, originally from Okayama, Okayama. He played with the Taiyo Whales. He is a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Yuichi Maruyama
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Yuichi Maruyama is a Japanese football player who plays for Kawasaki Frontale.
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Naoki Matoba
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Naoki Matoba, nicknamed "Matton", is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks/Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in 2000, and from 2003 to 2008 and with the Chiba Lotte Marines in 2010 and 2011.
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Yukihito Koga
- Occupations
- announcerpolitician
- Biography
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Yukihito Koga is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Councillors of Japan.
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Kosuke Kanamaru
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Kosuke Kanamaru is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for the San-en NeoPhoenix of the B.League in Japan.
