22 Notable alumni of
Seijo University
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Seijo University is 339th in the world, 66th in Asia, and 28th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 22 notable alumni from Seijo 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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Masakazu Tamura
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Masakazu Tamura was a Japanese film and theatre actor.
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Yoshino Kimura
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- singeractorseiyū
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Yoshino Kimura is a Japanese actress and singer. She appeared on an episode of the Showtime series Masters of Horror. Kimura won the "Rookie of the Year" prize at the 21st Japan Academy Awards for her appearance in Shitsurakuen.
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Mitsuhiro Oikawa
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- actorsingersongwriter
- Biography
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Mitsuhiro Oikawa is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, composer and actor who is represented by the talent agency, Mother Enterprise. He graduated from Seijo Gakuen Junior High School and High School and Seijo University Faculty of Law. He is business partners with Horipro. His wife was actress and Takarazuka Revue graduate Rei Dan (July 2011 - Nov 2018).
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Yukiyoshi Ozawa
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Yukiyoshi Ozawa is an American-born Japanese actor. He gained notable fame near the end of 2017 for his involvement in the Long Long Man commercials produced by UHA for their Sakeru Gummy brand, in which he portrayed the titular character.
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Hitonari Tsuji
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- composerscreenwriterwritersingerfilm director
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Hitonari Tsuji is a Tokyo-born Japanese writer, composer, and film director. In his film and singing work he uses the name Jinsei Tsuji, an alternative reading of the Japanese writing of his name. He debuted as a writer in 1989. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as overseas, with his work being translated into 20 languages and selling over ten million copies.
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Shima Iwashita
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- film actoractor
- Biography
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Shima Iwashita is a Japanese stage and film actress who has appeared in films of Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita, Masaki Kobayashi and most frequently of Masahiro Shinoda, her husband.
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Naotarō Moriyama
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- singersinger-songwritermusician
- Biography
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Naotarō Moriyama is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. His mother is Ryōko Moriyama, a well-known folk singer.
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Mayu Tsuruta
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- seiyūactor
- Biography
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Mayu Tsuruta is an actress. In 1996 she was nominated by the Award of the Japanese Academy for Best Supporting Actress in the film Kike wadatsumi no koe Last Friends. Following the chaos of Kenya's 2007 presidential election, on March 30, 2008, she visited thousands of internal refugees at Kenya's Nakuru ASK grounds, as a goodwill ambassador for Tokyo International Conference on African Development. While surveying the situation at the refugee camp, she spent time with several families and helped distribute food aid.
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Tsutomu Hata
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Tsutomu Hata was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan for nine weeks in 1994. He took over from Morihiro Hosokawa at the head of a coalition government. Shortly after he had been appointed Prime Minister, the Japanese Socialist Party left the government, leading to his early departure from office. He was a member of the lower house representing Nagano district #3. He was elected 14 times, retiring in 2012.
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Nobuhiko Obayashi
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- composertelevision producertelevision directorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Nobuhiko Obayashi was a Japanese director, screenwriter and editor of films and television advertisements. He began his filmmaking career as a pioneer of Japanese experimental films before transitioning to directing more mainstream media, and his resulting filmography as a director spanned almost 60 years. He is best known as the director of the 1977 horror film House, which has garnered a cult following. He was notable for his distinct surreal filmmaking style, as well as the anti-war themes commonly embedded in his films.
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Tomu Mutō
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- singer
- Biography
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Tomu Mutō is a Japanese tarento, actress, and former idol. She was a member of the idol group AKB48 under Team K. She is an alumna of Seijo University, where she studied economics and also earned her postgraduate degree, as well as a certified weather presenter, financial planner and a disaster prevention specialist.
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Yūko Obuchi
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- politician
- Biography
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Yuko Obuchi is a Japanese politician. She is a member of the House of Representatives for the Liberal Democratic Party. She briefly served as Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry during the Abe government, but was forced to resign. She is the second daughter of Keizo Obuchi, who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1998 until his death in office in 2000.
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Yasuhide Nakayama
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- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Yasuhide Nakayama is a Japanese politician who served as the Senior Vice Minister of Defense of Japan. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), he was elected in December 2012 as a member of the House of Representatives of Japan and re-elected in the December 2015 and 2017 elections. After the snap elections in October 2017, Nakayama was appointed the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He lost his seat in the House in the 2021 Japanese general election.
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Yoshihiro Nakamura
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Yoshihiro Nakamura is a Japanese film director and screenwriter, known for his 2009 film Fish Story, which premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival, and A Boy and His Samurai, which won the Audience Award at the 2011 New York Asian Film Festival.
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Mai
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Mai Fujisawa is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and lyricist. She has released four studio albums and has performed for several soundtracks. Fujisawa has collaborated on several occasions with her father, composer Joe Hisaishi, on the soundtracks for the films of Studio Ghibli. She has also performed on the soundtracks of other media, including the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011) and the video game Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (2011).
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Yoko Komiyama
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- television presenterannouncerpolitician
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Yoko Komiyama is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Shibuya, Tokyo and graduate of Seijo University, she worked at the public broadcaster NHK from 1972 to 1998. She was elected to the House of Councilors for the first time in 1998 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in April 2003. In September 2011 she was appointed Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.
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Taku Etō
- Enrolled in Seijo University
- In 1985 studied faculty of economics
- Occupations
- researchersecretarypolitician
- Biography
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Taku Etō is a Japanese politician and a member of the House of Representatives He previously served as the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe.
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Takao Fujii
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- politician
- Biography
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Takao Fujii is a Japanese politician, an independent and member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).
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Katsuya Matsumura
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Katsuya Matsumura is a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his violent thriller-horror film series All Night Long.
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Shōko Yoshimura
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- amateur wrestler
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Shoko Yoshimura is a retired Japanese Wrestler. She competed in 10 World Wrestling Championships and won 9 medals, including 5 gold medals.
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Coppé
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- Biography
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Coppé is a Japanese electronic music singer-songwriter and music producer. She has affectionately gained the title of "The Legendary Godmother of Japanese Electronica". She has released fifteen solo albums on her self-owned Mango + Sweetrice label. She released the most acclaimed album of her career, "8", in 2004.
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Mitsuyoshi Yanagisawa
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- politician
- Biography
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Mitsuyoshi Yanagisawa is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Tōmi, Nagano and graduate of Seijo University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2004 after an unsuccessful run in 2001.
