12 Notable alumni of
Tamagawa University
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Tamagawa University is 626th in the world, 125th in Asia, and 49th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from Tamagawa 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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Daigo
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- singersinger-songwriterseiyūtarentoactor
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Daigo Naitō, known mononymously as Daigo, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, television personality and voice actor. He debuted in 2003 as Daigo Stardust under Victor Entertainment. In 2007, he formed the rock band Breakerz. With the solo debut of Akihide, Daigo continued his solo project in 2013, but dropped the pseudonym surname "Stardust".
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Aya Hirano
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- gravure modelchild actormodelseiyūtarento
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Aya Hirano is a Japanese actress and singer. Beginning in the entertainment industry as a child actor in television commercials, she appeared in her first voice acting role in the anime television series Angel Tales (2001).
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Chen Kenichi
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- chef
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Ken'ichi Azuma, known professionally as Chen Kenichi (陳建一, Chin Ken'ichi) was a Chinese - Japanese chef and restaurateur, best known for his role as the Iron Chef Chinese on the television series Iron Chef (料理の鉄人).
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Yuichiro Hata
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- politician
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Yuichiro Hata was a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan.
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Kon Arimura
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- radio personalityfilm critic
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Kon Fujimura, known for his stage name Kon Arimura (有村 昆, Arimura Kon) is a Japanese radio personality, film critic, and film commentator who is represented by the talent agency Horipro. He is nicknamed Arikon (アリコン). From 2012 to 2021, his wife was television caster Izumi Maruoka.
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Sayaka Murata
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- writernovelistessayistshort story writer
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Sayaka Murata is a Japanese writer. She is best known for the international bestseller Convenience Store Woman (2016) which has been translated into more than thirty languages worldwide. Murata has won many major literary prizes in Japan, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 2003, the Noma Literary New Face Prize in 2009, the Mishima Yukio Prize in 2013, and the Akutagawa Prize for Convenience Store Woman in 2016. All the English translations of her work are done by Ginny Tapley Takemori. In addition to Convenience Store Woman, Murata's first book to be published in English, Takemori has translated the novels Earthlings and Vanishing World, the short-story collection Life Ceremony, the short stories "Faith", "Survival", and "A Clean Marriage", as well as the New York Times published opinion piece "The Future of Sex Lives in All of Us", among others.
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Chie Tanaka
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- film actoractormodel
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Chie Tanaka is a Japanese model and actress who is based in Taiwan. She is best known for her role as Tomoko in Cape No. 7, the second highest-grossing film in Taiwanese cinematic history.
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Hachiro Okonogi
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- politician
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Hachiro Okonogi is a former Japanese politician who has served in the House of Representatives representing Kanagawa Prefecture. He also served in the Cabinet as Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission, Minister in charge of Building National Resilience, and Minister of State for Disaster Management from 2017 to 2018. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.
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Mamoru Shō
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- religious person
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Mamoru Shō is an ethnic Ryukyuan businessman who is the current head of the Shō family, the former Ryukyuan royal family. He lives in Ise City, Mie Prefecture.
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Mai Tachihara
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- singeractorseiyū
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Mai Tachihara is a Japanese actress. She appeared in Ring: Kanzenban, the 1995 TV movie adaptation of Koji Suzuki's novel Ring.
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Hideki Niwa
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- politician
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Hideki Niwa is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who serves as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kasugai, Aichi and graduate of Tamagawa University, he was elected for the first time in 2005 after an unsuccessful run in 2003. He was defeated in the 2009 election by DPJ candidate Yoshihiro Ishida but regained his seat in special elections in 2011.
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Tomomi Tanaka
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- athletics competitor
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Tomomi Tanaka is a Japanese long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She competed in the women's marathon event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
