80 Notable alumni of
Tokai University
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Tokai University is 205th in the world, 40th in Asia, and 18th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 80 notable alumni from Tokai 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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Megumi Ogata
- Occupations
- actorsingerradio personalityseiyūtelevision producer
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Megumi Ogata is a Japanese actress and singer from the Greater Tokyo Area. As a singer, she goes by the name em:óu. She attended Tokai University, but left because of her lack of interest. She is best known for voicing Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Yugi Mutou and Dark Yugi in the Toei version of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Makoto Naegi and Nagito Komaeda in the Danganronpa series, Kurama in YuYu Hakusho, Sailor Uranus in the Sailor Moon series, Hanako and Tsukasa in Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun and Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue in Cardcaptor Sakura.
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Tomoyuki Sugano
- Enrolled in Tokai University
- Studied in 2008-2013
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Tomoyuki Sugano is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants. Sugano is a three-time winner of the Central League Most Valuable Player Award and a two-time winner of the Eiji Sawamura Award.
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Tatsunori Hara
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Tatsunori Hara is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder and manager. He played 15 seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants, and also spent 17 seasons as the club's manager.
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Shōta Shunpūtei
- Occupations
- television presentercomedianrakugoka
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Shunpūtei Shōta is a Japanese rakugo comedian best known for performing on the Shōten comedy show on Nippon TV. He is known as a master of the Japanese comic art of rakugo, in which a single performer or storyteller appears on stage and tells comedic stories to the audience.
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Yoshihiro Takayama
- Occupations
- professional wrestlermixed martial arts fighteractor
- Biography
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Yoshihiro Takayama is a Japanese former professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Debuting for UWF International (UWFI) in the 1990s, Takayama joined All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in 1997 after UWF-i folded. In 2000, he joined Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), and later became a mainstay in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) where he arguably achieved his greatest success, holding the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and NWF Heavyweight Championship simultaneously in 2003. He is one of only five men to hold all three puroresu major heavyweight titles (New Japan Pro-Wrestling's IWGP Heavyweight Championship, All Japan Pro Wrestling's Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship, and Pro Wrestling Noah's GHC Heavyweight Championship), the others being Kensuke Sasaki, Keiji Muto, Satoshi Kojima, and Yuji Nagata.
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Michael Leitch
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Michael Geoffrey Leitch is a professional rugby union player who plays as a number eight for Japan Rugby League One club Toshiba Brave Lupus. Born in New Zealand, he represents Japan at international level after qualifying on residency grounds.
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Kozue Akimoto
- Occupations
- modelfashion model
- Biography
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Kozue Akimoto is a Japanese fashion model represented by LesPros entertainment. Her father was 58th yokozuna Chiyonofuji Mitsugu. Her husband is actor Shota Matsuda.
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Taishi Ohta
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Taishi Ohta is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Yuki Kawamura
- Enrolled in Tokai University
- Studied in 2020-2022
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Yuki Kawamura is a Japanese professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Memphis Hustle of the NBA G League. He also plays for the Japan national team, with whom he played at the 2023 World Cup and 2024 Olympics. He is currently the shortest player in the NBA.
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Kazuhiro Kokubo
- Occupations
- snowboarder
- Biography
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Kazuhiro Kokubo is a Japanese snowboarder who has won multiple medals in international events, including consecutive golds in US Open Halfpipe in 2010 and 2011. He competed at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics and 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, representing Japan.
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Kosei Inoue
- Occupations
- judoka
- Biography
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Kosei Inoue is a Japanese judoka. He won the gold medal in the under 100 kg class at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He is well known for his specialty throws, Uchi Mata (内股, inner thigh throw) and Ōuchi gari (大内刈, major inner reap).
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Kōsuke Tanaka
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Kosuke Tanaka is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.
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Kunihiro Shimizu
- Occupations
- volleyball player
- Biography
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Kunihiro Shimizu is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Panasonic Panthers. He announced retirement from the national team after finishing seventh place in 2020 Summer Olympics. Shimizu was crowned the Most Valuable Player in Asian Championship 2015.
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Eikō Harada
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
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Eikō Harada is a Japanese business executive.
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Yasuhiro Yamashita
- Occupations
- judoka
- Biography
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Yasuhiro Yamashita is a Japanese judoka. He currently works as an instructor or advisor for numerous organizations, including Tokai University, the International Judo Federation, and the All Japan Judo Federation. He retired from competitive judo on 17 June 1985 after a remarkable career where he won five gold medals in international competitions and marked 203 consecutive victories (with 7 draws in-between) until his retirement where he went undefeated his entire career against non-Japanese wrestlers. He received the Japanese National Prize of Honor on 9 October 1984. He is considered by many to be the greatest judoka ever.
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Hanako Jimi
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Hanako Jimi is a Japanese politician who has served as Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs, Minister of State for Regional Revitalization, Minister of State for Ainu-Related Policies, and Minister for the World Expo 2025 since September 2023. She is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and she also serves in the House of Councillors of Japan.
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Takumi Ohshiro
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Takumi Ohshiro is a Japanese professional baseball catcher and infielder for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Shūhei Takahashi
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Shūhei Takahashi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Chunichi Dragons.
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Mashu Baker
- Occupations
- judoka
- Biography
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Matthew Baker, is a male Japanese judoka.
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Baku Yumemakura
- Occupations
- screenwriternovelistscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Baku Yumemakura is a Japanese science fiction and adventure writer. His works have sold more than 20 million copies in Japan spread across more than 280 titles and adapted into a variety of formats including feature films, television shows, movies and comic books.
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Masahiko Morino
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Masahiko Morino is a former Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He also played for Team Japan at the 2008 Olympics.
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Yurika Yoshida
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Yurika Yoshida is a Japanese curler. She currently plays lead for Team Loco Solare, which is skipped by Satsuki Fujisawa. The team won the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the silver medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Yuya Kubo
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Yuya Kubo is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher who is currently the pitching coach for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He played in NPB for the Yomiuri Giants, Yokohama DeNA BayStars, and Golden Eagles.
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Keiichi Hirano
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Keiichi Hirano is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Orix Buffaloes and Hanshin Tigers from 2002 to 2015. He is currently the manager for the CTBC Brothers of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL).
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Shunta Tanaka
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Shunta Tanaka is a Japanese professional baseball infielder. He previous played for the Yomiuri Giants and the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
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Tōru Iwatani
- Occupations
- designervideo game designerteacher
- Biography
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Tōru Iwatani is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco. He is best known as the creator of the arcade game Pac-Man (1980). In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.
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Torai Fushimi
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Torai Fushimi is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in NPB for the Orix Buffaloes.
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Shingo Suetsugu
- Occupations
- athletics competitorsprinter
- Biography
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Shingo Suetsugu is a Japanese sprinter. He is a former Asian record holder in the 200 metres and 4×100 metres relay.
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Sho Aranami
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Sho Aranami is a former professional Japanese baseball player. He played outfielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
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Kōta Nakagawa
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Kōta Nakagawa is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants.
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Daiki Tanaka
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Daiki Tanaka is a Japanese professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Sun Rockers Shibuya of the B.League in Japan.
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Yūki Nagasato
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Yūki Nagasato, known from 2012 to 2016 as Yūki Ōgimi (大儀見 優季, Ōgimi Yūki), is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a striker for National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club Houston Dash. She is the first female footballer to play for the first-team of a Japanese men's club.
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Akinori Ōtsuka
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Akinori Otsuka is a Japanese former baseball pitcher who coaches for the Chunichi Dragons in Nippon Professional Baseball. He was formerly the set-up man for the San Diego Padres and the Texas Rangers. He was also the closer for Japan's 2006 World Baseball Classic winning team.
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Chihiro Yonekura
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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Chihiro Yonekura is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
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Kenjirō Shinozuka
- Occupations
- rally raid automobile driverrally driver
- Biography
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Kenjiro Shinozuka was a Japanese rally driver. After his debut in 1967, his greatest successes were as a works driver for Mitsubishi Motors. Behind the wheel of a Galant VR-4 he won the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship in 1988 and scored consecutive victories in the Rallye Côte d'Ivoire Bandama in 1991 and 1992, when it was a round of the World Rally Championship, making him the first Japanese competitor to win a WRC event. He was also of note for his success in the Dakar Rally, where he became the first Japanese winner of the world's most famous endurance rally in 1997 driving a Mitsubishi Pajero.
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Yūki Satō
- Occupations
- long-distance runnerathletics competitor
- Biography
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Yuki Sato is a Japanese long-distance runner. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's 5000 metres, finished 26th overall in Round 1, and thus failed to qualify for the final. He also competed in the men's 10000 metres, finishing in 22nd place.
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Rie Kaneto
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Rie Kaneto is a Japanese competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke events. She won the gold medal in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Hirofumi Yamanaka
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Hirofumi Yamanaka is a Japanese former baseball pitcher. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
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Junshirō Kobayashi
- Occupations
- Nordic combined skierski jumper
- Biography
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Junshirō Kobayashi is a Japanese ski jumper. He is the older brother of Yūka Kobayashi, Ryōyū Kobayashi and Tatsunao Kobayashi who are also ski jumpers.
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Maikeru Nakazawa
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
- Biography
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Masatsugu Nakazawa, better known by the ring name Michael Nakazawa (中澤マイケル, Nakazawa Maikeru), is a Japanese professional wrestler and judoka signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
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Shota Ishimine
- Occupations
- baseball playerbaseball coach
- Biography
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Shota Ishimine is a professional baseball outfielder for the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Pacific League in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Misako Aoki
- Occupations
- nursetarentomodelfashion model
- Biography
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Misako Aoki is a Japanese model represented by Twin Planet. She serves as the president of the Japan Lolita Association for lolita fashion.
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Joji Takeuchi
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Joji Takeuchi is a Japanese professional basketball player. He plays for the Osaka Evessa of the B.League. Takeuchi also is a member of the Japan national basketball team, playing for the team in the 2006 FIBA World Championship and both the FIBA Asia Championship 2007 and FIBA Asia Championship 2009. Takeuchi's twin brother Kosuke is also a member of the Japanese national basketball team.
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Tomoya Ichikawa
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Tomoya Ichikawa is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays catcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
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Leo Vendrame
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Leo Vendrame is a Brazilian-Japanese professional basketball player.
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Naoki Tsukahara
- Occupations
- athletics competitorsprinter
- Biography
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Naoki Tsukahara is a Japanese track and field sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres.
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Takeo Otsuka
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
- Biography
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Takeo Ōtsuka is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Men's Teioh (MEN'Sテイオー, Menzu Teiō) (also written MEN's Teioh). The English translation of his ring name, Terry Boy, is a homage to American professional wrestler Terry Funk.
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Ryōta Fujii
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Ryota Fujii is a Japanese baseball player for the CITYLIGHT OKAYAMA. He has played for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
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Riki Nakaya
- Occupations
- judoka
- Biography
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Riki Nakaya is a Japanese judoka. He is a two-time lightweight world champion and an Olympic silver medalist. He was also a finalist at the 2015 World Championships.
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Tsutomu Sakai
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Tsutomu Sakai is a former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher.
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Manabu Satake
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Manabu Satake is a former Japanese professional baseball player. He was the number 4 draft pick for the Orix BlueWave in 1997.
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Takashi Umino
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Takashi Umino is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Keishu Tanaka
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Keishu Tanaka was a Japanese politician, who served in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Democratic Party. He was Minister of Justice under Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda from 1 to 23 October 2012 before resigning due to scandals over financial donations and links to organized crime.
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Takuma Sato
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Takuma Sato is a Japanese professional basketball player for Chiba Jets of the B.League in Japan. He played college basketball for Tokai University.
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Morinari Watanabe
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- gymnast
- Biography
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Morinari Watanabe is a Japanese businessman who has served as president of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique since January 2017. Prior to his election in October 2016, he served as general-secretary of the Japan Gymnastics Association (2009–16) and was on multiple committees with the Japanese Olympic Committee.
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Takeshi Kizu
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Takeshi Kizu is a Japanese rugby union player. He was named in Japan's squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
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Zack Baranski
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Zack Alan Baranski, is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Alvark Tokyo of the B.League in Japan.
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Yūto Ōtsuka
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Yuto Otsuka is a Japanese professional basketball player for the Altiri Chiba of the B.League in Japan. He was selected by the Miyazaki Shining Suns with the third overall pick in the 2012 bj League draft. His nicknames are "Prince" in Akita and "Come on" in Toyama.
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Takatoshi Furukawa
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Takatoshi Furukawa is a Japanese professional basketball player who currently plays for Akita Northern Happinets in the B.League.
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Kenta Yamashita
- Occupations
- racing driverracing automobile driver
- Biography
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Kenta Yamashita is a Japanese racing driver for Toyota Gazoo Racing who is currently competing in Super GT for ROOKIE Racing and in Super Formula for Kondō Racing. He won the GT500-class Super GT championship title in 2019, driving alongside Kazuya Oshima, and previously won the 2016 All-Japan Formula 3 Championship and the 2013 Formula Challenge Japan titles.
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Onryo
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
- Biography
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Ryo Matsuri, known by the ring name Onryo (怨霊, Onryō) (sometimes stylized in romaji as ONRYO), is a Japanese professional wrestler and promoter. Matsuri, as Onryo, portrays a ghost wrestler who was killed after winning a cursed championship. He is known for his work in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and Big Japan Pro Wrestling and is the founder of the Wrestling of Darkness 666 (666) promotion, who he co-owned with Qp-Crazy frontman Yasuhiro "Crazy SKB" Sakano until 2018.
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Takumi Ishizaki
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Takumi Ishizaki is a Japanese retired professional basketball player who formerly played for the Riesen Ludwigsburg in the German Basketball Bundesliga and BV Chemnitz 99 of the German ProA.
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Daisuke Yako
- Occupations
- volleyball player
- Biography
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Daisuke Yako is a retired Japanese male volleyball player. He was a part of the Japan men's national volleyball team. On club level, he only played for JT Thunders.
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Naoki Nakamura
- Occupations
- ski jumper
- Biography
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Naoki Nakamura is a Japanese ski jumper. Team bronze medalist at the 2016 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships.
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Norio Sassa
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Norio Sassa is the former Head coach of the Utsunomiya Brex in the Japanese B.League. He spent his childhood in America for eight years.
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Ai Tsunoda
- Occupations
- judoka
- Biography
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Ai Tsunoda Roustant is a Spanish judoka. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Shuhei Terada
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Shuhei Terada is a former Japanese football player. He is the current manager of J3 League club, Fukushima United.
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Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki
- Occupations
- judokaprofessor
- Biography
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Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki – Japanese judoka, champion and medalist of championships Japan and the world, author of books and one of the leading judo specialists in the world.
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Masataka Mikami
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Masataka Mikami is a Japanese rugby union player. He was named in Japan's squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
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Akira Ōta
- Occupations
- amateur wrestler
- Biography
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Akira Ōta is a Japanese former wrestler who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics, in the 1988 Summer Olympics, and in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
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Kevin Hareyama
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Kevin Hareyama is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for Shiga Lakestars of the B.League in Japan. He played college basketball for Tokai University.
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Ryuji Noguchi
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Ryuji Noguchi is a Japanese international rugby union player who plays as a Fullback. He currently plays for Panasonic Wild Knights in Japan Rugby League One and Tokai University.
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Daito Takahashi
- Occupations
- ski jumpercross-country skierNordic combined skier
- Biography
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Daito Takahashi is a Japanese Nordic combined skier who has competed since 2000. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of sixth twice (7.5 km sprint event: 2002, 4 x 5 km team: 2006).
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Takuya Nakayama
- Enrolled in Tokai University
- Studied in 2013-2017
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Takuya Nakayama is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for the Akita Northern Happinets of the B.League in Japan. He wears #17 because his mother, Yuko was born on the 17th day of the month. On April 22, 2017, Nakayama made the longest shot of the B.League at first quarter buzzer beater. On December 30. 2017, he hit another longest shot of the league at the third quarter buzzer beater.
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Toshinari Suwa
- Occupations
- long-distance runnerathletics competitortrack and field coach
- Biography
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Toshinari Suwa is a Japanese marathon runner from Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
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Akio Yoshida
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Akio Yoshida is a Japanese former footballer who played as a midfielder.
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Kenya Kasahara
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- handball player
- Biography
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Kenya Kasahara is a Japanese handball player and a member of the Japanese national team. He represented Japan at the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship and at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Daigo Hasegawa
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Daigo Hasegawa is a Japanese athlete specialising in the triple jump. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics without qualifying for the final.
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Takayuki Ono
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Takayuki Ono is a Japanese ice hockey defenceman for the Nikkō Ice Bucks of the Asia League Ice Hockey. Ono debuted in Asia League with HC Nikkō Ice Bucks on 2005 and spent his first four season with the club.
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Tatsuhito Noro
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Tatsuhito Noro is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for Beefman.exe. He played college basketball for Tokai University. He represented the country for Japan national 3x3 team.
