40 Notable alumni of
Tokyo Institute of Technology
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Tokyo Institute of Technology is 462nd in the world, 93rd in Asia, and 38th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 40 notable alumni from Tokyo Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with Tokyo Institute of Technology won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Satoru Iwata
- Occupations
- entrepreneurgame programmercomputer scientistengineerexecutive producer
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Satoru Iwata was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer, video game designer, and producer. He was the fourth president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Nintendo from 2002 until his death in 2015. He was a major contributor in broadening the appeal of video games by focusing on novel and entertaining games rather than top-of-the-line hardware.
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Naoto Kan
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticiantheoretical physicist
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Naoto Kan is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) from June 2010 to September 2011. Kan was the first Prime Minister since the resignation of Junichiro Koizumi in 2006 to serve for more than one year, with his predecessors Yukio Hatoyama, Tarō Asō, Yasuo Fukuda, and Shinzo Abe either resigning prematurely or losing an election. On 26 August 2011, Kan announced his resignation. Yoshihiko Noda was elected as his successor. On 1 August 2012, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Kan would be one of the members of the UN high-level panel on the post-2015 development agenda.
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Ōsumi Yoshinori
- Occupations
- biologist
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Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components. Ohsumi is a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology's Institute of Innovative Research. He received the Kyoto Prize for Basic Sciences in 2012, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.
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Masao Yoshida
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- engineer
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Masao Yoshida was a nuclear engineer who served as plant manager of the Tokyo Electric Power Company Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant during the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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Takaaki Yoshimoto
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- literary criticpoetwriterphilosopher
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Takaaki Yoshimoto, also known as Ryūmei Yoshimoto, was a Japanese poet, philosopher, and literary critic. As a philosopher, he is remembered as a founding figure in the emergence of the New Left in Japan, and as a critic, he was at the forefront of a movement to force writers to confront their responsibility as wartime collaborators.
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Toshiwo Doko
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- engineerbusinessperson
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Toshiwo Doko was a Japanese engineer born in Mitsu District, Okayama, Manager, President and Chairman of Ishikawajima Heavy Industry (IHI) and Toshiba.
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Hideki Shirakawa
- Occupations
- engineeracademicchemistprofessor
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Hideki Shirakawa is a Japanese chemist, engineer, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He was co-recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger.
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Tetsuo Saito
- Enrolled in Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Studied applied physics
- Occupations
- politicianengineer
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Tetsuo Saito is a Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Saito is currently serving his fifth term in the Lower House by Chugoku proportional election and is the current Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
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Akitoshi Kawazu
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- game designer
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Akitoshi Kawazu is a Japanese game designer, director, producer and writer. After joining Square (later Square Enix) in 1985, he went on to become a central developer for the first two Final Fantasy titles, then acted as creator and lead developer for the SaGa series.
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Kenzo Fujisue
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kenzo Fujisue is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kumamoto, Kumamoto, he graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology and received master's degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in the United States. He was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2004 when he left assistant professorship at the University of Tokyo.
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Kenjiro Takayanagi
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- pioneerinventorengineer
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Kenjiro Takayanagi was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television".
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Shōji Hamada
- Occupations
- potterceramicist
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Shōji Hamada was a Japanese potter. He had a significant influence on studio pottery of the twentieth century, and a major figure of the mingei (folk-art) movement, establishing the town of Mashiko as a world-renowned pottery centre. In 1955 he was designated a "Living National Treasure".
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Kawai Kanjirō
- Enrolled in Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1914
- Occupations
- essayistceramicist
- Biography
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Kawai Kanjirō was a Japanese potter and a key figure in mingei (Japanese folk art) and studio pottery movements, which included Bernard Leach, Shōji Hamada, Kenkichi Tomimoto, Shikō Munakata, Keisuke Serizawa, and Tatsuzō Shimaoka, among others.
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Julia Nesheiwat
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- politicianuniversity teacher
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Julia Nesheiwat is an American national security adviser who served as the 10th homeland security advisor in the Trump administration from 2020 to 2021. She also served in the Bush and Obama administrations.
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Keitaro Ohno
- Occupations
- politician
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Keitarō Ohno is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. He is currently serving as Deputy Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. He has served as State Minister of Cabinet Office in charge of Economic Security, Disaster Management, Space Policy, Science and Technology, etc, from 2021 to 2022, Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense from 2017 to 2018, acting director of Foreign Policy Division and Deputy Chief Secretary of Security Research Committee from 2018 to 2019. He has been representing the Kagawa third district.
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Rin Yamashita
- Enrolled in Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1876
- Occupations
- iconographerpainter
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Yamashita Rin was a painter of icons for the Japanese Orthodox Church. She was one of the first independent Japanese female artists, the first recognized female yōga painter. She studied in Russia, and her work can be found in over forty churches across Japan.
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Ryūsuke Hikawa
- Occupations
- editing staffcritic
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Ryūsuke Hikawa is a Japanese anime critic and writer.
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Keisuke Serizawa
- Occupations
- artist
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Keisuke Serizawa was a Japanese textile designer. In 1956, he was designated as a Living National Treasure by the Japanese government for his katazome stencil dyeing technique. A leading member of the mingei movement founded by Yanagi Sōetsu, Serizawa visited Okinawa several times and learned the Ryūkyū bingata techniques of dyeing. Chōsuke Serizawa (Archaeologist) was his son.
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Nob Yoshigahara
- Occupations
- puzzle designer
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Nobuyuki Yoshigahara was perhaps Japan's most celebrated inventor, collector, solver, and communicator of puzzles.
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Teruaki Mukaiyama
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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Teruaki Mukaiyama was a Japanese organic chemist. One of the most prolific chemists of the 20th century in the field of organic synthesis, Mukaiyama helped establish the field of organic chemistry in Japan after World War II.
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Park Kyung-won
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- aircraft pilot
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Park Kyung-won was the first female Korean civilian aviator.
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Toshikazu Sunada
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
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Toshikazu Sunada is a Japanese mathematician and author of many books and essays on mathematics and mathematical sciences. He is professor emeritus of both Meiji University and Tohoku University. He is also distinguished professor of emeritus at Meiji in recognition of achievement over the course of an academic career. Before he joined Meiji University in 2003, he was professor of mathematics at Nagoya University (1988–1991), at the University of Tokyo (1991–1993), and at Tohoku University (1993–2003). Sunada was involved in the creation of the School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences at Meiji University and is its first dean (2013–2017). Since 2019, he is President of Mathematics Education Society of Japan.
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Haruji Matsue
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Haruji Matsue was a Japanese entrepreneur and the first person to manufacture the sugar cube in Japan. His brother, Major General Toyohisa Matsue, was commandant of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I.
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Eiichi Nakamura
- Enrolled in Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- chemistresearcher
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Eiichi Nakamura is a Japanese chemist and professor of chemistry at University of Tokyo in Japan.
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Yasuharu Suematsu
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- physicistcomputer scientist
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Yasuharu Suematsu is a researcher and educator in optical communication technology. His research has included the development of Dynamic Single Mode Semiconductor Lasers for actuation and the development of high-capacity, long-distance optical fiber communications technology.
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Jiro Tanaka
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- military personnelaerospace engineerengineer
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Jiro Tanaka was a Japanese aircraft and automotive engineer.
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Yoshihisa Yamamoto
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- physicistacademicuniversity teacherelectrical engineer
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Yoshihisa Yamamoto is the director of Physics & Informatics Laboratories (PHI Labs), NTT Research, Inc. He is also Professor (Emeritus) at Stanford University and National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo).
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Takumi Shibano
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- science fiction writertranslatorwriter
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Takumi Shibano was a Japanese science-fiction translator and author. He was a major figure in fandom in Japan and contributed to establishing the Japanese science fiction genre.
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Susumu Sakurai
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- scientist
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Susumu Sakurai is a Japanese scientist and science navigator. He was born in Yamagata Prefecture. He is the president of sakurAi Science Factory Inc.
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Tadamichi Yamamoto
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Tadamichi Yamamoto is a diplomat, who served as UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) until replaced by Deborah Lyons in March 2020.
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Tadao Takahashi
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Eduardo Tadao Takahashi was a Brazilian computer scientist and researcher who was credited with contributions toward planning, deployment, and adoption of the internet in Brazil and other Latin American countries. He was a founding director of Brazil's National Research Network (RNP), an academic network that coordinated actions toward setting up the country's national internet backbone. He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2017.
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Sethu Vijayakumar
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- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- roboticistacademic
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Sethu Vijayakumar FRSE is Professor of Robotics at the University of Edinburgh and a judge on the BBC2 show Robot Wars. He is the Programme co-Director for Artificial Intelligence at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, with the responsibility for defining and driving the institute's Robotics and Autonomous Systems agenda. He co-founded the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics in 2015 and was instrumental in bringing the first NASA Valkyrie humanoid robot out of the United States of America, and to Europe, where is it a focus of research at the School of Informatics. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2013.
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Du Zhongyuan
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- 1895-1943 (aged 48)
- Occupations
- entrepreneurjournalist
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Du Zhongyuan was one of China's best-known wartime journalists, having reported in great detail on the Japanese invasion and occupation of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Su Tiren
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- 1888-1979 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- politician
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Su Tiren was a Republic of China politician. He was born in Shuozhou, Shanxi. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he governed his home province initially on behalf of the Provisional government of Wang Kemin and after 1940, for the government of Wang Jingwei in Nanjing. In 1943, he was briefly mayor of Beijing. After the defeat of the Japanese in World War II, he went to Taiyuan where he served under Yan Xishan. With the fall of Beijing and Taiyuan to the communists in the Chinese Civil War, he fled to Lanzhou, Gansu before making his way to Hong Kong. He died in Taiwan.
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Jin-Ho Choy
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- chemistresearcher
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Choy Jin-ho is a South Korean scientist. He was a professor in the department of chemistry at Seoul National University from 1981 to 2004, and thereafter a distinguished professor and director of the Center for Intelligent Nano-Bio Materials at Ewha Womans University.
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Katsuhiko Ariga
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- chemistacademic
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Katsuhiko Ariga is a Japanese chemist specializing in nanotechnology and self-assembly. He was educated at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where he defended his PhD in 1990 and later worked as assistant professor. Since 2004 he carries out research at the National Institute for Materials Science, and teaches at the University of Tokyo, where he is a full professor. Ariga is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2013) and an editor of the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.
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Zhu Qinglai
- Years
- 1881-..
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zhu Qinglai was a politician in the Republic of China. He was an important politician during the Wang Jingwei regime (Republic of China-Nanjing. His given name was Xiang (翔), but he was better known by his art-name Qinglai. He disappeared after the collapse of the Wang Jingwei regime.
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Zhuchen Li
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Li Zhuchen was a Chinese male politician, who served as the vice chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Liu Shiying
- Occupations
- educator
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Liu Shiying, also known as Feixiong, was a Chinese architect and educator. Liu Shiying had five major contributions to the history of Chinese architecture:
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Maria Marta Molinas Cabrera
- Enrolled in Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 1997-2001 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- professor
- Biography
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María Marta Molinas Cabrera is a Paraguayan electrical engineer, educated in Japan, who works in Norway as a professor of engineering cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
