21 Notable alumni of
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Updated:
The Tokyo University of Foreign Studies is 424th in the world, 84th in Asia, and 34th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 21 notable alumni from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
-
Ryohei Suzuki
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
-
Ryohei Suzuki is a Japanese actor who is represented by the talent agency Horipro.
-
Masabumi Hosono
- Occupations
- explorer
- Biography
-
Masabumi Hosono was a Japanese civil servant. He survived the sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912 but found himself condemned and ostracized by the Japanese public, press, and government because of a misconception that he decided to save himself rather than go down with the ship. Hosono's grandson is Haruomi Hosono, leading member of the Japanese band Yellow Magic Orchestra.
-
Yukihide Takekawa
- Occupations
- singer-songwritercomposerlyricistmusicianvisiting professor
- Biography
-
Yukihide Takekawa is a Japanese singer, songwriter and composer from Urawa-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture. He is best known for being the vocalist to the band Godiego as well as his solo career and his work as an author. Some of his compositions have been featured in video game, anime, films, and television drama soundtracks. These include the Galaxy Express 999 film, Saiyūki, Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, Soul Blazer, and Choushinsei Flashman.
-
Nankichi Niimi
- Occupations
- children's writerwriterpoet
- Biography
-
Nankichi Niimi was a Japanese author, sometimes known as the Hans Christian Andersen of Japan.
-
Yūko Nakamura
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
-
Yūko Nakamura is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2001 for the film Firefly (Hotaru) and the award for best supporting actress at the 28th Yokohama Film Festival for Strawberry Shortcakes.
-
Masahiko Shimada
- Occupations
- novelistpoetwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
-
Masahiko Shimada is a Japanese writer. He has won the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Itō Sei Literature Prize, and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award. His work has been translated into English.
-
Jun Ishikawa
- Occupations
- novelistpoettranslatorwriter
- Biography
-
Jun Ishikawa was the pen name of a modernist author, translator and literary critic active in Shōwa period Japan. His real name (written in the same kanji) was Ishikawa Kiyoshi.
-
Kazuyuki Hamada
- Occupations
- criticpoliticianpolitical scientist
- Biography
-
Kazuyuki Hamada is a Japanese politician. He has served one term in the House of Councillors for the Tottori At-large district. After being elected in 2010 as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party, he changed parties three times before unsuccessfully seeking re-election as an independent candidate in 2016.
-
Naniwa Kawashima
- Years
- 1866-1949 (aged 83)
- Occupations
- spy
- Biography
-
Kawashima Naniwa was a Japanese spy who worked in Manchuria. He was a close friend of Shanqi, the 10th Prince Su, who had inherited the allegiance of the tribes of Inner Mongolia, and aided Shanqi and his Royalist Party in attempts to create an independent Manchu state. Prince Su was also a close friend of Prince Kan'in Kotohito, the uncle of the Japanese empress.
-
Chen Chih-hsiung
- Years
- 1916-1963 (aged 47)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
-
Chen Chih-hsiung was a Taiwanese independence activist.
-
Teijirō Toyoda
- Occupations
- businesspersonmilitary personnelpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
-
Teijirō Toyoda was a career naval officer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1941 and as admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
-
Junpei Gomikawa
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
-
Junpei Gomikawa was the pen name of Japanese novelist Kurita Shigeru. He is best known for his 1958 World War II novel The Human Condition (Ningen no joken), which became a best seller. Gomikawa's novel became the basis for Masaki Kobayashi's film trilogy The Human Condition as well as a radio drama. Another novel by Gomikawa, the eighteen-volume Men and War (Senso to ningen), formed the basis for Satsuo Yamamoto's 1970-1973 film trilogy of the same name.
-
Yasuhiro Matsuda
- Occupations
- political scientisthistorian
- Biography
-
Yasuhiro Matsuda is a Japanese professor of international politics at the University of Tokyo.
-
Jo Iimura
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
-
Jo Iimura was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in the Pacific War.
-
Hiroshi Saitō
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
-
Hiroshi Saitō is a former governor of Yamagata Prefecture. He was first elected in 2005. A native of Yamagata, Yamagata, he joined the Bank of Japan upon graduation from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1981. He also received MIPP in 1989 and MA in 1990 from Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University.He was defeated for reelection in an upset by Mieko Yoshimura an Education Committee member for Yamagata Prefecture.
-
Korehito Kurahara
- Occupations
- translatorwriterliterary critic
- Biography
-
Korehito Kurahara was a Japanese Marxist literary critic. He wrote under the name Soichiro Furukawa.
-
Jinzai Kiyoshi
- Years
- 1903-1957 (aged 54)
- Occupations
- linguistnovelistplaywrightwritertranslator
- Biography
-
Kiyoshi Jinzai was a Japanese novelist, Russian translator and literary critic active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
-
Yasuo Ogata
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
-
Yasuo Ogata is a member and the Vice Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party. He was a member of the House of Councillors from 2000 to 2010. In 1989, Ogata appealed to the Supreme Court of Japan to reopen a case where five officers were investigated for possible violations of the Telecommunications Enterprise Law after an eavesdropping device was found on his telephone line that was diverted to the apartment of the son of a police officer. Ogata is a supporter of the elimination of nuclear weapons.
-
Yamaoka Kōtarō
- Occupations
- ethnologistinterpreter
- Biography
-
Mitsutarō Yamaoka, also known as Umar Yamaoka (Japanese: ウマル・ヤマオカ) was a Japanese Islamic and Judaic scholar known for being the first Japanese pilgrim to Mecca.
-
Terao Hisashi
- Years
- 1855-1923 (aged 68)
- Occupations
- surveyorastronomermathematicianteacher
- Biography
-
Hisashi Terao was a Japanese astronomer and mathematician. He graduated from the Tokyo imperial University as well as from the University of Paris, and he was one of the founding members and the first principal of The Tokyo Academy of Physics (now Tokyo University of Science). Notable students that studied under him include Shin Hirayama, Hisashi Kimura, and Kiyotsugu Hirayama. He is also called one of the first astronomers of the Meiji era.
-
Morishige Takei
- Occupations
- classical guitaristcomposer
- Biography
-
Morishige Takei was a Japanese composer and court official during the reign of Emperor Showa.
