89 Notable alumni of
University of Tsukuba
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The University of Tsukuba is 168th in the world, 30th in Asia, and 16th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 89 notable alumni from the University of Tsukuba sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 2 individuals affiliated with the University of Tsukuba won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.
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Kaoru Mitoma
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Kaoru Mitoma is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Premier League Brighton & Hove Albion and the Japan national team.
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Yoichi Ochiai
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- university teacherbusinesspersonnew media artist
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Yoichi Ochiai is a Japanese academic and media artist. He has a doctorate from the University of Tokyo. He is also an associate professor at the University of Tsukuba Library, as well as an Information and Media Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Digital Nature Development and Research. Specially-appointed professor at Digital Hollywood University, visiting professor at Osaka University of Arts and Kyoto City University of Arts, Visiting Professor at Kanazawa College of Art.
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Kenki Fukuoka
- Occupations
- rugby union player
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Kenki Fukuoka is a Japanese rugby union player. He was named in Japan's squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. He was selected for Japan's 2016 Olympic sevens squad and included in the squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, held in Japan for the first time. Fukuoka won the man of the match award in Japan's victory against Scotland in the 2019 World Cup on 13 October 2019; a victory that saw Japan reach the competition's knockout stage for the first time. In 2021, he entered the Medical school of Juntendo University for professional doctor career.
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Masato Yoshii
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- Major League Baseball playersbaseball coachbaseball playerprofessional baseball player
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Masato Yoshii, nicknamed "Oiyan", is a retired Japanese professional baseball player, former pitching coach and current manager for the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He pitched in Major League Baseball from 1998 to 2002.
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Masashi Nakayama
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- association football player
- Biography
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Masashi Nakayama, nicknamed "Gon" during his playing career, is a Japanese professional football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of J3 League club Azul Claro Numazu.
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Shogo Taniguchi
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Shogo Taniguchi is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Qatar Stars League club Al-Rayyan and the Japan national team.
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Naoya Ogawa
- Occupations
- judokamixed martial arts fighterprofessional wrestler
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Naoya Ogawa is a Japanese Olympic and world champion judoka, retired professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist. He won a total of seven medals at the All-Japan Judo Championships (second only behind Yasuhiro Yamashita), and set a record of seven medals at the World Judo Championships. Ogawa won the silver medal in the +95 kg judo weight class at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
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Yudai Baba
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Yudai Baba is a Japanese professional basketball player who last played for the Texas Legends of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the University of Tsukuba. Baba has been a member of the Japan men's national basketball team.
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Hanako Jimi
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- politician
- Biography
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Hanako Jimi is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Councillors of Japan.
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Choi Kyu-hah
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- politician
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Choi Kyu-hah, also spelled Choi Kyu-ha or Choi Gyu-ha, was a South Korean politician who served as the fourth President of South Korea from 1979 to 1980.
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Sota Hirayama
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Sota Hirayama is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
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Riyoko Ikeda
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- mangakasinger
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Riyoko Ikeda is a Japanese manga artist and singer. She is included in the Year 24 Group by some critics, journalists, and academics, although her inclusion has been debated due to a focus more on epic stories than the internal psychology of those mangaka. She was one of the most popular Japanese comic artists in the 1970s, being best known for The Rose of Versailles.
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Yukihiro Matsumoto
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineerprogrammer
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Yukihiro Matsumoto, also known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its original reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI). His demeanor has brought about a motto in the Ruby community: "Matz is nice and so we are nice," commonly abbreviated as MINASWAN.
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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
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- physicisttheoretical physicistresearcherprofessor
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Shinichiro Tomonaga, usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger.
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Kenta Hasegawa
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- association football managerassociation football player
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Kenta Hasegawa is a Japanese professional football manager and former player who is the manager of J1 League club of Nagoya Grampus.
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Saki Kumagai
- Occupations
- association football player
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Saki Kumagai is a Japanese footballer who plays as a midfielder or defender for Italian club AS Roma and captains the Japan national team. A versatile defensive midfielder with keen sense of anticipation and exceptional tactical acumen, she also able to be deployed as a central defender. She is regarded as one of the finest Asian female midfielders of all time. She is one of the most successful East Asian footballers, of any gender, at club and international level.
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Kozo Tashima
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- association football playeruniversity teacher
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Kozo Tashima is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team. He is current president of the Japan Football Association.
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Kota Matsuda
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- politician
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Kota Matsuda is a Japanese entrepreneur, enterprise manager, politician from Tokyo formerly belonging to Your Party until it was disbanded in December 2014. He founded The Assembly to Energize Japan in January 2015 and is the party leader.
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Eiji Ōtsuka
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- novelistmangakasociologistcritic
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Eiji Ōtsuka is a Japanese social critic, folklorist, media theorist, and novelist. He is currently a professor at International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto. He graduated from University of Tsukuba with a degree in anthropology, women's folklore, human sacrifice and post-war manga. In addition to his work with manga he is a critic, essayist, and author of several successful non-fiction books on Japanese popular and otaku subcultures. He has written the Multiple Personality Detective Psycho and The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service manga series. One of his first animation script works was Mahō no Rouge Lipstick, an adult lolicon OVA. Ōtsuka was the editor for the bishōjo lolicon manga series Petit Apple Pie.
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Hideki Shirakawa
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- 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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Hikaru Naomoto
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- association football player
- Biography
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Hikaru Naomoto is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for WE League club Urawa Reds and the Japan women's national team.
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Atsushi Fujii
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Atsushi Fujii is a retired Japanese professional outfielder. He spent his career playing for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Go Oiwa
- Occupations
- association football player
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Go Oiwa is a Japanese manager and former footballer, who is the current head coach of the Japan U23 national football team.
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Takanori Nagase
- Occupations
- judoka
- Biography
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Takanori Nagase is a Japanese judoka.
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Shintaro Kurumaya
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Shintaro Kurumaya is a Japanese footballer who plays as a left back for Kawasaki Frontale.
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Kozue Ando
- Occupations
- association football player
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Kozue Ando is a Japanese football player. Ando currently plays club football for the Urawa Reds Diamonds. She previously played for the Japan national team before retiring in 2015.
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John Maeda
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- university teacherinternational forum participantgraphic designercomputer scientistnew media artist
- Biography
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John Maeda is a Vice President of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft. He is an American technologist and designer whose work explores where business, design, and technology merge to make space for the "humanist technologist."
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Jungo Fujimoto
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Jungo Fujimoto is a former Japanese football player.
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Ryuji Sato
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- association football referee
- Biography
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Ryuji Sato is an international football referee from Japan. He has refereed many matches in the AFC Champions League and FIFA World Cup qualifiers. He is also a referee in J. League Division 1 in Japan.
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Fumitake Fujita
- Enrolled in the University of Tsukuba
- Studied in 2004
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneurteacher
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Fujita Fumitake is a Japanese businessman and politician. He is a member of the House of Representatives for Nippon Ishin no Kai. He serves as Secretary-General of the party and Diet Group, having succeeded Nobuyuki Baba upon him being elected party leader.
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Tsutomu Nishioka
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- critic
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Tsutomu Nishioka is a professor of International Christian Studies at Tokyo Christian University. He specializes in Japan-Korean relations, South Korea/North Korea Studies. His research focuses on the Comfort women and the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens. He is a chairman of the National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea (NARKN).
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Kenya Yasuda
- Occupations
- water polo player
- Biography
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Kenya Yasuda is a water polo player from Japan. He appeared in the Japanese Reality TV series Terrace House: Boys × Girls Next Door (2012), episodes 75 - 98 which depicts his water polo training and in which he expresses his dream to one day represent Japan in the Olympics. He makes a cameo appearance in the Japanese movie Terrace House: Closing Door (2015) in which he outlines the necessary steps he and his team must take to qualify for entry to the 2016 Rio Olympics. He was part of the Japanese team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where the team was eliminated in the group stage.
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Naotake Hanyu
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Naotake Hanyu is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
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Takashi Kiyama
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
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Takashi Kiyama is a Japanese manager and former footballer. He is the current manager of Fagiano Okayama.
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Kiyoko Ono
- Occupations
- politicianartistic gymnast
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Kiyoko Ono was a Japanese politician and gymnast. She competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a team bronze medal in 1964.
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Shinya Adachi
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- politician
- Biography
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Shinya Adachi is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party for the People, and a former member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).
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Sawao Katō
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- professorartistic gymnast
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Sawao Katō is a Japanese former gymnast and one of the most successful Olympic athletes of all time. Between 1968 and 1976 he won twelve Olympic medals, including eight gold medals.
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Yukio Endo
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- university teacherartistic gymnast
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Yukio Endō was a Japanese artistic gymnast, Olympic champion and world champion. He was part of the first Japanese team that succeeded to win gold medals in the team event at the Summer Olympics (1960) and World Championships (1962). In 1964 he won the first individual all-around Olympic gold medal for Japan. He was the flag bearer at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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Masashi Yanagisawa
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- medical researcherphysicianmanaging directorprofessor
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Masashi Yanagisawa is a Japanese-American molecular biologist and physician, famous for his discovery of the hormone endothelin and the neuropeptide orexin, the absence of which is the cause of narcolepsy. He is currently the Director of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba, and an adjunct professor at the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
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Shintaro Ikeda
- Occupations
- Olympic competitorbadminton player
- Biography
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Shintaro Ikeda is a male badminton player from Japan.
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Shuhei Yomoda
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- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Shuhei Yomoda is a Japanese professional football manager and former player who is the manager of J2 League club Yokohama FC.
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Kan Takahama
- Occupations
- mangaka
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Kan Takahama is a Japanese manga artist born in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture. Debuting in 2001, she became known for her short stories published in the alternative magazine Garo, later collected and republished in her award-winning Kinderbook. Her unique style often depicts the darker sides of everyday life through simplistic character designs and illustrations that blend manga and Franco-Belgian comics. She is internationally known for the manga Nyx no Lantern, winner of the 24th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award in 2020.
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Takuya Yamasawa
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Takuya Yamasawa is a Japanese rugby union player who plays as a Fly-half. He currently plays for Sunwolves in Super Rugby and Panasonic Wild Knights in Japan's domestic Top League.
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Yang Changji
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- philosopher
- Biography
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Yang Changji was a Chinese educator, philosopher, and writer. After advanced studies in Japan and Europe, he taught at Hunan First Normal University, where he exerted considerable influence on Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen, Xiao Zisheng, and others, and then at Peking University. He became considered one of the leading philosophers of his generation before his early death.
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Kentaro Moriya
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Kentaro Moriya is a Japanese footballer who plays as a attacking midfielder for J1 League club Sagan Tosu.
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Seiken Akamine
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Seiken Akamine is a Japanese politician of the Japanese Communist Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
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Marino Morikawa
- Enrolled in the University of Tsukuba
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Marino Morikawa is a Peruvian-Japanese environmental scientist. He is known for environmental work in Peru.
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Tadaaki Hirakawa
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Tadaaki Hirakawa is a former Japanese footballer. He is the current assistant manager of J1 League club Urawa Red Diamonds.
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Seiya Nakano
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Seiya Nakano is a Japanese football player for Omiya Ardija.
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Ham Seok-heon
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- peace activisthuman rights activisthistorianjournalistphilosopher
- Biography
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Ham Seok-heon was a notable figure in the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) movement in Korea, and was nicknamed the "Gandhi of Korea." Ham was an important Asian voice for human rights and non-violence during the 20th century, despite numerous imprisonments for his convictions. He was a Quaker who concluded that all religions are on common ground in terms of human beings, a view shared by many Quakers.
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Toshio Iwai
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- designercomposertelevision producerartist
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Toshio Iwai is a Japanese interactive media and installation artist who has also created a number of commercial video games. In addition he has worked in television, music performance, museum design and digital musical instrument design.
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Kota Yamamura
- Occupations
- volleyball player
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Kota Yamamura is a retired Japanese national volleyball player and used to play for Suntory Sunbirds on club level. He is currently active as Sunbirds' head coach.
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Akiyoshi Kitaoka
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- university teacherpsychologistscientist
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Akiyoshi Kitaoka is a Professor of Psychology at the College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.
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Makoto Hamaguchi
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- politician
- Biography
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Makoto Hamaguchi is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Councillors of Japan.
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Shūji Ono
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Shuji Ono is the former head coach for Toyota Alvark, Hitachi SunRockers and Earth Friends Tokyo Z in Japan.
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Yoshihiro Nitta
- Occupations
- cross-country skierbiathlete
- Biography
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Yoshihiro Nitta is a Japanese Paralympic cross-country skier and biathlete. He is regarded as one of the most experienced Japanese Paralympic competitors as he went onto represent Japan at the Paralympics in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022. Yoshihiro Nitta has clinched 4 medals in his Paralympic career including 2 gold medals at the 2010 Winter Paralympics. He achieved his 4th Paralympic medal in his career and the first medal since the 2010 Winter Paralympics after claiming a silver medal in the men's 1.5km sprint classic standing cross-country skiing event during the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
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Murad Nazarov
- Enrolled in the University of Tsukuba
- Studied in 2000-2001
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Murod Nazarov is an Uzbekistani businessman and Vice-president of the polo federation of Uzbekistan
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Takeshi Nagano
- Occupations
- volleyball player
- Biography
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Takeshi Nagano is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Panasonic Panthers.
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Toshiko Yuasa
- Occupations
- university teachernuclear physicist
- Biography
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Toshiko Yuasa was a Japanese nuclear physicist who worked in France. She was the first Japanese female physicist.
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Eri Yonamine
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Eri Yonamine is a Japanese professional racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Human Powered Health.
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Keisuke Uchida
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Keisuke Uchida is a Japanese rugby union player.
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Yukio Futatsugi
- Occupations
- video game developer
- Biography
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Yukio Futatsugi is a Japanese video game developer. His work includes leading the teams which created Sega Saturn games Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon II Zwei, Panzer Dragoon Saga, and Xbox title Phantom Dust. He is the co-founder of video game development company Grounding Inc, developers of Crimson Dragon.
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Ryota Kuwakubo
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- contemporary artistmultimedia artistvisual artist
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Ryota Kuwakubo is a Japanese multimedia artist. Kuwakubo was born in Tochigi Prefecture. In 1998 he co-produced the project BITMAN with the art unit Maywa Denki. Kuwakubo works with varying mediums, most commonly utilizing digital or electronic aspects, and a typical theme his works center on is contrasting matter.
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Stergomena Lawrence Tax
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianinternational forum participant
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Stergomena Lawrence Tax is Tanzania's minister of Defence and National Service the first woman to hold the title since the country’s independence. She was previously the Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation. Before that she served as the executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
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Ayaka Kōra
- Occupations
- athletics competitorlong jumper
- Biography
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Ayaka Kōra is a Japanese athlete specialising in the long jump. She won a silver medal at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships. She later also won a silver at the 2019 Asian Championships.
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Tatsuya Suzuki
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Tatsuya Suzuki is a former Japanese football player.
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Takashi Morita
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Takashi Morita is a Japanese politician of People's New Party, an independent and member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).
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Xu Shoushang
- Years
- 1883-1948 (aged 65)
- Occupations
- literary criticpoet
- Biography
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Xu Shoushang was a Chinese writer.
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Fang Chih
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianmilitary officergovernorparty leader
- Biography
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Fang Chih or Fang Zhi, courtesy name: Xikong (希孔), was a politician, provincial governor, diplomat, author and a high-ranking Kuomintang official of the Republic of China.
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Shusuke Ikuhara
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Shusuke Ikuhara is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for the Shinshu Brave Warriors of the B.League in Japan. He played college basketball for the University of Tsukuba.
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Shihomi Shin'ya
- Occupations
- speed skater
- Biography
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Shihomi Shinya is a Japanese speed skater. She competed in the women's 500 metres at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Yusuke Shimizu
- Occupations
- water polo player
- Biography
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Yusuke Shimizu is a water polo player from Japan. He was the captain of the Japanese team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where the team was eliminated in the group stage.
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Masakatsu Hikosaka
- Years
- 1991-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- rugby union playerrugby sevens player
- Biography
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Masakatsu Hikosaka is a Japanese rugby sevens player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics for Japan 7s's rugby sevens team. He also won a gold medal at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea as a member of the Japan 7sese squad. He plays in the Top League for Toyota Verblitz.
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Akiyuki Kido
- Occupations
- figure skating coachice dancer
- Biography
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Akiyuki Kido is a Japanese former ice dancer. He competed with Nozomi Watanabe. They are three-time Japanese national champions. They placed 15th at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino.
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Chen Shizeng
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Chen Shizeng, original name Chen Hengke, courtesy name Shizeng, art name Xiudaoren Xiuzhe, was a Chinese painter and critic, painter, and educator of early 20th-century China. At a time when some Chinese artists were rejecting traditional painting styles in favor of Western influenced styles, Chen championed traditional literati art in his own art and in his A Study of Chinese Literati Painting.
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Katsuyuki Tanamura
- Occupations
- water polo player
- Biography
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Katsuyuki Tanamura is a water polo player from Japan. He was part of the Japanese team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where the team was eliminated in the group stage. He also participated in the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Hiroyuki Kobayashi
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Hiroyuki Kobayashi is a Japanese former footballer.
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Minami Iju
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Minami Iju is a Japanese former basketball player who played for Denso Iris of the Women's Japan Basketball League. She also played for Japan women's national 3x3 team.
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Yoshiko Shirata
- Occupations
- accounting academicaccountant
- Biography
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"Cindy" Yoshiko Shirata is a Japanese accounting scholar who specialized in corporate bankruptcy prediction. She is best known for her SAF2002 bankruptcy prediction model. Her bankruptcy prediction model has been used by major banks and rating companies in Japan. She is considered one of the most well-known experts to develop bankruptcy prediction models in Japan.
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Taniko Nakamura-Mitsukuri
- Occupations
- artistic gymnast
- Biography
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Taniko Nakamura-Mitsukuri is a retired Japanese gymnast. She competed in all artistic gymnastics events at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won a team bronze medal in 1964 + bronze at the asymmetric bar during the 1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Her best individual achievement was seventh place on uneven bars in 1968. Born Taniko Nakamura she changed her last name after marrying Takashi Mitsukuri, a fellow Olympic gymnast.
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Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Biography
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Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi academic. He served as the 17th vice-chancellor of the University of Chittagong.
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Hiromichi Kataura
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Hiromichi Kataura is a Japanese scientist known for his work on synthesis and characterization of single-wall and double-wall carbon nanotubes and on encapsulation of water, fullerenes and other organic molecules into carbon nanotubes.
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Domingo Siazon
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Domingo Lim Siazon Jr. was a Filipino diplomat. He served as the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization from 1985 to 1992, the 18th Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2001, and the Philippine Ambassador to Japan from 1993 to 1995 (1st term) and 2001 to 2010 (2nd term).
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Takashi Eto
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Takashi Etō is a Japanese track and field athlete who competes in the high jump. His personal best is 2.30 m ( 7 ft 6+1⁄2 in), set in 2014. He won the gold medal in the event at the Asian Athletics Championships in 2015. He represented Japan at the 2014 Asian Games and was national champion that year.
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Sun Qichang
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sun Qichang, was a politician in the early Republic of China who subsequently served as a cabinet minister in the Empire of Manchukuo.
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Rogel Mari Sese
- Born in
- Philippines
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Rogel Mari D. Sese is a Filipino astrophysicist who is known for being a proponent of space science in the Philippines.
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Atsushi Kanazawa
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Atsushi Kanazawa is the former head coach of the Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka in the Japanese B.League.
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Yves Lafontaine
- Occupations
- conductorpoetluthierwriter
- Biography
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Yves Lafontaine, is a Canadian musician, luthier and writer.
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Hiroki Yamamoto
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Hiroki Yamamoto is a Japanese international rugby union player who plays as a flanker. He currently plays for the Toshiba Brave Lupus in Japan's domestic Top League.