Mizuki Saihara (born 2 December 1997) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for WE League…
Mizuki Saihara (born 2 December 1997) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for WE League club Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina.
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Famous Alumni of Hiroshima University
Hiroshima University: 30 people
Kazuki Murakami (村上一樹, Murakami Kazuki; born December 21, 1987) is a Japanese football player for Burapha United in…
Kazuki Murakami (村上一樹, Murakami Kazuki; born December 21, 1987) is a Japanese football player for Burapha United in Thai League 3.
🎓 Hiroshima University🏫 Saijo High School📅 Born December 21🎂 Born 1987📍 From Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture💼 Football (Soccer)
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Yoshinobu Ohira (Japanese: 大平 喜信, Hepburn: Ōhiro Yoshinobu; 28 February 1978) is a member of the Japanese Communist…
Yoshinobu Ohira (Japanese: 大平 喜信, Hepburn: Ōhiro Yoshinobu; 28 February 1978) is a member of the Japanese Communist Party serving in the House of Representatives as a representative of the Chūgoku region's proportional block. He is against a reinterpretation of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution to allow for collective self defence. Ohira is also against nuclear weapons and thinks that the world should cooperate in the goal of eliminating them.
🎓 Hiroshima University🏫 Hiroshima Funairi High School📅 Born February 28🎂 Born 1978📍 From Hiroshima Prefecture💼 Politician・Legislator
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Mami Tamura (たむら まみ, Tamura Mami; born 23 April 1976) is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of…
Mami Tamura (たむら まみ, Tamura Mami; born 23 April 1976) is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Councillors of Japan.
Kōhei Kiyasu (喜安 浩平,, Kiyasu Kouhei; born February 19, 1975) is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and scriptwriter from…
Kōhei Kiyasu (喜安 浩平,, Kiyasu Kouhei; born February 19, 1975) is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and scriptwriter from Ehime Prefecture. He is a graduate of Hiroshima University, where he majored in art. He is a member of the Nylon 100 °C theater troupe, as well as the chairman of his own troupe Bull Docking Headlock (ブルドッキングヘッドロック).
Mika Yokota (横田 美香, Yokota Mika; born 1 August 1971) is a Japanese politician and former civil servant serving as…
Mika Yokota (横田 美香, Yokota Mika; born 1 August 1971) is a Japanese politician and former civil servant serving as Governor of Hiroshima since November 2025. She previously served as Vice Governor of Toyama Prefecture and Hiroshima Prefecture, and held senior positions in Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Cabinet Secretariat. She is the first woman elected Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture and the first female governor in the Chūgoku region.
🎓 Hiroshima University🏫 Hiroshima University Affiliated High School📅 Born August 1🎂 Born 1971📍 From Kure, Hiroshima💼 Politician・Legislator💼 Bureaucrat
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Birgit Kellner is an Austrian Buddhologist and Tibetologist. She studied Buddhology and Tibetology at University of…
Birgit Kellner is an Austrian Buddhologist and Tibetologist. She studied Buddhology and Tibetology at University of Vienna, where she received a master's degree in 1994 under the supervision of Ernst Steinkellner, and at the Hiroshima University, where she earned her doctorate in 1999 under the supervision of Katsura Shōryū. After a series of research projects, including as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Hamburg, as well as a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, she joined the University of Heidelberg in 2010 as Professor of Buddhist Studies within the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context". In 2015, she returned to Austria to serve as the Director of the Institute for Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia in Vienna, part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Hidehiko Yuzaki (湯崎 英彦, Yuzaki Hidehiko; born 4 October 1965) is a Japanese politician and former governor of Hiroshima…
Hidehiko Yuzaki (湯崎 英彦, Yuzaki Hidehiko; born 4 October 1965) is a Japanese politician and former governor of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan.
Katsuya Kodama (児玉 克哉, Kodama Katsuya; March 10, 1959 – October 2021 ) was a Japanese peace researcher and sociologist…
Katsuya Kodama (児玉 克哉, Kodama Katsuya; March 10, 1959 – October 2021 ) was a Japanese peace researcher and sociologist who specializes in the research on non-violent peace activism, the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, refugee issues, foreign workers, and peace-building. He is a current Secretary-General of International Peace Research Association, former professor and vice president at Mie University and former vice president of International Social Science Council at UNESCO.
🎓 Hiroshima University📅 Born March 30🎂 Born 1959📍 From Akitakata, Hiroshima💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor
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Osamu Fujimura (藤村 修, Fujimura Osamu; born 3 November 1949) is a former Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of…
Osamu Fujimura (藤村 修, Fujimura Osamu; born 3 November 1949) is a former Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, who served as Chief Cabinet Secretary under Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda from 2011 to 2012. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2012.
Mitiko Miura-Mattausch (Japanese: 三浦 道子, born 1949) is a Japanese electronics engineer specializing in the design…
Mitiko Miura-Mattausch (Japanese: 三浦 道子, born 1949) is a Japanese electronics engineer specializing in the design, modeling, and simulation of electronic components based on semiconductors, including MOSFETs and new models for transistors in LDMOS. She is a professor at Hiroshima University.
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Tomoyuki Nishita (西田 友是, Nishita Tomoyuki; born 1949 in Hiroshima, Japan) is a professor at the University of Tokyo.…
Tomoyuki Nishita (西田 友是, Nishita Tomoyuki; born 1949 in Hiroshima, Japan) is a professor at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Nishita received a research award for computer graphics from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 1987, and also received the Steven Anson Coons Award from the ACM SIGGRAPH in 2005. He is one of the pioneers of the method of radiosity (also soft shadows). His research on computer graphics includes lighting simulation, rendering, shading, natural phenomena, curved surface, non-photorealistic rendering (NPR), morphing, interactive rendering, and WebGraphics. Nishita received his BE, ME and Ph.D in engineering in 1971, 1973, and 1985, respectively, from Hiroshima University. He worked at Fukuyama University from 1979 to 1998. He was an associate researcher in the Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory at Brigham Young University from 1988 to 1989. He has lectured at the University of Tokyo since 1994, and has been a professor in the Department of Complexity Science and Engineering at the university since 1998. He has written 23 SIGGRAPH papers and 18 EUROGRAPHICS papers. He was a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. He was a president of the IIEEJ (Institute of Image and Electronics Engineers of Japan).
🎓 Hiroshima University🏫 Hiroshima Minami High School📅 Born January 4🎂 Born 1949📍 From Hiroshima Prefecture💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor
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Masashi Goto (Japanese: 後藤政志, Gotō Manashi, born 1949) is a Japanese nuclear engineer, author, activist and commentator…
Masashi Goto (Japanese: 後藤政志, Gotō Manashi, born 1949) is a Japanese nuclear engineer, author, activist and commentator on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. He is the designer of the nuclear reactor vessels owned by Toshiba, where he worked from 1989 to 2009. His designs include the containment buildings of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (Units 3 and 6), Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant (Units 3 and 4) and Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant (Unit 3). Toshiba manufactured four of the six reactors the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the 1970s. He rose to public prominence on 14 March 2011 by being the first "insider" (Note: he retired from Toshiba in 2009) addressing the press at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, three days after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since then, he became a regular commentator and featured as an expert in hearings regarding the nuclear disaster at Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and House of Councillors. From April 2013, he joined as an expert on the Citizen's Commission on Nuclear Energy, a think tank composed of professors of public policy.
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Kimiko Itō (位藤 紀美子, Itō Kimiko; born 1945) is a Japanese pedagogue who specialises in language pedagogy for the…
Kimiko Itō (位藤 紀美子, Itō Kimiko; born 1945) is a Japanese pedagogue who specialises in language pedagogy for the Japanese language. Born in Ehime Prefecture, she spent over thirty-five years as part of the staff at Kyoto University of Education. After spending months as a professor at Biwako-Gakuin University, she returned to the Kyoto University of Education to become president after Mitsuyo Terada resigned as a result of a sexual violence scandal involving the university's students, serving from 2009 until 2016.
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Akira Sakata (born 21 February 1945) is a Japanese free jazz saxophonist.
Yoshio Koide (小出 義夫, Koide Yoshio; born May 16, 1942, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa) is a Japanese theoretical physicist…
Yoshio Koide (小出 義夫, Koide Yoshio; born May 16, 1942, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa) is a Japanese theoretical physicist specializing in particle physics. He is best known for the Koide formula, a relation among the masses of charged leptons that has attracted attention for its surprising accuracy. While some physicists regard the formula as potentially significant, others consider it to be a numerical coincidence.
Noriko Kamakura (鎌倉 矩子; September 29, 1939 – June 16, 2023):22 was a practitioner, researcher, and academic leader in…
Noriko Kamakura (鎌倉 矩子; September 29, 1939 – June 16, 2023):22 was a practitioner, researcher, and academic leader in occupational therapy. She was in the initial generation of people who became occupational therapists in Japan. She greatly influenced how occupational therapy developed in that country, contributing especially in clinical approaches to persons with central nervous disorders of executive functions. In addition, she explored function of the hand in enough detail to develop a system of taxonomies that can account for the vast majority of postures and movements of the hand.
🎓 Hiroshima University🏫 Suwa Futaba High School📅 Born September 29🎂 Born 1939📍 From Hara, Nagano💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor
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Yoshinobu Ishii (石井 義信, Ishii Yoshinobu; March 13, 1939 – April 26, 2018) was a Japanese football player and manager.…
Yoshinobu Ishii (石井 義信, Ishii Yoshinobu; March 13, 1939 – April 26, 2018) was a Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team. He also managed Japan national team.
🎓 Hiroshima University🏫 Fukuyama Iyo High School📅 Born March 13🎂 Born 1939📍 From Fukuyama, Hiroshima💼 Football (Soccer)
Naganori Ito (伊藤 修令, Itō Naganori; born 1937) is a Japanese automotive engineer, and was responsible for the…
Naganori Ito (伊藤 修令, Itō Naganori; born 1937) is a Japanese automotive engineer, and was responsible for the development of the eighth generation R32 Nissan Skyline including the BNR32 Skyline GT-R.
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Kenzo Ohashi (大橋 謙三, Ohashi Kenzo; April 21, 1934 – December 21, 2015) was a Japanese football player and manager. He…
Kenzo Ohashi (大橋 謙三, Ohashi Kenzo; April 21, 1934 – December 21, 2015) was a Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.
🎓 Hiroshima University🏫 Hiroshima University Affiliated High School📅 Born April 21🎂 Born 1935📍 From Hiroshima Prefecture💼 Football (Soccer)
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Arawa Kimura (木村 現, Kimura Arawa; July 8, 1931 – February 21, 2007) was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan…
Arawa Kimura (木村 現, Kimura Arawa; July 8, 1931 – February 21, 2007) was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
🎓 Hiroshima University🏫 Hiroshima University Affiliated High School📅 Born July 8🎂 Born 1931📍 From Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture💼 Football (Soccer)
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Wataru Kubo (久保 亘, Kubo Wataru; 15 January 1929 – 24 June 2003) was a Japanese politician from the Japan Socialist…
Wataru Kubo (久保 亘, Kubo Wataru; 15 January 1929 – 24 June 2003) was a Japanese politician from the Japan Socialist Party, and then from the Democratic Party of Japan. He served as deputy prime minister and finance minister of Japan from 11 January 1996 to 7 November 1996.
Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid (7 July 1925 – 18 July 2013) was a Malaysian academic and the only Malaysian survivor of the…
Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid (7 July 1925 – 18 July 2013) was a Malaysian academic and the only Malaysian survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. A prominent professor of the Japanese language, he was nicknamed "Razak-sensei" by friends and university students.
Sunao Tsuboi (坪井 直, Tsuboi Sunao; May 5, 1925 – October 24, 2021) was a Japanese anti-nuclear, anti-war activist, and…
Sunao Tsuboi (坪井 直, Tsuboi Sunao; May 5, 1925 – October 24, 2021) was a Japanese anti-nuclear, anti-war activist, and teacher. He was a hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and was the co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, a Japan-wide organisation of atomic and hydrogen bomb sufferers. He was awarded the Kiyoshi Tanimoto peace prize in 2011.
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Tsuguo Hongo (本郷 次雄, Hongō Tsuguo; November 1, 1923 – April 2, 2007) was a Japanese mycologist who specialized in the…
Tsuguo Hongo (本郷 次雄, Hongō Tsuguo; November 1, 1923 – April 2, 2007) was a Japanese mycologist who specialized in the biogeography and taxonomy of Agaricales. Hongo entered the Department of Biology at what is now Hiroshima University in 1943, where he studied botany until graduating in 1946 with a B.Sc. Hongo received his Ph.D. degree, entitled "Agaricales of Japan", from Kyoto University in 1961 while working under Dr. Shiro Kitamura. He was president of the Mycological Society of Japan from 1987 to 1989. In 2003 he was awarded the Minakata Kumagusu Award for contributions to mycology. Hongo published more than 130 scientific papers and 9 books. He also described 215 new taxa of Agaricales from a variety of locations. Fungus species named after Hongo include: Amanita hongoi, Boletus hongoi, Xerula hongoi, Pluteus hongoi, Russula hongoi, Strobilomyces hongoi, and Tylopilus hongoi. Hongo may be considered a case of cross-lingual nominative determinism, as the word hongo means "mushroom" or "fungus" in Spanish.
Akira Nozawa (野澤 晁, Nozawa Akira) was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. His brother Masao…
Akira Nozawa (野澤 晁, Nozawa Akira) was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. His brother Masao Nozawa also played for Japan national team.
🎓 Hiroshima University🏫 Hiroshima University Affiliated High School📅 Born August 15🎂 Born 1914📍 From Hiroshima Prefecture💼 Football (Soccer)
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Masao Nozawa (野澤 正雄, Nozawa Masao) was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. His brother Akira…
Masao Nozawa (野澤 正雄, Nozawa Masao) was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. His brother Akira Nozawa also played for Japan national team.
🎓 Hiroshima University🏫 Hiroshima University Affiliated High School📅 Born August 26🎂 Born 1906📍 From Hiroshima Prefecture💼 Football (Soccer)
Satoru Nakamura (中村 知, Nakamura Satoru; February 21, 1893 - March 1, 1972), Scout name "Chi-yan", (ちーやん meaning?), pen…
Satoru Nakamura (中村 知, Nakamura Satoru; February 21, 1893 - March 1, 1972), Scout name "Chi-yan", (ちーやん meaning?), pen name Higashino Michiyoshi (東野通義), was a Japanese educator and Scouting leader active during the expansion period of Scouting in Japan, both before World War II and the postwar rebuilding period. Nakamura is known for 『ちーやん夜話集』Chi-yan yawa-shū "Chi-yan Night Story Collection", lyric composition of many Scout songs, and translation of books which form the foundation of Scoutcraft. In 1909, while studying at a high school affiliated with Hiroshima High Normal School (now Hiroshima University), he gained knowledge of British Scouting from the then principal Hōjō Tokiyuki, who gathered 30 students into the "Jōtō Group", in which he advanced to group leader. In 1923, he became a teacher of the Osaka Prefectural Takatsu Junior High School (now Takatsu High School) History Department, established a Scout group as part of club activities, and served as Scoutmaster until 1939. In 1929, Nakamura attended the 3rd World Scout Jamboree, and completed the international leaders training course at Gilwell Park. In 1939 he took office as Director of the Board of the Boy Scouts of Japan, in charge of training Boy Scout leaders. In 1950, the Camp Nasu campsite of the Boy Scouts of Japan was established, and Nakamura became the camp chief. In 1966, he received the Order of the Sacred Treasure 5th class, Gold and Silver Rays.
🎓 Hiroshima University🏫 Hiroshima University Affiliated High School📅 Born February 21🎂 Born 1893📍 From Hiroshima Prefecture
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Hiroko Oyamada (小山田 浩子, Oyamada Hiroko; born 1983) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Shincho Prize for New Writers…
Hiroko Oyamada (小山田 浩子, Oyamada Hiroko; born 1983) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Shincho Prize for New Writers, the Oda Sakunosuke Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize.
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Pengiran Muhammad Yusuf bin Pengiran Haji Abdul Rahim (2 May 1923 – 11 April 2016), pen name Yura Halim, was a Bruneian…
Pengiran Muhammad Yusuf bin Pengiran Haji Abdul Rahim (2 May 1923 – 11 April 2016), pen name Yura Halim, was a Bruneian civil servant, diplomat, educator and noble poet. He served as Brunei's state secretary from 1964 to 1967 before becoming the third menteri besar (chief minister) from 1968 to 1972. He later held prominent diplomatic roles as Brunei's high commissioner to Malaysia from 1995 to 2001 and ambassador to Japan from 2001 to 2002. Additionally, he was appointed a member of the Legislative Council of Brunei (LegCo) in 2011, serving in the position until his passing in 2016. He was one of the "Three M's" or "Three Musketeers," feared by the British government, alongside Marsal Maun and Pengiran Muhammad Ali. As a prominent member of the Brunei Malay Teachers Association (PGGMB), Pengiran Muhammad Yusuf, along with figures like Jamil Al-Sufri, played a pivotal role in opposing British colonial influence in Brunei during the early 1950s. A hibakusha, he was widely recognised for his contributions to Brunei's governance, literature, and diplomacy. Notably, he became the first Bruneian to receive an honorary doctorate from Hiroshima University and wrote the lyrics to the national anthem Allah Peliharakan Sultan.
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