Yu Hirosawa (廣澤 優, Hirosawa Yu; born 27 April 2001) is a Japanese professional pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of…
Yu Hirosawa (廣澤 優, Hirosawa Yu; born 27 April 2001) is a Japanese professional pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
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Famous Alumni of Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University
Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University: 27 people
Shōgo Sakakura (坂倉 将吾, Sakakura Shōgo; born May 29, 1998) is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Hiroshima…
Shōgo Sakakura (坂倉 将吾, Sakakura Shōgo; born May 29, 1998) is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Yukiya Itoh (伊藤 裕季也, Itoh Yukiya; born August 30, 1996 in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball…
Yukiya Itoh (伊藤 裕季也, Itoh Yukiya; born August 30, 1996 in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in NPB for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
Toshitake Yokoo (横尾 俊建, Yokoo Toshitake; born May 27, 1993 in Tama, Tokyo) is a Japanese retired professional baseball…
Toshitake Yokoo (横尾 俊建, Yokoo Toshitake; born May 27, 1993 in Tama, Tokyo) is a Japanese retired professional baseball infielder.
Shun Takayama (髙山 俊, Takayama Shun; born April 18, 1993 in Funabashi, Chiba) is a Japanese professional baseball…
Shun Takayama (髙山 俊, Takayama Shun; born April 18, 1993 in Funabashi, Chiba) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Sachiya Yamasaki (山崎 福也, Yamasaki Sachiya; born September 9, 1992 in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan) is a Japanese…
Sachiya Yamasaki (山崎 福也, Yamasaki Sachiya; born September 9, 1992 in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Yuta Yoshida (吉田 裕太, Yoshida Yūta; born July 21, 1991 in Nagareyama) is a Japanese former professional baseball…
Yuta Yoshida (吉田 裕太, Yoshida Yūta; born July 21, 1991 in Nagareyama) is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher. He played for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball from 2014 to 2021.
🎓 Rissho University🏫 Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University📅 Born July 21🎂 Born 1991📍 From Nagareyama, Chiba Prefecture💼 Baseball
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Ryota Sekiya (関谷 亮太, Sekiya Ryōta; born May 10, 1991 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan) is a former Nippon Professional…
Ryota Sekiya (関谷 亮太, Sekiya Ryōta; born May 10, 1991 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan) is a former Nippon Professional Baseball player. He played for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Pacific League from 2016 to 2018.
Fumiya Araki (Japanese 荒木 郁也; born 25 April 1988) is a Japanese professional baseball infielder who currently plays for…
Fumiya Araki (Japanese 荒木 郁也; born 25 April 1988) is a Japanese professional baseball infielder who currently plays for the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball.
Hideki Chiba (born October 25, 1983) is a former baseball player based in Japan. He played for the Yokohama Bay Stars…
Hideki Chiba (born October 25, 1983) is a former baseball player based in Japan. He played for the Yokohama Bay Stars in the Central League during the 2002 season, posting a 3.38 ERA in eight innings pitched.
🏫 Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University📅 Born October 25🎂 Born 1983📍 From Hachiōji, Tokyo💼 Baseball
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Kazuki Kondoh (近藤 一樹, born July 8, 1983) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Kagawa Olive Guyners of…
Kazuki Kondoh (近藤 一樹, born July 8, 1983) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Kagawa Olive Guyners of the Shikoku Island League Plus. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes, Orix Buffaloes and Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Satoru Higashi (東 悟, Higashi Satoru; born 18 July 1963) is a Japanese boxer. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics…
Satoru Higashi (東 悟, Higashi Satoru; born 18 July 1963) is a Japanese boxer. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics.
🎓 Nihon University🏫 Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University📅 Born July 18🎂 Born 1963📍 From Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture💼 Trainer
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Ukyo Katayama (Japanese: 片山 右京, Hepburn: Katayama Ukyō; born 29 May 1963) is a Japanese former racing driver and…
Ukyo Katayama (Japanese: 片山 右京, Hepburn: Katayama Ukyō; born 29 May 1963) is a Japanese former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1992 to 1997. Katayama participated in 97 Grands Prix, debuting at the 1992 South African Grand Prix, making him the sport's second most experienced Japanese driver. He scored a total of five championship points, all of them for the Tyrrell team in 1994. Katayama also competed in the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing second overall and leading the GTP class. He has managed the Japanese continental cycling team Team UKYO since 2012.
🎓 Osaka Sangyo University🏫 Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University📅 Born May 29🎂 Born 1963📍 From Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture💼 Racing Driver💼 Mountaineer💼 Cycling
Kazuto Nonaka (Japanese: 野中寿人, born June 6, 1961) is a Japanese baseball coach and promoter. He has managed the…
Kazuto Nonaka (Japanese: 野中寿人, born June 6, 1961) is a Japanese baseball coach and promoter. He has managed the Indonesia national baseball team and is currently the manager of the Pakistan national baseball team, which he skippered at the 2025 Asian Baseball Championship. Nonaka played with Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University as a catcher at the 1979 Summer Koshien tournament. Despite offers from professional baseball teams, he chose to attend university. Despite wishing to attend Meiji University, he was pressured to enroll at Nihon University. He dropped out six months later. He worked outside of baseball in Japan and the Philippines before moving to Indonesia in 2001, where he ran a tourism business. Nonaka began coaching youth baseball in Bali, and his work eventually earned him appointment as the manager of the Indonesian national baseball team. He steered Indonesia at the 2009 Asian Baseball Championship, its first appearance at the top level of baseball competition in Asia. He managed the Sri Lanka national baseball team at the 2019 West Asia Baseball Cup, winning the gold, and the 2023 West Asia Baseball Cup. He also coached Sri Lanka to a semifinals berth at the Baseball United Arab Classic, held in Dubai in 2024. Nonaka helped found the Saga Asian Dreams, a minor league team playing in Japan's Kyushu Asia League. His vision for the team was to sign emerging talents from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and other Asian countries where baseball is a developing sport. In July 2025, Pakistan Federation Baseball announced that it had hired Nonaka as manager for the Pakistan at the 2025 Asian Baseball Championship. Nonaka's experience with Saga Asian Dreams, and its two Pakistani pitchers, Faisal Hayat and Musharaf Khan, was cited as a factor in the appointment.
🎓 Nihon University🏫 Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University📅 Born June 6🎂 Born 1961📍 From Tokyo💼 Baseball
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Sho Kosugi (ショー・コスギ, Shō Kosugi; born Shōichi Kosugi (小杉 正一, Kosugi Shōichi) on June 17, 1948) is a Japanese actor…
Sho Kosugi (ショー・コスギ, Shō Kosugi; born Shōichi Kosugi (小杉 正一, Kosugi Shōichi) on June 17, 1948) is a Japanese actor, martial artist and writer with extensive training in Shindō jinen-ryū Karate, Kendo, Judo, Iaido, Kobudo, Aikido and Ninjutsu. A former All Japan Karate Champion, he gained popularity as an actor during the 1980s, often playing ninjas. He starred in a trilogy of martial arts ninja films produced by Cannon Films (Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja and Ninja III: The Domination), before starring in the primetime television series The Master. His work helped establish ninjas in popular culture, leading to a "ninja boom" or "ninjamania" during the early-to-mid-1980s.
🎓 Nihon University🏫 Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University📅 Born June 17🎂 Born 1948💼 Actor
Makoto Satō (佐藤允, Satō Makoto; 18 March 1934 – 6 December 2012) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one…
Makoto Satō (佐藤允, Satō Makoto; 18 March 1934 – 6 December 2012) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1953 to 2008.
Hiroshi Suzuki (鈴木 弘, Suzuki Hiroshi; born September 18, 1933) is a retired Japanese freestyle swimmer. He competed in…
Hiroshi Suzuki (鈴木 弘, Suzuki Hiroshi; born September 18, 1933) is a retired Japanese freestyle swimmer. He competed in the 100 m and 4×200 m relay events at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won two silver medals in 1952. In the 100 m event in the 1952 Olympics, Hiroshi actually posted an identical time to the eventual gold medal winner, Clarke Scholes of the US. Officials used a judges decision to award Clarke Scholes the gold medal and Hiroshi Suzuki the silver medal. He won gold medals in these two events at the 1954 Asian Games.
🏫 Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University📅 Born September 18🎂 Born 1933📍 From Tokyo💼 Competitive Swimming・Swimming
Junzo Sekine (関根 潤三, Sekine Junzō; March 15, 1927 – April 9, 2020) was a Japanese professional baseball player who…
Junzo Sekine (関根 潤三, Sekine Junzō; March 15, 1927 – April 9, 2020) was a Japanese professional baseball player who played as two ways as a pitcher and outfielder. He spent the majority of this career with the Kintetsu Pearls/Kintetsu Buffalo/Kintetsu Buffaloes. As a rookie in 1950, Sekine attracted attention by batting 3rd, 4th, or 5th in the Kintetsu Pearls' lineup while pitching in the game. Sekine focused on pitching from 1950 to 1957, but spent the latter half of his career (1958 to 1965) as a position player. His best year as a pitcher was 1954, when he went 16–12 with a 2.44 earned run average and 118 strikeouts. His best years as a hitter were in 1962–1963, when he hit and .301 and .296 respectively, with a total of 21 home runs and 115 RBI. Sekine was elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003. Sekine died on April 9, 2020, in Tokyo, at the age of 93.
🎓 Hosei University🏫 Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University📅 Born March 15🎂 Born 1927💼 Baseball💼 Analyst (Commentator)
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Rikuo Nemoto (根本 陸夫, Nemoto Rikuo; November 20, 1926 – April 30, 1999) was a Japanese professional baseball catcher and…
Rikuo Nemoto (根本 陸夫, Nemoto Rikuo; November 20, 1926 – April 30, 1999) was a Japanese professional baseball catcher and manager in the Nippon Professional Baseball. For his management skills in the front office, he was elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001.
Kunio Tsuji (辻 邦生, Tsuji Kunio; September 24, 1925 – July 29, 1999) was a Japanese author, novelist, and scholar of…
Kunio Tsuji (辻 邦生, Tsuji Kunio; September 24, 1925 – July 29, 1999) was a Japanese author, novelist, and scholar of French literature. Tsuji was born in Tokyo, attended Matsumoto High School with Kita Morio, and studied French literature at the University of Tokyo. After graduation, he became an instructor at Gakushūin University and a literary critic. He spent the years 1957-1960 in France, which strongly influenced his development as a novelist. In 1963 he published his first mature work, Kairō nite (In the Corridor), which was awarded the Prize for Modern Literature. Some of his more celebrated later novels include Azuchi ōkanki (1968, translated as The Signore), winner of a Ministry of Education Commendation in the Arts for New Artists; Haikyōsha Yurianusu (The Apostate Julianus, 1972), winner of a Mainichi Award for Art; and Saigyo kaden (西行花伝, The Life of Saigyo) for which he received the 1995 Tanizaki Prize. Tsuji's works were on the whole idealistic and spiritual. They included many historical novels in which the protagonists search for the meaning of life at times of great social change. Tsuji died of cardial infarction at a hospital in Karuizawa, Nagano.
Mitsuo Miura (三浦光雄, Miura Mitsuo; 25 October 1902 – 24 October 1956) was a Japanese cinematographer who photographed…
Mitsuo Miura (三浦光雄, Miura Mitsuo; 25 October 1902 – 24 October 1956) was a Japanese cinematographer who photographed more than 100 films in a career that spanned 30 years. He worked for film directors such as Shirō Toyoda, Heinosuke Gosho, Mikio Naruse, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, and Kajirō Yamamoto. An award for new cinematographers was named after him in his memory.
Toshichi Iwata (岩田 藤七, Iwata Tōshichi; 12 March 1893– 23 August 1980) was a Japanese glass artist considered to be the…
Toshichi Iwata (岩田 藤七, Iwata Tōshichi; 12 March 1893– 23 August 1980) was a Japanese glass artist considered to be the founding father of modern art glass making in Japan. Active from 1927 until his death, he created unique studio works as well as production pieces. During his lifetime, Iwata was considered to be Japan's foremost authority on modern glass craft.
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Okamoto Ippei (岡本 一平) (June 11, 1886 – October 11, 1948) was a Japanese illustrator, cartoonist, and writer.
Shōji Nishikawa (Japanese: 西川 正治, Nishikawa Shōji, 5 December 1884 – 5 January 1952) was a Japanese physicist and a…
Shōji Nishikawa (Japanese: 西川 正治, Nishikawa Shōji, 5 December 1884 – 5 January 1952) was a Japanese physicist and a founding father of crystallography in Japan.
Baron Kumakichi Nakajima (中島久万吉, Nakajima Kumakichi; 24 July 1873 – 25 April 1960) was an entrepreneur, politician and…
Baron Kumakichi Nakajima (中島久万吉, Nakajima Kumakichi; 24 July 1873 – 25 April 1960) was an entrepreneur, politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan.
Showtaro Morikubo (森久保 祥太郎, Morikubo Shōtarō; born February 25, 1974) is a Japanese voice actor and singer who has…
Showtaro Morikubo (森久保 祥太郎, Morikubo Shōtarō; born February 25, 1974) is a Japanese voice actor and singer who has voiced characters in anime, drama CDs, and video games. He was formerly affiliated with I'm Enterprise, Sigma Seven and VIMS. His most notable roles were Shikamaru Nara from Naruto, Souji Okita in the Hakuouki series, X in the Mega Man X series, Yuusuke Makishima from Yowamushi Pedal, and Yosuke Hanamura from Persona 4.
🎓 Tama Art University🏫 Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University📍 From Hachiōji, Tokyo💼 Voice Actor
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Tomisaburō Wakayama (若山 富三郎, Wakayama Tomisaburō; September 1, 1929 – April 2, 1992), born Masaru Okumura (奥村 勝), was a…
Tomisaburō Wakayama (若山 富三郎, Wakayama Tomisaburō; September 1, 1929 – April 2, 1992), born Masaru Okumura (奥村 勝), was a Japanese actor best known for playing Ogami Ittō, the scowling ronin warrior in the six Lone Wolf and Cub samurai films.
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