Natsumi Akiyama (born 23 July 1994) is a Japanese handball player for Aranmare Toyama and the Japanese national team.…
Natsumi Akiyama (born 23 July 1994) is a Japanese handball player for Aranmare Toyama and the Japanese national team. She has previously played for the Hungarian clubs Kisvárdai KC and Szombathelyi KKA, as well as Hokkoku Bank in Japan. She represented Japan at the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship. She represented Japan again at the 2025 World Championship. At the 2024 Asian Championship she won gold medals with the Japanese team.
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Yuki Morikawa (森川 裕基, Morikawa Yūki; born January 7, 1993, in Kyoto) is a Japanese football player who currently plays…
Yuki Morikawa (森川 裕基, Morikawa Yūki; born January 7, 1993, in Kyoto) is a Japanese football player who currently plays for Kamatamare Sanuki.
Kaho Sunami (角南果帆, Sunami Kaho; born 5 January 1993) is a Japanese handball player for Sony Semiconductor and the…
Kaho Sunami (角南果帆, Sunami Kaho; born 5 January 1993) is a Japanese handball player for Sony Semiconductor and the Japanese national team. She participated at the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship.
Yuki Tanabe (田邉 夕貴, Tanabe Yuki; born 25 August 1989) is a Japanese handballer for Hokkoku Bank and the Japanese…
Yuki Tanabe (田邉 夕貴, Tanabe Yuki; born 25 August 1989) is a Japanese handballer for Hokkoku Bank and the Japanese national team. She represented her country at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia.
Kohei Narita (成田 幸平, Narita Kohei; born 15 June 1989) is a Japanese handball player for Wakunaga Leolic and the…
Kohei Narita (成田 幸平, Narita Kohei; born 15 June 1989) is a Japanese handball player for Wakunaga Leolic and the Japanese national team. He plays in the left back position. He participated at the 2017 World Men's Handball Championship. His first Olympics games participation was in 2020.
🎓 Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born June 15🎂 Born 1989📍 From Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture💼 Handball
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Ai Ueda (Japanese: 上田藍, born 26 October 1983 in Kyoto) is a Japanese triathlete. She is the winner of the 2005 and 2008…
Ai Ueda (Japanese: 上田藍, born 26 October 1983 in Kyoto) is a Japanese triathlete. She is the winner of the 2005 and 2008 Asian Triathlon Championship and the winner of the 2013 ITU Duathlon World Championships. She has represented Japan in triathlon in both the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Yuki Nakata (中田 有紀, Nakata Yuki; born 10 March 1977) is a Japanese track and field athlete who competes in the women's…
Yuki Nakata (中田 有紀, Nakata Yuki; born 10 March 1977) is a Japanese track and field athlete who competes in the women's heptathlon. She represented Japan at the 2004 Summer Olympics and has competed twice at the World Championships in Athletics. She was the silver medallist at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships and the 2010 Asian Games and has won the heptathlon at the East Asian Games and the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships. With straight wins from 2002 to 2010, she is a nine time national champion and her best of 5962 points for the heptathlon is the national record for the event.
Naoto Nakamura (中村直人, Nakamura Naoto) (born 18 January 1969) is a Japanese former rugby union player who played as…
Naoto Nakamura (中村直人, Nakamura Naoto) (born 18 January 1969) is a Japanese former rugby union player who played as prop. He played 20 tests for the Japan national rugby union team including two matches in 1999 Rugby World Cup. Currently he is the scrum coach for Canon Eagles.
🎓 Doshisha University🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born January 18🎂 Born 1969📍 From Kyoto Prefecture💼 Company President・Entrepreneur💼 Rugby
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Cho Kwi-jae (born 16 January 1969) is a former Zainichi Korean football player and manager who is currently the manager…
Cho Kwi-jae (born 16 January 1969) is a former Zainichi Korean football player and manager who is currently the manager of J1 League club Urawa Red Diamonds.
🎓 Waseda University🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born January 16🎂 Born 1969📍 From Kyoto Prefecture💼 Football (Soccer)
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Yuji Nakae (中江 裕司, Nakae Yūji) is a Japanese film director who specializes in films set in Okinawa, featuring Okinawan…
Yuji Nakae (中江 裕司, Nakae Yūji) is a Japanese film director who specializes in films set in Okinawa, featuring Okinawan music, language, themes and atmosphere. He shared the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his debut film, Pineapple Tours, which was an omnibus film co-directed with Tsutomu Makiya and Hayashi Tōma. He won the award for Best Director at the 25th Hochi Film Award for Nabbie's Love.
🎓 University of the Ryukyus🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born November 16🎂 Born 1960📍 From Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture💼 Film Director
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Nobuo Ikeda (池田 信夫, Ikeda Nobuo; born 1953) is a Japanese economist originally from Kyoto Prefecture. He used to be a…
Nobuo Ikeda (池田 信夫, Ikeda Nobuo; born 1953) is a Japanese economist originally from Kyoto Prefecture. He used to be a professor at Jobu University until 2012. His current appointments are a visiting professor at SBI Graduate School in Yokohama, Kanagawa, a lecturer at Aoyama Gakuin University, and the Chief Executive Officer of Agora Institute.
Keizo Imai (今井 敬三, Imai Keizō; born November 19, 1950) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan…
Keizo Imai (今井 敬三, Imai Keizō; born November 19, 1950) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
🎓 Doshisha University🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born November 19🎂 Born 1950📍 From Kyoto Prefecture💼 Football (Soccer)💼 Company President・Entrepreneur
Yoshihiro Sakata (坂田好弘) is a rugby union official and former player who gained sixteen full international caps with the…
Yoshihiro Sakata (坂田好弘) is a rugby union official and former player who gained sixteen full international caps with the Japan national rugby union team 1967–1973. He played as wing for Kintetsu and Canterbury RFU and was nicknamed Demi Sakata. He was the first Japanese player to be inducted into the International Rugby Board Hall of Fame.
Asahi Kurizuka (Japanese: 栗塚 旭, Hepburn: Kurizuka Asahi; May 9, 1937 – September 9, 2025) was a Japanese actor. He made…
Asahi Kurizuka (Japanese: 栗塚 旭, Hepburn: Kurizuka Asahi; May 9, 1937 – September 9, 2025) was a Japanese actor. He made his film debut in Satsuo Yamamoto's The War Without Weapons (1960). In 1966, he received the Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year. Specializing in jidaigeki, Kurizuka was known for portraying Hijikata Toshizō, a role he played multiple times throughout his career. On September 12, 2025, news outlets reported that Kurizuka had died at his home in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto on September 9. He had been scheduled to appear on Mitsuya Seizaemon Zanjitsuroku, a jidaigeki for BS Fuji, but could not be contacted prior to the start of production. When he did not show up on his scheduled filming day, the police were asked to perform a wellness check, where they confirmed his death.
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Chushiro Hayashi (林 忠四郎, Hayashi Chūshirō; July 25, 1920 – February 28, 2010) was a Japanese astrophysicist. Hayashi…
Chushiro Hayashi (林 忠四郎, Hayashi Chūshirō; July 25, 1920 – February 28, 2010) was a Japanese astrophysicist. Hayashi tracks on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram are named after him.
🎓 Kyoto University🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born July 25🎂 Born 1920📍 From Kyoto Prefecture💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor💼 Literary Scholar
Tadao Umesao (梅棹 忠夫, Umesao Tadao; June 13, 1920 – July 3, 2010) was a Japanese anthropologist. A professor for decades…
Tadao Umesao (梅棹 忠夫, Umesao Tadao; June 13, 1920 – July 3, 2010) was a Japanese anthropologist. A professor for decades at Kyoto University, he was also among the founders and the director-general of National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan. A number of Umesao's theories were influential on anthropologists, and his work was also well known among the general population of Japan.
Jiro Kawakita (川喜田 二郎, Kawakita Jirō) was an ethnographer, a pioneer in participation of remote Nepalese villagers in…
Jiro Kawakita (川喜田 二郎, Kawakita Jirō) was an ethnographer, a pioneer in participation of remote Nepalese villagers in researching their problems, resulting in practical benefits of potable water supplies and rapid rope-way transport across mountain gorges. He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1984. He is reported as the author of KJ method for organizing notes, also termed affinity walls in UX Research. He viewed the method as an alternative to Western quantitative methods in ethnography. Kawakita established the non-profit organisation Institute for Himalayan Conservation Japan.
Aida Yūji (会田 雄次; 5 March 1916 – 17 September 1997) was a Japanese historian specialising in the Renaissance. He was…
Aida Yūji (会田 雄次; 5 March 1916 – 17 September 1997) was a Japanese historian specialising in the Renaissance. He was active as a conservative thinker, commentator and major exponent of the Nihonjinron. He was born in Kyōto on 5 March 1916. He graduated from Kyoto University in 1940 and had his master's degree in history interrupted in 1943, when he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army. He participated in the Burma campaign of 1944 as an infantryman. He surrendered to the British Army at the war's end and was detained at a prisoner-of-war camp in the British colony of Burma. His experiences in the camp are described in his best-selling memoir, Aaron Shūyōjo (1962). Upon his repatriation in 1947, he began to teach at Kobe University. He was appointed full professor at Kyoto University's Humanities Department in 1952. He retired from the university in 1979, when he became an emeritus professor. He died of pneumonia on 17 September 1997.
🎓 Kyoto University🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born March 5🎂 Born 1916📍 From Kyoto Prefecture💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor
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Masao Harada (原田 正夫, Harada Masao; September 22, 1912 – January 22, 2000) was a Japanese athlete who competed mainly in…
Masao Harada (原田 正夫, Harada Masao; September 22, 1912 – January 22, 2000) was a Japanese athlete who competed mainly in the triple jump. In this event he won a silver medal at the 1936 Olympics. He won two more silver medals, in the long jump and triple jump, at the 1934 Far Eastern Championship Games.
🎓 Kyoto Imperial University🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born September 22🎂 Born 1912📍 From Kyoto Prefecture💼 Track and Field
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Hisao Ōtsuka (大塚 久雄, Ōtsuka Hisao; 3 May 1907 – 9 July 1996) was a Japanese historian, founder of an influential…
Hisao Ōtsuka (大塚 久雄, Ōtsuka Hisao; 3 May 1907 – 9 July 1996) was a Japanese historian, founder of an influential historiographic school in postwar Japan known as the Ōtsuka Historical School (大塚史学, Ōtsuka shigaku).
🎓 University of Tokyo🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born May 3🎂 Born 1907📍 From Kyoto Prefecture💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor
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Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹, Yukawa Hideki; né Ogawa; 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist…
Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹, Yukawa Hideki; né Ogawa; 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces."
🎓 Kyoto University🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born January 23🎂 Born 1907📍 From Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor
Shinichiro Tomonaga (朝永 振一郎, Tomonaga Shin'ichirō; March 31, 1906 – July 8, 1979), usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga…
Shinichiro Tomonaga (朝永 振一郎, Tomonaga Shin'ichirō; March 31, 1906 – July 8, 1979), usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles".
🎓 Tokyo University of Education🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born March 31🎂 Born 1906📍 From Kyoto Prefecture💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor
Eizaburō Nishibori (西堀 栄三郎, Nishibori Eizaburō; January 28, 1903 – April 13, 1989) was a Japanese scientist, alpinist…
Eizaburō Nishibori (西堀 栄三郎, Nishibori Eizaburō; January 28, 1903 – April 13, 1989) was a Japanese scientist, alpinist and technologist. He is also known as the captain of the primary Japanese Antarctica wintering party.
Kinji Imanishi (今西 錦司, Imanishi Kinji; January 6, 1902 – June 15, 1992) was a Japanese ecologist and anthropologist. He…
Kinji Imanishi (今西 錦司, Imanishi Kinji; January 6, 1902 – June 15, 1992) was a Japanese ecologist and anthropologist. He was the founder of Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute and, together with Junichiro Itani, is considered one of the founders of Japanese primatology.
🎓 Kyoto University🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born January 6🎂 Born 1902📍 From Kyoto Prefecture💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor💼 Mountaineer
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Yamaguchi Seishi (山口誓子; November 3, 1901 – March 26, 1994) was a Japanese haiku poet.
Kaita Murayama (村山 槐多, Murayama Kaita; September 15, 1896 – February 20, 1919) was a Japanese writer and artist. One of…
Kaita Murayama (村山 槐多, Murayama Kaita; September 15, 1896 – February 20, 1919) was a Japanese writer and artist. One of his self-portraits appears in the Mie Prefectural Art Museum in Tsu Mie Prefecture, Japan (not pictured here). He trained at the Fine Arts Academy in Tokyo and was influenced by Western art styles. His work is described as being muscular and robust.
🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born September 15🎂 Born 1896📍 From 岡崎町（現在の岡崎市, Kyoto Prefecture💼 Poet💼 Writer・Novelist
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Tsunamasa Shidei (四手井 綱正, Shidei Tsunamasa; 27 January 1895 – 18 August 1945) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial…
Tsunamasa Shidei (四手井 綱正, Shidei Tsunamasa; 27 January 1895 – 18 August 1945) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.
Paul Takuma Tono (Japanese: 戸野琢磨; 1891–1987) was a landscape architect, professor, and writer who designed Japanese…
Paul Takuma Tono (Japanese: 戸野琢磨; 1891–1987) was a landscape architect, professor, and writer who designed Japanese gardens in Japan and the United States.
🏫 Rakuhoku High School🎂 Born 1891📍 From Kyoto Prefecture💼 Landscape Gardener💼 Japanese Garden Designer💼 Landscape Architect
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Xia Suchu (simplified Chinese: 夏肃初; traditional Chinese: 夏肅初; pinyin: Xià Sùchū; Wade–Giles: Hsia Su-ch'u; 1889–?) was…
Xia Suchu (simplified Chinese: 夏肃初; traditional Chinese: 夏肅初; pinyin: Xià Sùchū; Wade–Giles: Hsia Su-ch'u; 1889–?) was a politician in the Chinese Republic. He was an important politician during the Provisional Government of the Republic of China and the Wang Jingwei regime (Republic of China-Nanjing). His art-name was Xuchu (旭初). He was born in Maha (麻哈, now in Duyun), Guizhou.
Shintarō Hirase (平瀬 信太郎, Hirase Shintarō; February 28, 1884 – September 9, 1939) was a Japanese malacologist. His…
Shintarō Hirase (平瀬 信太郎, Hirase Shintarō; February 28, 1884 – September 9, 1939) was a Japanese malacologist. His father, Yoichirō Hirase, (1859–1925) was also a malacologist. With his father, he collected shells and helped formalize malacology in Japan. Due to their contributions to malacology, numerous species bear the Hirase name, such as Conus hirasei, . Hirase was born at Hukura on Awaji Island on February 28, 1884, and was the eldest son of Yoichirō Hirase. Growing up surrounded by his father's business and collection, he developed a lifelong love of malacology. He graduated from Third College and afterward took courses on psychology at the Faculty of Literature at Kyoto Imperial University (1910). In 1914 he matriculated to the faculty of Science, Tōkyō Imperial University, having passed an examination for the science courses at the First College. He received his master's degree from Tōkyō Imperial University in 1917 and continued post graduate work from 1917 to 1922. He was elected a member of the Malacological Society of London, of America, and of Germany. He was a founding member of the Malacological Society of Japan, alongside Tokubei Kuroda. He went on to teach natural sciences and zoology at Hōsei University, Meiji University, Seikei University, and Senshū University from 1920 until shortly before his death. In his obituary from the Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, he was noted to be “without political interests and enthusiastically devoted to the study of mollusks.” His publications of note included a review of Japanese oysters, scaphopods, and a catalogue of Japanese shells with hand illustrated plates. Shintaro died on September 9, 1939, at age 55 at his home in Tōkyō after a short period of kidney failure. At its largest, the Hirase collection grew to 15,000 pieces. Prior to WWII, the collection was split to ensure its survival. One third was donated to various museums, including the Smithsonian, one third was kept at the house of Shintaro in Tokyo, and the last third was stored in the Research Institute for Natural Resources in Tokyo. The majority of the collection was destroyed during incendiary bombing of Tokyo during the war. Only 5000 pieces, mostly consisting of the minute marine specimens, the land specimens, and fresh water specimens, survived the war. The surviving pieces of the collection have been stored in the Research Institute for Natural Resources in Tokyo since 1948.
🎓 Kyoto Imperial University🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born February 28🎂 Born 1884📍 From Kyoto Prefecture💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor
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Shinkichi Hashimoto (橋本 進吉, Hashimoto Shinkichi; December 24, 1882 – January 30, 1945) was a Japanese linguist, born in…
Shinkichi Hashimoto (橋本 進吉, Hashimoto Shinkichi; December 24, 1882 – January 30, 1945) was a Japanese linguist, born in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
Kuriyagawa Hakuson (廚川 白村; 19 November 1880 – 2 September 1923) was the pen-name of a Japanese literary critic, active…
Kuriyagawa Hakuson (廚川 白村; 19 November 1880 – 2 September 1923) was the pen-name of a Japanese literary critic, active in Taishō period Japan. His real name was Kuriyagawa Tatsuo.
🎓 Tokyo Imperial University🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born November 19🎂 Born 1880📍 From Kyoto Prefecture💼 Literary Scholar💼 Critic
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Kikunae Ikeda (池田 菊苗, Ikeda Kikunae; 8 October 1864 – 3 May 1936) was a Japanese chemist and Tokyo Imperial University…
Kikunae Ikeda (池田 菊苗, Ikeda Kikunae; 8 October 1864 – 3 May 1936) was a Japanese chemist and Tokyo Imperial University professor of chemistry who, in 1908, uncovered the chemical basis of a taste he named umami. It is one of the five basic tastes along with sweet, bitter, sour and salty.
🎓 Tokyo Imperial University🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born October 8🎂 Born 1864📍 From Kyoto Prefecture💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor