On November 5, 1989, Tsutsumi Sakamoto (坂本 堤, Sakamoto Tsutsumi; April 6, 1956 – November 5, 1989), a lawyer working on…
On November 5, 1989, Tsutsumi Sakamoto (坂本 堤, Sakamoto Tsutsumi; April 6, 1956 – November 5, 1989), a lawyer working on a class action lawsuit against Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult in Japan, was murdered, along with his wife Satoko and his son Tatsuhiko, by perpetrators who broke into his apartment. Six years later, following the 1995 attack on the Tokyo subway, the murderers were uncovered and it was established that the murderers had been members of Aum Shinrikyo at the time of the crime.
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Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子, Ogawa Yōko; born March 30, 1962) is a Japanese writer. Her work has won every major Japanese…
Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子, Ogawa Yōko; born March 30, 1962) is a Japanese writer. Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. Internationally, she has been the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award. The Memory Police was also shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020. Some of her most well known works include The Memory Police, The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Diving Pool and Hotel Iris.
🎓 Waseda University🏫 Okayama Asahi High School📅 Born March 30🎂 Born 1962📍 From Okayama, Okayama Prefecture💼 Writer・Novelist
Yoshiyuki Sankai (born 1958/1959) is a Japanese billionaire businessman and academic. He is the founder, president and…
Yoshiyuki Sankai (born 1958/1959) is a Japanese billionaire businessman and academic. He is the founder, president and CEO of the cyborg-robot maker Cyberdyne, as well as a professor of the Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba.
🎓 University of Tsukuba🏫 Okayama Asahi High School📅 Born June 24🎂 Born 1958📍 From Okayama Prefecture💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor💼 Founder💼 Company President・Entrepreneur
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Tsuyoshi Okudaira (Japanese: 奥平 剛士, romanized: Okudaira Tsuyoshi; IPA: [o̞kɯ̟da̠iɾa̠ t͡sɨjo̞ɕi]; July 21, 1945 – May…
Tsuyoshi Okudaira (Japanese: 奥平 剛士, romanized: Okudaira Tsuyoshi; IPA: [o̞kɯ̟da̠iɾa̠ t͡sɨjo̞ɕi]; July 21, 1945 – May 30, 1972) was a Japanese communist activist and one of the leaders of the militant group Japanese Red Army (JRA). He was killed carrying out the Lod Airport Massacre near Lod, Israel on May 30, 1972. At the time of his death, he was married to JRA leader Fusako Shigenobu. He was the older brother of fellow JRA activist Junzō Okudaira.
🎓 Kyoto University🏫 Okayama Asahi High School📅 Born July 21🎂 Born 1945📍 From Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture💼 Activist
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Hironobu Takesaki (竹崎 博允, Takesaki Hironobu; born July 8, 1944) is a Japanese lawyer and a former Chief Justice of the…
Hironobu Takesaki (竹崎 博允, Takesaki Hironobu; born July 8, 1944) is a Japanese lawyer and a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law and of Columbia Law School. At age 64, Takesaki replaced Niro Shimada as the Chief Justice when November 21, 2008, the date of Shimada's mandatory retirement, came. He retired in March 2014. Takesaki has been harshly criticized by former judge Hiroshi Segi in his book Zetubo no Saibansho, where he is alleged to have "ensured judges who issued rulings or published academic papers running counter to his leadership policies were denied promotion and banished to rural areas. As a result, terrified judges learned to kowtow to their superiors and shy away from handing down nonconforming rulings." Takesaki was replaced by Itsurō Terada as the new Chief Justice on April 1, 2014, the date of Takesaki's retirement.
Satsuki Eda (江田 五月, Eda Satsuki; 22 May 1941 – 28 July 2021) was a Japanese politician who was the first opposition…
Satsuki Eda (江田 五月, Eda Satsuki; 22 May 1941 – 28 July 2021) was a Japanese politician who was the first opposition member to serve as the President of the House of Councillors from 2007 to 2010. Eda had served for three terms in the House of Councillors before his election as president on 7 August 2007, after the success of the Democratic Party in the July 2007 election for the Japanese House of Councillors. He had earlier served four terms in the House of Representatives from 1983 to 1996. Eda was also the head of the Science and Technology Agency.
🎓 University of Tokyo🏫 Okayama Asahi High School📅 Born May 22🎂 Born 1941📍 From Okayama, Okayama Prefecture💼 Lawyer💼 Politician・Legislator💼 Judge
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Toshihisa Toyoda (Japanese: 豊田利久, born August 6, 1940) is a Japanese economist, with contribution in Econometrics and…
Toshihisa Toyoda (Japanese: 豊田利久, born August 6, 1940) is a Japanese economist, with contribution in Econometrics and Development Economics.
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Shigemi Tamura (born 20 July 1938) is a Japanese rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1960 Summer…
Shigemi Tamura (born 20 July 1938) is a Japanese rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
🎓 Tohoku University🏫 Okayama Asahi High School📅 Born July 20🎂 Born 1938📍 From Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture
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Kojiro Hongo (本郷功次郎, Hongō Kōjirō; 15 February 1938 – 14 February 2013) was a Japanese actor. Hongo won an Elan d'or…
Kojiro Hongo (本郷功次郎, Hongō Kōjirō; 15 February 1938 – 14 February 2013) was a Japanese actor. Hongo won an Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year in 1959. His notable international performances were in the Daiei Studios Gamera films.
Isao Takahata (高畑 勲, Takahata Isao; October 29, 1935 – April 5, 2018) was a Japanese director, screenwriter and…
Isao Takahata (高畑 勲, Takahata Isao; October 29, 1935 – April 5, 2018) was a Japanese director, screenwriter and producer. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he earned international critical acclaim for his work as a director of Japanese animated feature films. Born in Ujiyamada, Mie Prefecture, Takahata joined Toei Animation after graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1959. He worked as an assistant director, holding various positions over the years and eventually directing his own film, The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968). Under Nippon Animation he directed the television series Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974), 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (1976), and Anne of Green Gables (1979). He also collaborated with colleague Hayao Miyazaki on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) and Castle in the Sky (1986). Takahata, Miyazaki and others formed Studio Ghibli in 1985, where he would direct Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Only Yesterday (1991), Pom Poko (1994), and My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999). His last film as director was The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013), which was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Animated Feature Film at the 87th Academy Awards.
🎓 University of Tokyo🏫 Okayama Asahi High School📅 Born October 29🎂 Born 1935📍 From Ise, Mie💼 Anime💼 Film Director
Toranosuke Katayama (片山 虎之助, Katayama Toranosuke; 2 August 1935 – 18 December 2025) was a Japanese politician who held…
Toranosuke Katayama (片山 虎之助, Katayama Toranosuke; 2 August 1935 – 18 December 2025) was a Japanese politician who held multiple different cabinet posts. He was a former member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and was co-president of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japanese: Japan Restoration Party; JPR) alongside Ichirō Matsui from 2016 to 2021.
Shirō Moritani (森谷 司郎, Moritani Shirō; September 28, 1931 – December 2, 1984) was a film director and screenwriter from…
Shirō Moritani (森谷 司郎, Moritani Shirō; September 28, 1931 – December 2, 1984) was a film director and screenwriter from Japan. Born in Tokyo, he debuted as an assistant director in Akira Kurosawa's 1961 film Yojimbo. His film Mount Hakkoda won the Mainichi Film Award for Excellence Film in 1978.
Jun Miki (三木淳, Miki Jun; 14 September 1919 – 22 February 1992) was a Japanese photographer and one of Japan's pioneers…
Jun Miki (三木淳, Miki Jun; 14 September 1919 – 22 February 1992) was a Japanese photographer and one of Japan's pioneers in photojournalism. The Selection Committee of Nikon Salon established the Miki Jun Award in 1999 to remember his legacy.
Shōchō Hagami (葉上照澄; August 15, 1903 – March 7, 1989) was a Japanese great acharya (大阿闍梨) of Tendai Buddhism and one of…
Shōchō Hagami (葉上照澄; August 15, 1903 – March 7, 1989) was a Japanese great acharya (大阿闍梨) of Tendai Buddhism and one of the most prominent Japanese Buddhists of the 20th century. He served as President of the Japanese Religious Committee for World Federation and advocated the need for the cooperation of religious leaders, which transcends religious and denominational boundaries. Hagami was originally a professor of German philosophy at Taisho University and in turn served as a journalist for the Sanyo Shimbun. However, the untimely death of his wife as well as the defeat of Japan at WWII triggered him to pursue religious life, whereby to help Japan restore itself from the postwar devastation. In 1946, he entered the Buddhist monastery at Mount Hiei, the headquarters of the Tendai school and the Mother Mountain of Japanese Buddhism. Hagami was the 39th monk in history who completed the ordeal of endurance, perseverance, and both physical and mental strength, known as Sennichi Kaihōgyō in Japanese (千日回峰行), or “thousand-day around-the-peaks training.” He also completed other ordeals such as a thousand days of Unshin Kaihōgyō (運心回峰行) and a thousand days of Hokke Zanmaigyō (法華三昧行). While fostering new generations of Japan for lives of influence and service, Hagami was actively engaged in promoting reconciliation and peaceful coexistence across the world. He appealed to Pope Paul VI and other religious leaders of the world to create an International League of all religious people of the whole world in order to end all the wars among religions as well as all the conflicts caused in the name of religions. Hagami once noted: “It is said that the root of all evil is human pride, obstinacy, human ego, class ego, racial ego, and national ego. Yet religion which is supposed, above all, to teach the casting away of ego, itself has the egoism of sects and religious institutions. And this is what makes me dislike religionists. . . . True religion is born from the abyss of despair. I believe that when it really becomes a question of whether mankind will survive or not, then religion will return to a purer position, and will set out in a great new direction.” Hagami maintained that for the advancement of world peace, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam must be reconciled, and that Japanese Buddhists—as religious people of the first victim of nuclear attack in human history—must serve as mediators for that reconciliation. Accordingly, he visited Egypt and the Vatican many times and established close friendships with the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat as well as with Cardinal Sergio Pignedoli of the Vatican. In July 1977, Hagami visited President Sadat and urged him to make peace with Israel. This was one of the triggers that led Sadat's dramatic journey to the Knesset in Israel. Sadat himself mentioned Hagami's impact on this initiation in his letter of gratitude to Hagami. At Hagami's suggestion, Sadat also sponsored a communal service in November 1979, gathering representatives of Islam, Judaism and Christianity at the foot of Mount Sinai on the occasion of the transfer of the Sinai Peninsula from Israel to Egypt. In October 1981, when Hagami learned about the assassination of Sadat, he felt personally responsible for Sadat's death. Sadat was said to have been killed for shaking hands with Jews, which Hagami urged Sadat to do. In March 1984, as a way, in part, to commemorate Sadat's death, Hagami organized a joint prayer meeting for world peace on Mount Sinai, by appealing to religious leaders in the US and Egypt. 130 people assembled there to represent Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Shinto, from the US, Egypt, Israel and Japan, and prayed for the speedy end of the Middle East War and performed different religious ceremonies according to the respective styles of rituals. In August 1987, Hagami invited prominent leaders of various religions of the world to hold the first Religious Summit Meeting on Mount Hiei, Japan, in order to advance peaceful coexistence, interfaith dialogue, and acceptance of others. He visited Israel in 1988 and was acquainted with a variety of religious leaders and scholars such as André Chouraqui, R.J. Zwi Werblowsky, and Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu. To further advance interfaith dialogue, Hagami planned to hold a Religious Summit Meeting in Jerusalem but died before its fruition.
🎓 Tokyo Imperial University🏫 Okayama Asahi High School📅 Born August 15🎂 Born 1903📍 From Okayama Prefecture💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor💼 Buddhist Monk
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Yukiharu Miki (三木 行治, Miki Yukiharu; 1 May 1903 – 21 September 1964) was a Japanese physician and politician. He served…
Yukiharu Miki (三木 行治, Miki Yukiharu; 1 May 1903 – 21 September 1964) was a Japanese physician and politician. He served as Governor for the Okayama Prefecture from 3 May 1951 until his death on 21 September 1964. During his period as governor, the prefecture went through considerable modernisation, becoming an important industrial district. Yukiharu Miki was awarded the 1964 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service.
Kuruma Samezō (久留間鮫造, September 24, 1893 – October 20, 1982) was a Japanese economist. He was professor emeritus at…
Kuruma Samezō (久留間鮫造, September 24, 1893 – October 20, 1982) was a Japanese economist. He was professor emeritus at Hōsei University where he ran the Ōhara Institute for Social Research, and was best known as the compiler of a Lexicon of Marxist Political Economy. He is the father of Rikkyō University professor emeritus Kuruma Ken.
Yaichihyōe Kanemitsu (金光 弥一兵衛, Kanemitsu Yaichihyōe; March 30, 1892 – December 25, 1966) was a judoka who was…
Yaichihyōe Kanemitsu (金光 弥一兵衛, Kanemitsu Yaichihyōe; March 30, 1892 – December 25, 1966) was a judoka who was influential in the development of kosen judo. He is credited with the invention of judo techniques like sankaku-jime and hiza-juji-gatame, which were subsequently incorporated into other disciplines, including sambo, Brazilian jiu jitsu and mixed martial arts. He was also known as the teacher of Yasuichi and Naoichi Ono, who took part in the earlier Brazilian vale tudo scene.
Seiichirō Yasui (Japanese: 安井誠一郎; 11 March 1891 – 19 January 1962) was a Japanese politician and bureaucrat who held a…
Seiichirō Yasui (Japanese: 安井誠一郎; 11 March 1891 – 19 January 1962) was a Japanese politician and bureaucrat who held a variety of positions in Japanese government. He served as appointed Governor of Niigata Prefecture from 1940 to 1941, then as appointed Governor of Tokyo from 1946 to 1947, then as elected Governor of Tokyo from 1947 to 1959. He also served as one of the members of the House of Representatives from 1960 to his death in 1962.
Yoshio Nishina (仁科 芳雄, Nishina Yoshio; December 6, 1890 – January 10, 1951) was a Japanese physicist who was called…
Yoshio Nishina (仁科 芳雄, Nishina Yoshio; December 6, 1890 – January 10, 1951) was a Japanese physicist who was called "the founding father of modern physics research in Japan". He led the efforts of Japan to develop an atomic bomb during World War II.
🎓 Okayama University🏫 Okayama Asahi High School📅 Born December 6🎂 Born 1890📍 From Satoshō, Okayama Prefecture💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor
Matome Ugaki (宇垣 纏, Ugaki Matome; 15 February 1890 – 15 August 1945) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy…
Matome Ugaki (宇垣 纏, Ugaki Matome; 15 February 1890 – 15 August 1945) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, remembered for his extensive and revealing war diary, role at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and participation in one of the final kamikaze attacks hours after the surrender of Japan was announced.
🎓 Imperial Japanese Naval Academy🏫 Okayama Asahi High School📅 Born February 15🎂 Born 1890📍 From Okayama, Okayama Prefecture💼 Military Officer
Ichiro Oga (大賀一郎 Ōga Ichirō; 1883 – April 28, 1965), also known as Hasu Hakase (Dr. Lotus), was a Japanese…
Ichiro Oga (大賀一郎 Ōga Ichirō; 1883 – April 28, 1965), also known as Hasu Hakase (Dr. Lotus), was a Japanese paleobotanist famous for his work in discovering and reviving ancient lotus seeds.
Tadahiko Okada (岡田 忠彦, Okada Tadahiko; 21 March 1878 – 30 October 1958) was a Japanese politician. He was governor of…
Tadahiko Okada (岡田 忠彦, Okada Tadahiko; 21 March 1878 – 30 October 1958) was a Japanese politician. He was governor of Saitama Prefecture (1916–1919), Nagano Prefecture (1921–1922) and Kumamoto Prefecture (1922–1923).
🎓 University of Tokyo🏫 Okayama Asahi High School📅 Born March 21🎂 Born 1878📍 From Okayama Prefecture💼 Bureaucrat💼 Politician・Legislator
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Gōtarō Ogawa (小川郷太郎, Ogawa Gōtarō; 9 June 1876 – 1 April 1945) was an economist, educator, politician and cabinet…
Gōtarō Ogawa (小川郷太郎, Ogawa Gōtarō; 9 June 1876 – 1 April 1945) was an economist, educator, politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan.
Mitsutani Kunishirō (Japanese: 満谷 国四郎; 10 November 1874 in Okayama Prefecture – 12 July 1936 in Tokyo) was a Japanese…
Mitsutani Kunishirō (Japanese: 満谷 国四郎; 10 November 1874 in Okayama Prefecture – 12 July 1936 in Tokyo) was a Japanese painter in the yōga style.
Uchida Kakichi (内田 嘉吉; 18 November 1866 – 3 January 1933) was the 9th Governor-General of Taiwan from 6 September 1923…
Uchida Kakichi (内田 嘉吉; 18 November 1866 – 3 January 1933) was the 9th Governor-General of Taiwan from 6 September 1923 to September 1924. Prior to assuming the office of Governor-General, Uchida also served as Chief of Home Affairs under Governors-General Sakuma Samata and Ando Sadami, the second highest position in the colonial government.
Fujii Kōichi (藤井 較一; 24 September 1858 – 9 July 1926) was an admiral in the early Imperial Japanese Navy.
Zhang Wenhuan (Chinese：张文环, October 10, 1909 – February 12, 1978) was a novelist and magazine editor during the…
Zhang Wenhuan (Chinese：张文环, October 10, 1909 – February 12, 1978) was a novelist and magazine editor during the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan. He was born in Meishan Township, Chiayi County.