This is a list of University of Tokyo (UTokyo) people.
List of presidents The head of the University of Tokyo is known as the president (総長, socho) and it is a substantive leadership role. The president is elected by the university's board council from among the faculty members for a term of six years. Presidents of the University of Tokyo OrderPersonTenurePosition (involving temporary agent, etc.)Representation, University of TokyoHiroyuki Kato - Kensai Ikeda - Hiroyuki Kato – Masakazu Toyama – InterimPresident, Imperial UniversityMasakazu Toyama - Interim President1Hiromoto Watanabe - 2Hiroyuki Kato – 3Arata Hamao - President, Tokyo Imperial University3Arata Hamao - 4Masakazu Toyama – 5Dairoku Kikuchi – 6Kenjiro Yamakawa - 7Naokichi Matsui - President8Arata Hamao - ReappointedJoji Sakurai – Interim President9Kenjiro Yamakawa – Reappointed10Yoshinao Kozai - 11Kiheiji Onozuka – 12Mataro Nagayo - Kanji Sato – Interim President13Yuzuru Hiraga – Kanichi Terazawa – Interim President14Yoshikazu Uchida – 15Shigeru Nambara – President, University of Tokyo15Shigeru Nambara - 16Tadao Yanaihara - 17Seiji Kaya – 18Kazuo Okochi – Ichiro Kato – Interim President19Ichiro Kato – 20Kentaro Hayashi – 21Takashi Mukaibo – 22Ryuichi Hirano – 23Wataru Mori – 24Akito Arima – 25Hiroyuki Yoshikawa – 26Shigehiko Hasumi – 27Takeshi Sasaki – 28Hiroshi Komiyama – 29Junichi Hamada – 30Makoto Gonokami – 31Teruo Fujii -
Notable alumni
Nobel prize laureates Of UTokyo winners, five have been physicists, one chemists, two for literature, one for physiology or medicine and one for efforts towards peace.
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Physics, 1965 Yasunari Kawabata, Literature, 1968 Leo Esaki, Physics, 1973 Eisaku Satō, Peace, 1974 Kenzaburō Ōe, Literature, 1994 Masatoshi Koshiba, Physics, 2002 Yoichiro Nambu, Physics, 2008 Ei-ichi Negishi, Chemistry, 2010 Satoshi Ōmura, Physiology or Medicine, 2015 Takaaki Kajita, Physics, 2015 Yoshinori Ohsumi, Physiology or Medicine, 2016 Syukuro Manabe, Physics, 2021
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga and Satoshi Ōmura have obtained a UTokyo doctorate degree through dissertation review, and considered as UTokyo alumni as well.UTokyo by the Numbers | The University of Tokyo
Prime Ministers Hara Takashi (1918–1921) Katō Takaaki (1924–1926) Wakatsuki Reijirō (1926-1927, 1931-1931) Osachi Hamaguchi (1929–1931) Kōki Hirota (1936–1937) Fumimaro Konoe (1937–1939, 1940–1941) Hiranuma Kiichirō (1939-1939) Kijūrō Shidehara (1945–1946) Shigeru Yoshida, (1946–1947, 1948–1954) Tetsu Katayama (1947–1948) Hitoshi Ashida (1948-1948) Ichirō Hatoyama (1954–1956) Nobusuke Kishi (1957–1960) Eisaku Satō, Nobel laureate (1964–1972) Takeo Fukuda (1976–1978) Yasuhiro Nakasone (1982–1987) Kiichi Miyazawa (1991–1993) Yukio Hatoyama (2009–2010)
Mathematicians Tadatoshi Akiba Kiyoshi Itō Kenkichi Iwasawa Tosio Kato Kunihiko Kodaira, Fields Medal winner Shoshichi Kobayashi Mitio Nagumo Hidegorō Nakano Narutaka Ozawa Mikio Sato Goro Shimura Teiji Takagi Yutaka Taniyama Kentaro Yano Kōsaku Yosida
Medical researchers Akito Arima Leo Esaki, Nobel laureate Chūshirō Hayashi Noriko Kamakura Jun Kondo Masatoshi Koshiba, Nobel laureate Ryogo Kubo Moi Meng Ling Hantaro Nagaoka Ukichiro Nakaya Yoichiro Nambu, Nobel laureate Yoshio Nishina Seiji Ogawa, discoverer of fMRI Fumio Takei Shohé Tanaka Morikazu Toda Yoji Totsuka Toshifumi Yokota, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
Chemists Kikunae Ikeda Hiroshi Nishihara Umetaro Suzuki Jōkichi Takamine
Physicians Kunie Miyaji, pioneering woman physician in Japan Hajime Sakaki, first professor of psychiatry in Japan Kitasato Shibasaburō Katsusaburo Yamagiwa Madichan Diaz
Architects Arata Isozaki, Royal Gold Medal laureate Toyo Ito, Pritzker Prize laureate, Royal Gold Medal laureate Kisho Kurokawa, architect Fumihiko Maki, Pritzker Prize laureate Kenzo Tange, Pritzker Prize laureate Yoshikazu Uchida, main architect behind Hongo campus after the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923. , architect, central figure of the project of constructing National Diet Building as a bureaucrat of Ministry of Finance
Authors Kōbō Abe Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Sachiya Hiro Shinichi Hoshi Otohiko Kaga Yasunari Kawabata Shiki Masaoka Shinpei Matsuoka Yukio Mishima Ōgai Mori Dhan Gopal Mukerji Kansuke Naka Atsushi Nakajima Wafu Nishijima Kenzaburō Ōe Dazai Osamu Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Naoya Shiga Natsume Sōseki Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Kunio Yanagita
Entertainers Toshiya Fujita, film director Bai Guang, one of the seven great singing stars of China Teruyuki Kagawa, actor Tokiko Kato, singer Rei Kikukawa, actress Tamayo Marukawa, TV announcer Towa Oshima, manga artist Kenji Ozawa, musician Nam June Paik, video artist Koichi Sugiyama, music composer Isao Takahata, anime director Mayuko Takata, actress Kiyohiko Ushihara, film director Yoji Yamada, film director Yoshishige Yoshida, film director Anton Wicky, educator Takushi Izawa, TV personality and YouTuber (QuizKnock)
Others
Anirban Mondal, Computer ScientistProfessor Anirban's DBLP Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima Naohiro Amaya, head of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)Pollack, Andrew. "Naohiro Amaya, 68; Helped Industry in Japan" (obituary). The New York Times. September 1, 1994. Retrieved on January 20, 2014. Inokuchi Ariya, founder of Ebara Corporation Fang Chih, Statesman, 1923 Toshihiko Fukui, Governor of the Bank of Japan Furuichi Kōi, civil engineer Yoshimi Goda, Coastal Engineer and recipient of the Order of the Sacred Treasure Minoru Harada, Buddhist leader, 6th President of Soka Gakkai Mantarō Hashimoto, linguist and sinologist Keizō Hayashi, General officer, first Chairman of the Joint Staff Council since Japan Self-Defense Forces' establishment Hirata Tosuke, Japanese statesman and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan, active in the Meiji and Taishō period Empire of Japan Toshizō Ido, Japanese politician, 52nd Governor of Hyōgo Prefecture Kimie Iwata, businesswoman and government official Kanō Jigorō, creator of judo Takashi Kawamura, 9th President of Hitachi Akihiko Kumashiro, politician, three-time member of the House of Representatives of Japan Susumu Kuno, linguist, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University Kiyozawa Manshi, Buddhist thinker Peng Ming-min, DPP Senior Advisor to President Chen Shui-Bian; former president of WUFI Shinrokuro Miyoshi Tsunetaro Moriyama, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Toshirō Mutō, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan Makoto Nakajima, former Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office Yoshiro Nakamatsu, inventor Hiroaki Nakanishi (MS 1979), President of Hitachi John Nathan, translator, first American admitted as a regular student Kitaro Nishida, philosopher Namihei Odaira, entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of Hitachi Masaharu Ōhashi, Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan Ong Iok-tek, linguist Hisashi Owada, International Court of Justice Judge Masako Owada, Crown Princess of Japan Toshiki Sumitani, President, Kobe Institute of Computing Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Buddhist scholar Hayato Sumino, pianist "東京大学工学部計数工学科（2018年度学科案内）" (PDF). 東京大学工学部計数工学科. Retrieved 2020-10-20."東京大学学生表彰選考会議 議長 (2020-03-06). "東京大学総長賞選考結果について". The University of Tokyo. Retrieved 2020-10-20. Makoto Soejima, competitive programmer Shigeaki Sugeta, linguist Takejirō Tokonami, government minister and governor Eiji Toyoda, industrialist Kazuo Ueda, Yiddishist Kazuhide Uekusa, economist Hidesaburō Ueno, agricultural scientist and owner of world's most loyal dog, Hachiko Yoichi Wada, president of Square Enix Tetsurō Watsuji, philosopher Charles Dickinson West, mechanical engineer Akira Yanabu, researcher in translation and comparative literature Katsuo Yakura, member of the House of Councillors for Saitama Prefecture Hakuo Yanagisawa, politician, Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Takashi Yuasa, lawyer, economist
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