This is a list of notable graduates and faculty members of the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan.

Politics Naoto Kan – alumni, 94th Prime Minister of Japan (2010-2011) Yukio Hatoyama – former assistant professor, 93rd Prime Minister of Japan (2009–2010) Tadamichi Yamamoto - alumni, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan

Sciences Yoshinori Ohsumi – professor, Nobel laureate (Medicine, 2016) Hideki Shirakawa (BSc 1961, PhD 1966) – alumni, Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 2000)Hideki Shirakawa – Biographical The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000, Nobelprize.org Pailin Chuchottaworn – alumni, former CEO and president of PTT, founder and chairman of Kamnoetvidya Science Academy Toshikazu Sunada – alumni, mathematician who contributed to various fields in geometry, including spectral geometry, Reinhardt domain, Ihara zeta function, and periodic graph) Sada Orihara - alumni, the first woman to attend Michiko Togo - alumni, woman engineer

Engineering Toshitada Doi – alumni, robot Aibo pioneer, co-inventor of compact disc Nobutaro Hara – alumni, model railway builder whose collection is displayed at the Hara Model Railway Museum Shōji Hayashi – alumni, architect, chairman of Japan Institute of Architects Shigeo Hirose – alumni, pioneer of robotics technology Junichi Iijima – alumni, Professor of the Department of Industrial Management and Engineering Satoru Iwata – alumni, former game developer at HAL Laboratories; former CEO of Nintendo Heitaro Nakajima – alumni, digital audio pioneer Julia Nesheiwat - alumni, 10th Homeland Security Advisor to the United States Hiroshi Takahashi – alumni, architect Jiro Tanaka – alumni, aircraft and automotive engineerCarmakers owe success to warplanes – Military's brightest aircraft designers created Japan's automotive powers The Japan Times, Aug. 13, 2005The History and the Biography of Jiro Tanaka (Detailed PDF document attached) (Japanese) – Japan Automotive Hall of FameFrom the Ki-74 to the Tama Electric Vehicles and the Prince Vehicles – Interview of Jiro Tanaka on Nov. 22, 1996 (Japanese) – The Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (JSAE)

Architecture Kazuo Shinohara - alumni, former professor

Business Shoji Hamada – alumni, potter, Living National Treasure of Japan Kanjiro Kawai – alumni, potter, refused Living National Treasure designation Akitoshi Kawazu – alumni, game producer, creator of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Kenichi Ohmae – alumni, business and corporate strategist Takaaki Yoshimoto – alumni, poet, literary critic, philosopher

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