; Politics •
Wataru Kubo - member of the National Diet, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance •
Seiichi Ōmura - member of the National Diet, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of State for Director General of the Defense Agency, bureaucrat (Vice-Minister of Education) •
Shigenori Tōgō - diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Colonial Affairs •
Tadaatsu Ishiguro - bureaucrat (Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Forestry), Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, member of the National Diet •
Moichi Miyazaki - member of the National Diet, Minister of State for Director General of the Science and Technology Agency •
Eiichi Nishimura - member of the National Diet, Minister of Health and Welfare, Minister of Construction, Minister of State for Director General of National Land Agency, Minister of State for Director General of Administrative Management Agency •
Kokichi Shimoinaba - Superintendent General of Japanese police, member of the National Diet, Minister of Justice •
Morio Takahashi - bureaucrat, the mayor of
Kumamoto City, government-appointed governor of prefectures, Superintendent General of Japanese police •
Yin Ju-keng - politician in the early
Republic of China •
Zhou Fohai - politician in Republic of China •
Kamejiro Senaga - the mayor of
Naha City, member of the National Diet •
Kyuichi Tokuda - member of the National Diet ;Business •
Kazuo Inamori - founder of
Kyocera Corporation and
KDDI Corporation, Honorary Chairman of Kyocera and
Japan Airlines ;Academic •
Isamu Akasaki - engineer and physicist, Professor Emeritus at
Nagoya University, Distinguished Professor at
Meijo University,
Person of Cultural Merit,
Order of Culture,
Nobel Prize in Physics,
Charles Stark Draper Prize,
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering,
IEEE Edison Medal,
Kyoto Prize,
Japan Academy Prize &
Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy •
Akira Arimura - neuroscientist, biochemist, Professor Emeritus at
Tulane University in America •
Kikuo Arakawa - medical scientist, cardiovascular scientist, internist, World Hypertension League Award, International Society of Hypertension Distinguished Fellow Award, Professor Emeritus at
Fukuoka University, the 12th President of the International Society of Hypertension •
Kikuo Ogyū - medical scientist, internist, Professor Emeritus at
Kyoto University, the President and Professor Emeritus at
Kansai Medical University •
Hiroshi Enatsu - theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at
Ritsumeikan University •
Arika Kimura - botanist, the first director of the
Botanical Garden of Tohoku University •
Teiso Esaki - entomologist, Professor at
Kyushu University •
Kuniyoshi Obara - scholar of education, education reformer, founder of
Tamagawa Gakuen and
Tamagawa University ;Culture •
Shinobu Kaitani - manga artist •
Kawataro Nakajima - literary critic, Chairman of Mystery Writers of Japan, Professor Emeritus at
Wayo Women's University,
Mystery Writers of Japan Award, •
Kōichi Iiboshi - author •
Kiyoteru Hanada - literary critic •
Hideyo Amamoto - actor •
Takashi Nomura - film director •
Shirō Fukai - composer ;Others •
Katsutoshi Naito - wrestler, Olympics bronze medalist •
Kogoro Yamazaki - the first Chief of Staff of the Maritime Self Defense Force ==Notes==