Sciences File:Masataka_Ogawa.jpg|
Masataka Ogawa, chemist, former president, known for the discovery of
rhenium File:Koichi_Tanaka_2003.jpg|
Koichi Tanaka, chemist, 2002
Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner File:Akira_Endo_cropped_3_Akira_Endo_201111.jpg|
Akira Endo, biochemist, known for the discovery of first
statin, 2008
Lasker Award and 2017
Gairdner Award winner File:Atsuto_Suzuki_cropped_2_Atsuto_Suzuki_20211103.jpg|
Atsuto Suzuki, physicist, 2016
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics winner File:Hideo_Ohno.jpg|
Hideo Ohno, physicist, the 22nd president of Tohoku University •
Hitoshi Oshitani, scientist, virologist and public health expert •
Tetsuo Nozoe, chemist, known for
hinokitiol •
Tsutomu Ōhashi, artist and scientist, Doctor of Agriculture •
Syun-Ichi Akasofu, geophysicist, the founding director of the
International Arctic Research Center of UAF •
Hiroshi Maeda, pharmacologist and chemist, known for discovery of
EPR effect •
Chen Wei-jao, a surgeon and president of
National Taiwan University •
Lo Tung-bin, biochemist, pioneer in the research on proteins in Taiwan •
Susumu Satomi, a surgeon and president of Tohoku University •
Ryuta Kawashima, neuroscientist, currently resident professor, the supervisor of
Nintendo DS gamesofts;
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! and ''
Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old is Your Brain?'' •
Noriko Osumi, neuroscientist, the vice president of Tohoku University (2018–) •
Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi, president of
University of Tehran Engineering File:Kotaro_Honda.jpg|
Kotaro Honda, inventor, former president, 1932
Nobel Prize in Physics nominee File:Hidetsugu_Yagi.jpg|
Hidetsugu Yagi, engineer, mentor of
Yagi–Uda antenna File:Shunichi_Iwasaki_201311.jpg|
Shun-ichi Iwasaki, engineer, pioneer of
perpendicular recording and modern
hard disk drives File:Junichi_Nishizawa.jpg|
Jun-ichi Nishizawa, engineer, known for inventing
optical communication systems including
optical fiber,
laser diode and so forth,
PIN diode and
SIT/SITh File:舛岡富士雄.jpg|
Fujio Masuoka, engineer, the developer of
flash memory File:名城2010Fとともに.jpg|
Sumio Iijima, physicist, inventor of
carbon nanotubes File:Masatoshi_Shima.jpg|
Masatoshi Shima, inventor of
CPU Intel 4004 File:Masato Sagawa March 3, 2014-.png|alt=Masato Sagawa (佐川眞人), inventor of sintered NdFeB magnets, the winner of 2022 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.|
Masato Sagawa, inventor of sintered NdFeB magnets, the winner of 2022
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering •
Shintaro Uda, an inventor of the Yagi-Uda antenna 1926, the ubiquitous television antenna •
Masayoshi Esashi, engineer, the global authority of
Microelectromechanical systems •
Toshitada Doi, a pioneer in digital audio, originated
Aibo the pet
robot •
Fumihiko Imamura,
civil engineer, the natural disaster expert for
NHK after
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami •
Masataka Nakazawa, pioneer of optical solitons in high-speed optical communication in fiber optic networks and rare earth-doped optical amplifiers (such as EDFA)
Literature and arts File:LuXun1930.jpg|
Lu Xun, the greatest writer in modern China File:Tanabe_Hajime.jpg|
Hajime Tanabe, philosopher of science, member of
Kyoto School File:井土霊山_Ido_Reizan.jpg|
Ido Reizan, a journalist, writer, poet, and involved in
Freedom and People's Rights Movement File:Kita_Morio.jpg|
Morio Kita, novelist, 1960
Akutagawa Prize winner File:Terumi_Tanaka_at_the_Nobel_Peace_Prize_Ceremony_Oslo_2024-61445_(cropped).jpg|
Terumi Tanaka former professor, Representative of
Nihon Hidankyo, 2024 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo, Norway •
Ben Goto, a Japanese writer • , a Taiwanese author • , novelist, 1938
Naoki Prize winner • , novelist, 1978
Naoki Prize winner • , novelist, 1994
Naoki Prize winner • , novelist, 1999
Naoki Prize winner •
Toh EnJoe, author, 2012
Akutagawa Prize,
Nihon SF Taisho Award, and 2013
Seiun Award winner •
Yuichi Kodama, a Japanese video director •
Kazumasa Oda, one of the most famous musicians in pop music in Japan since the 1970s •
Kōtarō Isaka, a
mystery fiction writer,
Japan Booksellers Award and
Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize winner •
Hideaki Sena, a
science fiction writer and
Nihon SF Taisho Award winner •
Chūsei Sone, a Japanese film director and screenwriter •
Kenji Suzuki, an announcer of the
NHK •
Chinggeltei (1924–2013), a Mongolist, the former vice-rector of
Inner Mongolia University Mathematics, economics and business File:Hirofumi_Uzawa.jpg|
Hirofumi Uzawa, an economist, the father of
Theoretical Economics in Japan File:Shizuo_Kakutani.jpg|
Shizuo Kakutani, mathematician, professor at
Yale, known for
Kakutani fixed-point theorem File:SonyFair2008_Opening_Ryoji_Chubachi.jpg|
Ryōji Chūbachi, a Japanese businessman, former vice chairman and president of Sony Corporation •
Nobuhiko Kawamoto,
CEO of
Honda Motor until 1995 •
Su Buqing, a Chinese mathematician and former president of
Fudan University •
Chen Jiangong, pioneer of modern Chinese mathematics •
Yasumasa Kanada, a mathematician most known for his numerous world records over the past two decades for calculating digits of
π •
Shigeo Sasaki, a professor emeritus and mathematician who introduced the
Sasaki manifold Politics File:Matsumae_Shigeyoshi.JPG|
Shigeyoshi Matsumae, a Japanese politician, electrical engineer, and founder of
Tokai University File:Yukio Edano in SL Square on 2017 - 4 (cropped).jpg|
Yukio Edano, a Japanese politician and a member of the
House of Representatives in the
Diet File:Eisuke_Mori.jpg|
Eisuke Mori, a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party File:Masako Mori 20170510.jpg|
Masako Mori, a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party •
Kenya Akiba, a Japanese politician of the
Liberal Democratic Party •
Masayuki Aoyama, Japanese politician in the
House of Representatives •
Yoshihisa Inoue, Japanese politician of the
New Komeito Party •
Akira Koike, a Japanese politician of
Japanese Communist Party •
Sōichirō Miyashita, governor of
Aomori Prefecture •
Mitsuru Sakurai, Japanese politician of the
Democratic Party of Japan • , Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan •
Emiko Okuyama, Mayor of
Sendai, 2009–2017 ==See also==