# List of University of Tokyo people

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 :
| Order | Person | Tenure | Position (involving temporary agent, etc.) |
| Representation, University of Tokyo ||||
| | Hiroyuki Kato | April 13, 1877 - July 5, 1881 | |
| | Kensai Ikeda | April 13, 1877 - July 5, 1881 | |
| | Hiroyuki Kato | July 6, 1881 – January 11, 1886 | |
| | Masakazu Toyama | January 11, 1886 – March 1, 1886 | Interim |
| President, Imperial University ||||
| | Masakazu Toyama | March 2, 1886 - March 8, 1886 | Interim President |
| 1 | Hiromoto Watanabe | March 9, 1886 - May 18, 1890 | |
| 2 | Hiroyuki Kato | May 19, 1890 – March 29, 1893 | |
| 3 | Arata Hamao | March 30, 1893 - June 18, 1897 | |
| President, Tokyo Imperial University ||||
| 3 | Arata Hamao | June 18, 1897 - November 5, 1897 | |
| 4 | Masakazu Toyama | November 12, 1897 – April 29, 1998 | |
| 5 | Dairoku Kikuchi | May 2, 1898 – June 2, 1901 | |
| 6 | Kenjiro Yamakawa | June 5, 1901 - December 2, 1905 | |
| 7 | Naokichi Matsui | December 2, 1905 - December 14, 1905 | President |
| 8 | Arata Hamao | December 14, 1905 - August 13, 1912 | Reappointed |
| | Joji Sakurai | August 13, 1912 – May 9, 1913 | Interim President |
| 9 | Kenjiro Yamakawa | May 9, 1913 – September 21, 1920 | Reappointed |
| 10 | Yoshinao Kozai | September 27, 1920 - December 22, 1928 | |
| 11 | Kiheiji Onozuka | December 22, 1928 – December 27, 1934 | |
| 12 | Mataro Nagayo | December 27, 1934 - November 8, 1938 | |
| | Kanji Sato | November 8, 1938 – December 20, 1938 | Interim President |
| 13 | Yuzuru Hiraga | December 20, 1938 – February 17, 1943 | |
| | Kanichi Terazawa | February 17, 1943 – March 12, 1943 | Interim President |
| 14 | Yoshikazu Uchida | March 12, 1943 – December 14, 1945 | |
| 15 | Shigeru Nambara | December 14, 1945 – May 31, 1949 | |
| President, University of Tokyo ||||
| 15 | Shigeru Nambara | May 31, 1949 - December 14, 1951 | |
| 16 | Tadao Yanaihara | December 14, 1951 - December 14, 1957 | |
| 17 | Seiji Kaya | December 14, 1957 – December 13, 1963 | |
| 18 | Kazuo Okochi | December 14, 1963 – November 5, 1968 | |
| | Ichiro Kato | November 5, 1968 – April 1, 1969 | Interim President |
| 19 | Ichiro Kato | April 1, 1969 – March 31, 1973 | |
| 20 | Kentaro Hayashi | April 1, 1973 – March 31, 1977 | |
| 21 | Takashi Mukaibo | April 1, 1977 – March 31, 1981 | |
| 22 | Ryuichi Hirano | April 1, 1981 – March 31, 1985 | |
| 23 | Wataru Mori | April 1, 1985 – March 31, 1989 | |
| 24 | Akito Arima | April 1, 1989 – March 31, 1993 | |
| 25 | Hiroyuki Yoshikawa | April 1, 1993 – March 31, 1997 | |
| 26 | Shigehiko Hasumi | April 1, 1997 – March 31, 2001 | |
| 27 | Takeshi Sasaki | April 1, 2001 – March 31, 2005 | |
| 28 | Hiroshi Komiyama | April 1, 2005 – March 31, 2009 | |
| 29 | Junichi Hamada | April 1, 2009 – March 31, 2015 | |
| 30 | Makoto Gonokami | April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2021 | |
| 31 | Teruo Fujii | April 1, 2021 - | |

## 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.

### 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

### 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.
* Kenkichi Yabashi [ja], 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

* Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima
* Naohiro Amaya, head of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)
* Inokuchi Ariya, founder of Ebara Corporation
* Fang Chih, Statesman, 1923
* Toshihiko Fukui, Governor of the Bank of Japan
* 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.
* Ong Iok-tek, linguist
* Kanō Jigorō, creator of judo
* Takashi Kawamura, 9th President of Hitachi
* Furuichi Kōi
* Hirata Tosuke, was a Japanese statesman and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan, active in the Meiji and Taishō period Empire of Japan.
* 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 (三好晋六郎)
* 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
* Hisashi Owada, International Court of Justice Judge
* Masako Owada, Crown Princess of Japan
* Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Buddhist scholar
* Toshizō Ido, Japanese politician, 52nd Governor of Hyōgo Prefecture
* Takejirō Tokonami, government minister and governor
* Eiji Toyoda, industrialist
* Anirban Mondal, Computer Scientist
* Kazuhide Uekusa, economist
* Hidesaburō Ueno, agricultural scientist and owner of world's most loyal dog, Hachiko
* Yoichi Wada, president of Square Enix
* Toshizo Ido, Governor of Hyogo prefecture
* Tetsuro Watsuji, philosopher
* Charles Dickinson West, mechanical engineer
* Akira Yanabu, researcher in translation and comparative literature
* Toshiki Sumitani, President, Kobe Institute of Computing
* Katsuo Yakura, member of the House of Councillors for Saitama Prefecture
* Hakuo Yanagisawa, politician, Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
* Takashi Yuasa, lawyer, economist
* Hayato Sumino, pianist
* Makoto Soejima, competitive programmer
* Shigeaki Sugeta, linguist