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This is a list of notable alumni, faculty, and students, from Waseda University. Those individuals who qualify for multiple categories have been placed under the section for which they are best known.

Prime ministers

Tanzan Ishibashi (1956–1957)
Noboru Takeshita (1987–1989)
Toshiki Kaifu (1989–1991)
Keizō Obuchi (1998–2000)
Mikio Aoki (Acting: 2000-2000)
Yoshirō Mori (2000–2001)
Yasuo Fukuda (2007–2008)
Yoshihiko Noda (2011–2012)
Fumio Kishida (2021–present)

Politics

Nobuaki Futami
Takashi Hiraoka – Mayor of Hiroshima (1991–1999)
Iccho Itoh – Mayor of Nagasaki (1995–2007)
Yohei Kono - Speaker of the House of Representatives (2003-2009)
Li Dazhao - co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party
Hideo Higashikokubaru – Governor of Miyazaki Prefecture (2007-2011)
Peng Pai - Chinese revolutionary
Soichi Usui
Hidehiko Noda
Ichirō Kōno - Deputy Prime Minister (1964-1965)
Bukichi Miki
Hirohide Ishida
Taro Hatoyama
Kazumasa Okajima
Fukushiro Nukaga
Masahide Ota - Governor of Okinawa Prefecture (1990-1998)
Hiroshige Seko
Mosaburo Suzuki - 2nd Chairman of the Japan Socialist Party (1955-1960)
Tsutomu Takebe
Makiko Tanaka - First female foreign minister of Japan
Kisaburo Tokai
Kiyomi Tsujimoto
Kozo Watanabe
Yoshimi Watanabe
Yuji Yamamoto
Taku Yamasaki
Tōru Hashimoto – Mayor of Osaka and Osaka Restoration Association president
Inejiro Asanuma – 3rd Chairman of Japan Socialist Party

Diplomats

Chiune Sugihara
Tsuneo Koizumi
Katsuhiko Oku – rugby player and diplomat, promoted posthumously to ambassador

Business leaders

Takeo Fukui – CEO of Honda
Norio Sasaki – CEO of Toshiba
Soichiro Fukutake – president of Benesse
Shuntaro Furukawa – president of Nintendo^[1]
Masaru Ibuka – co-founder of Sony, recipient of the Order of Culture
Nobuyuki Idei – ex-CEO of Sony
Masafumi Miyamoto – founder of Square
Yasujiro Tsutsumi
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi
Michael Kogan – founder of Taito
Lee Byung-chul – Founder of Samsung
Lee Kun-hee – current chairman of Samsung
Kenichi Ohmae – founder and ex-Senior Partner of McKinsey & Co's Japan office
Isao Okawa – ex-chairman of Sega
Park Tae-joon – founder and chairman of Pohang Iron & Steels Corp, POSCO
Masamitsu Sakurai – chairman of Ricoh, chairman of Japan Association of Corporate Executives
Mikio Sasaki – chairman of Mitsubishi
Shin Kyuk-Ho – founder and chairman of Lotte Group
Shunsaku Tamiya – chairman of Tamiya Corporation^[2]
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi – founder of Seibu Railway
Hiroshi Yamauchi – president of Nintendo
Tadashi Yanai – CEO of Fast Retailing and Uniqlo
Kim Sang-hong - Former Chairman of Samyang Food Group
Lee Dong-chan - Founder and former Chairman of Kolon Industries Group
Cho Suk-rae - Founder and former Chairman of Hyosung Group
Choi Doo-sun - Former President of Dong-A Ilbo

Academics

Kohki Abe – human rights activist and Dean of Kanagawa University School of Law
Koji Aikyo – law professor at Nagoya University
Hitoshi Arai – mathematician, professor at University of Tokyo
Kanichi Asakawa – historian, professor at Yale University
Shin Chiba – professor of political science at International Christian University
Kunio Doi – professor of radiology at the University of Chicago [1]
Hidenori Fujita – educational sociologist, former professor at University of Tokyo, currently professor at International Christian University
Toshio Fukuda – scholar of robotics, professor at Nagoya University
Kunio Anzai
Tatsuo Taniguchi
Kazuhito Koizumi – medical doctor
Hideo Furuido – scholar of theatre arts, professor at University of Tokyo
Tatsuro Hanada – sociologist of media, professor at University of Tokyo, currently professor at Waseda
Kazuomi Hirakawa – geographer, professor at Hokkaido University
Takebumi Itagaki – professor of Computer Architecture at Brunel University
Takehiko Kamo (1942–1996) – professor of political science at Waseda University and University of Tokyo
Kang Sang-jung – scholar of history of political thought, professor at University of Tokyo
Heita Kawakatsu – scholar of economic history, professor at International Research Center for Japanese Studies, president of Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
Toshihide Kobayashi – Chief Scientist at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute [2]
Hideo Kuroda – historian, professor emeritus at University of Tokyo
Tien-Min Li – Chinese political historian
Ichiro Masaki – director of the Intelligent Transportation Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [3]
Masako Mitamura – scholar of Japanese literature, The Tale of Genji expert, professor at Ferris University
Tsunetsugu Muraoka (1884–1946) – scholar of history of Japanese philosophy, professor at Tohoku University
Masahiro Nei – professor of history of economic thought at Kyoto University
Yoshio Nishi – professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, the 2002 IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal recipient [4]
Toyohiro Nishimoto – archaeologist, professor at National Museum of Japanese History
Ikujiro Nonaka – scholar of management, Knowledge Management theorist, co-author of The Knowledge-Creating Company, visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley
Katsuyuki Shibayama – Financial Economics Scholar and Academic at the University of Kent^[3]
Tetsuo Owada – historian, professor at Shizuoka University
Shojiro Sakaguchi – law scholar, professor at Hitotsubashi University
Minoru Sekishita – professor of economics at Ritsumeikan University
Ryūsaku Tsunoda (1877–1964) – lecturer of Japanese studies at Columbia University
Ginzo Uchida (1872–1919) – scholar of economic history, professor at Kyoto University
Ungku Abdul Aziz Ungku Abdul Hamid – leading Malaysian academician
Masayoshi Watanabe – professor at Yokohama National University
Saburo Yamada (1869–1965) – scholar of private international law, professor at University of Tokyo
Tokuo Yamamoto – professor of applied marine physics at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami; recipient of the 2008 Alan Berman Research Publication Award [5]
Djakiah Bawie (1922–1988) – Head scientist and Nuclear Physicist of Indonesia's National Nuclear Agency; former Docent of Physics at University of Indonesia
Sakuji Yoshimura – Egyptologist, president of Cyber University

Authors

Kunikida Doppo
Taichi Yamada – screenwriter, novelist^[4]
Maki Fukazawa – columnist
Jun Henmi
Masuji Ibuse*
Masahiko Katsuya – columnist
Hakushū Kitahara*
Akira Kojima – manga artist
Lee Hoesung
Taku Miki – poet, novelist, translator
Eto Mori
Manabu Miyazaki*
Megumi Mizusawa – manga artist
Haruki Murakami – novelist, translator, writer, recipient of Franz Kafka Prize
Kim Nae-sung – Korean author
Kōgo Noda – screenwriter
Yōko Ogawa – novelist
Ichirō Ōkouchi – novelist, screenwriter
Ototake Hirotada – sports writer
Edogawa Rampo
Hisae Sawaji
Taneda Santoka*
Yoko Tawada
Tawara Machi
Shuji Terayama*
Miho Toshima
Yajima Teruo*
Yokomitsu Riichi*
Risa Wataya
Hisashi Yamanaka
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Rie Yoshiyuki

Journalists

Soichiro Tawara
Yoh Henmi
Satoshi Kamata
Chang Deok-soo

Performing arts

Saeko – actress, model
Kohei Ando – Video artist and experimental filmmaker
Sharon Au – Singaporean actress, comedian and television presenter
Rokusuke Ei – composer
Naohito Fujiki – actor
Yasuharu Hasebe – film director
Mitsuhiro Hidaka – singer
Ryōko Hirosue* – actress^[5]
Toshiharu Ikeda – film director
Shohei Imamura – film director, winner of two Palme d'Or awards at the Cannes Film Festival
LaSalle Ishii* – comedian
Akio Jissoji – film director
Jyongri – singer
Hitomi Kamanaka – film director
Seiji Kameda – composer, producer
Morio Kazama – actor
Kinya Kitaoji – actor
Hifumi Kato – Shogi player
Demon Kogure – singer, sumo commentator
Yoshio Kojima – comedian
Shōji Kōkami – playwright, director, filmmaker
Tetsuya Komuro* – musician
Hirokazu Koreeda – film director
Tatsumi Kumashiro – film director
Matsumoto Kōshirō IX – kabuki actor
Keisuke Minami – stage actor, model
Tetsuya Murakami – musician, member of The Gospellers
Shigeru Muroi* – actress
Kie Nakai – actress
Yuichi Nakamaru – actor, singer (member of KAT-TUN), distantly attending
Kichitaro Negishi – film director
Kazumasa Oda – musician, former member of Off Course
Kohei Oguri – film director
Kyosen Ōhashi – TV host and writer
Eiichi Otaki – musician
Masato Sakai* – actor
Yuji Sakai – musician, member of The Gospellers
Bunta Sugawara – actor
Sunplaza Nakano* – musician
Tamori* – comedian and television presenter
Yuya Tegoshi – actor, singer (member of NEWS), distantly attending
Shinya Ueda – comedian, member of Cream Stew
Ken Utsui – actor
Yutaka Yasuoka – musician, member of The Gospellers
Sayuri Yoshinaga – actress
Kota Yabu – actor, singer (member of Hey! Say! JUMP)
Yoko Kanno – composer
Hiromu Komagome – singer, composer (member of Root Five)
Nao Tōyama – voice actress, singer
Saori Hayami – voice actress, singer
Aoi Yūki – voice actress, singer
Yuuki Ono – voice actor, singer
Kouki Uchiyama – actor, voice actor
Sōma Saitō – voice actor, singer
Shimizu Kunio – playwright
Ichirō Ōkouchi – screenwriter, novelist, winner of two best screenplay awards at the Tokyo Anime Award festival.
Yamada Tamaru — singer/songwriter
Edmund Yeo – Malaysian film director
Jerome Polin - YouTubers

Scientists

Shingo Futamura - rubber industry scientist

Sports

Baseball

Tatsuro Hirooka
Norichika Aoki
Kenichi Yazawa
Hiroo Ishii
Kunikazu Ogawa
Akira Ejiri
Soroku Yagisawa
Tamotsu Kimura
Toru Mori
Akinobu Okada – former manager for the Hanshin Tigers
Hiroyasu Tanaka
Takashi Toritani
Tsuyoshi Wada
Masumi Kuwata
Yuki Saitō

Figure skating

Shizuka Arakawa – 2006 Winter Olympics gold medalist
Rena Inoue – Pairs skater
Yukari Nakano
Fumie Suguri
Yuzuru Hanyu – Men's singles figure skater, 2014, 2018 Winter Olympics gold medalist and two-times world champion

Football

Kunishige Kamamoto
Saburo Kawabuchi – ex-President of Japan football association and ex-Chairman of Japan professional soccer league
Yuki Soma

Martial arts

Negishi Yuichi – Chief Instructor Waseda University Karatedo Shitokai Club
Yoriko Okamoto – taekwondo, 2000 Sydney Olympics bronze medalist
Kisshomaru Ueshiba
Mitsusuke Harada – head of KDS
Shigeru Egami – founder of Shōtōkai karate
Tsutomu Ohshima – Chief Instructor of Shotokan Karate of America
Kenji Tomiki – judo and aikido, founder of Shodokan Aikido
Hironori Ōtsuka – founder of Wadō-ryū karate
AnnMaria De Mars – 1984 Judo World Champion

Rugby

Katsuyuki Kiyomiya – player and coach
Hiroaki Shukuzawa – player and coach
Ayumu Goromaru
Yoshikazu Fujita

Swimming

Natsumi Hoshi – Olympic bronze medalist
Toshio Irie – Olympic silver medalist
Shozo Makino – Olympic silver medalist
Yoshihiko Osaki – Olympic silver medalist
Masato Sakai – Olympic silver medalist
Daiya Seto – Olympic bronze medalist
Katsuo Takaishi – Olympic bronze medalist
Tsuyoshi Yamanaka – Olympic silver medalist

Volleyball

Yoko Zetterlund – Former player of United States women's national volleyball team
Ryuta Homma – Former roster of men's national volleyball team and active in V.League Division 1 player for JTEKT Stings
Taichi Fukuyama – Former roster of men's national volleyball team and active V.League Division 1 Player for JTEKT Stings
Yuto Fujinaka – Former roster of Japan U-21 and U-23 national volleyball team and currently active in V.League Division 1
Mitsuki Kobayashi – Former roster of Japan U-21 and universiade national team, competing in 2019 Summer Universiade. Currently active in V.League Division 1
Kento Miyaura – Current roster of men's national volleyball team and player for Paris Volley
Tatsunori Otsuka – Current roster of men's national volleyball team and active V.League Division 1 player for Panasonic Panthers

Miscellaneous

Hajime Itoi
Suishu Tobita [ja] — so-called "God of Japanese baseball"^[6]
Toshihisa Nishi
Motoi Onuki
Keijiro Matsumoto
Mikio Oda – athletics, Japan's first Olympic gold medalist
Kenji Ogiwara – Nordic combined, 1992/1994 Winter Olympics gold medalist
Michito Sakaki – Australian rules football
Jiro Sato – tennis
Takuma Sato* – Formula One driver
Toshihiko Seko – marathon runner
Ōnishiki Uichirō – sumo, 26th yokozuna
Ai Fukuhara – table tennis
Yu Hirayama – badminton
Kenta Matsudaira – table tennis
Suguru Osako – long-distance runner

Other

Einosuke Akiya – 5th President of Soka Gakkai
Nancy Andrew – translator, junior year, 1967–1968
Akihito Hirose - Professional shogi player, former Ōi title holder.
Yuji Horii – video game designer
Tomonobu Itagaki – video game designer, School of Law, 1985–92
Katsuhiro Harada – video game designer
Yuichi Matsushima – electrical engineer
Taichi Nakamura - Professional shogi player, current Ōza title holder.
Tensai Okamura – director
Kyohei Sakaguchi
Yoshio Shirai
Shizuo Tsuji

Notable current students

Sports

Tatsuki Machida – Figure skater
Shingo Nishiyama – Figure skater
Rika Kihira – Figure skater
Miyabi Onitsuka – Snowboarder
Kanako Watanabe – Swimmer
Ippei Watanabe – Swimmer
Tatsunori Otsuka – Men's national volleyball player, being a part of 2020 Olympics men's tournament

Performing arts

Jyongri – singer
Natsuki Sato – idol singer, former member of AKB48
Yui Ogura – voice actor, roles include Toki Onjōji (Saki Achiga-hen Episode of Side-A)

Notable faculty members

Yaichi Aizu, poet, scholar of ancient Chinese and Japanese art, and namesake of Aizu Museum
Tameyuki Amano, economics scholar and educator
Kohei Ando, Professor Emeritus of Cinema
Yasunobu Fujiwara, scholar of political science
Lafcadio Hearn, novelist, literary scholar, professor of English literature
Smimasa Idditti (Sumimasa Idichi ), professor of English
Kenji Imai, architect
Tokio Kimura, historian
Kunitake Kume, historian
Tachu Naito, architect
Naoyoshi Nakamura, historian
Haruo Nishihara, law professor, former President
Takayasu Okushima, law professor, former President
Hajime Ōnishi, philosopher
Ikuo Ōyama, scholar of political science
Yaso Saijo, poet
Masasada Shiozawa, scholar of economics, former President
Sanae Takata, scholar of political science, former President
Ōdō Tanaka, philosopher
Shoyo Tsubouchi, playwright, critic, translator, educator, professor of English literature, and namesake of Tsubouchi Memorial Theater Museum
Sokichi Tsuda, historian, recipient of the Order of Culture
Kazutami Ukita, scholar of political science
Shujiro Urata, economist
Yoshio Yamanouchi, translator, scholar of French literature
Akira Yonekura, law professor
Takamasa Yoshizaka, architect

Principals, de facto presidents (1907–1923), and presidents

Principals

Hidemaro Ōkuma, 1882–1886
Hisoka Maejima, 1886–1890
Kazuo Hatoyama, 1890–1907

De facto presidents (1907–1923)

Sanae Takata, 1907–1915
Tameyuki Amano, 1915–1917
Yoshiro Hiranuma, 1918–1921
Masasada Shiozawa, 1921–1923

Presidents

Shigenobu Ōkuma,^[7] 1907–1922
Masasada Shiozawa, 1923
Sanae Takata, 1923–1931
Hozumi Tanaka (public finance scholar, Doctor of Laws, 1876—1944), 1931–1944
Tomio Nakano, 1944–1946
Koichi Shimada, 1946–1954
Nobumoto Ōhama, 1954–1966
Kenichi Abe, 1966–1968
Tsunesaburo Tokikoyama, 1968–1970
Sukenaga Murai, 1970–1978
Tsukasa Shimizu, 1978–1982
Haruo Nishihara, 1982–1990
Chūmaru Koyama, 1990–1994
Takayasu Okushima, 1994–2002
Katsuhiko Shirai, 2002–2010
Kaoru Kamata, 2010–Present

Trustees

Ryuhoku Narushima, poet, journalist, and one of the first trustees of Waseda
Azusa Ono (1852–1886), law scholar and one of the first trustees of Waseda

Benefactors

Waseda University has had numerous benefactors, including:

Eiichi Shibusawa,^[8] businessman and philanthropist
Ichizaemon Morimura,^[9] businessman
Koichiro Kagami,^[10] businessman
Kenkichi Kodera,^[11] presenter of over thirty-six thousand foreign books to the Library
Kisaku Maekawa,^[12] businessman and philanthropist
Masaru Ibuka, after whom Masaru Ibuka Auditorium (Hall)^[13] is named.
Robert J. Shillman, founder & CEO of Cognex Corporation, namesake of Robert Shillman Hall

References

External links

Waseda University

Waseda University
Located in: Tokyo, Japan
Undergraduate Schools	International Liberal Studies
Graduate Schools	Asia-Pacific Studies
Facilities	Ōkuma Auditorium Ōkuma Garden Waseda El Dorado Waseda University Library Waseda University Junior and Senior High School Waseda University Honjo Senior High School Waseda Shibuya Senior High School in Singapore Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Organizations	Waseda University Rugby Football Club Cheerleading Club Waseda Big Bears football
Miscellaneous	History Campus Library Faculty Alumni Waseda–Keio rivalry Waseda-SAT2
Founded: 1882 Students: 51,129 Endowment: Category Commons