List of Tokyo Institute of Technology people

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

Politics

• Naoto Kan – 94th Prime Minister of Japan (2010-2011)
• Yukio Hatoyama – former Assistant Professor; 93rd Prime Minister of Japan (2009–2010)
• Tadamichi Yamamoto - UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan

Sciences

• Yoshinori Ohsumi – Nobel laureate (Medicine, 2016)
• Hideki Shirakawa (BSc 1961, PhD 1966) – Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 2000)[1]
• Toshikazu Sunada – mathematician who contributed to various fields in geometry, including spectral geometry, Reinhardt domain, Ihara zeta function, and periodic graph)

Engineering

• Toshitada Doi – robot Aibo pioneer, co-inventor of compact disc
• Nobutaro Hara – model railway builder whose collection is displayed at the Hara Model Railway Museum[2]
• Shōji Hayashi – architect, chairman of Japan Institute of Architects[3]
• Shigeo Hirose – pioneer of robotics technology
• Junichi Iijima – Professor of the Department of Industrial Management and Engineering
• Satoru Iwata – former game developer at HAL Laboratories; former CEO of Nintendo[4]
• Heitaro Nakajima – digital audio pioneer
• Hiroshi Takahashi – architect[5]
• Jiro Tanaka – aircraft and automotive engineer[6][7][8]

Business

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

References

1. Hideki Shirakawa – Biographical The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000, Nobelprize.org
2. Orii, Yuka (24 July 2012). "Full steam ahead for 93-year-old model train builder". Asia & Japan Watch. Japan: The Asahi Shimbun Company. Archived from the original on 2012-07-25. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
3. "Hayashi Shōji" 林 昌二 (in Japanese). Japan Institute of Architects. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
4. Oi, Mariko (13 July 2015). "Nintendo's Satoru Iwata dies at 55". BBC News. Japan. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
5. "Hiroshi + Akiko Takahashi/Workstation". Architecture Trend Press. 2001. Archived from the original on 2007-11-13.
6. Carmakers owe success to warplanes – Military's brightest aircraft designers created Japan's automotive powers The Japan Times, Aug. 13, 2005
7. The History and the Biography of Jiro Tanaka (Detailed PDF document attached) Archived 2015-01-09 at the Wayback Machine (Japanese) – Japan Automotive Hall of Fame
8. From 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)