, abbreviated as , is a leading private university located in
Tokyo, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and is located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the city of Tokyo in the eastern part of the prefecture, totaling over 8 million people....
. Founded in 1882 as
Tokyo Senmon Gakko, the institution was renamed "Waseda University" in 1902. It is known for its liberal climate symbolized by the motto
independence of learning.
Six post-war prime ministers were Waseda alumni:
Tanzan IshibashiTanzan Ishibashi was a Japanese journalist and politician. He was the 55th Prime Minister of Japan from December 23,1956 to February 25,1957. During the same time he was the 2nd president of the Liberal Democratic Party, the majority party in the Diet.He was born in Tokyo and graduated from Waseda...
(1956–1957),
Noboru TakeshitaNoboru Takeshita was a Japanese politician and the 74th Prime Minister of Japan from November 6, 1987 to June 3, 1989. He was also the last Prime Minister during the long rule of the Showa Emperor.-Early years:Takeshita was born in present-day Unnan, Shimane and attended Waseda University...
(1987–1989),
Toshiki Kaifuis a Japanese politician who was the 76th and 77th Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991.He was born in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, and was educated at Chuo University and Waseda University. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party , Kaifu ran successfully for the Diet in 1960 and served for...
(1989–1991),
Keizo Obuchiwas a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives for twelve terms, and ultimately as the 84th Prime Minister of Japan from July 30, 1998 to April 5, 2000. His political career ended when he suffered a serious and ultimately fatal stroke....
(1998–2000),
Yoshiro Moriis a Japanese politician who served as the 85th and 86th Prime Minister of Japan starting at April 5, 2000 ending April 26, 2001. Described as having "the heart of a flea and the brain of a shark," he was an unpopular prime minister mainly remembered today for his many gaffes and situationally...
(2000–2001), and
Yasuo Fukudawas the 91st Prime Minister of Japan, serving from 2007 to 2008. He was previously the longest-serving Chief Cabinet Secretary in Japanese history, serving for three and a half years under Prime Ministers Yoshiro Mori and Junichiro Koizumi....
(2007–2008). Waseda's
literatureLiterature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" , and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters...
program counts
Haruki Murakamiis a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore...
and Tawara Machi among its graduates, as well as
Shuji Terayamawas an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. According to many critics and supporters, he was one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan. He was born December 10, 1935, the only son of Hachiro and Hatsu Terayama in...
among its drop-outs.
The alumni also include corporate leaders such as
Masaru IbukaMasaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics industrialist. He co-founded what is now Sony....
, co-founder of
Sonyis a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding ¥ 7.730.0 trillion, or $78.88 billion U.S. . Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game...
;
Lee Kun-heeLee Kun-Hee was a former chairman of Samsung Electronics until he resigned on April 21 2008 owing to Samsung Slush funds scandal. Lee has a degree in economics from Waseda University in Tokyo and attended an MBA course at George Washington University in the United States in 1966 without earning a...
, former chairman of Samsung;
Takeo FukuiTakeo Fukui is the president and CEO of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.. He is from Tokyo, Japan, though his mother gave birth to him in Hiroshima to escape intensifying air raids during World War II. He graduated from Waseda University with a Bachelor's degree in Applied Chemistry. He began working at...
, CEO of
Hondais a Japanese multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. Honda is the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume. Honda surpassed Nissan in 2001 to become...
; Atsutoshi Nishida, CEO of
Toshibais a Japanese multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company's main business is in infrastructure, consumer products, electronic devices and components.Toshiba-made Semiconductors are among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders...
; Osamu Masuko, CEO of
Mitsubishi Motorsis the fifth largest automaker in Japan and the fifteenth largest in the world by global unit sales. It is part of the Mitsubishi keiretsu, formerly the biggest industrial group in Japan, and was formed in 1970 from the automotive division of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.Throughout its history it...
; Tetsuro Toyoda, CEO of Toyota Industries;
Tadashi Yanaiis the founder and president of Fast Retailing, of which Uniqlo is a subsidiary. He is routinely ranked as one of the richest men in Japan, and in 2009 he was ranked the 76th richest man in the world according to Forbes, making him the richest man in Japan with an estimated net worth of $6.0...
, CEO of
Uniqlois a Japanese casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer.Originally a division of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., on November 1, 2005, Uniqlo Co., Ltd...
; and
Kenichi Ohmaeis a business and corporate strategist who developed the 3C's Model.For twenty-three years, Dr. Ohmae was a senior partner in McKinsey & Company, the international management consulting firm...
, founder and former senior partner of McKinsey & Co Japan. Currently, seven of the Fortune Global 2007's CEOs are Waseda graduates.
http://www.mines-paristech.fr/Actualites/PR/EMP-ranking.html.
Waseda University is a member of
Universitas 21Universitas 21 is an international network of research-intensive universities, established as an "international reference point and resource for strategic thinking on issues of global significance." Together, there are 500,000 students and 40,000 academics and researchers associated with these...
, an international network of 21 research-intensive universities.
Institution
History and development
The university was founded by
samuraiis the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
scholar and
MeijiThe , or Meiji era denotes the period in Japanese history during the 45-year reign of the Meiji Emperor . During this time, Japan began its modernization and rose to world power status...
-era politician and former prime minister
Okuma ShigenobuMarquis ; was a Japanese statesman and the 8th and 17th Prime Minister of Japan...
in 1882, and was designated as a full university in 1902. It started as a college with three departments under the old Japanese system of higher education.
In 1882, the university had the department of political science and economics, law, and physical science. Along with these departments, an English language course was established, where the students of all the departments could learn English.
Three years later, the department of physical science was closed because it had too few applicants. The department of science and engineering was established in 1908.
The department of literature was established in 1890.
The department of education was established in 1903, and the department of commerce, in 1904.
Much of the campus was destroyed in the fire bombings of Tokyo during
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, but the university was rebuilt and reopened by 1949. It has grown to become a comprehensive university with two senior high schools and school of art and architecture.
Origin of the name "Waseda University"
Waseda University started its life as 'Tokyo Senmon Gakko (College)' on October 21, 1882. Before the name 'Waseda' was selected, it was known variously as 'Waseda Gakko' or 'Totsuka Gakko', after the location of the founder's villa in Waseda Village and the school's location in Totsuka Village respectively.
Around 1892, people started to call it 'Waseda Gakko'. It was renamed 'Waseda University' on September 2, 1902, upon acquiring University status.
The only square academic cap in the world
Ōkuma had long desired to create an academic cap so distinctive that someone wearing the cap would immediately be identified as a Waseda student. The chief tailor of
Takashimayais a large Japanese department store chain.Founded in 1829 in Kyoto by Iida Shinkichi as a retailer of used clothing and cotton cloth, the store now has outlets throughout Japan and also in New York, Taipei, Paris and Singapore....
, Yashichiro, was called upon to design a cap in three days.
Each square cap was stamped on the inside with the student's name, his department, the school seal and the legend, "This certifies that the owner is a student of Waseda". Thus, the cap served as a form of identification, and effectively a status symbol. The cap, with its gold-braided badge, is registered as a trademark.
125th anniversary
On October 21, 2007 Waseda University celebrated the 125th anniversary. Okuma often talked about the "125 years of life" theory: "The lifespan of a human being can be as long as 125 years. He will be able to live out his natural lifespan as long as he takes proper care of his health", because "physiologists say that every animal has the ability to live five times as long as its growth period. Since a man is said to require about 25 years to become fully mature, it follows that he can live up to 125 years of age." This theory propounded by Okuma was very popular and often referred to in the media of the time.
In commemorative events relating to Waseda University and Okuma, the number 125 is accorded special significance, as it marks an important epoch. The tower of Okuma Auditorium, completed on the university's 45th anniversary, is 125
shaku, or about 38 m high. In 1963, there were also events to mark the 125th anniversary of Okuma's birth.
Okuma, who twice served as prime minister of Japan, organized his second cabinet when he was 77 and passed away when he was 83. He said, "I wish I had understood this '125 years of life' theory 30 years earlier". He did, however, lead a regular life, and lived fairly long compared to other Japanese at the time.
Campuses
Waseda University's main campus is located in the Nishi-Waseda district of
Shinjukuis one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative center, housing the busiest train station in the world , and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administration center for the government of Tokyo.Surrounding Shinjuku Station are department...
, though Waseda is generally associated with the
Yamanote LineThe of East Japan Railway Company is one of Tokyo's busiest and most important commuter rail lines. Running as a circle, it connects most of Tokyo's major stations and urban centres including the Yūrakuchō area, Shibuya, Shinjuku and Ikebukuro with all but two of its 29 stations connecting with...
station,
Takadanobaba Stationis a train station located in the Takadanobaba area of Tokyo's Shinjuku ward. Situated between the commercial districts of Ikebukuro and Shinjuku it is a minor commuting hub linking the Seibu Shinjuku Line and the Tokyo Metro Tōzai Line with the Yamanote Line....
. Apart from the main campus in Shinjuku, other campuses are located in Chuo and Nishitōkyō of Tokyo, Tokorozawa-shi and Honjo-shi of Saitama, and Kitakyushu-shi of Fukuoka Prefecture.
- Waseda Campus: Shinjuku, Tokyo
Nishi-Waseda Campus was renamed Waseda Campus in spring 2008.
- Toyama Campus: Shinjuku, Tokyo
- Okubo Campus: Shinjuku, Tokyo
Okubo Campus will be renamed Nishi-Waseda Campus in spring 2009.
- Nihonbashi Campus: Chuo, Tokyo
- Higashifushimi Campus: Nishitōkyō, Tokyo
- Tokorozawa Campus: Tokorozawa-shi, Saitama-ken
- Honjo Campus: Honjo-shi, Saitama-ken
- Kitakyushu Campus: Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka-ken
Undergraduate Schools and Graduate Schools
Undergraduate Schools:
- School of Political Science and Economics
- School of Law
- School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Culture, Media and Society
- School of Education
- School of Commerce
- School of Fundamental Science and Engineering
- School of Creative Science and Engineering
- School of Advanced Science and Engineering
- School of Social Sciences
- School of Human Sciences
- School of Sports Sciences
- School of International Liberal Studies
Graduate Schools:
- Graduate School of Political Science
- Graduate School of Economics
- Graduate School of Law
- Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Graduate School of Commerce
- Graduate School of Fundamental Science and Engineering
- Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering
- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering
- Graduate School of Education
- Graduate School of Human Sciences
- Graduate School of Social Sciences
- Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies
- Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies
- Graduate School of Japanese Applied Linguistics
- Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems
- Graduate School of Sports Sciences
- Business School
- The Okuma School of Public Management
- Law School
- Graduate School of Finance, Accounting and Law
- Graduate School of Accountancy
- Graduate School of Environment and Energy Engineering
Research institutes
- Kagami Memorial Laboratory for Materials Science and Technology
- Institute for Comparative Law
- The Institute for Research in Business Administration
- Institute for Research in Contemporary Political and Economic Affairs
- Advanced Research Center for Human Sciences
- Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering
- Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
- Global Information and Telecommunication Institute
- Institute for Advanced Studies in Education
- Center for Japanese Language
- Media Network Center
- Environmental Research Institute
- Environmental Safety Center
- Center for Finance Research
- Human Service Center
- Comprehensive Research Organization (Project Research Institute)
- Institute for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
- Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care
- Information Technology Research Organization
- Organization for Asian Studies
- Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS)
Okuma Auditorium
Soon after Okuma's death on 10 January, 1922, the planning of memorials commenced. The first decision was to construct a large auditorium, something Okuma had always dreamed of.
The three-story main auditorium seats 1,435, while the secondary auditorium, located underground, can accommodate 382 people. A seven-story high clock tower stands to the left of the auditorium. The height of the tower, at 125
shakuThe shaku is a traditional unit of measure used throughout Asia with a length approximately equal to a foot. It is variously called shaku in Japanese, chi in Mandarin, chek in Cantonese, and written as "chek" in Hong Kong. As with other measurements, it was originally derived from nature: the...
, or about 38 m, represents the theory of 'life of 125 years' advocated by Okuma. The bells at the top of the tower were transported across the Panama Canal from the MacLean Company in Baltimore, U.S. It was the first time that four bells, large and small, had been used in Japan. The bells, which ring six times a day, produce the same harmony for the city of Waseda as Westminster Abbey does for London.
As one enters the auditorium, one notices some oval-shaped transom windows on the roof. The windows represent the sun, moon, and nine planets of our solar system, and symbolize the 'harmony of the universe', both inside and outside the auditorium. The auditorium opened on October 20, 1927, about five years behind schedule, after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
In April 1999, the auditorium was designated as the first, and the Old Library the second, of the 'Tokyo metropolitan historic buildings', under the Tokyo Metropolitan Landscape Regulations, which aim to preserve buildings representative of Tokyo's history and culture.
The auditorium was designated as one of the important cultural assets of Japan by
Ministry of EducationThe , also known as MEXT or Monkashō, is one of the ministries of the Japanese government.The Meiji government created the first Ministry of Education in 1871....
in 2007.
Libraries and museums
The
Waseda University LibraryThe library of Waseda University is one of the largest in Japan, and is a unique collection. It was established in 1882, and currently holds some 4.5 million volumes and 46,000 serials.-Library History:...
, designed by Tachu Naito, Kenji Imai and Kin-ichi Kiriyama, was completed in 1925. This five-story building, with a total area of 1,195 tsubo (about 3,944 square meters), was used initially as the University Library. The reading room was housed in a separate two-story building, with a seating capacity of 500. One of the prominent libraries established at the end of the Taisho period, it has been a symbol of Waseda University to this day, along with the Okuma Auditorium and the Theatre Museum.
The Old Library and the administration building were expanded in 1934 and 1955 respectively. The Old Library stopped serving as a main library, after the New Central Library, located where the Abe Stadium used to be, was completed in 1990. It now houses Sanae Takata Memorial Research Library, the University Archives, and Yaichi Aizu Museum. Sanae Takata Memorial Research Library opened in 1994. It is named after former university president Sanae Takata. Historical and cultural materials on Waseda University are exhibited in the University Archives, and the materials related with Shigenobu Ōkuma are exhibited in the Ōkuma Memorial Room at the Archives. Yaichi Aizu Memorial Museum opened in 1998.
In the front hall, visitors are greeted by the masterpiece "Meian", which dates back to 1927. It is painted on the world's largest hand-made washi (Japanese paper), which is 4.45 meters in diameter and weighs about 12 kilograms. It was manufactured by Heisaburo Iwano, the founder of the Echizen paper works in Imadachi-cho, Fukui prefecture. The masterpiece was painted free of charge by Taikan Yokoyama and Kanzan Shimomura, two artists who represented the modern Japanese style of painting. President Sanae Takata asked them to paint a picture for the Library.
The library possesses a unique collection which survived the
Bombing of Tokyo in World War IIThe bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces took place at several times during the Pacific campaigns of World War II and included the most destructive bombing raid in history.-Doolittle Raid:...
unlike many of its counterparts. The collection is an important resource for the study of pre-war Japanese history and literature.
In April 1999, the Old Library was designated as one of the first "Tokyo metropolitan historic buildings”, along with the Okuma Auditorium.
- Waseda University Library
- Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Commonly known as "enpaku," the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum of Waseda University is a university museum devoted to the history of drama with facilities used for cultural performances from all over the world, named for Tsubouchi Shōyō, a writer famously known for his work with theater and...
- Aizu Museum
Baseball
The rivalry between Waseda and
Keio Universityis a university located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. A leading Japanese university that Wataru Osada, a Keio student called "...the best university in Japan, similar to Ivy League schools in this country. ..." Keio is the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi...
is highlighted by the Sōkeisen in the
Tokyo Big6 Baseball LeagueTokyo Big6 Baseball League is an intercollegiate baseball league that features six prominent universities in the Tokyo area...
. The
baseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond...
series is held twice a year in the Spring and Autumn. Held at Meiji-Jingu Stadium, it is considered one of the most important competitions by both student bodies. The Waseda University Baseball Club is the most successful team in the Big6 league in terms of winning percentage, but it has 37 league championships, which puts it second behind
Hosei Universityis a private university based in Tokyo, Japan.The university originated in a school of law, Tōkyō Hōgakusha , established in 1880, and the following year renamed Tōkyō Hōgakkō . This was from 1883 headed by Dr. Gustave Emile Boissonade, and was heavily influenced by the French legal tradition...
.
Football (soccer)
Waseda University
footballAssociation football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players using a spherical ball...
team won the
Emperor's Cup, commonly known as , is a Japanese football competition. It has the longest tradition of any football tournament in Japan, dating back to 1921, before the formation of the J. League, Japan Football League and their predecessor, Japan Soccer League...
, in 1964 and 1967.
Rugby union
Waseda University Rugby Football ClubWaseda University R.F.C. was founded in 1918. It is one of the top rugby union clubs for students in Japan, together with Kanto Gakuin University RFC, Keio University RFC and Doshisha University RFC....
currently is the reigning university
rugby unionRugby union is a full contact team sport, a form of football which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. It is played with an oval-shaped ball, outdoors on a level field, usually with a grass surface, 100 m...
champion in Japan, reaching the university championships 28 times, and winning fourteen times. Its two biggest rivals are
Keio Universityis a university located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. A leading Japanese university that Wataru Osada, a Keio student called "...the best university in Japan, similar to Ivy League schools in this country. ..." Keio is the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi...
and
Meiji Universityis a private university in Tokyo and Kawasaki, founded in 1881 by three lawyers of the Meiji era, Kishimoto Tatsuo, Miyagi Kōzō, and Yashiro Misao....
.
- University championship rugby
The Japanese University rugby union championships are held annually. The 2004-5 championships were the 41st in the series. Waseda University beat Kanto Gakuin University 31-19 in the final on January 9 2005.-45th National University Championship:2008/9...
Karate
The Waseda University
karateis a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands...
club is one of the oldest in Japan, formed in 1931 under the direction of
Gichin FunakoshiGichin Funakoshi was the creator of Shotokan karate and is attributed as being the "father of modern karate"...
. Graduates of the karate club include
Shigeru Egamiwas a student of the founder of modern karate - Gichin Funakoshi; and later the founder of the style he named Shōtōkai.He was born in the Fukuoka Prefecture in 1912. He was one of Gichin Funakoshi Sensei's earliest students, but more than this, he was one of his most faithful and correct followers...
, leader of the
Shotokaiis the organisation formed in 1936 by some of the senior karateka of Gichin Funakoshi to teach karate. The organization still exists and promotes a style of karate that adheres to Funakoshi's teachings, in particular the notion that competition is contrary to the essence of karate...
school, and
Tsutomu OhshimaTsutomu Ohshima is the founder and Shihan of Shotokan Karate of America , and is also recognized as chief instructor of many other international Shotokan organizations.- Karate career :...
, founder of
Shotokan Karate of AmericaShotokan Karate of America is a non-profit organization whose mission is to teach traditional karate-do in the United States. It was founded and is still led by Tsutomu Ohshima, a student of Gichin Funakoshi, the father of Shotokan karate...
.
Prime Ministers
- Tanzan Ishibashi
Tanzan Ishibashi was a Japanese journalist and politician. He was the 55th Prime Minister of Japan from December 23,1956 to February 25,1957. During the same time he was the 2nd president of the Liberal Democratic Party, the majority party in the Diet.He was born in Tokyo and graduated from Waseda...
(1956–1957)
- Noboru Takeshita
Noboru Takeshita was a Japanese politician and the 74th Prime Minister of Japan from November 6, 1987 to June 3, 1989. He was also the last Prime Minister during the long rule of the Showa Emperor.-Early years:Takeshita was born in present-day Unnan, Shimane and attended Waseda University...
(1987–1989)
- Toshiki Kaifu
is a Japanese politician who was the 76th and 77th Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991.He was born in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, and was educated at Chuo University and Waseda University. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party , Kaifu ran successfully for the Diet in 1960 and served for...
(1989–1991)
- Keizo Obuchi
was a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives for twelve terms, and ultimately as the 84th Prime Minister of Japan from July 30, 1998 to April 5, 2000. His political career ended when he suffered a serious and ultimately fatal stroke....
(1998–2000)
- Yoshiro Mori
is a Japanese politician who served as the 85th and 86th Prime Minister of Japan starting at April 5, 2000 ending April 26, 2001. Described as having "the heart of a flea and the brain of a shark," he was an unpopular prime minister mainly remembered today for his many gaffes and situationally...
(2000–2001)
- Yasuo Fukuda
was the 91st Prime Minister of Japan, serving from 2007 to 2008. He was previously the longest-serving Chief Cabinet Secretary in Japanese history, serving for three and a half years under Prime Ministers Yoshiro Mori and Junichiro Koizumi....
(2007–2008)
Business Leaders
- Takeo Fukui
Takeo Fukui is the president and CEO of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.. He is from Tokyo, Japan, though his mother gave birth to him in Hiroshima to escape intensifying air raids during World War II. He graduated from Waseda University with a Bachelor's degree in Applied Chemistry. He began working at...
, CEO of Hondais a Japanese multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. Honda is the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume. Honda surpassed Nissan in 2001 to become...
- Norio Sasaki, CEO of Toshiba
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company's main business is in infrastructure, consumer products, electronic devices and components.Toshiba-made Semiconductors are among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders...
- Soichiro Fukutake
Soichiro Fukutake is the president of Benesse Corporation, a Japanese company best known for its distance learning and test preparation schools...
, president of Benesseis a Japanese company which focusses on correspondence education and publishing. Based in Okayama-City, it is the parent company of Berlitz Language Schools, which in turn is the parent company of ELS Language Centers...
- Masaru Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics industrialist. He co-founded what is now Sony....
, co-founder of Sonyis a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding ¥ 7.730.0 trillion, or $78.88 billion U.S. . Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game...
, recipient of the Order of CultureThe Order of Culture is a Japanese order, established on February 11, 1937. The order has one class only, and may be awarded to men and women for contributions to Japan's art, literature or culture; recipients of the order also receive an annuity for life...
- Nobuyuki Idei
Nobuyuki Idei was a former Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer of Sony Corporation until the 7th March 2005. He is also a director of General Motors, Baidu and Nestlé...
, ex-CEO of Sony
- Michael Kogan
Michael Kogan was a Russian Jewish businessman who founded the Japanese games maker Taito Corporation. He was born in Odessa, but his family moved to Harbin, Manchuria to escape the Russian Revolution of 1917, where he later met Colonel Yasue Norihiro, a member of the Japanese Army's intelligence...
, founder of Taito CorporationThe is a Japanese developer of video game software and arcade hardware wholly owned by publisher Square Enix.Taito Trading Company was established by a Russian Jewish businessman named Michael Kogan. Taito also imports and distributes American coin-op video games in Japan, as well as their own...
- Lee Byung-chul
Lee Byung-chull was the founder of the Samsung Group. He was the son of a wealthy landowning family who used his inheritance to open a rice mill for his first venture. That endeavor was not especially successful so he established a trucking business in Daegu on March 1, 1938, which he named...
*, Founder of Samsung
- Lee Kun-hee
Lee Kun-Hee was a former chairman of Samsung Electronics until he resigned on April 21 2008 owing to Samsung Slush funds scandal. Lee has a degree in economics from Waseda University in Tokyo and attended an MBA course at George Washington University in the United States in 1966 without earning a...
, ex-chairman of Samsung
- Kenichi Ohmae
is a business and corporate strategist who developed the 3C's Model.For twenty-three years, Dr. Ohmae was a senior partner in McKinsey & Company, the international management consulting firm...
, founder and ex-Senior Partner of McKinsey & Co's Japan office
- Isao Okawa
was a Japanese businessman and the former Chairman of Sega.-History:Okawa was born in Osaka, Japan. As a young adult he studied at Waseda University in Tokyo. After graduating from Waseda he formed his own Computer Service Company, which later became known as CSK Holdings Corporation .-Involvement...
, ex-chairman of Segais a multinational video game software and hardware development company, and a home computer and console manufacturer headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan...
- Park Tae-joon, Founder and Chairman of Pohang Iron & Steels Corp, POSCO
The Pohang Iron and Steel Company, or POSCO , based in Pohang, South Korea, is the world's second largest steel maker by market value....
- Masamitsu Sakurai, Chairman of Ricoh
or Ricoh, is a Japanese company that was established on February 6, 1936 as , a company in the RIKEN zaibatsu. It is headquartered in the Ricoh Building in Chūō, Tokyo....
, Chairman of Japan Association of Corporate Executives
- Mikio Sasaki
is chairman of the board of Mitsubishi Corporation.In 1960, Sasaki graduated from Waseda University with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and management. That April he went to work for Mitsubishi Corporation where he stayed ever since. From 1993 to 1994 he was president of the...
, chairman of MitsubishiThe , Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies is a Japanese conglomerate consisting of a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark and legacy...
- Shin Kyuk-Ho
Shin Kyuk-Ho is the founder of Lotte group. He was born in Ulsan, South Korea, 1922 and founded Lotte in 1948, which grew from selling chewing gum to children in post-war Japan to becoming a major multinational corporation with overseas branches in dozens of countries and products shipped...
, founder and Chairman of Lotte Group
- Yoshiaki Tsutsumi
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi is a Japanese businessman. During the Japanese economic bubble in the late 1980s, Tsutsumi was the wealthiest person in the world for a brief period due to his extensive real estate investments through the Seibu Corporation, which he controlled...
, founder of Seibu Railwayis a conglomerate based in Tokorozawa, Japan, with principal business areas in railways, tourism and real estate. Seibu Railway's operations are concentrated in northwest Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture; the name "Seibu" is an abbreviation of "west Musashi," referring to the historic name for this area...
- Hiroshi Yamauchi
is a Japanese businessman. He was the third president of Nintendo, beginning in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002. Yamauchi is credited with transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card-making company in Japan to a multi-billion dollar video game company, as it currently is. Yamauchi was...
, President of Nintendois a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
- Tadashi Yanai
is the founder and president of Fast Retailing, of which Uniqlo is a subsidiary. He is routinely ranked as one of the richest men in Japan, and in 2009 he was ranked the 76th richest man in the world according to Forbes, making him the richest man in Japan with an estimated net worth of $6.0...
, CEO of Fast Retailingis a Japanese retail holding company. In addition to its primary subsidiary Uniqlo, it owns several other brands, including Aspesi, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Foot Park, g.u., Princess Tam-Tam and National Standard....
and Uniqlois a Japanese casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer.Originally a division of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., on November 1, 2005, Uniqlo Co., Ltd...
Academics
- Koji Aikyo, law professor at Nagoya University
, abbreviated to }}, is a Japanese national university headquartered in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in Japan....
- Hitoshi Arai, mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and/or research is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with particular problems related to logic, space, transformations, numbers and more general ideas which encompass these concepts...
, professor at University of TokyoThe , abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano...
- Kanichi Asakawa, historian, professor at Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five...
- Shin Chiba, professor of political science at International Christian University
is a non-denominational private university located in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan. Commonly known as ICU , the university was founded in 1949.The curriculum is modeled on that of a US liberal arts college...
- Kunio Doi, professor of radiology
Radiology is the branch or specialty of medicine that deals with the study and application of imaging technology like x-ray and radiation to diagnosing and treating disease....
at the University of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private, coeducational research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by oil magnate and benefactor John D...
http://www.radiology.uchicago.edu/index.php?q=kunio-doi-phd/kunio-doi-phd
- Hidenori Fujita, educational sociologist, former professor at University of Tokyo, currently professor at International Christian University
- Toshio Fukuda, scholar of robotics
Robotics is the engineering science and technology of robots, and their design, manufacture, and application. Robotics is related to electronics, mechanics, and software. The word robot was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. , published in 1920...
, professor at Nagoya University
- Hideo Furuido, scholar of theatre arts, professor at University of Tokyo
- Tatsuro Hanada, sociologist of media
Mass media denotes a section of the media specifically designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. The term was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and magazines. However, some forms of mass media such...
, professor at University of TokyoThe , abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano...
, currently professor at Waseda
- Kazuomi Hirakawa, geographer
A geographer is a scientist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's physical environment and human habitat.Though geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
, professor at Hokkaido University, or , is a national university of Japan. It is considered as a member of the National Seven Universities. It is situated in downtown Sapporo, just north of Sapporo Station, and stretching approximately 2.4 kilometers northward.-History:...
- Takehiko Kamo (1942-1996), professor of political science at Waseda University and University of Tokyo
- Kang Sang-jung
Kang Sang-jung is a second-generation Zainichi Korean political scientist and a professor at the University of Tokyo....
, scholar of history of political thought, professor at University of TokyoThe , abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano...
- Heita Kawakatsu, scholar of economic history
Economic history is the study of how economic phenomena evolved from a historical perspective. Analysis in economic history is undertaken using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and by applying economic theory to historical situations. The topic includes business history and...
, professor at International Research Center for Japanese StudiesThe , or Nichibunken , is an inter-university research institute in Kyoto. Along with the National Institute of Japanese Literature, the National Museum of Japanese History, and the National Museum of Ethnology, it is one of the National Institutes for the Humanities...
, President of Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
- Toshihide Kobayashi, Chief Scientist at the RIKEN
is a large natural sciences research institute in Japan. Founded in 1917, it now has approximately 3000 scientists on seven campuses across Japan, the main one in Wako, just outside Tokyo...
Advanced Science Institute http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/medizin_gesundheit/exploring_cholesterol_function_fighting_metabolic_131177.html
- Hideo Kuroda, historian, professor emeritus
A Professor Emeritus is a full professor who retires in good standing. While technically this is the term for a male and women are known as Professor Emerita, women such as Germaine Greer are known by the masculine title. This title is also given to retired professors who continue to teach and to...
at University of TokyoThe , abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano...
- Tien-Min Li
Tien-Min Li was a Chinese Nationalist politician and political historian.Born in Sichuan province, Li studied at the Central Military Academy in Wuhan and completed his undergraduate studies in economics at Waseda University...
(Chinese political historian)
- Ichiro Masaki, director of the Intelligent Transportation Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research...
http://www-mtl.mit.edu/researchgroups/itrc/ITRC_people/masaki.html
- Masako Mitamura, scholar of Japanese literature, The Tale of Genji
is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period...
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
The history of economic thought deals with different thinkers and theories in the subject that became political economy and economics from the ancient world to the present day...
at Kyoto University, or is a major national university in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest university in Japan, and formerly one of the Imperial Universities of Japan...
- Yoshio Nishi, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States...
, the 2002 IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal recipient http://www.semizone.com/advantage/faculty-bio?faculty_id=442
- Toyohiro Nishimoto, archaeologist, professor at National Museum of Japanese History
The is a history museum in Sakura, Chiba, Japan.-See also:* List of National Treasures of Japan *List of National Treasures of Japan...
- Ikujiro Nonaka
is Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy; the First Distinguished Drucker Scholar in Residence at the Drucker School and Institute, Claremont Graduate University; the Xerox Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Institute of Management, Innovation...
, scholar of management, Knowledge ManagementKnowledge management comprises a range of practices used in an organisation to identify, create, represent, distribute and enable adoption of insights and experiences...
theorist, co-author of The Knowledge-Creating Company, visiting professor at University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines...
- Tetsuo Owada, historian, professor at Shizuoka University
Shizuoka University isa national university in Shizuoka, Japan.The university consists of six faculties; Humanities and Social Sciences, Education, Informatics, Science, Engineering and Agriculture...
- Shojiro Sakaguchi, law scholar, professor at Hitotsubashi University
is a national university in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the best universities in Japan and is the only university in Japan to specialize exclusively in the humanities and social sciences. The University has campuses in Kunitachi, Kodaira, and Kanda....
- Minoru Sekishita, professor of economics at Ritsumeikan University
is a private university in Kyoto, Japan. With the Kinugasa Campus, the university also has a satellite campus called Biwako-Kusatsu Campus in Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, and an internationalized Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Oita Prefecture.Ritsumeikan was founded by Prince...
- Ryūsaku Tsunoda
is known as the "father of Japanese studies" at Columbia University. He was directly responsible for developing the Japanese language and literature collection at Columbia's library...
(1877–1964), lecturer of Japanese studies at Columbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City...
- Ginzo Uchida (1872–1919), scholar of economic history, professor at Kyoto University
- Ungku Abdul Aziz Ungku Abdul Hamid (Leading Malaysian Academician)
- 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 and Atmospheric Science
The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is the graduate school of marine and atmospheric science within the University of Miami...
, University of MiamiThe University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 in the city of Coral Gables, Florida within Miami-Dade County...
; recipient of the 2008 Alan Berman Research Publication Award http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/uomr-ap032709.php
- Sakuji Yoshimura
is a Japanese Egyptologist. He currently is Director of the Institute of Egyptology, Waseda University, TokyoHe is the first president of an online college Cyber University....
(Egyptologist) the president of Cyber Universityis a private Japanese university. All of its courses are offered online, although it has a physical campus at Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture. The first president of the university is archeologist Sakuji Yoshimura....
Authors
- Edogawa Rampo
, better known by the pseudonym , was a Japanese author and critic. He wrote many works of detective fiction. Kogoro Akechi was the primary detective of these novels....
- Haruki Murakami
is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore...
, novelist, translator, writer, recipient of Franz Kafka PrizeThe Franz Kafka Prize is an international literary award presented in honour of Franz Kafka, the German language novelist. The prize was first awarded in 2001 and is co-sponsored by the Franz Kafka Society and the city of Prague, Czech Republic...
- Ichirō Ōkouchi
is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. He is a graduate of Waseda University, School of Human Sciences.In 2006, Ōkouchi collaborated with director Gorō Taniguchi for composing the story and script of the Sunrise original production, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion and its sequel Code Geass:...
- Kitahara Hakushu
is the pen-name of a tanka poet in Taishō and Showa period Japan. His real name is '. He is regarded as one of the most popular and important poets in modern Japanese literature.-Early life:...
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- Kunikida Doppo
was a Japanese author of novels and romantic poetry during the Meiji period, noted as one of the inventors of Japanese naturalism.-Early life:...
- Hiroyuki Yoshino
is a Japanese screenwriter. Since beginning his career with the noted studio Sunrise, he has scripted numerous of its anime including Mai-HiME, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion and Mai-Otome.-Biography:...
- Lee Hoesung
Lee Hoesung is a Zainichi Korean novelist in Japan. In 1972, he became the first ethnic Korean to win the Akutagawa Prize. Other representative works of his include Mihatenu Yume and Hyakunenno tabibitotachi .-Biography:Lee was born in 1935 to Korean immigrant parents in Maoka, Karafuto Prefecture...
- Taku Miki, poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, novelist, translator
- Manabu Miyazaki
Manabu Miyazaki is also the name of a Japanese wildlife photographer. For that entry, see Manabu Miyazaki .Manabu Miyazaki is a Japanese writer, social critic and public figure known for his underworld ties.While not a member of any particular yakuza syndicate, Miyazaki describes himself as a...
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- Masuji Ibuse
was a Japanese author.-Life and work:Ibuse was born in 1898 to a landowning family in the village of Kamo which is now part of Fukuyama, Hiroshima. At the age of 19 he started studying at Waseda University in Tokyo. He was at first interested in studying poetry and painting but was encouraged to...
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- Megumi Mizusawa
is the pen name of a Japanese manga artist. Her real name is Atsuko Naruse, and her maiden name was Katou. She is best known for her manga Hime-chan no Ribon, which was published in Ribon...
(manga artist)
- Yoko Ogawa
is a Japanese writer.Ogawa was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya, Hyōgo, with her husband and son. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor's Beloved Equation has been made into a...
, novelist
- Ototake Hirotada
is a Japanese sports writer from Tokyo, Japan.Born without arms and legs due to a disease called tetra-amelia, he is most notable for his 1998 memoir No One's Perfect ISBN 4770027648, which was a bestseller in Japan...
(sports writer)
- Shuji Terayama
was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. According to many critics and supporters, he was one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan. He was born December 10, 1935, the only son of Hachiro and Hatsu Terayama in...
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- Taneda Santoka
was the pen-name of a Japanese author and haiku poet. He is known for his free verse haiku.- Life :Santōka was born in a village on the southwestern tip of Honshū, Japan’s main island, to a wealthy land-owning family. At the age of ten his mother committed suicide by throwing herself into the...
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- Yoko Tawada
Yōko Tawada is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany.Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master's degree in contemporary German...
- Tawara Machi
- Yajima Teruo
was a Japanese writer.He was born and raised in Tokyo, and studied French literature at Waseda University. After dropping out of university, he worked as an editor of Weekly Manga Action. As a disciple of Takaaki Yoshimoto, he wrote for Yoshimoto's magazine "Shikô ". In 1970s, his novel "Mô hitotsu...
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- Yokomitsu Riichi
was an experimental, modernist Japanese writer.Yokomitsu began publishing in dōjinshi such as Machi and Tō after entering Waseda University in 1916. In 1923, he published Nichirin , Hae and more in the magazine Bungeishunjū, which made his name popular...
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- Risa Wataya
is a female Japanese novelist from Kyoto. She rose to fame in 2003 upon receiving the Akutagawa Prize for her short novel Keritai Senaka , while at Waseda University. The prize was shared between Wataya and Hitomi Kanehara, another young, female author...
- Akira Kojima
is a mangaka from Ibaraki prefecture who works for Square Enix. He worked on Mahoraba, which was published in Gangan WING and was broadcast as an anime on TV Tokyo. He often represents himself as the author in Mahoraba as a box with eyes and wires for limbs....
, manga artist
Sports
- Norichika Aoki
is an outfielder for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.Aoki is one of only three players to amass 200 or more hits in a single season in Japanese professional baseball...
(baseball)
- Shizuka Arakawa
is a Japanese figure skater.She is the 2006 Olympic Champion and the 2004 World Champion. Arakawa is the first Japanese figure skater to win the Olympics. She is the second Japanese figure skater to win an Olympic medal, after Midori Ito, and is the second Japanese woman to win a gold medal at the...
(figure skater, 2006 Winter Olympics gold medalist)
- Rena Inoue
Rena Inoue is an American pair skater. With partner John Baldwin, she is the 2004 and 2006 U.S. National Champion. Inoue previously competed for Japan as both a single skater and pair skater...
(pairs figure skater)
- Kunishige Kamamoto
Kunishige Kamamoto is a former football player from Japan, who won the bronze medal with the Japan national football team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico, finishing as the tournament's top scorer with seven goals.Kamamoto was the first Japanese league superstar, being the Japan...
(football player)
- Katsuyuki Kiyomiya
Katsuyuki Kiyomiya is a notable Japanese rugby union coach, formerly of Waseda University RFC and now of Suntory Sungoliath...
(rugby player and coach)
- Yukari Nakano
is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2006 Four Continents silver medalist and the 2007 & 2008 Japanese bronze medalist. She is one of five ladies skaters to perform a triple Axel jump in international competition.-Personal life:...
(figure skater)
- Hajime Itoi
Hajime Itoi is a retired male backstroke swimmer from Japan, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. He is best known for winning a silver medal at the 1995 Summer Universiade in Fukuoka. He competed for the Waseda University.-References:*...
(Olympic swimmer)
- Mikio Oda
Mikio Oda was a Japanese athlete and the first Japanese Olympic gold medalist. He was the first Asian Olympic champion in an individual event....
(athletics, Japan's first Olympic gold medalist)
- Kenji Ogiwara
is a former Japanese Nordic combined skier who won several medals at the Winter Olympics, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the Holmenkollen ski festival....
(Nordic combined, 1992/1994 Winter Olympics gold medalist)
- Akinobu Okada
is a former manager for the Hanshin Tigers baseball team in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.Before his manager career he played for the Hanshin Tigers from until when he was traded to the Orix BlueWave where he played until ....
(baseball, former manager for the Hanshin Tigers)
- Yoriko Okamoto
Yoriko Okamoto is the first Japanese athlete to become an Olympic taekwondo medalist, winning the bronze medal at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics in the 57-67 kg weight class....
(taekwondo, 2000 Sydney Olympics bronze medalist)
- Michito Sakaki
Michito Sakaki , is an Australian rules football player from Japan.Michito has achieved recognition as currently being one of the best and most successful players to learn and play the game outside of Australia....
(Australian rules football)
- Jiro Sato
Jiro Sato was a former tennis player from Japan. He graduated from Waseda University...
(tennis)
- Takuma Sato
is a Japanese former Formula One automobile racing driver.-Junior Years:Sato is unusual among Japanese drivers in having relatively little motor racing experience in his native country...
* (Formula OneFormula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1, and currently officially referred to as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants...
driver)
- Hiroaki Shukuzawa
was the most successful rugby coach of the Japan national rugby union team until now. As a player, he was capped three times by Japan as a , and he also advised the Japan Rugby Football Union. He held important posts as a banker also....
(rugby player and coach)
- Fumie Suguri
is a Japanese figure skater. She is a five-time Japanese National Champion, three-time World Championship medalist, three-time Four Continents Champion and the 2003-2004 Grand Prix Final Champion.-Personal life:...
(figure skater)
- Kisshomaru Ueshiba
, June 27 1921–January 4 1999) was the son of the founder of the Japanese martial art of aikido, and became the international leader of aikido after his father's death....
(martial artist)
- Toshihiko Seko
Toshihiko Seko is a Japanese long-distance runner, a world-class marathon competitor in the 1980s...
(marathon runner)
- Hiroyasu Tanaka
Hiroyasu Tanaka is a professional baseballer for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. He was the number 1 draft pick for the Swallows in . In he was leader in triples for the Central League.-References:...
(baseball)
- Takashi Toritani
is a shortstop for the Hanshin Tigers.Toritani was one of the most highly coveted position players in years as a senior for Waseda University in . He holds the current Nippon Professional Baseball record for most consecutive games played without missing an inning as a shortstop.-Early life and...
(baseball)
- Tsuyoshi Wada
is a left-handed starting pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.Wada pitched in the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2006 World Baseball Classic for the Japanese national team...
(baseball)
- Yoko Zetterlund
Yoko Karin Zetterlund is a former USA national volleyball player.Zetterlund graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo and went on to play for the U.S. National team. In 1992, she won a bronze medal at the Barcelona Summer Olympics...
(volleyball)
- Mitsusuke Harada
Mitsusuke Harada is a Japanese karate master, who founded the Karate Do Shotokai organisation in the UK and later around the world....
(martial artist, Head of KDS)
- Shigeru Egami
was a student of the founder of modern karate - Gichin Funakoshi; and later the founder of the style he named Shōtōkai.He was born in the Fukuoka Prefecture in 1912. He was one of Gichin Funakoshi Sensei's earliest students, but more than this, he was one of his most faithful and correct followers...
(founder of Shōtōkaiis the organisation formed in 1936 by some of the senior karateka of Gichin Funakoshi to teach karate. The organization still exists and promotes a style of karate that adheres to Funakoshi's teachings, in particular the notion that competition is contrary to the essence of karate...
karate)
- Tsutomu Ohshima
Tsutomu Ohshima is the founder and Shihan of Shotokan Karate of America , and is also recognized as chief instructor of many other international Shotokan organizations.- Karate career :...
(Chief Instructor of Shotokan Karate of AmericaShotokan Karate of America is a non-profit organization whose mission is to teach traditional karate-do in the United States. It was founded and is still led by Tsutomu Ohshima, a student of Gichin Funakoshi, the father of Shotokan karate...
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- Ai Fukuhara
is a Japanese table tennis player, and belongs to All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.- History :Fukuhara began playing at the age of 3 and became a professional at age 10. The following year, she became the youngest player ever to become a member of the Japanese national team. At age 13, in 2002, she...
(table tennis)
- Kenji Tomiki (judo and aikido, founder shodokan aikido)
- Ōnishiki Uichirō
Ōnishiki Uichirō was a sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 26th Yokozuna. On November 2, 1922, he became the first yokozuna to perform Yokozuna Dohyo-iri at the Meiji Jingu.-Career:...
(sumo, 26th yokozuna)
Performing arts
- Sharon Au
Sharon Au is a MediaCorp actress from Singapore. A charmingly modest compere-actress, Sharon has garnered a large following with her friendly and sincere persona over the years...
(Singapore actress, comedian and television presenter)
- Naohito Fujiki
is a Japanese actor and singer.- Profile :*Name: Naohito Fujiki*Birthday: July 19, 1972*Star Sign: Cancer*Blood Type: A*Height: 180cm*Weight: 62 kg*Sports: Swimming, tennis-Singles:# [1999.07.07] 世界の果て ～the end of the world～...
(actor)
- Yasuharu Hasebe
was a Japanese film director best known known for his movies in the "Violent pink" subgenre of the Pink film, such as Assault! Jack the Ripper , Rape! , Rape! 13th Hour and Raping!...
(film director)
- Mitsuhiro Hidaka (singer)
- Ryoko Hirosue
is a Japanese actress and pop star, best known in the West for her roles in the Luc Besson-produced Wasabi and the Academy Award-winning Japanese film Departures.-Early life:...
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- Shohei Imamura
was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's filmsThe Eel , Dr...
, film directorA film director, or filmmaker is a person who directs the making or production of a film. Some also consider a film producer to be a filmmaker....
, winner of two Palme d'OrThe Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film...
awards at the Cannes Film FestivalThe Cannes Film Festival , founded in 1946, is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious film festivals. The private festival is held annually at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France.The 62nd edition started 13 May and ended 24 May 2009...
- Jyongri
Jyongri is a Japanese pop singer of Korean ancestry currently signed with EMI Music Japan.- Background and early life :...
(singer)
- Seiji Kameda
is a Japanese music producer, arranger and bass guitarist.He is a member of the band "Tokyo Jihen" that Ringo Shiina leads as a bassist now.- Biography :He was born in New York city, and went back to Japan at one year after birth....
(composer, producer)
- Demon Kogure
- Biography :Kogure went to Waseda University. His elder sister is a former Tokyo Broadcasting System newscaster, Yumiko Kogure - Demon Kogure persona :...
(singer, sumo commentator)
- Yoshio Kojima
is a Japanese comedian famous for appearing only in a small bathing suit, during both performances and interviews. Among his well-known catchphrases are Sonna no kankei nee and Oppapī , an abbreviation of "Ocean Pacific Peace",...
(comedian)
- Tetsuya Komuro
', also known as TK, is a Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and music producer born on November 27, 1958 in Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan. He is recognized for introducing dance music to the Japanese mainstream...
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- Hirokazu Koreeda
is a Japanese film director. His films explore themes of memory, death, and coming to terms with loss.Koreeda originally planned to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University instead worked as an assistant director on documentaries for TV Man Union...
(film director)
- Tatsumi Kumashiro
was a Japanese film director best known known for his critically acclaimed, award-winning Roman Porno films, such as Ichijo's Wet Lust and The Woman with Red Hair...
(film director)
- LaSalle Ishii
, born on October 19 1955 in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, is a Japanese tarento, comedian, actor, seiyuu, and theater director. Though his first name is meant to be "La Salle", it is instead usually romanized as Lasa-R.-TV:...
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- Matsumoto Kōshirō IX
is a Japanese kabuki actor, one of the most popular tachiyaku currently performing.Like many members of the kabuki community, he can trace his lineage back several generations, many members of his family being kabuki actors as well...
(Kabuki actor)
- Keisuke Minami
, born on July 3, 1985 is a Japanese actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Kunimitsu Tezuka in the Prince of Tennis musical series, Tenimyu, of the third generation Seigaku cast...
(stage actor, model)
- Tetsuya Murakami (musician, member of The Gospellers)
- Shigeru Muroi
Shigeru Muroi is a Japanese actress.-External links:*...
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- Yuichi Nakamaru (actor, singer (member of KAT-TUN
is a Japanese boy band formed by Johnny & Associates in 2001, released on their own label, J-One Records. The group's name is an acronym formed by the members' surname initials...
), distantly attending)
- Kazumasa Oda (musician, former member of Off Course
Off Course was one of Japan's most influential "folk" bands. It was formed in early 1969 by Kazumasa Oda and Yasuhiro Suzuki. They broke up in 1989 after their February 26 farewell performance at Tokyo Dome....
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- Kyosen Ōhashi
is a TV host and writer. He also served briefly as a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. His real name is Ōhashi Katsumi .Born in Sumida, Tokyo, he grew up in Chiba prefecture and dropped out of the Waseda University...
(TV host and writer)
- Saeko
Saeko is a Japanese actress and media talent who has acted in a number of films and television dramas.Though she has been credited under the stagename Saeko Dōkyū, her real name remains a secret....
(actress)
- Masato Sakai* (actor)
- Yuji Sakai (musician, member of The Gospellers)
- Sunplaza Nakano
is a Japanese musician and writer, a dropout of Waseda University. His real name is .- References :*The original article was written based on the corresponding Japanese Wikipedia article, retrieved on 2008-04-27.- External links :*...
* (musician)
- Tamori
is a Japanese celebrity. His real name is and the screenname Tamori is an anagram of his surname. He was born on 22 August 1945 in Fukuoka City in Fukuoka Prefecture....
* (comedian and television presenter)
- Yuya Tegoshi
is a member of the J-pop group NEWS and the subgroup Tegomass, both under Johnny & Associates.- Profile :*Birthday: 1987 November 11 *Hometown: Yokohama, Kanagawa*Blood Type: B*Star Sign: Scorpio*Height: *Weight:...
(actor, singer (member of NEWSNeWS was a windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid 1980s. Originally known as "SunDew", its primary authors were James Gosling and David S. H. Rosenthal...
), distantly attending)
- Shinya Ueda (comedian, member of Cream Stew
Cream Stew is a Japanese comedy kombi consisting of two comedians, Shinya Ueda and Teppei Arita . Originally from Kumamoto city, the pair first met in high school when Arita and Ueda found a common interest in pro wrestling....
)
- Yutaka Yasuoka (musician, member of The Gospellers)
- Sayuri Yoshinaga
is a Japanese actress.-Career:Her first media appearance was in the radio drama "Akado Suzunosuke" in 1957, and she has been one of the most popular actresses in Japan since the 1960s, with fans called "Sayurist" - for example, Akiyuki Nosaka and Tamori.She made a contract with the movie...
(actress)
Diplomats
- Chiune Sugihara
was a Japanese diplomat, serving as Vice Consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania. Soon after the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, he helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who...
*
- Katsuhiko Oku
Katsuhiko Oku was a Japanese diplomat who played rugby for Oxford and Waseda University...
- rugby player and diplomat, promoted posthumously to ambassador
Politics
- Mikio Aoki
is a Japanese politician. He was Chief Cabinet Secretary in the cabinet of Yoshiro Mori and is currently Secretary-General of the LDP in the House of Councillors. He studied at Waseda University but did not graduate. He served as acting Prime Minister of Japan following Keizo Obuchi's coma in...
*
- Takashi Hiraoka
was the mayor of Hiroshima from 1991 to 1999.Was born in Osaka to Tadao Hiraoka and Chitose Hiraoka . Initially, his parents had a delivery service in Osaka, but in 1934 the family business was hit by Typhoon Muroto, and the family moved to Unggi in Korea , where his maternal grandfather Setsuzo...
, former mayor of Hiroshima (in office: 1991-1999)
- Iccho Itoh
, born , was the mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki; he first took office in 1995. He was a graduate from Waseda University, and majored in political science.-Career:...
, former mayor of Nagasaki (in office: 1995-2007)
- Fumio Kishida
is a Japanese politician, who has been serving in Yasuo Fukuda's cabinet since September 2007 as Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs, Science and Technology Policy, Quality-of-Life Policy, and Regulatory Reform. He is a member of the House of Representatives and the ...
- Yohei Kono
is a Japanese politician and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from November 2003 to August 2009 following the LDP's loss of majority in the 2009 election...
- Li Dazhao
Li Dazhao was a Chinese intellectual who co-founded the Communist Party of China with Chen Duxiu in 1921.-Early life:Li was born in Laoting , Hebei province to a peasant family...
- Peng Pai
Peng Pai born in Haifeng County , Guangdong Province, China, was a pioneer of the Chinese agrarian movement and peasants' rights activist, a prominent revolutionary, and one of the leaders of Chinese Communist Party at its earlier stage...
- Fukushiro Nukaga
is a Japanese politician and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1983 and represents Ibaraki's 2nd district. He was Minister of Finance from 2007 to 2008....
- Masahide Ota
Masahide Ota is a Ryukyuan academic and politician who served as governor of Okinawa prefecture in the 1990s.Ota was educated at Waseda University, Tokyo, and Syracuse University, New York...
- Hiroshige Seko
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet . A native of Wakayama Prefecture, he graduated from Waseda University and received a master's degree in corporate communications from Boston University. He was elected to the House of...
- Mosaburo Suzuki
Suzuki Mosaburô was a Japanese journalist, essayist, and socialist leader.He was born in Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, to a family descended from medieval hatamoto; however, his father had lost the family's fortune, and as a result Suzuki was forced to work his way through school...
- Tsutomu Takebe
was secretary general of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party from 2004 to 2006. He was succeeded by Hidenao Nakagawa....
- Makiko Tanaka
Makiko Tanaka is a Japanese politician, the daughter of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka....
- Kisaburo Tokai
is a Japanese politician who served as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology under Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda from 2007 to 2008. Tokai, like Fukuda, attended Waseda University.-External links:*...
- Kiyomi Tsujimoto
Kiyomi Tsujimoto is a Japanese politician from the Social Democratic Party , formerly the Japan Socialist Party.- Early career :...
- Kozo Watanabe
is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Tajima, Fukushima and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the first of his two terms in the assembly of Fukushima Prefecture in 1959 and then to the House of...
- Yoshimi Watanabe
is a Japanese politician, formerly of the Liberal Democratic Party and currently of the President of Your Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet...
- Yuji Yamamoto
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Kochi Prefecture and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the assembly of Kochi Prefecture in 1985 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in...
- Taku Yamasaki
Taku Yamasaki is a Japanese politician, a member of the House of Representatives of Japan. Born in Dalian, Manchukuo, he was blinded in one eye as a child. He is a graduate of Waseda University....
Others
- Nancy Andrew
Linda Nancy Andrew was the English-language translator of Japanese author Ryū Murakami's highly-acclaimed novel, Almost Transparent Blue, which won the Akutagawa Prize in 1976....
(translator, junior year, 1967–1968)
- Yuji Horii
is a Japanese video game designer and scenario writer best known as the creator of the Dragon Quest series. He has been said to have created the blueprint for the console role-playing game by gaming magazine Nintendo Power.Horii graduated from Waseda University's Department of Literature...
(video game designer)
- Tensai Okamura
, birth name is a Japanese anime director and animator. Okamura grew up in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. He is a graduate of Waseda University's department of science and engineering...
(director)
- Thomas P. Logan
Thomas P. Logan トーマス・P・ローガン is an American-born businessman, venture capitalist, Rotary International Fellow , former space journalist and staff member for a United States Congressman...
(businessman-venture capitalist, 1982–84)
- Tomonobu Itagaki
is a Japanese video game designer who created the Dead or Alive fighting games and the Ninja Gaiden 3D titles. He also has a reputation for making frank comments, negative and positive, on other developers and video games...
(video game designer, School of Law, 1985-92)
- Sun Myung Moon
Sun Myung Moon is the Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church. He is also the founder of many other organizations and projects involved in political, cultural, artistic, mass-media, educational, public service, and other activities. One of the best-known of these is the...
* (spiritual leader)
A September 11 victim named Toshiya Kuge(久下季哉,1981-Sep.11,2001), who was one of the passengers on
United AirlinesUnited Air Lines, Inc., trading as United Airlines , is a major airline of the United States. It is a subsidiary of UAL Corporation with corporate offices in Chicago at 77 West Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop. United's largest hub is O'Hare International Airport, where it has more than 550 daily...
Flight 93United Airlines Flight 93 was a scheduled United States domestic passenger flight from Newark International Airport, in Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco International Airport, in San Francisco, California that was hijacked by four Islamist terrorists as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001...
, was a student at this university.
(* attended but did not graduate)
Sports
- Yuki Saito
is a Japanese college pitcher for Waseda University.Saito rose to national stardom as a senior for Waseda Jitsugyo High School when he led the team to a title in the 88th National High School Baseball Championship in...
(baseball)
- Masumi Kuwata (baseball)
Notable faculty
Professors who are also Waseda alumni are listed in
italics.
- Yaichi Aizu, poet, scholar of ancient Chinese and Japanese art, and namesake of Aizu Museum
- Tameyuki Amano
-External links:* at Find-a-Grave...
, economics scholar and educator
- Yasunobu Fujiwara, scholar of political science
Political science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. It is often described as the pragmatic application of the art and science of politics defined as "who gets what, when and how",...
- Lafcadio Hearn
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn , also known as after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan...
, novelist, literary scholar, professor of English literatureEnglish literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was born in Poland, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, V.S....
- Smimasa Idditti (Sumimasa Idichi ), professor of English
- Kenji Imai
Kenji Imai was a Japanese architect and professor.-Life:Kenji Imai went to Waseda University in Tokyo and graduated with a degree in Architecture. He travelled to the USSR, Scandinavia, Italy and Spain in 1926...
, architect
- Tokio Kimura, historian
- Kunitake Kume
was a historian in Meiji and Taishō period Japan. He had a son, Kume Keiichiro, who was a noted painter.-Biography:Kume was born in Saga Domain, Hizen , and was active in attempting to assist the administrative reform of Saga domain during the Bakumatsu period.After the Meiji Restoration, he was...
, historian
- Tachu Naito
was a Japanese architect, engineer, and professor from Yamanashi Prefecture, Minami-Alps, Yamanashi. He was a father of earthquake-proof design and built many broadcasting and observation towers, including the Tokyo Tower.- Biography :...
, architect
- Naoyoshi Nakamura, historian
An historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time...
- 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
A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works are usually written to be performed in front of a live audience by actors...
, criticThe word critic comes from the Greek , "able to discern", which in turn derives from the word , meaning a person who offers reasoned judgment or analysis, value judgment, interpretation, or observation...
, translator, educator, professorThe meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual...
of English literature, and namesake of Tsubouchi Memorial Theater Museum
- Sokichi Tsuda, historian, recipient of the Order of Culture
The Order of Culture is a Japanese order, established on February 11, 1937. The order has one class only, and may be awarded to men and women for contributions to Japan's art, literature or culture; recipients of the order also receive an annuity for life...
- Kazutami Ukita, scholar of political science
- Yoshio Yamanouchi, translator, scholar of French literature
French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak other traditional non-French languages. Literature written by citizens of other nations such as...
- Akira Yonekura, law professor
- Takamasa Yoshizaka
, family name also romanized as Yosizaka, was a Japanese architect and former president of the Architectural Institute of Japan....
, architect
Principals
- Hidemaro Ōkuma, 1882–1886
- Hisoka Maejima
Baron ; was a Japanese statesman, politician, and businessman in Meiji period Japan, who founded the Japanese postal service.- Early life :...
, 1886–1890
- Kazuo Hatoyama
was the patriarchal head of the prominent Japanese Hatoyama political family which has been called "Japan's Kennedy family."Kazuo was a graduate of Yale University.-Family:...
, 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 , 1907–1922
- Masasada Shiozawa, 1923
- Sanae Takata, 1923–1931
- Hodumi Tanaka, 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–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 benefactors, who include:
- Eiichi Shibusawa
' was a Japanese industrialist widely known today as the "father of Japanese capitalism". He spearheaded the introduction of Western capitalism to Japan after the Meiji Restoration. He introduced many reforms including use of double entry accounting, joint stock corporations and modern note-issuing...
, businessman and philanthropistA philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...
- Ichizaemon Morimura , businessman
- Koichiro Kagami , businessman
- Kenkichi Kodera , presenter of over thirty-six thousand foreign books to the Library
The library of Waseda University is one of the largest in Japan, and is a unique collection. It was established in 1882, and currently holds some 4.5 million volumes and 46,000 serials.-Library History:...
- Kisaku Maekawa , businessman and philanthropist
- Masaru Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics industrialist. He co-founded what is now Sony....
, after whom Masaru Ibuka Auditorium (Hall) is named.
- Robert J. Shillman, founder & CEO of Cognex Corporation
Cognex Corporation is a manufacturer of machine vision systems, software and sensors used in automated manufacturing to inspect and identify parts, detect defects, verify product assembly, and guide assembly robots. Cognex is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, USA...
, namesake of Robert Shillman Hall
Waseda University in nonfiction
Waseda University in fiction
- In the novel Norwegian Wood
is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.The novel is a nostalgic story of loss and sexuality. The story's protagonist and narrator is Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a freshman university student living in Tokyo...
, written by Haruki Murakamiis a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore...
, the main character goes to a university modeled after Waseda.
- In the manga
Manga consist of comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century...
series Great Teacher Onizuka, officially abbreviated to GTO, is a Japanese shōnen manga written and illustrated by Tohru Fujisawa. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from May 1997 to April 2002. The story focuses on 22 year-old ex-bōsōzoku member Eikichi Onizuka, who becomes a teacher at private high...
by Tooru Fujisawais a Japanese manga author. His name is romanized as Tohru Fujisawa on the Tokyopop English-language Great Teacher Onizuka books and as Toru Fujisawa on the Kodansha bilingual releases. His first serialized work was Adesugata Junjou Boy, published from 1989 in Weekly Shonen Magazine...
, the heroine Azusa Fuyutsuki is a graduate of Waseda University.
- In the video game Tomb Raider: Legend, a piece of the legendary sword Excaliber
Excalibur is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes' attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Great Britain. Sometimes Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone are said to be the same weapon, but in most versions they are considered separate. The sword was...
is in the care of Waseda University until it is stolen.
Scandals
Super Freeor its shortened form , was a notorious Japanese rape club. Its leader was . They were convicted of raping three women, but the real number of victims is unknown. Since their arrests, and the club's dissolution, twelve other women have been identified as victims. The club also was also incorporated...
was a registered Waseda University school club organized by Shinichirō Wada, a student at Waseda University. The club would organized parties in order to rape unsuspecting women. The appeal of the these parties was the chance to associate with Waseda University students. After Wada's arrest, the club was disbanded.
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