Hideki Yukawa

Hideki Yukawa

male, deceased (1981)
sumi, meson, theoretical physics, elementary particle, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Nobel Prize…University of Paris, Columbia University faculty, University of Paris alumni, kyoto university, Columbia University
Hideki Yukawa FRSE (湯川 秀樹, January 23, 1907 - September 8, 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese to win the Nobel pr...
Akio Morita

Akio Morita

male, deceased (1999)
Sony, Sony co-founder, slang, Aichi Prefecture, entrepreneur, Sonny-boys…Osaka Imperial University, OsakaUniversity
Akio Morita was a co-founder of Sony Corporation.
Masamune Shirow

Masamune Shirow

male, 48 years old
appleseed, kobe, masamune, Seishinsha, Masanori Ota, Harumichi Aoki…Osaka University of Arts, OsakaUniversity
is an internationally renowned manga artist, born Masanori Ota on November 23, 1961. "Masamune Shirow" is a pen name, based on a famous swordsmith,...
Ogata Koan

Ogata Koan

male, deceased (1863)
Tezuka Ryōan, tezuka osamu, OsakaUniversity, pathology, Japanese, Edo period
Koan Ogata was a Japanese physician who lived in the Edo period. He is well-known for importing Western medical knowledge into Japan during Japan's...
Michio Morishima

Michio Morishima

male, deceased (2004)
historian of economic thought, London School of Economics, Yasuma Takada, Sir John Hicks, Academic of the University of Essex, British Academy…OsakaUniversity, University of Essex, Academic of the Open University, kyoto university, Kyoto Imperial University
Michio Morishima (July 18, 1923 - July 13,2004) was Japanese economist and emeritus professor of London School of Economics (LSE), Sir John Hicks...
Kenjiro Shoda

Kenjiro Shoda

male, deceased (1977)
mathematician, algebra, gottingen, Japanese, Tokyo University, OsakaUniversity…Nagoya University, Imperial University of Tokyo, Imperial Osaka University
Kenjiro Shoda (Japanese: 正田 建次郎 "Shōda Kenjirō"; February 25, 1902 – March 3, 1977) was a Japanese mathematician. Shoda was born in Tatebayashi, G...
Koushun Takami

Koushun Takami

male, 40 years old
novelist, Shikoku Shimbun, Amagasaki, Hyogo, Amagasaki, Kagawa Prefecture, Shikoku…OsakaUniversity, osaka
is best-known as the author of the novel "Battle Royale", originally published in Japanese, and later translated into English by Yuji Oniki and...

Ken-Ichi Inada

male
Economist, international trade, welfare economics, concave, Japanese, OsakaUniversity…Tokyo Metropolitan University
Ken-Ichi Inada was a Japanese economist. Beginning in the 1950s, Professor Inada wrote a number of important papers on welfare economics, economic...
Shizuo Kakutani

Shizuo Kakutani

male, deceased (2004)
Poisson equation, using the methods of stochastic analysis, Stochastic processes and boundary value problems, OsakaUniversity, Japanese American, pulitzer prize…tohoku university, Yale University
Shizuo Kakutani was a Japanese-American mathematician, best known for an eponymous fixed-point theorem. Kakutani attended Tohoku University in...
Toru Kumon

Toru Kumon

male, deceased (1995)
mathematician, subtraction, Kochi prefecture, from Kōchi Prefecture, OsakaUniversity, Addition…osaka
was a Japanese mathematics educator, born in Kochi Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the College of Science at Osaka University with a degree in...