- Ikuhiko Hata
Ikuhiko Hata is a Japanese historian. He published many textbooks and interpretive studies in both Japanese military and modern history. Hata was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture. He graduated from University of Tokyo in 1956, and later studied at Columbia University. During the four-year bachelor program in Tokyo, he interviewed many former Japanese army officers, including A-class criminals in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is a Dutch-born historian and journalist. He is currently Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
- Shigeki Maruyama
Shigeki Maruyama (born September 12, 1969) is a Japanese golfer. Maruyama was born in Chiba. He attended Nihon University and turned professional in 1992. He is known for his ever-present smile on the golf course which has given rise to his nickname of the "Smiling Assassin". He began his career on the Japan Golf Tour, quickly becoming one of the leading players on that tour.
- Sogo Ishii
Sogo Ishii (born 1957) is a film director from Japan known for his striking visuals and sometimes outlandish subject matter. Ishii was born in Fukuoka Prefecture and attended the Nihon University College of Art. There, with the aid of friends, he directed an 8 mm short named "Panic High School" (高校大パニック) (also known as "The Solitude Of One Man Divided By 88,000" and "Charge! Hooligans of Hakata").
- Joji Yuasa
is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.
- Yoshiyuki Tomino
is a Japanese anime creator, director, screenwriter and novelist. He was born in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, and studied at Nihon University's College of Art. Tomino began his career in 1963 with Osamu Tezuka's company, Mushi Productions, scripting the storyboards and screenplay of the first Japanese television anime series, "Tetsuwan Atomu" (also known as "Astro Boy"). He later became one of the most important members of the anime studio Sunrise, …
- Hirotoshi Honda
Hirotoshi Honda, founder of Mugen Motorsports is the son of Soichiro Honda, the man who founded the Honda Motor Company. Born in April 1942, he was six when his father set up Honda and when Hirotoshi was in his teens, the empire boomed. By the time Hirotoshi graduated from Nihon University in 1965, the Honda name was famous across the world for its motorcycles - and was beginning to build cars.
- Gosho Aoyama
born, is a mangaka born June 21, 1963 in Daiei, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. He is most well known as the creator of the manga series "Detective Conan" (known in the USA, Canada, and the UK as "Case Closed"). Aoyama was a genius at drawing even when young. When he was in Grade 1 (in elementary school), his painting of "Yukiai War" won a competition and was displayed at the Tottori Daimaru Department Store. He graduated from high school at Ikuei High School.
- Samuel H. Smith
Samuel H. Smith was the eighth president of Washington State University, serving for fifteen years (July 1 1985 - June 8 2000). A native of Salinas, California, he holds bachelor's and doctoral degrees in plant pathology from the University of California, Berkeley and honorary doctoral degrees from Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan, and Far Eastern State University in Vladivostok, Russia. Prior to his presidency, he spent 16 years at Pennsylvania State University, …
- Seinosuke Toda
Seinosuke Toda is a computer scientist working at the Nihon University in Tokyo. He was a recipient of the 1998 Gödel Prize for his work.
- Hideki Takahashi
Hideki Takahashi is a Japanese actor. Born in Kisarazu, Chiba near Tokyo, he attended Ichikawa Gakuen and later Nihon University. He made his debut with Nikkatsu and acted in youth-oriented films. After becoming a star in television "jidaigeki", he turned out hit after hit. His "jidaigeki" roles included "Kurama Tengu", "Momotarō-zamurai", "Tōyama no Kin-san" and "Sanbiki ga Kiru!".
- Somei Satoh
Somei Satoh is a Japanese composer. In the post-Takemitsu era, Somei Satoh has steadily been gaining notoriety as one of Japan’s most internationally celebrated and significant composers of contemporary traditional music (gendai hogaku). A largely self-taught musician, he came to the technical elements of music not from the usual perspective of western proportions and balance of harmony, counterpoint and orchestration, …
- Hikari Ota
born May 13, 1965, in Kamifukuoka, Saitama, Japan, is a comedian and is currently one of the most recognized faces on prime-time Japanese television. He is most famous as one half of the owarai duo Bakushō Mondai along with Yūji Tanaka, where he acts as the boke. He was a student at Nihon University's School of Fine Arts and later withdrew, though he was officially marked as a drop out as he forgot to complete and submit a withdrawal form at the time.
- Hiroshi Yamazaki
Hiroshi Yamazaki is a Japanese photographer whose works concentrate on the sun and the sea. Born in Nagano, he studied at Nihon University but dropped out in 1968, starting out as a freelance cameraman a year later, working in both still photography and 16mm film. Yamazaki is best known for two series. "Heliography" uses long exposures to show the path of the sun near the horizon. "Horizon" ("Suiheisen saishū") is a study of sea horizons.
- Kishin Shinoyama
is a Japanese photographer. Shinoyama graduated from Nihon University. He worked with the Light Publicity agency while still a student, and freelanced after graduation. Shinoyama has put out a large number of books of photographs of girls, dressed, mostly undressed, and nude.
- Kotaro Koizumi
Kotaro Koizumi (小泉 孝太郎 "Koizumi Kōtarō", born July 10, 1978 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actor and the eldest son of the former Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, and Kayoko Miyamoto. Kotaro Koizumi has two younger brothers, Shinjiro Koizumi, and Yoshinaga Miyamoto, who was not born at the time of his parents' divorce in 1982.
- Midori Matsuya
Midori Matsuya, 松谷翠 (born 18th March 1943 - died 9th January 1994) was a Japanese pianist, graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, studied under Kichigoro Sato, Noboru Toyomasu, Naoya Fukai and Lay Lev. His father was a Japanese Jazz pianist, Minoru Matsuya (1910-1995). He taught him how to play the piano since he was a child. He was brought up in an environment to learn both classical and jazz music since his childhood.
- Yasuaki Kurata
(born 1946-03-20), a.k.a David Kurata, is a Japanese actor specializing in action movies. An accomplished martial artist, he has dan ranks in karate (5th degree), judo (3rd degree), and aikido (2nd degree). Kurata's home town is Sakura-mura, Niihari District, Ibaraki (now part of Tsukuba). Having studied performing arts at Nihon University and Toei Theater School, he began to work as an actor in the late 1960s.
- Keiko Han
is a seiyū born on April 5, 1953 in Tokyo, Japan. She attended Tōyō Eiwa Jogakuin, going on to study theatre arts at Nihon University. She gained experience in theater while attending school by obtaining work through Aoni Production, singing the theme songs in productions such as "Story of the Alps: My Annette" and "Kazoku Robinson Hyōryūki Fushigi na Shima no Furōne". Han is a fortune teller of Western horoscopes, and has written several books on the subject.
- Masayuki Hisataka
Masayuki Hisataka (b. November 18, 1940) is head of Shorinjiryu Kenkokan Karate. A descendant of Seiwa, the 56th Emperor of Japan, and son of the founder of Shorinjiryu Kenkokan Karate, Kori Hisataka. He started his training in judo and karate at the age of three and obtained a student shodan in both disciplines by the time he was 13. At 17, he entered an open championship and won it by successively defeating eight of Japan's top competitors.
- Masao Miyamoto
(1948 - July 18, 1999) was a Japanese psychiatrist, cultural critic, and one-time deputy director for Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Miyamoto graduated from Nihon University Medical College in Tokyo in 1975. He then moved to the United States and spent three years studying psychiatry and psychoanalysis at Yale University. Upon completion, he took the position of assistant professor at Cornell University and later at New York Medical College.
- Kazuhiro Fujita
"'"' is a mangaka born on May 24, 1964 in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan. He graduated from Nihon University. He made his professional manga debut in Shōnen Sunday in 1989. He is most famous for the manga Ushio and Tora, which was made into an anime and the long running Karakuri Circus. He won Shogakukan Manga Award in 1992. He won Seiun Award in 1997.
- Shōzō Iizuka
is a male seiyū from Fukushima Prefecture who is affiliated with Sigma Seven. He graduated from the fine arts department of Nihon University.
- Yutaka Takanashi
Yutaka Takanashi is a Japanese photographer who has photographed fashion, urban design, and city life. Takanashi was born on 6 February 1935 in Ushigomi-ku (now Shinjuku-ku), Tokyo. In 1943 he was evacuated to Saitama (Saitama). In 1953 he graduated from high school and entered the photography department of Nihon University. He was given a Canon IVSb (his first camera). In 1956 Takanashi's photographs won prizes within "Sankei Camera" magazine.
- Chosei Funahara
Osao Chosei Funahara (born December 10, 1953) is a musician and film director and producer. Born in the Hyogo prefecture of Japan, Chosei Funahara was educated in both America and Japan. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Nihon University College of Art's Cinema Department in Tokyo. While pursuing New York University's NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science (Cinema Studies), …
- Naoko Kouda
"' is a seiyū who works for Mausu Promotion. She graduated from Nihon University College of Art. Her real name is "', and she was formerly credited as 幸田 奈穂子 (also read "Kōda Naoko").
- Rumi Hiiragi
is a Japanese actress and seiyū. She is represented by Central G Production. Her height is 155cm, while her blood type is A and zodiac is Leo. She is a graduate of Kudan High School, Tokyo and Nihon University's Department of the Arts.
- Kōji Ueno
is an award-winning Japanese composer, musician, arranger and keyboardist. He is noted for his unique style of music. He graduated from Nihon University's department of music at its faculty of art, and in 1978, began his career in music with his first music ensemble, 8&1/2, after which he worked with the group Halmens between 1979 and 1981. In 1980, Ueno formed the musical group Guernica, noted for its unique form of avant garde music, …
- Hinako Sugiura
Hinako Sugiura (November 30, 1958–July 22, 2005) was a manga artist and researcher in the lifestyles and customs of Japan's Edo period. Born Junko Suzuki in Minato, Tokyo, into a tradition-steeped family of kimono merchants, she studied design and took an increasing interest in old Japan. She attended Nihon University, but gave up her formal studies to pursue research under the direction of author Shisei Inagaki.
- Izumi Takemoto
is a mangaka born on January 19, 1959 in Tokyo, Japan, though he grew up in Saitama. He attended Nihon University and majored in business. His first experience with science fiction was through the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the majority of his works reflect this SF influence. He is also a cat lover, and while cats frequently appear in his works, he had never owned a cat until 2003. He used his first experiences with his cat when he wrote "Aru Hi no Zwei".
- Kim Ch'Un-Su
Kim Ch'un-su (November 25 1922 - November 29 2004) was born in Chungmu (present-day Tongyeong). He was one of the leading South Korean poets of the late twentieth century. He won numerous literary awards and was a professor of Korean Literature. His works have been translated into English, German and Spanish. Kim studied literature at Nihon University in Japan from 1940 to 1943, at which time he was expelled and jailed for speaking against the Japanese Empire.
- Junya Koizumi
(January 24, 1904 - August 10, 1969) was a Japanese politician who served as Director General of the Japan Defense Agency during the 1960s. Koizumi was born in Higashi-Kaseda, Kagoshima Prefecture (now part of Minami-Satsuma). He attended high school at night while working in a department store, and then attended law classes at Nihon University while working as a secretary to a Diet member. He graduated in 1930 and joined the Rikken Minseito political party.
- Takashi Okamura
Takashi Okamura, b. 1927, is a Japanese photographer. He studied architecture at Nihon University, but in 1960 became a professional photographer, also writing about photography and skiing. He moved to Rome in 1965 and since that time has specialized in photographing buildings, frescos, and works of art, frequently contributing the photographs to lavishly produced books.
- Ichikawa Danjūrō XII
is a Japanese actor. He is the twelfth kabuki actor to hold the illustrious name Ichikawa Danjūrō. Born in 1946, he is the eldest son of Ichikawa Danjūrō XI. He first appeared on stage in 1953 under his birth name Natsuo Horikoshi, and in 1958 took the name Ichikawa Shinnosuke. In 1969, he graduated from Nihon University, and took the name Ichikawa Ebizō X, acting in major roles such as the title character in "Sukeroku" and Togashi in "Kanjinchō".
- Shere Hite
Shere Hite (B.A. and M.A., History , 1967 and 1969) has published several books over the years, including The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality and The Hite Report on Male Sexuality . She lives in London and is a newspaper columnist for several publications around the world.
- Yuichi Iwaki
Yuichi Iwaki , M.D., Ph.D. President and Chief Executive Officer, and Founder Dr. Iwaki holds three professorships at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in the Departments of Urology, Surgery and Pathology and has been Director of the Transplantation Immunology and Immunogenetic Laboratory since 1992. He is also a visiting professor at the Nihon University School of Medicine, Kyushu University and the Tokyo Women's Medical School in Japan.
- Sikander Khan
Sikander Khan has been the former Dean for nearly nine years and chairman of the Board of Stockholm University School of Business until July 2004. Awarded his PhD in foreign direct investment, Sikander has over 30 years experience of lecturing, research and consultancy, including working for the UN in Asia, Middle East and Africa . He has numerous publications and his latest book Strategy and Performance of Foreign Companies in Japan was published both in the USA and Japan .
- Peter Morgan Kash
Peter Morgan Kash is a successful biomedical venture capitalist who has capitalized himself on what he calls the web of life to bring him incredible business success as well as personal joy and fulfillment. He currently serves as co-founder and Chairman of Two River Group Holdings, LLC.
- Satohiko Sasaki
Satohiko Sasaki This summer, the Japan Academy awarded Satohiko Sasaki the Duke of Edinburgh Prize for his study of the physiology and ecology of tropical rain forest species and the development of rehabilitation technology. The award, made in the presence of the Emperor and Empress, was a crowning recognition of Sasaki's work. Satohiko Sasaki He also has received the Achievement Award of the Forestry Society of Japan and the Japan Prize of Agricultural Science.
- Woody Smith
Dr. Woody Smith Dr. Smith has a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education with an emphasis in Applied Linguistics, an M.A. in Slavic Linguistics, and a B.A. in Russian, all from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Smith has studied in the former Soviet Union and the former Czechoslovakia; in addition, he has led several educational tours to these countries. Dr. Smith has been employed by the Texas Intensive English Program since the fall of 2005.