, abbreviated as , is a

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Setagaya, Tokyo is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward in the Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. It is also the name of a neighborhood and administrative district within the ward. Its official bird is the azure-winged magpie, its flower is the Habenaria radi ...

and

Aoba-ku, Yokohama is one of the 18 Wards of Japan, wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 302,643 and a population density, density of 8,610 persons per km2. The total area was 35.14 km ...

. The precursor of the school was founded in 1893, and it was chartered as a university in 1949. The school is known for the many famous athletes among its alumni.

Organization

Schools and Faculties

*Faculty of Sport Science **Department of Physical Education **Department of Health Science **Department of Martial Arts **Department of Lifelong Sports and Recreation *School of Childhood Sport Education **Department of Childhood Sport Education *Faculty of Medical Science **Department of Judo Therapy and Medical Science **Department of Emergency Medical Science.

Graduate Schools

*Master's and Doctoral Degree Programs, Graduate School of Health and Sport Science

Research Centers

*Comprehensive Sport Science Research Center ::The Comprehensive Sport Science Research Center publishes the

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"NSSU Journal of Sport Sciences"
*Research Institute for Sport Science: RISS *Sports Training Center

University Library

The library of the Setagaya campus holds some 380,000 books.

Other Organizations

*Office of Athletics *Student Support Center *Admission Center *Health Care Center *Student Dormitory

Notable alumni

Athletes

* Nobuyuki Aihara - Gymnast; Olympic gold medalist *

Yutaka Aihara is a Japanese former gymnast who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held fro ...

- Gymnast; Olympic bronze medalist *

Toshiko Shirasu-Aihara is a retired Japanese gymnast. She competed in all artistic gymnastics events at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a team bronze medal in 1964. Her best individual achievements were fourth places on the vault and uneven bars in 1964. Born Toshi ...

- Gymnast; Olympic bronze medalist *

Yuko Arimori is a Japanese professional marathon runner and a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Career Arimori competed for Japan in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the marathon where she won the silve ...

- Marathon runner; Olympic silver medalist * Chiyotairyū - Professional

sumo is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a ''rikishi'' (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (''dohyō'') or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by th ...

wrestler *

Konosuke Takeshita is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to American Wrestling promotion, promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of the Don Callis Family and one-half of the tag team Protoshita with Kyle Fletcher. He is a former AEW ...

- Professional wrestler *

Kōji Gushiken (born November 12, 1956, in Ōsaka) is an Olympic gymnast for Japan at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous cit ...

- Gymnast; Olympic gold medalist * Hokutōfuji - Professional

wrestler *

Yukio Iketani is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic medalist. Sports career Iketani received a bronze medal in ''floor exercise'' and in ''team all-around'' 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. He received a silver medal in ''floor exercise'' and a bronze medal in ' ...

- Gymnast; Olympic silver medalist *

Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda (田中-池田敬子, born Keiko Tanaka; November 11, 1933 – May 13, 2023) was the first Japanese female gymnast to win a world title, which she accomplished on the balance beam in 1954 (by becoming the first Asian female gy ...

- Gymnast; Olympic gold medalist * Kakizoe - Professional

wrestler *

Nahomi Kawasumi is a Japanese footballer who plays either as a midfielder or forward for Japanese club Albirex Niigata. A full international since 2008, she won gold at the 2011 World Cup as well as silver at the 2012 London Olympics and 2015 World Cup. Dur ...

- Football player; Olympic silver medalist *

Kosuke Kitajima is a Japanese retired breaststroke swimmer. He won gold medals at the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and the 2008 Summer Olympics – becoming the first and only swimmer to sweep the breaststroke events at ...

- Swimmer; Olympic gold medalist *

Eizo Kenmotsu is a former Japanese artistic gymnast, who won seven world titles and three Olympic gold medals between 1968 and 1979. In retirement, he became a leading Japanese coach. He also served as sports director of the Nippon Sport Science University a ...

- Gymnast; Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist *

Mako Kobata Mako Kobata (born August 15, 1992) is a Japanese professional volleyball player. She plays the libero position and is known for her fast reactions and strong defense. Kobata has played for the Japan women's national volleyball team and particip ...

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player; a part of 2020 Summer Olympics women's tournament *

Toshihiko Koga was a Japanese judoka, 9th degree black belt and Olympic champion who competed in the –71 kg and –78 kg divisions. Koga is regarded as having perhaps the greatest ippon seoi nage ever. He died of cancer on 24 March 2021 at the ag ...

- Retired

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; Olympic gold medalist *

Karina Maruyama is a Japanese ''tarento'' and former football player. She played for the Japanese national team. Since her retirement, Maruyama has been active as a television personality, represented by the talent agency Horipro. Club career Maruyama was b ...

- Football player; Olympic silver medalist *

Kentaro Minagawa is a Japanese alpine skiing, alpine skier. His first international successes were at the 1996 Junior World Championships in Schwyz, with a 5th rank in Slalom skiing, Slalom, and a 9th rank in Giant slalom. Since the 1997 Alpine Skiing World Cup ...

- Alpine skier *

Sota Miura is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a left back for J1 League club Kawasaki Frontale and the Japan national team. Club career On 22 December 2023, it was announced that Miura would join J1 League club Kawasaki Frontale on a p ...

- Football/soccer player * Daisuke Miyazaki - Handball player *

Shinji Morisue is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic champion. The parallel bar skill Morisue is named after him. Early life Morisue hails from Okayama City and attended the Nippon College of Physical Education (now called Nippon Sport Science University). O ...

- Gymnast; Olympic gold medalist *

Jungo Morita is a retired volleyball player from Japan. He competed at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a silver and a gold medal, respectively. In 2003, he was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In 1966, Morita enrolle ...

- Volleyball player; Olympic gold medalist *

Mari Motohashi is a Japanese curler. She currently plays third on Team Honoka Sasaki. Career Motohashi was a member of Team Aomori which represented Japan at two Winter Olympics (2006 and 2010). She threw second stones for Ayumi Onodera at the 2006 Winter O ...

- Curler * Myōgiryū - Professional

wrestler *

Katsuhiko Nagata is a Japanese Amateur wrestling, wrestler and mixed martial arts, who won the silver medal in the 69 kg Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Greco-Roman wrestling event at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He is also the brother of Professional ...

- Amateur wrestler; Olympic silver medalist * Boniface Nduka - Football/soccer player * Ōnosato - Professional

wrestler *

Chieko Sugawara Chieko Sugawara (; born 15 August 1976) is a Japanese fencer. She represented Japan and competed in the women's individual foil events at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX ...

- Fencer *

Ran Takahashi is a Japanese volleyball player and an Olympian. He currently plays as an Outside Hitter for Japan men's national volleyball team and Suntory Sunbirds, and previously for Pallavolo Padova and Vero Volley Monza in the Italian Volleyball Leag ...

– Volleyball player; a part of 2020 Summer Olympics men's tournament *

Kenta Takanashi is a Japanese male volleyball player. He plays in V.League Division 1 for Wolf Dogs Nagoya and Japan men's national volleyball team. He was the captain of Japan U-21 national team. Awards Club *2022–23 Japanese Championship, with Wolf ...

– Volleyball player; a part of 2020 Summer Olympics men's tournament * Juri Takayama - Softball player; Olympic silver medalist *

Rie Tanaka is a Japanese voice actress and singer. Notable among her numerous roles in anime are Lacus Clyne in '' Mobile Suit Gundam Seed'' and '' Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny'', Chi in '' Chobits'', Hikari Kujou/Shiny Luminous in '' Futari wa Pre ...

- Gymnast *

Yota Tsuji is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is the IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion in his first reign. Tsuji is the winner of the 2024 New Japan Cup and is a one-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team ...

- Professional wrestler *

Yuki Tsunoda is a Japanese racing driver who competes in Formula One for Red Bull Racing. Born in Sagamihara and raised in Tokyo, Tsunoda began competitive kart racing aged nine. Supported by Honda since 2016 through the , Tsunoda graduated to junior formu ...

- Formula 1 driver *

Mitsuo Tsukahara Mitsuo Tsukahara (塚原光男 ''Tsukahara Mitsuo'', born December 22, 1947) is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He was five times an Olympic Gold Medalist. He remained active in the sport after his retirement from competition. He served as vice pr ...

- Gymnast; Olympic gold medalist *

Kōhei Uchimura is a Japanese retired artistic gymnast. He is a seven-time Olympic medalist (team, all-around and floor exercise), winning three golds and four silvers, and a 21-time World medalist (team, all-around, floor exercise, parallel bars and the hor ...

- Active gymnast; Olympic gold and silver medalist *

Yayoi Urano is a retired Japanese Wrestler and Judoka. She won six gold medals and one silver medal in three weight classes (65, 70, and 75 kg) at the World Wrestling Championships from 1990 to 1996. Biography Urano was involved in track and field at , a ...

- Amateur wrestler; 6-time world champion * Haruhiro Yamashita - Gymnast; Olympic gold medalist * Kōji Yamamuro - Gymnast; Olympic silver medalist * Hiroshi Yamamoto - Archer; Olympic silver medalist *

Toshiki Yamamoto Toshiki Yamamoto (山本俊樹; born ) is a Japanese weightlifter, competing in the 85 kg category until 2018 and 96 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. Career He competed at ...

- Weightlifter *

Tomohiro Yamamoto is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party and a former member of the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan, Diet (national legislature). Career A native ...

–

player; a part of 2020 Summer Olympics men's tournament *

Yoshikaze Yoshikaze Masatsugu (born March 19, 1982, as Masatsugu Ōnishi) is a former sumo wrestler from Saiki, Oita Prefecture, Japan. His highest rank was ''sekiwake''. A former amateur sumo champion, he turned professional in 2004, reaching the top div ...

- Professional

wrestler

Politicians

Ryoko Tani is a Japanese politician and retired female judoka. Competing in the extra-lightweight (48 kg) class, she won a record seven world titles and five Olympic medals including two golds at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. After her retirement, ...

- Retired

; Olympic gold medalist *

Kazuyuki Nakane is a former Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Kōnosu, Saitama he attended Nippon Sport Science University as an undergradu ...

- Member of the House of Representatives in the

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. *

Kenshiro Matsunami is a retired Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Izumisano, Osaka, he attended Nippon Sport Science University, Eastern Michig ...

- Member of the House of Representatives in the

Entertainers

Sonny Chiba , known internationally as Sonny Chiba, was a Japanese actor and martial artist. Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later to an international audience. Born in Fukuo ...

- Actor; Martial artist *

Keita Machida is a Japanese actor. He is a member of the theater group Gekidan Exile. Machida is represented by LDH (company), LDH. Biography Machida was born on 4 July 1990, in Higashiagatsuma, Gunma, Higashiagatsuma, Japan. He has one younger and one old ...

- Actor *

Mandy Sekiguchi Mandy Sekiguchi (関口メンディー; ''Sekiguchi Mendi'', born January 25, 1991) is an American-born Japanese actor, dancer, rapper and a former member of J-Pop groups Generations from Exile Tribe, Exile and Honest Boyz. Early life Mandy Sek ...

- Dancer

Current notable students

Athletes

* Uta Abe - Active

Judoka is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyc ...

; 2020 Olympic gold medalist and four-times

world champion A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

of -52 kg category. *

Hifumi Abe is a Japanese judoka who competes in the Men's half-lightweight (66 kg) division. He won two consecutive gold medals in the Men's 66 kg competition at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, as well as two silver medals in a row with the Japanese t ...

- Active Judoka; 2020 and 2024 Olympic gold medalist and four-times world champion of -66 kg category. *

Kenzō Shirai is a Japanese retired artistic gymnast. Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, he graduated from Kishine High School and joined the Nippon Sport Science University ( Nittaidai). Shirai took the team gold, and a bronze on individual vault with the Japane ...

- Active

gymnast Gymnastics is a group of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, sh ...

; 2016 Olympic gold and bronze medalist *

- Active Volleyball Player; part of Japan's national team competing in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics volleyball men's tournament *

Daiki Kajiwara is a Japanese para badminton player. He graduated from Nippon Sport Science University. He won the gold medal in the men singles WH2 and bronze medal in the men doubles WH1–WH2 event of the 2020 Summer Paralympics and 2024 Summer Paralympic ...

- Active

para badminton Para-badminton is a variant of badminton for athletes with a range of physical disabilities. Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the main governing body for para-badminton starting from June 2011. The sport was governed by Para Badminton World Fed ...

Player; 2020 Paralympic gold medalist of men's singles WH2 and bronze medalist of men's doubles WH1–WH2

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