is a public

research university A research university or a research-intensive university is a university that is committed to research as a central part of its mission. They are "the key sites of Knowledge production modes, knowledge production", along with "intergenerational ...

Sendai, Miyagi is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,098,335 in 539,698 households, making it the twelfth most populated city in Japan. The modern city was founded in 1600 by th ...

, Japan. It is colloquially referred to as or . Established in 1907 as the third of the

Imperial Universities The were founded by the Empire of Japan between 1886 and 1939, seven in Mainland Japan, one in Korea under Japanese rule and one in Taiwan under Japanese rule. These universities were funded by the imperial government until the end of World War I ...

, after the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

and

Kyoto University , or , is a National university, national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second oldest university in Japan. The university has ten undergraduate faculties, eighteen gra ...

, it initially focused on science and medicine, later expanding to include humanities studies as well. In 2016, Tohoku University had 10 faculties, 16 graduate schools and 6 research institutes, with a total enrollment of 17,885 students. The university's three core values are "Research First (研究第一主義)," "Open-Doors (門戸開放)," and "Practice-Oriented Research and Education (実学尊重)."

History

On 22 June 1907 (Mēji 40), Tohoku Imperial University (東北帝國大學, Tōhoku teikoku daigaku) was established by the

Meiji government The was the government that was formed by politicians of the Satsuma Domain and Chōshū Domain in the 1860s. The Meiji government was the early government of the Empire of Japan. Politicians of the Meiji government were known as the Meiji ...

as the third Imperial University of Japan, after

Tokyo Imperial University The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public university, public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several Edo peri ...

(1877) and

Kyoto Imperial University , or , is a national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second oldest university in Japan. The university has ten undergraduate faculties, eighteen graduate schools, and t ...

(1897). From its inception, it advocated 'Open-door' policies, becoming the first university in Japan to accept both female students in 1913, and foreign students. It was not until 1911 that teaching and research activities started in Sendai. When the university was founded in 1907 it only had one faculty (college), the College of Agriculture, in Sapporo, Hokkaido. This college, originally founded in 1875 as the , precedes the establishment of the university, and in 1918, it became independent to form another imperial university, Hokkaido Imperial University, in its own right. The School of Science was established in Sendai in 1911, followed by the School of Medicine (formerly Sendai Medical College) in 1915, the Faculty of Engineering in 1919, and the Faculty of Law and Literature in 1922. In 1947, during the post-war educational reform, the university dropped the word 'imperial' along with other imperial universities, and assumed its current name, Tohoku University. It was also this year that the university's academic scope came to cover agriculture again, with the establishment of a new Faculty of Agriculture in Sendai. In 1949, the Faculty of Law and Literature was split to form independent faculties of Law, Literature, and Economics. A Faculty of Education was added in 1949, Dentistry in 1965, and Pharmacy in 1972. Tohoku has been a

National University Corporation A is a corporate body (legal entity) established under the provisions of the ''National University Corporation Act'' (2003) for the purpose of establishing a national university in Japan. History As part of promoting the reform of Japanese univ ...

since April 2004.

2011 Tōhoku earthquake

Subsequent to the

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami On 11 March 2011, at 14:46:24 Japan Standard Time, JST (05:46:24 UTC), a 9.0–9.1 Submarine earthquake, undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. It lasted approx ...

, the university was declared closed until further notice, but with a tentative re-opening date of the end of the following April. The Aobayama, Katahira, Amamiya, and Kawauchi campuses are all at least from the ocean, towards the mountains, and therefore suffered no damage resulting from the tsunami. No deaths or serious injuries within the faculty and student body were reported on campus grounds. However, earthquake damage lead to the closure of 27 buildings and caused millions of dollars of damage to equipment. Classes have resumed normally since early May 2011 and plans for restoring, reinforcing or replacing damaged buildings are underway.

Campuses

Campus locations

Principal four campuses are in the

Sendai is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,098,335 in 539,698 households, making it the List of cities in Japan, twelfth most populated city in Japan. ...

City, Japan; * :Administration Unit. and Principal institutes * :North-Kawauchi; The freshmen and sophomore of all undergraduates :South-Kawauchi; Law, Education, Economics, Letters * :Medicine, Dentistry * :Science, Engineering, Pharmacy, Agriculture Amamiya campus and some institutes transferred to the new extension at Aobayama campus in April 201

Research institutes

* * * * :''National Collaborative Research Institute'' * * * Tohoku Medical Megabank Project, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (東北メディカル・メガバンク機構, ''Tōhoku Medikaru Megabanku kikō'')

Centers and facilities

Academic rankings

Tohoku University has a high reputation, and this is recognised as shown in the rankings below.

General rankings

In the

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2024, it is ranked 130th globally, making it the third-highest-ranking university in Japan, after the

(29th) and

(55th). The Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings, which is entirely based on teaching and engagement unlike the world university rankings, placed Tohoku University 1st in Japan in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. In the

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2024, Tohoku University is ranked 113th globally and fifth in Japan, after UTokyo, KyotoU, OsakaU, and Tokyo Tech.

Subject rankings

Research performance

Tohoku University is one of the top research institutions in Japan. According to

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, Tohoku University is the ninth most innovative university in the Asia-Pacific area.Its research excellence is especially distinctive in Materials Science (1st in Japan, third in the world), Physics (2nd in Japan, tenth in the world), Pharmacology & Toxicology (3rd in Japan, 64th in the world) and Chemistry (6th in Japan, 20th in the world). (this ranking includes non-educational institutions)

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also reported that Tohoku University was ranked 3rd in Japan (201st - 250th in the world) for the World University Rankings 2022 by Subject:

social sciences Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among members within those societies. The term was former ...

. The social sciences ranking includes the weightings such as Research: volume, income and reputation (accounts for 32.6 per cent) and Citations: research influence (accounts for 25 per cent). In addition,

Nature Index The Nature Index is a database that tracks institutions and countries/territories and their scientific output since its introduction in November 2014. Originally released with 64 natural-science journals, the Nature Index expanded to 82 natural-sci ...

ranked Tohoku University as 4th in Japan (90th in the world, 38th in Asia Pacific) on 2023 tables: Institutions. The 2022 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021. Before the 2022 edition, Nature Index also ranked Tohoku University as 5th in Japan (77th in the world, 28th in Asia Pacific) on 2021 tables: Institutions, that are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020. According to the

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on 2012/9 surveyed about the general standards in Engineering&Technology field, Tohoku university was placed 56th (world), fifth (national). As Tohoku University has been emphasizing 'practical' research, Tohoku received the top place for its number of patents accepted (324) during 2009 among Japanese Universities.

Graduate school rankings

Tohoku University Law School is one of the most famous Law schools in Japan, as it was ranked fifth in the passing rate of Japanese

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in 2020.

Alumni rankings

Mines ParisTech : Professional Ranking World Universities ranks Tohoku University as 13th in the world (5th in Japan) in 2011 in terms of the number of alumni listed among CEOs in the 500 largest worldwide companies.

Popularity and selectivity

Tohoku University is regarded as a selective university, with its faculty of medicine being particularly noted for its selectivity. It is usually ranked amongst the most selective

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degrees in the country, alongside the medicine, engineering and science degrees at the

and the faculties of medicine of TMDU,

Kyoto Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ...

Osaka is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the List of cities in Japan, third-most populous city in J ...

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is the list of cities in Japan, fourth-most populous city in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the List of ...

, and Keio.

Evaluation from business world

Presidents

Notable people associated with Tohoku University

Many world-class celebrities have attended or served at Tohoku University.

Sciences

File:Masataka_Ogawa.jpg,

Masataka Ogawa was a Japanese chemist mainly known for the claimed discovery of element 43 (later known as technetium), which he named nipponium. In fact, he had discovered, but misidentified, element 75 (later called rhenium). After graduating from the Univ ...

(小川正孝), chemist, former president, known for the discovery of

rhenium Rhenium is a chemical element; it has symbol Re and atomic number 75. It is a silvery-gray, heavy, third-row transition metal in group 7 of the periodic table. With an estimated average concentration of 1 part per billion (ppb), rhenium is one ...

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Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese electrical engineer who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules with John Bennett Fenn and Kurt Wüthrich (the latter for work in N ...

(田中耕一), chemist, 2002

Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry () is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outst ...

winner File:Akira_Endo_cropped_3_Akira_Endo_201111.jpg, Akira Endo (遠藤章), biochemist, known for the discovery of first

statin Statins (or HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors) are a class of medications that lower cholesterol. They are prescribed typically to people who are at high risk of cardiovascular disease. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) carriers of cholesterol play ...

, 2008

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and 2017 Gairdner Award winner File:Atsuto_Suzuki_cropped_2_Atsuto_Suzuki_20211103.jpg, Atsuto Suzuki (鈴木厚人), physicist, 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics winner File:Hideo_Ohno.jpg,

Hideo Ohno Hideo Ohno (; Hideo Ōno; born 18 December 1954, Tokyo) is a Japanese physicist. He is the 22nd president of Tohoku University, succeeding Susumu Satomi in April 2018. Biography Ohno received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University ...

(大野英男), physicist, the 22nd president of Tohoku University *

Hitoshi Oshitani Hitoshi Oshitani (押谷仁, Oshitani Hitoshi, born 29 April 1959) is a Japanese university professor, virologist, medical doctor, public health expert and scientist who currently serves as the professor of virology, Department of Microbiology ...

(押谷仁), scientist, virologist and public health expert * Tetsuo Nozoe (野副鉄男), chemist, known for hinokitiol * Tsutomu Ōhashi (大橋力), artist and scientist, Doctor of Agriculture * Syun-Ichi Akasofu (赤祖父俊一), geophysicist, the founding director of the

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of UAF * Hiroshi Maeda (前田浩), pharmacologist and chemist, known for discovery of EPR effect * Chen Wei-jao (陳維昭), a surgeon and president of

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; zh, t=國立臺灣大學, poj=Kok-li̍p Tâi-oân Tāi-ha̍k, p=, s=) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in 1928 during Taiwan under J ...

* Lo Tung-bin (羅銅壁), biochemist, pioneer in the research on proteins in Taiwan * Susumu Satomi (里見進), a surgeon and president of Tohoku University * Ryuta Kawashima (川島隆太), neuroscientist, currently resident professor, the supervisor of

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gamesofts; '' Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!'' and '' Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old is Your Brain?'' * Noriko Osumi (大隅典子), neuroscientist, the vice president of Tohoku University (2018–) * Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi, president of

University of Tehran The University of Tehran (UT) or Tehran University (, ) is a public collegiate university in Iran, and the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as ...

Engineering

File:Kotaro_Honda.jpg, Kotaro Honda (本多光太郎), inventor, former president, 1932

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nominee File:Hidetsugu_Yagi.jpg, Hidetsugu Yagi (八木秀次), engineer, mentor of

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File:Shunichi_Iwasaki_201311.jpg, Shun-ichi Iwasaki (岩崎俊一), engineer, pioneer of perpendicular recording and modern

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File:Junichi_Nishizawa.jpg,

Jun-ichi Nishizawa was a Japanese engineer and inventor. He is known for his electronic inventions since the 1950s, including the PIN diode, static induction transistor, static induction thyristor, SIT/SITh. His inventions contributed to the development of ...

(西澤潤一), engineer, known for inventing

optical communication Optical communication, also known as optical telecommunication, is communication at a distance using light to carry information. It can be performed visually or by using electronic devices. The earliest basic forms of optical communication date ...

systems including

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and so forth,

PIN diode A PIN diode is a diode with a wide, undoped intrinsic semiconductor region between a p-type semiconductor and an n-type semiconductor region. The p-type and n-type regions are typically heavily doping (semiconductor), doped because they are used ...

and SIT/SITh File:舛岡富士雄.jpg,

Fujio Masuoka is a Japanese engineer, who has worked for Toshiba and Tohoku University, and is currently chief technical officer (CTO) of Unisantis Electronics. He is best known as the inventor of flash memory, including the development of both the NOR flash ...

(舛岡富士雄), engineer, the developer of

flash memory Flash memory is an Integrated circuit, electronic Non-volatile memory, non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. The two main types of flash memory, NOR flash and NAND flash, are named for t ...

File:名城2010Fとともに.jpg, Sumio Iijima (飯島澄男), physicist, inventor of

carbon nanotubes A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a tube made of carbon with a diameter in the nanometre range (nanoscale). They are one of the allotropes of carbon. Two broad classes of carbon nanotubes are recognized: * ''Single-walled carbon nanotubes'' (''SWC ...

File:Masatoshi_Shima.jpg,

Masatoshi Shima is a Japanese electronics engineer. He was one of the architects of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004. In 1968, Shima worked for Busicom in Japan, and did the logic design for a specialized CPU to be translated into three-chip c ...

(嶋正利), inventor of

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Shintaro Uda was a Japanese inventor, and assistant to Professor Hidetsugu Yagi at Tohoku Imperial University, where together they invented the Yagi–Uda antenna in 1926. In February 1926, Yagi and Uda published their first report on the wave projector ...

(宇田新太郎), an inventor of the Yagi-Uda antenna 1926, the ubiquitous television antenna * Masayoshi Esashi (江刺正喜), engineer, the global authority of

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Toshitada Doi is a Japanese electrical engineer, who played a significant role in the digital audio revolution. He received a degree in electrical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1964, and a PhD from Tohoku University in 1972. He joine ...

(土井利忠), a pioneer in digital audio, originated

Aibo AIBO (stylized as aibo, abbreviated as Artificial Intelligence RoBOt, homonymous with , "pal" or "partner" in Japanese) is a series of robotic dogs designed and manufactured by Sony. Sony announced a prototype Aibo in mid-1998, and the first co ...

the pet

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* Fumihiko Imamura (今村文彦),

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, the natural disaster expert for

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after

CNN rebroadcasting NHK, 13 March 2011. * Masataka Nakazawa (中沢正隆), pioneer of optical solitons in high-speed optical communication in fiber optic networks and rare earth-doped optical amplifiers (such as EDFA)

Literature and arts

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Lu Xun Lu Xun ( zh, c=魯迅, p=Lǔ Xùn, ; 25 September 188119 October 1936), pen name of Zhou Shuren, born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer. A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in both vernacular and literary Chinese as a no ...

(魯迅), the greatest writer in modern China File:Tanabe_Hajime.jpg, Hajime Tanabe (田辺元), philosopher of science, member of Kyoto School File:井土霊山_Ido_Reizan.jpg, Reizan Ido (井土霊山), a journalist, writer, poet, and involved in

Freedom and People's Rights Movement The Freedom and People's Rights Movement (自由民権運動, ''Jiyū Minken Undō'') was a Japanese political and social movement for democracy during the Meiji era, Meiji period. It pursued the formation of an elected legislature, revision of the ...

File:Kita_Morio.jpg, Morio Kita (北杜夫), novelist, 1960

Akutagawa Prize The is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. Because of its prestige and the considerable attention the winner receives from the media, it is, along with the Naoki Prize, one of Japan's most sought after literary prizes. History Th ...

winner File:Terumi_Tanaka_at_the_Nobel_Peace_Prize_Ceremony_Oslo_2024-61445_(cropped).jpg, Terumi Tanaka (田中煕巳), former professor, Representative of Nihon Hidankyo, 2024 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo, Norway * Ben Goto (五島勉), a Japanese writer * (浜田隼雄), a Taiwanese author * (大池唯雄), novelist, 1938

Naoki Prize The Naoki Prize, officially , is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then editor of the ''Bungeishunjū'' magazine, and named in memory of novelist Naoki Sanjugo. Sponsored by the Society for ...

winner * (津本陽), novelist, 1978

winner * (中村彰彦), novelist, 1994

winner * (佐藤賢一), novelist, 1999

winner * Toh EnJoe (円城塔), author, 2012

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, and 2013

Seiun Award The is a Japanese speculative fiction award given each year for the best science fiction works and achievements during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by , the awards are given at the annual Nihon SF Taikai, Japan Science Fic ...

winner * Yuichi Kodama (児玉裕一), a Japanese video director * Kazumasa Oda (小田和正), one of the most famous musicians in pop music in Japan since the 1970s * Kōtarō Isaka (伊坂幸太郎), a

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writer, Japan Booksellers Award and Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize winner *

Hideaki Sena is a Japanese pharmacologist and novelist. Sena was a graduate student at Tohoku University when he wrote his prizewinning debut novel, '' Parasite Eve''. Writing career His most famous novel, '' Parasite Eve'', was adapted into a film direct ...

(瀬名秀明), a

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writer and

winner * Chūsei Sone (曽根中生), a Japanese film director and screenwriter * Kenji Suzuki (鈴木健二), an announcer of the

* Chinggeltei (1924–2013), a Mongolist, the former vice-rector of Inner Mongolia University

Mathematics, economics and business

File:Hirofumi_Uzawa.jpg,

Hirofumi Uzawa was a Japanese economist. Biography Uzawa was born on July 21, 1928, in Yonago, Tottori to a farming family. He attended the Tokyo First Middle School (currently the Hibiya High School) and the First Higher School, Japan (now the College of ...

(宇沢弘文), an economist, the father of Theoretical Economics in Japan File:Shizuo_Kakutani.jpg,

Shizuo Kakutani was a Japanese and American mathematician, best known for his eponymous fixed-point theorem. Biography Kakutani attended Tohoku University in Sendai, where his advisor was Tatsujirō Shimizu. At one point he spent two years at the Institu ...

(角谷静夫), mathematician, professor at

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

, known for

Kakutani fixed-point theorem In mathematical analysis, the Kakutani fixed-point theorem is a fixed-point theorem for set-valued functions. It provides sufficient conditions for a set-valued function defined on a convex, compact subset of a Euclidean space to have a fixed poi ...

File:SonyFair2008_Opening_Ryoji_Chubachi.jpg, Ryōji Chūbachi (中鉢良治), a Japanese businessman, former vice chairman and president of Sony Corporation * Nobuhiko Kawamoto (川本信彦),

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of Honda Motor until 1995 * Su Buqing (蘇歩青), a Chinese mathematician and former president of

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* Chen Jiangong (陈建功), pioneer of modern Chinese mathematics *

Yasumasa Kanada was a Japanese computer scientist most known for his numerous world records over the past three decades for calculating digits of . He set the record 11 of the past 21 times. Career Kanada was a professor in the Department of Information S ...

(金田康正), a mathematician most known for his numerous world records over the past two decades for calculating digits of π * Shigeo Sasaki (佐々木重夫), a professor emeritus and mathematician who introduced the Sasaki manifold

Politics

File:Matsumae_Shigeyoshi.JPG, Shigeyoshi Matsumae (松前重義), a Japanese politician, electrical engineer, and founder of

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File:Yukio Edano in SL Square on 2017 - 4 (cropped).jpg, Yukio Edano (枝野幸男), a Japanese politician and a member of the

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in the

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File:Eisuke_Mori.jpg, Eisuke Mori (森英介), a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party File:Masako Mori 20170510.jpg, Masako Mori (森まさこ), a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party * Masayuki Aoyama (青山雅幸), Japanese politician in the

* Mitsuru Sakurai (桜井充), Japanese politician of the

Democratic Party of Japan The was a Centrism, centristThe Democratic Party of Japan was widely described as centrist: * * * * * * * to Centre-left politics, centre-left, Liberalism, liberal or Social liberalism, social-liberal List of political parties in Japan, ...

* Kenya Akiba (秋葉賢也), a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party * Akira Koike (小池晃), a Japanese politician of

Japanese Communist Party The is a communist party in Japan. Founded in 1922, it is the oldest political party in the country. It has 250,000 members as of January 2024, making it one of the largest non-governing communist parties in the world. The party is chaired ...

* Nori Sasaki (佐々木紀), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan * Yoshihisa Inoue (井上義久), Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party * Emiko Okuyama (奥山恵美子), Mayor of

, 2009–2017

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