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List Of University Of Tokyo People
Notable alumni Nobel prize laureates Of UTokyo winners, five have been physicists, one chemists, two for literature, one for physiology or medicine and one for efforts towards peace. * Yasunari Kawabata, Literature, 1968 * Leo Esaki, Physics, 1973 * Eisaku Satō, Peace, 1974 * Kenzaburō Ōe, Literature, 1994 * Masatoshi Koshiba, Physics, 2002 * Yoichiro Nambu, Physics, 2008 * Ei-ichi Negishi, Chemistry, 2010 * Takaaki Kajita, Physics, 2015 * Yoshinori Ohsumi, Physiology or Medicine, 2016 *Syukuro Manabe, Physics, 2021 In addition, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga and Satoshi Ōmura have obtained a UTokyo doctorate degree through dissertation review, but have never been educated in UTokyo and are not alumni. Prime Ministers * Hara Takashi (1918–1921) *Katō Takaaki (1924–1926) * Wakatsuki Reijirō (1926-1927, 1931-1931) * Osachi Hamaguchi (1929–1931) * Kōki Hirota (1936–1937) *Fumimaro Konoe (1937–1939, 1940–1941) * Hiranuma Kiichirō (1939-1939) * Kijūrō Shidehara (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasunari Kawabata
was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read. Early life Born into a well-established family in Osaka, Japan, Kawabata was orphaned by the time he was four, after which he lived with his grandparents. He had an older sister who was taken in by an aunt, and whom he met only once thereafter, in July 1909, when he was ten. She died when Kawabata was 11. Kawabata's grandmother died in September 1906, when he was seven, and his grandfather in May 1914, when he was fifteen. Having lost all close paternal relatives, Kawabata moved in with his mother's family, the Kurodas. However, in January 1916, he moved into a boarding house near the junior high school (comparable to a modern high school) to which he had formerly commuted by train. After graduating in March 1917 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
