, commonly referred to as or , is a private flagship research university in

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. Founded in 1885 as Igirisu Hōritsu Gakkō (the English Law School), Chuo is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions in the country. The university operates four campuses in Tokyo: the largest in

Hachiōji is a Cities of Japan, city located in the Western Tokyo, western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 561,344, and a population density of 3000 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography ...

(Tama campus), one in

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(Korakuen campus), and two others in

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(Ichigaya and Ichigaya-Tamachi campuses). Chuo is organized into six faculties, ten

graduate school Postgraduate or graduate education refers to Academic degree, academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by higher education, post-secondary students who have earned an Undergraduate education, un ...

s, and nine research institutes. There are also four affiliated

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s and two affiliated

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s. When written in

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, Chuo University shares the same name with

National Central University National Central University (NCU, ; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ''Kwet-li̍p Chung-yong Thài-ho̍k'', Wade–Giles: ''Kuo2 Li4 Chung Yang Ta4 Hsüeh2'' or ''中大'', ''Chung-ta'') is a public research university with long-standing traditions based in Taiwa ...

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and

Chung-Ang University Chung-Ang University (CAU; ) is a private research university in Seoul, South Korea. It is widely regarded as one of the best universities in South Korea. The university operates two campuses: main campus located in Dongjak District, Seoul, and a ...

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History

Early days: 1885–1920

Chuo was founded as the in 1885 at

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in Tokyo by

Rokuichiro Masujima was a British-Japanese international lawyer, diplomat, legal adviser of the Japanese Ambassador to London, member of Middle Temple and founder of Chuo University. Biography His first name Rokuichiro was given to him because his father was ...

together with some group of 18 young lawyers led by him. Before 1889, the school moved and was renamed to Tokyo College of Law (Tōkyō Hōgakuin). The curriculum was changed to reflect the government reform of Japanese law and creation of a new

civil code A civil code is a codification of private law relating to property, family, and obligations. A jurisdiction that has a civil code generally also has a code of civil procedure. In some jurisdictions with a civil code, a number of the core ar ...

. Opposition to the implementation of new civil code resulted in the government shuttering of the campus journal and the subsequent creation of the ''Chuo

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'' (Hōgaku Shinpō), which has been regularly published since then. The university was burnt down in the Great Kanda Fire that occurred in 1892, but was able to hold temporary classes. Before 1903, the school was promoted to Tokyo University of Law (Tokyo Hōgakuin Daigaku) and in 1905, the school expanded itself with the department of economics and renamed itself Chuo University. The origin of its name "Chuo" has not been certain. However, many founders of the university were once students of the

Middle Temple The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn an ...

, London, United Kingdom before they completed their training and became qualified as

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. This is one of the reasons why the university was renamed to "Chuo", which literally means middle, center or central. Another fire torched the campus in June 1917, but it was rebuilt in August 1918. 駿河台校舎（1926年）

Under the old University Ordinance: 1920–1949

In 1918, Japanese government enacted University Ordinance (Daigaku Rei) that set legal framework of universities except imperial universities established by Imperial University Ordinance. Under this University Ordinance, licensed universities were permitted to issue official degrees. Chuo University was successfully licensed in 1920 with three faculties (law, economics and commerce), graduate schools and preparatory schools. The

1923 Great Kantō earthquake The struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshū at 11:58:44 JST (02:58:44 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes. Extensive firestorms an ...

again reduced the campus to rubble and it was rebuilt and relocated at Kanda-Surugadai in 1926. In 1944, Engineering College was established.

Reform along with new School Education Act: 1949–1978

After World War II, Chuo University started a series of reformations along with a new School Education Act of 1947. In 1948, its Correspondence Division was annexed to its Faculty of Law. In 1949, a new university system under the School Education Act of 1947 was applied to Chuo University. Its Engineering College was abolished and new Faculty of Engineering was opened in this year. Its Faculty of Literature was established in 1951. Its Faculty of Engineering took wings and was renamed to Faculty of Science and Engineering in 1962.

New challenges: 1978–

In 1978, Chuo University's headquarters, four faculties and graduate schools including laws, economics, commerce and arts moved to newly established Tama Campus in Hachiōji from the Kanda-Surugadai Campus. The Faculty of Science and Engineering and its Graduate School are still located at the Korakuen Campus. For celebrating its 100th anniversary, in 1988, Chuo University built the Surugadai Memorial Hall which is a seven-story building. It is located at a section on the old Kanda-Surugadai Campus. In 1993, the Faculty of Policy Studies was opened on the Tama Campus. The Ichigaya Campus was built in 2000 originally as a satellite downtown campus for graduate schools, but, in 2002, a new professional graduate school, Chuo Graduate School of International Accounting and in 2004, another professional graduate school, Chuo Law School were established at the same campus, and then, the satellite downtown campus function for graduate schools partially moved to Ichigaya-Tamachi Campus after it was established in 2010. In 2008, Chuo Graduate School of Strategic Management, which is a professional graduate school, was launched at Korakuen Campus. Faculty of Literature was renamed to Faculty of Letters. The Ichigaya-Tamachi Campus in Shinjuku was opened in 2010. The Graduate Schools of International Accounting and Public Policy have moved to this campus. In 2010, Chuo University celebrated its 125th anniversary and the other university events including the main ceremony were held on November 13.

Faculties and graduate schools

Faculties

*Faculty of Law *Faculty of Economics *Faculty of Commerce *Faculty of Science and Engineering *Faculty of Letters *Faculty of Policy Studies *Faculty of Global Management (GLOMAC) *Faculty of Global Informatics (iTL) *Faculty-Linkage Program

Graduate schools

*Graduate School of Law *Graduate School of Economics *Graduate School of Commerce *Graduate School of Science and Engineering *Graduate School of Letters *Graduate School of Policy Studies *Graduate School of Public Policy

Professional graduate schools

*Chuo Graduate School of International Accounting *Chuo Law School *Chuo Graduate School of Strategic Management

Campuses

Tama campus

This, the main campus, is a short walk from the

Chūō-Daigaku-Meisei-Daigaku Station is a station on the Tama Toshi Monorail Line in Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan. Lines Chūō-Daigaku-Meisei-Daigaku Station is a station on the Tama Toshi Monorail Line and is located 13.4 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kamikitadai Stat ...

of the Tama Monorail, easily reachable from the JR Chūō,

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or Odakyū line. It contains headquarters, all the faculties except for the Faculty of Science and Engineering, five graduate schools including law, economics, commerce, arts and policy studies.

Korakuen campus

It can be reached from Kasuga Station ( Ōedo and Mita subway lines),

Kōrakuen Station is a subway train station in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro. It is directly connected by an underground pedestrian passage to the Toei-operated Kasuga Station. It is integrated with the Tokyo Dome C ...

(

Marunouchi Marunouchi () is a commercial district of Tokyo located in Chiyoda between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace. The name, meaning "inside the circle", derives from its location within the palace's outer moat. It is also Tokyo's financial di ...

and Namboku subway lines), and

Suidōbashi Station is a railway station which straddles Tokyo's Chiyoda and Bunkyō wards, operated jointly by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei). Lines Suidōbashi Station is served by the following lin ...

( JR Chūō-Sōbu Line). It contains the Faculty of Science and Engineering and its graduate school and the Graduate School of Strategic Management (professional graduate school).

Ichigaya campus

This is in

ward, Tokyo. It can be reached from

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( Shinjuku subway line),

Yotsuya-sanchōme Station is a railway station in Shinjuku, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan. Its station number is M-11. Station layout Yotsuya-sanchōme Station consists of two side platforms. Platform one is for trains bound for Shinjuku, Ogikubo and Nakano-fujimichō, and p ...

( Marunouchi subway line), and

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( JR Chūō-Sōbu Line, and

, Namboku, and

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subway lines). It contains the Chuo Law School (professional graduate school).

Ichigaya-Tamachi campus

This too is in

ward, Tokyo. It is near

( JR Chūō-Sōbu Line,

, Namboku, and

subway lines). It contains the Chuo Graduate School of International Accounting (professional graduate school) and the Graduate School of Public Policy. It is also a downtown satellite campus for graduate schools.

Surugadai Memorial Hall

This is in Chiyoda ward, Tokyo. It can be reached from

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( JR Chūō-Sōbu Line and Marunouchi subway line).

Academic activities

Research institutions

Chuo has eight research institutions and one research based educational institution.

Institute of Comparative Law in Japan

This was established as the first research institute for comparative legal studies in Japan and East Asia. Its academic research journal ''Hikakuhō Zasshi'' is one of the most prestigious academic journals in this field. Its office and library are on Tama Campus.

Institute of Economic Research

This was established in 1964. Its research covers microeconomics, macroeconomics and Marxian economics.

Institute of Social Sciences

This was established in 1979. Its research covers a wide range of social sciences including politics, applied policy studies, area studies and modern histories.

Institute of Business Research

The Japanese name of this institute is "Kigyō Kenkyūjo", literally ''Institute for Business Entity Analysis''. It was established in 1979. It is very famous for its large collection of material on Japanese corporations or business entities.

Institute of Cultural Science

The Japanese name of this institute is "Jinbun-kagaku Kenkyūjo", literally ''Institute of Humanities''. The research undertaken by the Institute is primarily collaborative, and involves study of cultural sciences in their broadest sense.

Institute of Health and Sports Science

This was established in 1978. Its main office and laboratories are in the main Gymnastic Building on Tama Campus.

Institute of Science and Engineering

The institute, established in 1992, promotes joint and project research in science and technology. Its office is on Korakuen Campus.

Institute of Policy and Cultural Studies

The institute was established in 1996 for promoting applied research in policy studies.

Institute of Accounting Research

This institute was founded in 1948, for researching practice and theory of corporate accounting, tax, and legislation and/or regulation on business entities. In 1979, Chuo decided to separate it into two. A new Institute of Business Research succeeded research functions and the Institute of Accounting Research changed its function into research-based education in accounting. The institute offers various courses for students who would like to be qualified as CPA or tax accountant, or to become business professionals empowered by the knowledge of accounting.

21st Century Center of Excellence

"21st Century Center of Excellence" (COE) program is the Japanese government's special support program for establishing top research centers within research universities. Chuo had this support from 2002 to 2006 for its "Research on Security and Reliability in Electronic Society". Combining cryptographic technologies and other social engineering methods including legal studies, Chuo contributed to society on this matter.

International Residence and Library

In 2011, as a part of the university's promotional efforts for internalization, Chuo opened an international residence in

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to provide new and already-enrolled students with 64 private rooms and communal living spaces where students can communicate with fellow students and develop international perspectives. In 2012, an additional international exchange residence with 94 all-in-one private rooms was opened to further the internationalization efforts. Chuo also boast a rich history spanning over 125 years. The university is equipped with an immense library with about 2.1 million volumes in its collection.

Famous alumni

Athletes

Shozo Sasahara is a retired Japanese freestyle wrestler who won a world title in 1954 and an Olympics gold medal in 1956. He was the flag bearer for Japan at the 1956 Games. During his career Sasahara won approximately 200 bouts. After retiring from competi ...

(wrestling, Olympic gold medalist) * Takao Sakurai (boxing, Olympic gold medalist) *

Isao Okano is a retired judoka who competed in the middleweight (−80 kg) division in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

(judo, Olympic gold medalist) *

Terry Farnsworth Terry Farnsworth (born 27 August 1942) is a Canadian former Olympic judoka. He won a Canadian national judo championship in 1972 and 1973, competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, and won a gold medal at the 1969 Maccabiah Games and a silver medal ...

(born 1942) (judo, Canadian Olympian) *

Kōkichi Tsuburaya (born ; May 13, 1940 January 9, 1968) was a Japanese athlete who competed mainly as a marathoner. Kokichi was also a 1st lieutenant in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. Running career Tsuburaya competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in To ...

(athletics, Olympic bronze medalist) * Kohei Murakoso (athletics, Games of the XI Olympiad) *

Hiromori Kawashima Hiromori Kawashima (February 2, 1922 – December 9, 2012) was a Japanese executive. He served as the Commissioner of Baseball in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1998 to 2004. He is a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. Kawashima wa ...

(former commissioner of

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) *

Yutaka Takagi is a professional Japanese baseball player. Family He has three sons of the football player. His eldest son Toshiyuki is playing in Cerezo Osaka, Yoshiaki are currently playing in Albirex Niigata, and his third son Daisuke is playing in Ga ...

(baseball) *

Shinnosuke Abe is a Japanese former professional baseball player who spent his entire 19-year career with Nippon Professional Baseball's Yomiuri Giants, serving as the team's captain from 2007 to 2014. He has twice been named the MVP of the Nippon Professional ...

(baseball) *

Yoshiyuki Kamei (baseball) is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He was selected Japan national baseball team at the 2009 World Baseball Classic. During a brief stint in the 2010–11 Australian Baseba ...

Yoshio Anabuki was a Japanese baseball player and former manager of the Nankai Hawks The are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture. They compete in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) as a member of the Pacific League ...

(baseball, former Manager of

Nankai Hawks The are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture. They compete in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) as a member of the Pacific League. The team was formerly known as the Nankai Hawks and was based in Osaka. ...

) *

Hirokazu Sawamura is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played in NPB for the Yomiuri Giants and the Marines, and has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston ...

(baseball,

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Yomiuri Giants The are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams based in Tokyo, the other being the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. They ...

and

Chiba Lotte Marines The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, in the Kantō region, and owned by Lotte Holdings Co., Ltd. History The Marines franchise began in 1950 as the Mainichi Orions, an inaugural ...

) *

Tsuyoshi Fukui is a retired tour and Japan Davis Cup team tennis player. Fukui holds the record for the most singles win for the Japanese in Davis Cup, with 26. On tour, he won two Challenger tennis events in singles and earned a career-high singles ranking o ...

(tennis / Managing Director,

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) *

Dejima Takeharu Dejima Takeharu (出島武春, born March 21, 1974) is a former sumo wrestler from Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. A former amateur champion, he made his professional debut in 1996, reaching the top ''makuuchi'' division the following year. In Ju ...

(

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 thr ...

, former '' ōzeki'') *

Takekaze Akira Takekaze Akira (born June 21, 1979 as Akira Narita) is a former professional sumo wrestler from Akita Prefecture, Japan. A former amateur sumo champion, he turned professional in 2002, reaching the top ''makuuchi'' division the following year. ...

(sumo, former ''

sekiwake , or , is the top division of the six divisions of professional sumo. Its size is fixed at 42 wrestlers (''rikishi''), ordered into five ranks according to their ability as defined by their performance in previous tournaments. This is the on ...

'') * Tamakasuga Ryōji (sumo) * Mai Nakamura (swimmer, Olympic silver medalist) * Masami Tanaka (swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist) * Sumika Minamoto (swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist) *

Masahiro Fukuda is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. He was a forward but sometimes played in the midfield. Club career After studying at and playing for Sagami Institute of Technology High School and Chuo University, Fuk ...

(football player) *

Nobutoshi Kaneda is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. Club career Kaneda was born in Fuchu, Hiroshima on February 16, 1958. After graduating from Chuo University, he joined Nissan Motors in 1980. The club won the 1983 and 1 ...

(football player) *

Kengo Nakamura is a Japanese former professional association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. A List of one-club men in association football, one-club man, Nakamura signed with Kawasaki Frontale in 2003 and helped the then J2 League, J2 outfit ...

(football player) * Ken Naganuma (football player, former President of the

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) * Kyogo Furuhashi (football player) *

Katsuaki Satō is the founder and director of Satojuku Karate, also known as Odo (The Champion's Way) karate. The Satojuku ''honbu'' (headquarters) is located in Tachikawa, Japan. Satō was born on April 4, 1946, on Sakhalin, Sakhalin Island, then part of Oc ...

(karate) *

Jumbo Tsuruta , better known by his ring name , was a Japanese professional wrestler who wrestled for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) for most of his career, and is well known for being the first ever Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion, having won the PWF Heavyw ...

(wrestling) *

Kazushi Sakuraba is a Japanese professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and submission wrestler, currently signed to Rizin Fighting Federation and Pro Wrestling Noah, where he was formerly one-half of the former GHC Tag Team Champions with Takashi Sugiura. ...

(wrestling) *

Yuki Ishikawa is a Japanese female volleyball player who plays for the Japan National Volleyball team. Clubs *Kawagoe Municipal High School → Takefuji Bamboo (2006–2009) → JT Marvelous（2009-2014） National team * 2006, 2009, 2011 Awards Individu ...

(volleyball player) *

Tatsuya Fukuzawa Tatsuya Fukuzawa (福澤達哉 ''Fukuzawa Tatsuya'', born July 1, 1986) is a retired Japanese volleyball player who played for Japan men's national volleyball team. He announced his retirement on July 14, 2021 and competed in the retirement m ...

(volleyball player) *

Masahiro Sekita is a Japanese male professional volleyball player from Tokyo. He currently plays in V.League Division 1 for JTEKT Stings and Japan men's national volleyball team. He used to be the captain of Japan U-21 national team in 2012 Asian Junior Men' ...

(volleyball player) * Issei Otake (volleyball player) *

Mariko Yamamoto is a Japanese former cricketer. She was part of Japan's squad for the 2011 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier and the 2013 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier. Yamamoto was part of the Japanese team that won the bronze medal in the women's ...

(cricketer, Olympic brozen medalist)

Lawyers

Chiharu Saiguchi is a Japanese attorney and former justice of the Supreme Court of Japan. Saiguchi attended Chuo University, graduating with an LLB in 1961, and was admitted to the bar in 1966. He practiced law as head of the Saiguchi Law Office from 1970 to 2004. ...

(former Justice, the Supreme Court) *

Tatsuo Kainaka became an attorney at law after serving as a member of the Supreme Court of Japan The , located in Hayabusachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, is the Supreme court, highest court in Japan. It has ultimate judicial authority to interpret the Co ...

(former Justice, the Supreme Court / Superintending Prosecutor, Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office)

Politicians

Toshiki Kaifu was a Japanese politician who served as the 77th Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991. Early life and education Kaifu was born on 2 January 1931, in Nagoya City, the eldest of six brothers. His family's business Nakamura Photo Studio wa ...

(Prime Minister / former Chairman, Liberal Democratic Party) *

Masahiko Kōmura is a Japanese political activist, full-time staff and former Vice-President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2007 to 2008, and he is a member of the House of Represent ...

(Minister for Foreign Affairs) *

Okiharu Yasuoka was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kagoshima Prefecture and graduate of Chuo University, he was elected to the House of Repre ...

(Minister of Justice) *

Toshihiro Nikai is a Japanese politician for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the leader of the LDP Shisuikai faction (informally called the Nikai faction), who served as the Secretary-General of the LDP from 2016 to 2021. He was previously the Minister ...

(Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) *

Hirofumi Hirano is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and a former member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He is a native of Katsuragi, Wakayama and he started working for Panasonic Corporatio ...

(Chief Cabinet Secretary, the House of Representatives) * Yonezo Maeda (former Seiyukai leader / former Minister of Railways / lawyer) *

Yoshimi Watanabe is a Japanese politician. He was formerly a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and later the founder of Your Party, after which he became a member of Nippon Ishin no Kai until 2019 when he then became an independent politician. He was a memb ...

(former Minister, State for Financial Policy and Administrative Reform) *

Ichita Yamamoto is a Japanese politician who has been the governor of Gunma Prefecture since July 2019. He was a neoconservative Neoconservatism is a political movement that began in the United States during the 1960s among liberal hawks who became dise ...

(House of Councilors member) *

Hideo Usui is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Overviews A native of Chiba, Chiba and graduate of Chuo University , commonly referred to as or , is ...

(former Minister of Justice) *

Masaaki Kanda is a Japanese politician who served as governor of Aichi Prefecture in 1999–2011. A graduate of Chuo University, he served as mayor of Ichinomiya is a Japanese historical term referring to the Shinto shrines with the highest rank in a prov ...

(Governor,

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Prefecture) *

Fumio Ueda is the former mayor of Sapporo, capital city of Hokkaido, Japan. Ueda was born in Makubetsu, Hokkaido, and graduated from the law department of Chuo University in 1972. He became an attorney and opened a law practice in 1978. At various times h ...

(Mayor,

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city ...

city / lawyer) *

Yorikane Masumoto is a Japanese politician who was mayor of Kyoto from 1996 to 2008. A graduate of Chuo University , commonly referred to as or , is a private flagship research university in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1885 as Igirisu Hōritsu Gakkō (the English ...

(former Mayor,

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city) *

Hwang Jang-yop Hwang Jang-yop ( ko, 황장엽; 17 February 192310 October 2010) was a North Korean politician who served as the Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly from 1972–1983 and was largely responsible for crafting ''Juche'', the state ideology o ...

(North Korean defector; dropped out of the law school in 1944. Was previously

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's and

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's personal advisor.) * Hiroshi Saitō (mayor of Tokorozawa, Saitama)

Journalists, intellectuals

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Academics

* Hachiro Sugimoto (Medicinal chemist, Ph.D. / Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences,

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) * Tadahiko Fukuhara, (President of Chuo University 2011) *

Kenzo Kitakata is a Japanese novelist, especially known for his hardboiled novels. He studied law at Chuo University in the early 1970s. He served as the 10th President of the Mystery Writers of Japan from 1997 to 2001. Works in English translation ;Hardboile ...

Yoshie Wada was a Japanese novelist and critic. Wada was born in Oshamambe, Hokkaidō, and graduated from Chuo University with a law degree. In addition to his novels in the naturalist tradition, he edited the diaries of Ichiyō Higuchi and Fumiko Hayashi ...

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) * Kazumasa Hirai *

Kazuo Koike was a prolific Japanese manga writer ( gensakusha), novelist, screenwriter, lyricist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his violent, artful ''seinen'' manga, notably ''Lone Wolf and Cub'' (with Goseki Kojima, 1970–6), '' Lady Snowblood'' ...

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) * Masashi Ueda (

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) *

Fujio Mitarai is the chairman and CEO of Canon inc. He studied law at Chuo University , commonly referred to as or , is a private flagship research university in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1885 as Igirisu Hōritsu Gakkō (the English Law School), Chuo is one ...

(Chairman & CEO,

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/ Chairman, "Nippon Keidanren"

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/ former Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Chuo University) * Osamu Suzuki (Chairman & CEO,

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(Vice President,

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) * Hiroshi Yanai (Chairman, President & CEO, Pia) *

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(President, Founder & CEO,

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Arts and entertainment

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(actor) *

Minoru Chiaki was a Japanese actor who appeared in eleven of Akira Kurosawa's films, including ''Rashomon'', ''Seven Samurai'', ''Throne of Blood'', and ''The Hidden Fortress''. He was also one of Kon Ichikawa's favorite actors. He attended, but did not gradu ...

(actor) *

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(actor,

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Shinji Yamashita is a Japanese actor who is represented by the talent agency From First Production. He graduated from Shimonoseki Commercial High School and dropped out from Chuo University's Faculty of Letters. Biography In 1975, Yamashita was admitted to the ...

(actor) *

Takaya Kamikawa is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. Biography Kamikawa was born in Hachioji, Tokyo in 1965. He graduated from Hachioji-Kita high school in Tokyo. While studying economics in Chuo University, he acted in a minor theatrical group whi ...

(actor) *

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* Tani Kei (comedian, Crazy Cats) *

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(film director) *

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(director) *

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( CBC announcer) * Kei Orihara (photographer)

Others

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(2nd President of

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) *

Kunio Yonenaga was a Japanese professional shogi player and president of Japan Shogi Association (May, 2005 - December 18, 2012). He received an honorary title Lifetime Kisei due to his remarkable results in the Kisei title tournament. He is a former Meijin ...

(former

shogi , also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, ''chaturanga, Xiangqi'', Indian chess, and '' janggi''. ''Shōgi'' ...

Meijin is one of the eight titles in Japanese professional shogi, and is the most prestigious title, along with Ryūō. The word ''meijin'' (名 ''mei'' "excellent, artful", 人 ''jin'' "person") refers to a highly skilled master of a certain field (t ...

/ former president,

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Hiroyuki Nishimura is a Japanese internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the most accessed Japanese message board, 2channel, and current administrator of 4chan. He is also a self-help author and TV personality. He is often known by his given na ...

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2channel , also known as 2ch, Channel 2, and sometimes retrospectively as 2ch.net, was an anonymous Japanese textboard founded in 1999 by Hiroyuki Nishimura. Described in 2007 as "Japan's most popular online community", the site had a level of influe ...

) * Isao Kataoka, Japan Ice Hockey Federation executive * Satoshi Takano (

professional shogi player A professional shogi player (将棋棋士 ''shōgi kishi'' or プロ棋士 ''puro kishi'' "professional player") is a shogi player who is usually a member of a professional guild of shogi players. There are two categories of professional player ...

) * Hiroaki Yokoyama (

) * Naohiro Ishida (

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References

External links

Chuo University's website

Chuo University's official homepage in English
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