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Sendai
is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Miyagi Prefecture, the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,091,407 in 525,828 households, and is one of Japan's 20 Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, desig ...
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Notable alumni
Politics
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Shintaro Ito
Ito in 2016
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Tokyo and graduate of Keio University, he received his master's degrees from Keio U ...
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Itsunori Onodera
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He served as the Minister of Defense from 2012 to 2014 and again from 2017 to 2018.
Early life and educat ...
Takashi Saito
is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher who is currently the chief pitching coach for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Saito's professional career spanned 23 years. He spent his first 13 seasons pit ...
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Kazuhiro Sasaki
Kazuhiro "Daimajin" Sasaki (佐々木 主浩 ''Sasaki Kazuhiro'', born February 22, 1968) is a former Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. He played his entire NPB career with the Yokohama Taiyo W ...
Ken Kadokura
is a retired Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (Chunichi Dragons, Yomiuri Giants) and the KBO League. He threw a four-seam fastball, a slider, and a fork ball.
Biography
After 13 years in NPB, Ka ...
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Tomoaki Kanemoto
is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder and manager. In his career as a player he spent 11 years with the Hiroshima Carp before moving to the Hanshin Tigers in 2003, where he spent another 10 years. He holds the world record for c ...
*Figure skating
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Akiko Suzuki
(born March 28, 1985) is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She is the 2012 World Championships bronze medalist, a three-time Grand Prix Final medalist ( 2011 silver, 2009 & 2012 bronze), a two-time Four Continents silver medalist ( ...
*Golf
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Hidemasa Hoshino
is a Japanese golfer.
Career
Hoshino was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. He has won three times on the Japan Golf Tour. He has featured in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking.
Professional wins (3) Japan Golf Tour wins (3)
Jap ...
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Hiroshi Iwata
is a Japanese professional golfer who plays on the Japan Golf Tour and the Asian Tour.
Iwata was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. He started playing golf at the age of 14, by his father's influence, who ran a local golf range and was a ...
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Yūsaku Miyazato
is a Japanese professional golfer. In 2006 he became the first modern-era golfer to make two hole in one shots in the same round of a PGA Tour event, at the Reno-Tahoe Open in Nevada.
Early life and amateur career
Miyazato was born in Higashi, ...
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Hideto Tanihara
is a Japanese professional golfer. He has won 17 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour.
Professional career
Tanihara has won 14 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking. His highest ranking ...
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Hideki Matsuyama
is a Japanese professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He is the first-ever Japanese professional golfer to win a men's major golf championship the 2021 Masters Tournament.
As of January 2022, Matsuyama has 17 worldwide wins, eight car ...
Visual arts
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Leiji Matsumoto
is a Japanese mangaka, creator of several anime and manga series. His wife Miyako Maki is also a manga artist.
Early life
Matsumoto was the middle child of a family of seven brothers, and, in his early childhood, Matsumoto was given a 35m ...
Notable professors
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John Stevens (scholar)
John Stevens (born 1947) is a Buddhist priest, teacher of Buddhist studies and Aikido teacher.
Stevens formerly taught Eastern philosophy at Tohoku Fukushi University in Japan. His Aikido rank is 7th dan Aikikai. He lived in Sendai from 1973 to 2 ...