Notable Alumni
- Uchimura Kanzō, Christian evangelist, founder of Non-church Christianity Movement
- Akira Ifukube, composer
- Nitobe Inazō, the author of Bushido: the Soul of Japan, a Quaker
- Ryuzo Yanagimachi, assisted fertilization and cloning pioneer
- Mamoru Mohri, astronaut
- Takeo Arishima, novelist
- Hiroshi Ishii, computer scientist
- Akira Suzuki, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2010)
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