Hokkaido University - Notable Alumni

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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