List of Tokyo Institute of Technology people

This is a list of notable graduates and faculty members of the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan.

Politics

Naoto Kan – 94th Prime Minister of Japan (2010-2011)^{[citation needed]}
Yukio Hatoyama – former Assistant Professor; 93rd Prime Minister of Japan (2009–2010)^{[citation needed]}
Tadamichi Yamamoto - UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan

Yoshinori Ohsumi – Nobel laureate (Medicine, 2016)
Hideki Shirakawa (BSc 1961, PhD 1966) – Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 2000)^[1]
Pailin Chuchottaworn – former CEO and president of PTT, founder and chairman of Kamnoetvidya Science Academy^[2]^[3]^[4]
Toshikazu Sunada – mathematician who contributed to various fields in geometry, including spectral geometry, Reinhardt domain, Ihara zeta function, and periodic graph)^{[citation needed]}

Toshitada Doi – robot Aibo pioneer, co-inventor of compact disc
Nobutaro Hara – model railway builder whose collection is displayed at the Hara Model Railway Museum^[5]
Shōji Hayashi – architect, chairman of Japan Institute of Architects^[6]
Shigeo Hirose – pioneer of robotics technology^{[citation needed]}
Junichi Iijima – Professor of the Department of Industrial Management and Engineering
Satoru Iwata – former game developer at HAL Laboratories; former CEO of Nintendo^[7]
Heitaro Nakajima – digital audio pioneer
Hiroshi Takahashi – architect^[8]
Jiro Tanaka – aircraft and automotive engineer^[9]^[10]^[11]

Shoji Hamada – potter, Living National Treasure of Japan^{[citation needed]}
Kanjiro Kawai – potter, refused Living National Treasure designation^{[citation needed]}
Akitoshi Kawazu – game producer, creator of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles^{[citation needed]}
Kenichi Ohmae – business and corporate strategist^{[citation needed]}
Takaaki Yoshimoto – poet, literary critic, philosopher^{[citation needed]}

^ Hideki Shirakawa – Biographical The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000, Nobelprize.org
^ "Profile: Pailin Chuchottaworn". 16th Nikkei Global Management Forum. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
^ "Executive Profile* Pailin Chuchottaworn". Bloomberg. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
^ "Chairman of the Board of Governors". KVIS. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
^ Orii, Yuka (24 July 2012). "Full steam ahead for 93-year-old model train builder". Asia & Japan Watch. Japan: The Asahi Shimbun Company. Archived from the original on 2012-07-25. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
^ "Hayashi Shōji" 林昌二 (in Japanese). Japan Institute of Architects. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
^ Oi, Mariko (13 July 2015). "Nintendo's Satoru Iwata dies at 55". BBC News. Japan. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
^ "Hiroshi + Akiko Takahashi/Workstation". Architecture Trend Press. 2001. Archived from the original on 2007-11-13.
^ Carmakers owe success to warplanes – Military's brightest aircraft designers created Japan's automotive powers The Japan Times, Aug. 13, 2005
^ The History and the Biography of Jiro Tanaka (Detailed PDF document attached) Archived 2015-01-09 at the Wayback Machine (Japanese) – Japan Automotive Hall of Fame
^ From the Ki-74 to the Tama Electric Vehicles and the Prince Vehicles – Interview of Jiro Tanaka on Nov. 22, 1996 (Japanese) – The Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (JSAE)