Academics, etc.

ESAKI Leo

Director, The Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki; Director, Tsukuba International Congress Center; 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics

TONEGAWA Susumu

Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

SHIRAKAWA Hideki

Professor Emeritus, University of Tsukuba; 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

NOYORI Ryoji

Honorary Director, Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS), Japan Science and Technology Agency; 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

TANAKA Koichi

Executive Research Fellow, Shimadzu Corporation; General Manager, Mass Spectrometry Research Laboratory; 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

KOBAYASHI Makoto

Honorary Professor Emeritus, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization(KEK); 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics

SUZUKI Akira

Professor Emeritus, Hokkaido University; 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

YAMANAKA Shinya

Professor, Director Emeritus, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University; 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

AMANO Hiroshi

Professor, Director, Center for Integrated Research of Future Electronics (CIRFE), Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability (IMaSS), Nagoya University; 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics

NAKAMURA Shuji

Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara; 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics

ŌMURA Satoshi

Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Kitasato University; 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

KAJITA Takaaki

Distinguished University Professor, The University of Tokyo (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research); Former President of The Science Council of Japan; 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics

OHSUMI Yoshinori

Honorary Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo; 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

HONJO Tasuku

Director, the Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University; Deputy Director-General and Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study; 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology

MANABE Syukuro

Senior Meteorologist, Princeton University; JAMSTEC Fellow, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), USA; 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKURA Masakazu

Chairman, Keidanren

KURODA Reiko

Designated Professor, Frontier Research Institute, Chubu University; former Vice President of International Council for Science (ICSU)

MOHRI Mamoru

Chief Executive Director Emeritus, Miraikan (The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation); former JAXA Astronaut