Special Supporters for Sakura Science Exchange Program

Academics, etc.

Leo Esaki

President, Yokohama College of Pharmacy; 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics

Susumu Tonegawa

Director, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Hideki Shirakawa

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

Ryoji Noyori

Director, Science Museum,Tokyo; 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Koichi Tanaka

Senior Fellow, Shimadzu Corporation; 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Makoto Kobayashi

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

Akira Suzuki

Professor Emeritus, Hokkaido University; 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Shinya Yamanaka

Professor, Kyoto University; 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Hiroshi Amano

Professor, Nagoya University; 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics

Shuji Nakamura

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

Satoshi Omura

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

Takaaki Kajita

Director,Institute for Cosmic Ray Research University of Tokyo;2015 Nobel Prize in Physics

Yoshinori Ohsumi

Specially Appointed Professor, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology;
2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Tasuku Honjo

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

Syukuro Manabe

Meteorologist at Princeton University, USA; 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics

Masakazu Tokura

Chairman, Keidanren

Reiko Kuroda

Professor, Tokyo University of Science; former Vice President of ICSU

Mamoru Mohri

Director Emeritus, Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation); Astronaut