5 Notable alumni of Kanazawa College of Art
Updated: June 08, 2026 EliteDegrees
Kanazawa College of Art is ranked #5,447 in the world and #383 in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 5 notable alumni from Kanazawa College of Art sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Kanazawa College of Art won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Kazuo Kawasaki
1949-. (aged 77)
designer
Kazuo Kawasaki is a Japanese industrial designer born in Fukui Prefecture in 1949. He graduated from Kanazawa College of Art in 1972. Kawasaki is a professor at Osaka University and a visiting professor at Tama Art University and Kanazawa Institute of Technology. Representative works include the wheelchair "CARNA" (part of the permanent collection at MoMA New York), the "Kazuo Kawasaki"...
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2. Mamoru Hosoda
1967-. (aged 59)
animation director
screenwriter
director
illustrator
animator
Mamoru Hosoda is a Japanese filmmaker and animator. He is known for the short films that made up Digimon: The Movie (2000), The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) and Summer Wars (2009). He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Animated Feature Film at the 91st Academy Awards for his seventh film Mirai (2018).
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3. Hiromasa Yonebayashi
1973-. (aged 53)
screenwriter
film director
animation director
animator
film producer
Hiromasa Yonebayashi, nicknamed Maro (麻呂), is a Japanese animator and director, formerly for Studio Ghibli. After his directorial debut with Studio Ghibli (The Secret World of Arrietty), he became the youngest director of a theatrical film produced by the studio. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2015 for his second film, When Marnie Was...
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4. Shinya Kumazaki
1979-. (aged 47)
video game director
game designer
Shinya Kumazaki is a Japanese video game director, game designer, HAL Laboratory employee, and painter who is the current general director of the Kirby series and voice of King Dedede.
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5. Shigeru Miyamoto
1952-. (aged 74)
video game designer
video artist
video game producer
television producer
game programmer
Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he has served as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential designers in video games, he is the creator of some of the most acclaimed and best-selling game franchises of all time,...
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