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Kazuhiro Nakamura
Kazuhiro Nakamura (中村和弘) is a Japanese neuroscientist and professor at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine known for identifying the hypothalamic neural circuits that control body temperature and fever.
Kazuhiro Takanabe
Kazuhiro Takanabe (高鍋和広) is a Japanese catalysis researcher, professor of chemical system engineering at the University of Tokyo since 2018, known for quantitative photocatalysis and green hydrogen work.
Kazuhito Hashimoto
Kazuhito Hashimoto (橋本和仁, born 1955) is a Japanese materials chemist at the University of Tokyo known for titanium dioxide photocatalysis and self-cleaning surfaces, and president of the Japan Science and Technology Agency since 2022.
Kazuki Iimura
Kazuki Iimura (飯村 一輝), Japanese foil fencer born 2003 in Kyoto; Paris 2024 Olympic team foil gold champion and 2023 Milan world team champion; Keio University student, NTT athlete.
Kazuki Saito (plant biochemist)
Kazuki Saito (齊藤和季) is a Japanese plant biochemist and metabolomics researcher who developed phytochemical genomics, combining genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics, and is Executive Director of Science at RIKEN.
Kazuki Takahashi (高橋和希)
Kazuki Takahashi (高橋和希, 1961–2022), Japanese manga artist and creator of Yu-Gi-Oh! (遊☆戯☆王), serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 1996–2004; its card game became Konami's record-selling OCG. Died 2022 off Okinawa during a rescue attempt.
Kazuki Yao (矢尾一樹)
Kazuki Yao (矢尾一樹), born 1959, in Ishikawa, Japan, is a Japanese voice actor known for Judau Ashta in Gundam ZZ, Franky and Mr. 2 Bon Clay in One Piece, and the Dancouga line やってやるぜ!, succeeded as Franky by Subaru Kimura in December 2024.
Kazuki Yoshinaga (吉永 一貴)
Kazuki Yoshinaga (吉永 一貴, born 1999, Aichi, Japan) is a Japanese short track speed skater for Toyota Motor Corporation who competed at the PyeongChang 2018, Beijing 2022, and Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics and won the 2018 Calgary World Cup 1500 m.
Kazuko Nishikura
Kazuko Nishikura is a Japanese-born molecular biologist and professor at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, known for discovering A-to-I RNA editing and characterizing the ADAR enzyme family.
Kazuko Shiraishi
Kazuko Shiraishi (白石かずこ; real name Hishinuma Kazuko, 1931–2024) was a Japanese poet born in Vancouver, Canada, known for jazz-influenced readings and long poems; her work is translated into more than 20 languages.
Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki
Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki (篠崎 和子, born 1954) is a Japanese plant molecular biologist who discovered the DRE element and DREB transcription factors, key to drought tolerance in crops.
Kazuma Kaya
Kazuma Kaya (萱 和磨), Japanese artistic gymnast born 1996, Central Sports club, Juntendo PhD; Olympic team gold Paris 2024, team silver and pommel horse bronze Tokyo 2020, world team golds 2015 and 2023.
Kazuma Kiryu
Kazuma Kiryu (桐生 一馬), the Dragon of Dojima, is SEGA's Yakuza/Like a Dragon series protagonist: a former Tojo Clan yakuza voiced by Takaya Kuroda, whose saga spans Yakuza (2005) through Infinite Wealth (2024).
Kazuma Okamoto (岡本和真)
Kazuma Okamoto (岡本和真), born 1996, is a Japanese infielder who starred 11 seasons for the Yomiuri Giants (248 HR, six-time NPB All-Star), won the 2023 WBC, and signed a four-year, $60 million Toronto Blue Jays contract in January 2026.
Kazuma Tateisi (Omron (Tateisi Electric Manufacturing))
Kazuma Tateisi (立石一真, born 1900) was a Japanese engineer-inventor who founded Tateisi Electric Manufacturing in Osaka in 1933 and built it into OMRON, the automation and sensing components maker.
Kazumasa Nagai
Kazumasa Nagai (永井一正) was a Japanese graphic designer known for geometric abstract posters and the animal-themed LIFE series, and a founding member of Nippon Design Center.
Kazumi Yumoto
Kazumi Yumoto (湯本香樹実) is a Japanese author of children's novels and picture books known for treating death and grief; her first novel, The Friends, won the 1997 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award.
Kazumura Cave
Kazumura Cave, on Kilauea's east flank, Hawaii, is the world's longest and deepest lava tube: 65.5 km surveyed, 1,101.5 m deep, formed by the 15th-century 'Aila'au eruption, with skylight entrances and private tours.
Kazunari Domen
Kazunari Domen (堂免 一成, born 1953) is a Japanese chemist, a University Professor at the University of Tokyo, known for particulate photocatalysts that split water into hydrogen using sunlight.
Kazunari Matsuda
Kazunari Matsuda is a Japanese physicist and professor at Kyoto University's Institute of Advanced Energy, known for optical studies of carbon nanotubes and two-dimensional semiconductors.
Kazunari Shibata
Kazunari Shibata (柴田 一成) is a Japanese solar astrophysicist at Kyoto University known for his unified model of solar flares and the discovery of superflares.
Kazunari Yoshizawa
Kazunari Yoshizawa (吉澤一成) is a Japanese theoretical and computational chemist at Kyoto University's Fukui Institute, known for an orbital rule for molecular electron transport and catalyst design.
Kazunomiya
Kazunomiya (和宮, 1846–1877) was a Japanese imperial princess, daughter of Emperor Ninkō, whose 1862 marriage to shogun Tokugawa Iemochi embodied the kōbu-gattai union of court and shogunate.
Kazunori Kataoka (片岡一則)
Kazunori Kataoka (片岡一則) is a Japanese polymer chemist known for block copolymer micelles for drug delivery, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Kazuo Akagi
Kazuo Akagi (赤木 和夫) is a Japanese polymer chemist at Ritsumeikan University, known for synthesizing helical polyacetylene and winning the Chemical Society of Japan Award.
Kazuo Dan
Kazuo Dan (檀一雄, 1912–1976) was a Japanese novelist and poet of the Buraiha group who won the Naoki Prize and wrote the autobiographical bestseller Kataku no Hito over about 20 years.
Kazuo Hagimoto
Kazuo Hagimoto (萩本和男) is a Japanese optical communications engineer who shared the 2023 Japan Prize for the erbium-doped fiber amplifier, after a career at NTT and NICT.
Kazuo Inamori
Kazuo Inamori, also known as Inamori Kazuo (稲盛和夫), was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Kyocera in Kyoto in 1959, founded DDI, the predecessor of KDDI, and led Japan Airlines after its 2010 bankruptcy.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro, born 1954 in Nagasaki, is a British novelist, Booker Prize winner for The Remains of the Day and 2017 Nobel Literature laureate known for unreliable narrators, memory themes, and Never Let Me Go.
Kazuo Kashio
Kazuo Kashio (樫尾和雄), also known as Kashio Kazuo, was a Japanese businessman who co-founded Casio in 1957 and led it as president and CEO from 1988 until his death in 2018.