Editing University of Tokyo (section)

=== Business, economics and finance ===
<gallery mode="packed" caption="Industrialists, economists and central bankers who attended the University of Tokyo">
File:Kiichiro Toyoda.jpg|[[Kiichiro Toyoda]], founder of [[Toyota]]
File:Namihei Odaira Portrait c1910.png|[[Namihei Odaira]], founder of [[Hitachi]]
File:Iwasaki Koyata.jpg|Baron [[Koyata Iwasaki]], longest-serving head of [[Mitsubishi]]
File:Aikawa Yosuke.jpg|[[Yoshisuke Aikawa|Yoshisuke Ayukawa]], founder of the [[Nissan Group]]
File:Keizo Shibusawa.jpg|Viscount [[Keizo Shibusawa]], governor of [[Bank of Japan|BoJ]]
File:Kazuo Ueda 20230410meeting01.jpg|[[Kazuo Ueda]], governor of BoJ since 2023
File:Hirofumi Uzawa.jpg|[[Hirofumi Uzawa]], [[Mathematical economics|mathematical economist]]
File:Nobuhiro Kiyotaki cropped 1 Nobuhiro Kiyotaki 202011.jpg|[[Nobuhiro Kiyotaki]], [[New Keynesian economics|New Keynesian]] economist
</gallery>[[Kiichiro Toyoda]], an alumnus of the Faculty of Engineering, founded [[Toyota|Toyota Motor]], [[List of manufacturers by motor vehicle production|the largest car manufacturer in the world]] and the [[List of largest Japanese companies|largest company in Japan]] by both market capitalisation and revenue.<ref name=":72" /> [[Namihei Odaira]], also an alumnus of the Faculty of Engineering, founded [[Hitachi]], one of the largest electronics conglomerates in the world.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |title=Legacy of Meister Namihei Odaira: Hitachi Review |url=https://www.hitachi.com/rev/column/gf/vol05/index.html |access-date=2023-11-10 |website=www.hitachi.com |language=en}}</ref> Another UTokyo-educated engineer, [[Yoshisuke Aikawa|Yoshisuke Ayukawa]], founded the [[Nissan Group]] (''[[zaibatsu]]''),<ref>{{Cite web |title=鮎川義介｜近代日本人の肖像 |url=https://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/datas/226/ |access-date=2024-02-17 |website=近代日本人の肖像 |language=ja}}</ref> from which some of Japan's largest companies, such as [[Nissan]], [[Isuzu]], [[NEC]], and [[SOMPO Holdings]], spun off.<ref>{{Cite web |title=「オレは絶対に金持ちにならない」日産、日立の始祖・鮎川義介の血と育ち｜人間力・仕事力を高めるWEB chichi｜致知出版社 |url=https://www.chichi.co.jp/web/20230320_ayukawa_yoshisuke_kita/ |access-date=2024-02-17 |website=致知出版社 |language=ja}}</ref> Baron [[Koyata Iwasaki]], a member of the founding Iwasaki family of [[Mitsubishi]], was the longest-serving and last head of the group before it was split up by order of the [[Occupation of Japan|Allied Occupation Forces]] after the Second World War. Under his leadership, the group's business evolved significantly, and he founded companies such as [[Mitsubishi Heavy Industries]] and [[Nikon]]. [[Hiromasa Ezoe]], as an educational psychology student at UTokyo in 1961, established [[Recruit (company)|Recruit Holdings]], the largest human resources company in Japan, which also runs worldwide businesses including [[Indeed]] and [[Glassdoor]]. UTokyo alumni have held chief executive positions at numerous influential Japanese companies; as of April 2024, companies under the leadership of a UTokyo alumnus include [[Sony]] ([[Kenichiro Yoshida]]),<ref>{{Cite web |title=ソニー、次期社長に吉田憲一郎氏 新中期経営計画スタート前に ニュースイッチ by 日刊工業新聞社 |url=https://newswitch.jp/p/11897 |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=ニュースイッチ by 日刊工業新聞社 |language=ja}}</ref> [[Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group|MUFG]] ([[Hironori Kamezawa]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hironori Kamezawa, CEO of MUFG |url=https://ihj.global/leadership/leadership-5122/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=公益財団法人国際文化会館 |language=ja}}</ref> and [[Mitsubishi Corporation|Mitsubishi Corp]] ([[Katsuya Nakanishi]] [<nowiki/>[[:ja:中西勝也|ja]]]).<ref>{{Cite web |last=日経ビジネス電子版 |date=2022-10-13 |title="It's our turn to save this country from this national crisis", said the CEO of Mitsubishi Corp |url=https://business.nikkei.com/atcl/NBD/19/00119/00184/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=日経ビジネス電子版 |language=ja}}</ref> More than half of the governors of the [[Bank of Japan]], the central bank of Japan, have been UTokyo alumni, including the incumbent governor [[Kazuo Ueda]], who previously taught at UTokyo.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Governor : UEDA Kazuo : 日本銀行 Bank of Japan |url=https://www.boj.or.jp/en/about/organization/policyboard/gv_ueda.htm |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Bank of Japan |language=en}}</ref>