Waseda University

Waseda University, abbreviated as Waseda or Sōdai, is a private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1882 as Tokyo Senmon Gakko by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the eighth and eleventh prime minister of Japan, and formally renamed Waseda University in 1902.早稻田大学（日语简称「早大」）是位于日本东京都新宿区的私立研究型大学，1882 年由日本第八、第十一任内阁总理大臣大隈重信创办，最初名为东京专门学校，1902 年正式改称早稻田大学。

It is organised into 36 departments, comprising 13 undergraduate schools and 23 graduate schools, and in 2023 enrolled 38,776 undergraduate and 8,490 graduate students, the largest number of international students of any Japanese university since 2009.学校设 36 个教学单位，包括 13 个本科学院与 23 个研究生院，2023 年有本科生 38,776 人、研究生 8,490 人，其留学生人数自 2009 年起一直居日本各大学之首。

Its faculty and alumni include eight prime ministers of Japan and three prime ministers of Korea, and it was one of the first private universities in Japan to receive government recognition as a university, in 1920.其教师与校友中有八位日本首相与三位韩国总理，1920 年它也是日本最早获政府承认为大学的私立学府之一。

History

• Waseda was founded as Tokyo Senmon Gakko on 21 October 1882 by the samurai scholar and Meiji-era politician Ōkuma Shigenobu, a former prime minister, who with fellow advocates of British-style constitutional monarchy sought to train leaders for a parliamentary system.早稻田大学的前身东京专门学校于 1882 年 10 月 21 日创办，创办者是武士出身的学者、明治时期政治家、前内阁总理大臣大隈重信，他与主张英国式君主立宪制的同仁一道，希望培养立宪政治的领袖人才。

• Before the name Waseda was chosen the school was known by names derived from the founder's villa in Waseda village and the school's location in Totsuka village, and Ōkuma modelled it partly on institutions such as the London School of Economics.在「早稻田」之名确定前，学校因创办人的别墅所在地早稻田村以及校址所在的户冢村而另有称呼，大隈重信在办学上还部分参考了伦敦政治经济学院等院校。

• The first departments were political science and economics, law and physical science, and an English language course open to students of all departments was established alongside them.最初设有政治经济学、法学与理学三个学科，并同时开设面向全校学生的英语课程。

• Three years later the department of physical science was closed for lack of applicants, while literature was added in 1890, education in 1903, commerce in 1904 and science and engineering in 1908.三年后理学科因报考者太少而停办，此后文学科于 1890 年、教育科 1903 年、商科 1904 年、理工科 1908 年相继增设。

• In 1886 the school began publishing the Waseda Lecture Notes and admitting overseas students, the first Qing-dynasty Chinese students enrolled in 1899, and a higher school was set up as a preparatory institution.1886 年学校开始发行《早稻田讲义录》并接收海外留学生，1899 年首批清朝留学生入学，另设高等学院作为预科。

• The school was renamed Waseda University on 2 September 1902 after acquiring university status, and in the same year the first Waseda-Keio baseball match was held at Keio.学校于 1902 年 9 月 2 日获得大学资格并改称早稻田大学，同年首届早庆棒球赛在庆应义塾大学举行。

• Although Waseda adopted the term university in its title in 1902, it was only in 1920 that it and other private schools received formal government recognition as universities under the University Ordinance, making Waseda, with Keio University, the first private university in Japan.虽在 1902 年校名中已使用「大学」一词，但直到 1920 年它才与其他私立学校依《大学令》获得政府正式承认，从而与庆应义塾大学一道成为日本最早的私立大学。

• In 1913, at a ceremony marking the thirtieth anniversary of the school's predecessor, Ōkuma proclaimed the Waseda University Founding Creed, drafted by Ono Azusa, Tsubouchi Shōyō and others, which has since been regarded as the university's founding spirit and motto.1913 年，在学校前身东京专门学校创办 30 周年纪念典礼上，时任总长的大隈重信宣布《早稻田大学教旨》，该教旨由小野梓、坪内逍遥等人起草，此后被视为学校的建校精神与校训。

• Much of the campus was destroyed in the firebombings of Tokyo during the Second World War, but the university was rebuilt and reopened by 1949, when it became a new-system university with eleven faculties.校园在二战东京空袭中大部分被毁，但学校在 1949 年前完成重建并复校，按新学制成为设有 11 个学院的新制大学。

• On 12 June 1950 sixty police raided Waseda and seized copies of a Communist-inspired open letter to General MacArthur, an action that the vice-chairman of the Students Autonomy Society called worse than the prewar peace preservation measures.1950 年 6 月 12 日，六十名警察搜查早稻田大学并收缴一封由共产党人士起草、致麦克阿瑟将军的公开信，学生自治会副主席称此举比战前的治安维持法更为恶劣。

• A doctoral course was established in 1953, the Toyama campus was created in 1962 to house the first and second faculties of letters, and in 1973 the second faculties of political economy, law and commerce were abolished.1953 年开设博士课程，1962 年设立户山校区以安置第一与第二文学部，1973 年废除第二政治经济学部、第二法学部与第二商学部。

• The university marked its centenary in 1982 and opened the Tokorozawa campus in 1987 for the human sciences and sports sciences.1982 年学校迎来百年校庆，1987 年设立所泽校区，安置人类科学与运动科学等学科。

• On 21 October 2007 Waseda celebrated its 125th anniversary, a number that carries special significance because Ōkuma's theory held that a human being could live 125 years.2007 年 10 月 21 日该校迎来 125 周年校庆，这一数字别有意味，因为大隈重信主张人可活满 125 岁。

• In 2008 Waseda opened an official base in Taipei, Taiwan, to deepen educational cooperation and academic exchange, and in 2014 a Nakano International Community Plaza was built on the site of the former Nakano police school.2008 年该校在中国台湾地区台北市设立官方据点以深化教育合作与学术交流，2014 年又在原中野警察学校旧址建成中野国际社区广场。

• The university's history museum opened in March 2018, and in December of that year the new Building 37, known as Waseda Arena, was completed on the site of the Memorial Hall.该校历史馆于 2018 年 3 月开馆，同年 12 月在纪念会堂原址建成第 37 号馆，即早稻田竞技场。

• A graduate school of business administration was opened in 2016, and the Waseda University International House of Literature opened in October 2021.2016 年开设研究生院经营管理研究科，早稻田大学国际文学馆于 2021 年 10 月开馆。

• In 2020 Waseda signed cooperation agreements with the University of Tokyo and with three science and engineering faculties of the University of Oxford, and the graduation and entrance ceremonies were cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with teaching postponed to 20 April.2020 年该校与东京大学以及牛津大学三个理工学部签订合作协议，因新冠疫情取消毕业典礼与入学典礼，并将开学日期推迟至 4 月 20 日。

• The Chinese connection runs deep: Waseda began recruiting Chinese students in 1896, opened Chinese-language classes in 1900 and set up a special Qing students division in 1905, attracting many young revolutionaries.该校与中国的渊源很深：1896 年开始招揽中国留学生，1900 年率先开设中文课程，1905 年更特别设立清国留学生部，吸引了不少后来投身革命的中国青年。

• From 1973 Waseda developed a formal collaboration with Korea University, and in 1982 it signed an academic exchange agreement with Peking University, which since 2005 has offered double-degree programmes at bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels.1973 年起该校与高丽大学展开正式合作，1982 年与北京大学签订学术交流协定，自 2005 年起两校在学士、硕士与博士阶段开设双学位项目。

• In Nikkei's university brand ranking Waseda took first place in the Greater Tokyo Area in 2010 and has been ranked second nationally, behind the University of Tokyo, since 2020.在日经大学品牌排名中，该校 2010 年位居东京都圈首位，自 2020 年起稳居仅次于东京大学的日本全国第 2 位。

Academics

• Waseda is organised into ten academic faculties containing 13 undergraduate schools and 25 research institutes, alongside 23 graduate schools, giving 36 departments in all.早稻田大学设 10 个学术院，内含 13 个本科学院与 25 个研究所，另有 23 个研究生院，教学单位共 36 个。

• The thirteen undergraduate schools cover political science and economics, law, culture media and society, humanities and social sciences, education, commerce, creative science and engineering, fundamental science and engineering, advanced science and engineering, social sciences, human sciences, sports sciences and international liberal studies.13 个本科学院包括政治经济学、法学、文化构想、人文社会科学、教育学、商学、创造理工、基干理工、先进理工、社会科学、人类科学、运动科学与国际教养等学院。

• As of 2023 the university enrolled 38,776 undergraduates and 8,490 graduate students, and it has had more international students than any other Japanese university since 2009.截至 2023 年，学校有本科生 38,776 人、研究生 8,490 人，自 2009 年起其留学生人数一直位居日本各大学之首。

• Six faculties and eleven graduate schools offer degree programmes taught entirely in English, and the School of Human Sciences runs an internet degree programme known as the e-School.6 个学部与 11 个研究科开设全英语授课学位课程，人类科学部内还设有名为 e-School 的网络学位项目。

• Waseda is one of the few universities in Japan accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business of the United States.该校是日本少数获得美国国际商学院促进协会（AACSB）认证的大学之一。

• Its business school is ranked second in Japan both by Asiaweek's Asia Top MBA Business Schools Ranking and by Eduniversal, which places it 93rd in the world.其商学院在《亚洲周刊》亚洲顶尖 MBA 商学院排名与 Eduniversal 排名中均居日本第 2 位，后者将其列为世界第 93 位。

• Waseda Law School is considered one of the top Japanese law schools, with the number of its successful bar examination candidates fifth in Japan in 2009 and 2010.早稻田法科大学院被视为日本顶尖法学院之一，其司法考试合格人数在 2009 与 2010 年居日本第 5 位。

• Admission is highly selective: in the 2011 undergraduate admissions the number of applicants per place was 20.5, or 115,515 applicants for 5,630 places, the second largest number of applicants in Japan.录取竞争激烈：2011 年本科招生平均每个名额收到约 20.5 份申请，即 5,630 个名额共 115,515 人申请，申请人数居日本第 2 位。

• The main library, designed by Tachu Naitō and others, was completed in 1925 and holds about 4.5 million volumes and 46,000 serials, making it one of the largest university libraries in Japan.主图书馆由内藤多仲等人设计、1925 年落成，藏书约 450 万册、定期刊物 4.6 万种，是日本规模最大的大学图书馆之一。

• Chinese-language sources describe the library system as holding about 5.36 million volumes, the third largest collection among Japanese university libraries.中文资料称该馆系统藏书约 536 万册，居日本大学图书馆藏书量第 3 位。

• Unlike many comparable collections the library survived the bombing of Tokyo, and it preserves materials that cannot be found elsewhere, including the Jinkōki, a celebrated Edo-period work on mathematics.与许多同类馆藏不同，该馆在东京大轰炸中未遭损毁，保存着其他地方难以寻得的文献，其中包括江户时代著名数学著作《尘劫记》。

• Waseda operates 21 research institutes at its main Shinjuku campus, among them the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, the Kagami Memorial Laboratory for Materials Science and Technology, the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and the Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.该校在新宿主校区设 21 个研究机构，包括早稻田高等研究所、各务纪念材料技术研究所、亚洲太平洋研究所与纳米科学与纳米技术研究所。

• Japanese national universities generally have stronger research standards, but as a member of the RU11 group Waseda is one of the few private universities that compete with the country's top national universities.日本国立大学的研究水准通常更强，但作为 RU11 成员，早稻田是少数能与顶尖国立大学同台竞争的私立大学之一。

• The university maintains affiliated institutions including an art and architecture school, two senior high schools, a junior and senior high school division and the Waseda Shibuya Senior High School in Singapore.该校的附属机构包括艺术与建筑学校、两所高等学院与一所高等学院中学部，以及设在新加坡的早稻田涩谷新加坡校。

• Its graduate schools include several independent ones such as the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, the Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, the Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems and the Graduate School of Environment and Energy Engineering.其研究生院中设有若干独立研究科，如亚洲太平洋研究科、国际资讯通信研究科、情报生产系统研究科与环境能源研究科。

• By 2019 the university held 530 school-level sister-university agreements and 603 faculty-level agreements covering 88 countries and regions, with regular exchanges of students and staff.截至 2019 年，该校签订校级姊妹校协议 530 所、系所级姊妹校协议 603 所，覆盖 88 个国家和地区，定期互派交换生与教职员。

Campus

• The main campus is in the Nishi-Waseda district of Shinjuku, Tokyo, and is served by the nearby Waseda and Nishi-waseda stations.主校区位于东京都新宿区西早稻田，由附近的早稻田站与西早稻田站提供服务。

• Besides the Waseda main campus and the Nishi-Waseda campus for science and engineering, Shinjuku is home to the Toyama campus for the humanities and the Kikui-cho campus, while the Nihonbashi campus in Chūō-ku houses the professional graduate schools.除主校区早稻田与以理工科为主的西早稻田校区外，新宿区内还有以人文为主的户山校区与喜久井町校区，中央区的日本桥校区则安置专业研究生院。

• Elsewhere in Japan the university operates the Higashifushimi campus in Nishitōkyō, the Tokorozawa and Honjō campuses in Saitama, and the Kitakyūshū campus in Fukuoka.在日本其他地方，该校设有西东京市的东伏见校区、埼玉县的所泽校区与本庄校区，以及福冈县的北九州校区。

• The Ōkuma Auditorium, a three-storey main hall seating 1,435 with a 382-seat underground secondary hall and a seven-storey clock tower, opened on 20 October 1927 and was designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan in 2007.大隈讲堂主会场三层、可容纳 1,435 人，另有可容 382 人的地下副会场与七层钟楼，1927 年 10 月 20 日启用，2007 年被指定为日本重要文化财。

• A Memorial Hall built in 1957 served as the fencing venue for the 1964 Summer Olympics, and the arena that replaced it on the same site, part of Building 37, opened in December 2018.1957 年建造的纪念会堂曾是 1964 年东京奥运会的击剑赛场，其后在同一地址取代它的竞技场（第 37 号馆一部分）于 2018 年 12 月启用。

• In April 1999 the auditorium and the old library building became the first two buildings designated under the Tokyo Metropolitan Landscape Regulations, which protect buildings representative of the city's history and culture.1999 年 4 月，大隈讲堂与旧图书馆成为东京都景观条例施行后首批被指定的两座历史建筑，该条例旨在保护代表东京历史文化的建筑。

• Ōkuma Garden, laid out on the former mansion of the Edo-period feudal lord Matsudaira Sanuki and redesigned in a half-Japanese, half-Western style by Ōkuma, was donated to the university after his death and now serves as a recreation place for students.大隈庭园原为江户时代大名松平讚岐的旧宅，经大隈重信改造为和洋折衷式庭园，他去世后捐给学校，如今是学生的休憩之地。

• A Korean temple bell stands in the garden, a replica of the Bell of King Seongdeok produced and donated by Waseda's Korean alumni community for the centenary in 1982 and received by the university in 1983, with a traditional belfry added in 2004.庭园内立有一口韩国梵钟，是该校韩国校友为百年校庆于 1982 年复制并捐赠、1983 年由学校接受的圣德大王神钟复制品，2004 年又添建传统钟楼。

• The donors of the bell included Lee Kun-hee, the second chairman of Samsung Group, and Shin Kyuk-ho, founder and chairman of Lotte Group, and in 2007 the Korean alumni association donated four pairs of Korean stone statues to the garden.捐钟者包括三星集团第二任会长李健熙与乐天集团创办人兼会长辛格浩，2007 年韩国校友会又向庭园捐赠四对韩国石像。

• The old library, completed in 1925, now houses the Takata Sanae Memorial Research Library, which opened in 1994, the University Archives and the Aizu Yaichi Memorial Museum, which opened in 1998.1925 年落成的旧图书馆如今设有 1994 年开馆的高田早苗纪念研究图书馆、大学史资料中心以及 1998 年开馆的会津八一纪念博物馆。

• The library front hall displays a celebrated painting of 1927 executed by Yokoyama Taikan and Shimomura Kanzan on the world's largest hand-made washi, 4.45 metres in diameter and weighing about 12 kilograms.图书馆前厅陈列着一幅 1927 年的名画，由横山大观与下村观山绘制于直径 4.45 米、重约 12 公斤、世界最大的手工和纸上。

• Other museums include the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, opened in 1928, and the Waseda International House of Literature, opened in 2021, and campus shuttle buses link the dispersed campuses with the city's rail network.其他馆所包括 1928 年开馆的坪内博士纪念演剧博物馆与 2021 年开馆的早稻田大学国际文学馆，校园穿梭巴士则把分散的各校区与城市轨道交通相连。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Waseda is placed 201st in the world, and in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 it is placed in the 801–1000 band.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中该校位列世界第 201 位，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 801–1000 区间。

• The U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks it 540th in the world, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2026 places it in the 601–700 band.2026 至 2027 年版《美国新闻与世界报道》最佳全球大学排名将其列为世界第 540 位，2026 年世界大学学术排名将其列入 601–700 区间。

• In the QS World University Rankings 2023 the university was placed 199th overall, 118th for academic reputation and 24th for employer reputation, and its graduate employability ranking was 37th in the world and 2nd in Japan.在 2023 年 QS 世界大学排名中该校综合列第 199 位、学术声誉第 118 位、雇主声誉第 24 位，其毕业生就业力位列世界第 37 位、日本第 2 位。

• By subject in the QS ranking Waseda is placed 25th in Classics and Ancient History, 42nd in Modern Languages, 50th in Politics, 54th in Arts and Humanities, 70th in Law and Legal Studies and 128th in Economics and Econometrics.在 QS 学科排名中，其古典学与古代史列第 25 位、现代语言第 42 位、政治学第 50 位、艺术与人文学第 54 位、法学第 70 位、经济学与计量经济学第 128 位。

• The OpenAlex database attributes 100,249 works to Waseda with 3,533,424 citations, among the largest research outputs of any Japanese private university.OpenAlex 数据库为该校收录 100,249 篇成果、被引 3,533,424 次，在日本私立大学中研究产出规模居前列。

• Mines ParisTech's Professional Ranking of World Universities placed Waseda fourth in the world in 2010, and eighth in 2011, for the number of alumni among the chief executives of the world's 500 largest companies.巴黎矿业学院的世界大学专业排名按校友中担任世界 500 强企业首席执行官的人数，2010 年把早稻田列为世界第 4 位、2011 年第 8 位。

• Waseda alumni have formed the second largest group in the Japanese parliament, and the university has ranked third in Japan since 1949 for the number of lawyers among its graduates.早稻田校友构成日本国会中规模第二大的群体，其毕业生中律师人数自 1949 年以来一直位居日本第 3 位。

• Toyo Keizai ranked Waseda second among Japanese universities in 2015-2016, and Nikkei's survey of 4,814 listed and leading unlisted companies placed it second among 810 Japanese universities as of 2026.《东洋经济》在 2015 至 2016 年把该校列为日本大学第 2 位，日经对 4,814 家上市与主要非上市企业的调查则显示，截至 2026 年该校在 810 所日本大学中位列第 2。

• Selectivity is among the highest in Japan: in the 2011 undergraduate admissions there were 20.5 applicants for every place, the second largest number of applicants of any Japanese university, and its entrance difficulty is ranked with Keio at the top among Japan's 730 private universities.其录取难度居日本前列：2011 年本科招生平均每个名额有 20.5 名申请者，申请人数居日本各大学第 2 位，其入学难度与庆应义塾大学一道被视为日本 730 所私立大学中的最高一档。

• Several foreign heads of state have chosen Waseda for major addresses: Bill Clinton in 1993 was the first sitting United States president to visit a Japanese university, and Jiang Zemin in 1998 and Hu Jintao in 2008 each made it the only university at which they spoke in Japan.多位外国元首选择在早稻田发表重要演讲：克林顿 1993 年到访，是首位访问日本大学的美国在任总统，江泽民 1998 年与胡锦涛 2008 年访日时也各自把该校作为唯一演讲的大学。

Student life

• The Waseda University Founding Creed, proclaimed by Ōkuma in 1913, serves as the university's motto and founding spirit, and a stone monument inscribed with it was erected at the main gate in 1937.大隈重信 1913 年宣布的《早稻田大学教旨》是该校的校训与建校精神，1937 年在正门前设置了刻有该教旨的石碑。

• The school song, with words by a graduate of the faculty of letters and music by a composer who had dropped out, was composed for the university's 25th anniversary in 1907 and is known as Northwest of the Capital after its opening line.校歌的作词者为该校文学部毕业生、作曲者为该校退学学生，于 1907 年创立 25 周年时制定，因首句「在都之西北」而别名「都之西北」。

• The academic cap, designed in three days by the chief tailor of Takashimaya at Ōkuma's request, was stamped inside with the owner's name, department and school seal and served both as identification and as a status symbol, and it is registered as a trademark.大隈重信要求高岛屋首席裁缝在三日内设计出的学生帽，内侧印有姓名、学科与校印，既是身份凭证也是身份象征，现已注册为商标。

• Waseda's baseball team has a long record of success in the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League and had won 43 championships with the highest winning percentage by the end of the 2012 season.早稻田棒球队在东京六大学棒球联盟中战绩卓著，截至 2012 赛季结束共夺得 43 次冠军，胜率居联盟之首。

• Its rivalry with Keio University, highlighted by the Sōkeisen series held twice a year in spring and autumn at Meiji-Jingu Stadium, is among the most important fixtures of the year for students of both universities.该校与庆应义塾大学的对抗以每年春秋两季在明治神宫棒球场举行两次的「早庆战」为代表，是两校学生一年中最重要的赛事。

• The Waseda rugby club has reached the final of the All-Japan University Rugby Championship 31 times and won it fifteen times, most recently in 2008, with Keio and Meiji as its traditional rivals.早稻田橄榄球部曾 31 次闯入全日本大学橄榄球锦标赛决赛并 15 次夺冠，最近一次在 2008 年，其传统对手是庆应与明治。

• The karate club, formed in 1931 under the direction of Gichin Funakoshi, is one of the oldest in Japan, and its graduates include leaders of several international karate organisations.空手道部 1931 年在船越义珍指导下成立，是日本最早的空手道社团之一，其毕业生中有多个国际空手道组织的负责人。

• The fencing club, established in 1946, won the men's épée team title in 2021 and in 2022 triumphed in all three weapons, foil, sabre and épée, in both the men's and women's divisions.击剑部 1946 年成立，2021 年夺得男子重剑团体冠军，2022 年更在花剑、佩剑与重剑三个剑种的男女项目上全面取胜。

• The university's football team won the Emperor's Cup in 1964 and 1967, and in 2016 Waseda founded Japan's first university bandy team, which plays rink bandy because of the lack of a full-size field.该校足球队于 1964 年与 1967 年夺得天皇杯，2016 年又组建了日本首个大学班迪球队，因没有标准场地而只能打轮式班迪。

• The alumni association, known as the Tomonkai, has more than 1,300 branches worldwide, and the university counts more than 600,000 alumni, among them the Coffee Research Society that runs a café inside the Waseda University History Museum.校友会「稻门会」在全球设有 1,300 多个分会，全校校友超过 60 万人，其中包括在校史馆内经营咖啡馆的咖啡研究会。

Notable people

• Ōkuma Shigenobu, twice prime minister of Japan, founded the school in 1882 and served as its president until 1922.两度出任日本首相的大隈重信 1882 年创办该校，并任总长至 1922 年。

• Ono Azusa, the legal scholar and politician who helped plan the school as a training ground for constitutional government, was among the drafters of its founding creed.参与筹划该校作为立宪政治人才培养之所的法律学者与政治家小野梓，是《早稻田大学教旨》的起草人之一。

• Takata Sanae, the first gakuchō or president under the 1907 reorganisation, guided the university in its early decades, and its memorial research library is named after him.1907 年改组后出任首任「学长」的高田早苗主持学校早期发展，其纪念研究图书馆即以他命名。

• Masaru Ibuka, co-founder of Sony, and Shuntaro Furukawa, president of Nintendo, are among the university's business alumni.索尼联合创始人井深大与任天堂社长古川俊太郎都是该校的商界校友。

• Tadashi Yanai, founder and chief executive of Fast Retailing and the owner of the Uniqlo brand, studied at Waseda and is among the wealthiest people in Japan.迅销集团创办人兼首席执行官、优衣库品牌拥有者柳井正曾就读于该校，是日本最富有的人之一。

• The novelists Haruki Murakami, Yoko Ogawa and Yoko Tawada are alumni, as is the film director Shohei Imamura, who won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1983 and again in 1997.小说家村上春树、小川洋子与多和田叶子是该校校友，两度于 1983 与 1997 年获得戛纳电影节金棕榈奖的导演今村昌平也是。

• Eight graduates have served as prime minister of Japan, among them Tanzan Ishibashi, Noboru Takeshita, Toshiki Kaifu, Keizō Obuchi, Yoshirō Mori, Yasuo Fukuda, Yoshihiko Noda and Fumio Kishida, the second largest number of any Japanese university after the University of Tokyo.该校共有八位毕业生出任日本首相，包括石桥湛山、竹下登、海部俊树、小渊惠三、森喜朗、福田康夫、野田佳彦与岸田文雄，人数在日本各大学中仅次于东京大学。

• Prominent Chinese alumni include Zhou Enlai, Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu, co-founders of the Chinese Communist Party, along with the early republican politician Song Jiaoren.其著名华人校友包括中国共产党主要创建人周恩来、李大钊与陈独秀，以及民国初年政治家宋教仁。

• Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who rescued 5,558 Jews during the Holocaust, was a graduate of the university.大屠杀期间拯救 5,558 名犹太人的日本外交官杉原千亩是该校毕业生。

• Yuzuru Hanyu, the figure skater who won the Olympic men's singles gold medal in 2014 and 2018, and Shizuka Arakawa, the 2006 Olympic champion, are among its athletic alumni.2014 与 2018 年两度夺得奥运会男子单人滑金牌的羽生结弦与 2006 年奥运冠军荒川静香都是该校的体育校友。

• Lee Byung-chul and Lee Kun-hee of Samsung, Shin Kyuk-ho of Lotte, Park Tae-joon of POSCO and Kim Seong-su, founder of Korea University and a former vice president of South Korea, are all Waseda alumni.三星集团李秉喆与李健熙、乐天集团辛格浩、浦项制铁朴泰俊，以及高丽大学创办人、韩国前副总统金性洙都是早稻田校友。

• Other notable alumni include the Meiji-era novelists Doppo Kunikida and Hakushū Kitahara, the Osaka politician Tōru Hashimoto and the baseball player Nori Aoki.其他知名校友还有明治时代小说家国木田独步与北原白秋、大阪政治家桥下彻以及棒球选手青木宣亲。