List of Japanese Nobel laureates and nominees

Since 1949, there have been 32 Japanese laureates of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. An associated prize, thus far, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, also sometimes known as the Nobel Prize in Economics, has yet to be awarded to a Japanese national.
The Nobel Prizes in the above specific sciences disciplines and the Prize in Economics, which is commonly identified with them, are widely regarded as the most prestigious award one can receive in those fields. Of Japanese winners, twelve have been physicists, nine chemists, three for literature, six for physiology or medicine, and two for efforts towards peace.

Laureates

As of 2025, the list of Nobel Prize winners of Japanese nationality and Japanese ancestry by undergraduate alma mater.

Logo	Institution	Country	Number of laureates
	Kyoto University		10 Hideki Yukawa, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Kenichi Fukui, Susumu Tonegawa, Ryōji Noyori, Isamu Akasaki, Tasuku Honjo, Akira Yoshino, Shimon Sakaguchi, Susumu Kitagawa
	The University of Tokyo		9 Yasunari Kawabata, Leo Esaki, Eisaku Satō, Kenzaburō Ōe, Masatoshi Koshiba, Yoichiro Nambu, Ei-ichi Negishi, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Syukuro Manabe
	Nagoya University		3 Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa, Hiroshi Amano
	Hokkaido University		1 Akira Suzuki
	Kobe University		1 Shinya Yamanaka
	Nagasaki University		1 Osamu Shimomura
	Saitama University		1 Takaaki Kajita
	Tohoku University		1 Koichi Tanaka
	Tokyo Institute of Technology		1 Hideki Shirakawa
	Tokushima University		1 Shuji Nakamura
	University of Dayton		1 Charles J. Pedersen
	University of Kent		1 Kazuo Ishiguro
	University of Yamanashi		1 Satoshi Omura

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