Japan
People of this nationality
Yuka Akiyoshi
b. 2000
singer
Ichijō Nobutatsu
1539 – 1582
samurai
Nishimura Shigenaga
1697 – 1756
ukiyo-e artist
Makoto Satō
1957 – 2007
film director
Junya Ikeda
b. 1992
actor
Ryo Nurishi
b. 1986
association football player
Mujū
1227 – 1312
writer
Fusajirō Yamauchi
1859 – 1940
entrepreneur
Tetsuya Ishida
1973 – 2005
graphic designer
Kisen
poet
Gō Wakabayashi
b. 1939
actor
Kazunori Tanaka
b. 1949
politician
Jun-Ichi Igusa
1924 – 2013
mathematician
Kōjō Tanaka
1924 – 2016
photographer
Takahiko Yamamoto
1935 – 2023
politician
Motobu Chōyū
1857 – 1928
karateka
Kotomi Takahata
b. 1986
actor
Ryūzō Anzai
b. 1980
basketball player
Satomi Amano
b. AD 29
seiyū
Mizuno Katsushige
1564 – 1651
samurai
Tokugawa Munetada
1721 – 1765
samurai
Ikuma Dan
1924 – 2001
conductor
Daisuke Inoue
1941 – 2000
singer
Yuto Nakamura
b. 1987
association football player
Hikaru Fujii
b. 1976
film director
Hiroaki Tsutsumi
b. 1985
composer
Noriko Shibuta
b. 1972
rower
Hirofumi Yamanaka
b. 1985
baseball player
Yoshito Kishi
1937 – 2023
chemist
Taku Miki
1935 – 2023
poet
Haruna Okuno
b. 1999
amateur wrestler
Yasuyo Yamasaki
1891 – 1943
military personnel
Toshio Hirano
b. 1947
immunologist
Takashi Mizuno
b. 1931
association football player
Atsushi Suzumi
b. 1978
mangaka
Mizuki Ikeda
b. 2004
sport cyclist
Nobukazu Hirai
b. 1969
amateur wrestler
Yōsuke Takeuchi
b. 1979
figure skater
Hiroyuki Oda
b. 1988
amateur wrestler
Miye Matsukata
1922 – 1981
jewelry designer
Shuntarō Torigoe
b. 1940
journalist
Kei Honda
b. 1997
professional shogi player
Taira no Tomomori
1152 – 1185
samurai
Masahito Arai
b. 1958
singer
Chieko Naniwa
1907 – 1973
actor
Yūko Ogura
b. 1983
gravure model
Shin'ya Tasaki
b. 1958
sommelier
Hiromasa Nakano
b. 1978
politician
Mina Sato
b. 1998
track cyclist
Toshihiko Shimosato
b. 1946
handball player
Osamu Kitajima
b. 1949
record producer
Yamaguchi Sekkei
1648 – 1732
painter
Atsushi Nagai
b. 1974
association football player
Furuta Shigekatsu
1560 – 1606
samurai
Koichi Hamada
b. 1936
economist
Tomoyuki Kawabata
b. 1985
sport cyclist
Kaname Tajima
b. 1961
politician
Mitsuya Nagai
b. 1968
mixed martial arts fighter
Nōnin
Shin Kanemaru
1914 – 1996
politician
Ryuzo Shimizu
1902 – 1950
association football player
Ryūji Imaichi
b. 1986
singer
Motoshi Sugita
b. 1951
politician
Takeshi Yamaguchi
b. 1979
association football player
Kanendo Watanabe
b. 1947
photographer
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
b. 1965
actor
Yoshioki Hasegawa
1892 – 1974
painter
Sari Maeda
b. 1990
biathlete
Motoyuki Negoro
1875 – 1939
journalist
Hiroko Suzuki
b. 1944
seiyū
Tsutaya Jūzaburō
1750 – 1797
businessperson
Miyuki Nakajima
b. 1952
singer-songwriter
Jin Nakatani
b. 1979
baseball player
Masao Abe
1915 – 2006
philosopher
Ichirō Furutachi
b. 1954
actor
Tomoru Honda
b. 2001
swimmer
Satoru Sakuma
b. 1963
association football player
Kitsuju Ayabe
1894 – 1980
military personnel
Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle
1898 – 1990
Catholic priest
Miki Furukawa
b. 1979
singer
Yasutaka Tobashira
b. 1990
baseball player
Yurina Uchiyama
b. 1998
seiyū
Hiroshi Izawa
b. 1955
actor
Yoko Morishita
b. 1948
ballet dancer
Aya Kida
b. 1974
photographer
Takao Horiuchi
b. 1949
singer-songwriter
Yoshio Masui
1931 – 2024
biologist
Hikaru Sawai
b. 1964
composer
Kenshiro Abbe
1915 – 1985
judoka
Asuka Oda
b. 1990
actor
Yokota Takatoshi
1487 – 1550
samurai
Yuta Kinowaki
b. 1991
association football player
Kōji Sekimizu
b. 1952
diplomat
Shunta Ishikura
b. 1937
amateur wrestler
Akira Higashi
b. 1972
ski jumper
Megumi Nakamura
b. 2000
association football player
Tadao Okayama
1913 – 1998
cross-country skier
Junichi Kakizaki
b. 1971
sculptor
Renpō Niwa
1905 – 1993
Buddhist monk
Yurie Kobori
b. 1983
actor