Japan
People of this nationality
Ken Narita
b. 1964
actor
Ryō Hirohashi
b. 1977
seiyū
Kenji Matsudaira
b. 1989
table tennis player
Shinji Wakayama
b. 1973
politician
Irori Maeda
b. 1997
singer
Yoshio Inaba
1920 – 1998
actor
Shingo Usui
b. 1994
curler
Yojiro Noda
b. 1985
singer-songwriter
Sekisui Itō
b. 1941
potter
Hiromi Kojima
b. 1977
association football player
Asahi Kuroda
b. 2004
athlete
Junko Yaginuma
b. 1973
figure skater
Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi
b. 1968
baseball player
Eisuke Nakazono
1920 – 2002
novelist
John Ken Nuzzo
b. 1966
opera singer
Rio Natsume
b. 1985
model
Saki Fukuda
b. 1990
actor
Akashi Motojiro
1864 – 1919
military personnel
Hiroki Yamada
b. 1982
ski jumper
Kazutoshi Hatano
b. 1979
seiyū
Minoru Furuya
b. 1972
mangaka
Yoshihide Fukutome
1933 – 2022
pentathlete
Takehiro Murozono
b. 1969
seiyū
Teiko Inahata
1931 – 2022
haiku poet
Kiyoshi Kawakubo
1929 – 2019
actor
Sarutoki Minagawa
b. 1971
actor
Yūshi Shimizu
b. 1996
baseball player
Shoji Yoshio
b. 1943
canoeist
Shigeo Anzai
1939 – 2020
photographer
Takarafuji Daisuke
b. 1987
rikishi
Keiko Kubota
b. 1985
singer
Suzuki Shōsan
1579 – 1655
samurai
Kazuya Miyahara
b. 1996
association football player
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda
1909 – 1992
politician
Yu Tomidokoro
b. 1990
association football player
Lu Chao-Hsuan
1929 – 2017
composer
Seiji Hamada
b. 1963
diplomat
Rei Toda
b. 1987
actor
Akira Ogata
b. 1959
film director
Shinobu Satouchi
b. 1958
seiyū
Sadao Takagi
b. 1932
entomologist
Norio Kobayashi
b. 1952
photographer
Mitsuaki Watanabe
b. 1953
artistic gymnast
Sugita Genpaku
1733 – 1817
linguist
Koshi Sobu
b. 1959
volleyball player
Kyota Sugimoto
1882 – 1972
inventor
Sulpizio Shinzo Moriyama
b. 1959
Catholic priest
Kin'ichi Kusumi
b. 1950
actor
Yukio Araki
1928 – 1945
aircraft pilot
Tetsu Tamura
1876 – 1909
meteorologist
Akira Tonomura
1942 – 2012
physicist
Toyoo Ashida
1944 – 2011
film director
Daisuke Nishio
b. 1959
animator
Rikizo Matsuhashi
b. 1968
association football player
Minamoto no Tomonaga
1144 – 1160
Niki Urakami
b. 1996
association football player
Mitsuhiro Ichiki
b. 1982
seiyū
Satoru Miyano
b. 1954
computer scientist
Kikuko Inoue
1924 – 2018
dressage rider
Michio Suzuki
1926 – 1998
mathematician
Yoshiki Nakajima
b. 1993
seiyū
Seiji Tomashino
b. 1964
baseball player
Yuta Miyamoto
b. 1999
association football player
Rieko Miura
b. 1973
actor
Shinagawa Takahisa
1576 – 1639
samurai
Eitarō Ozawa
1909 – 1988
actor
Ichimura Uzaemon XI
1791 – 1820
kabuki actor
Aemu Oyama
b. 2004
association football player
Miyoko Asahina
b. 1969
athletics competitor
Hisato Matsumoto
b. 1984
swimmer
Raul
b. 2003
singer
Shuntarō Tanikawa
1931 – 2024
poet
Shigeri Yamataka
1899 – 1977
women's rights activist
Shinji Kazama
b. 1950
motorcycle racer
Kyoichi Katayama
b. 1959
writer
Kumazawa Hiromichi
1889 – 1966
Misa Yamamura
1931 – 1996
novelist
Jun Kaname
b. 1981
actor
Yoshinori Kadonaga
b. 1947
swimmer
Yuka Hirano
b. 1987
ice hockey player
Daisuke Nakamura
b. 1980
mixed martial arts fighter
Tatsuyuki Okuyama
b. 1976
association football player
Ryohei Chiba
b. 1984
singer
Iwane Matsui
1878 – 1948
military officer
Toshihiro Yoshimura
b. 1971
association football player
Tochiazuma Tomoyori
b. 1944
rikishi
Ayako Saitoh
b. 1956
wheelchair curler
Yuko Ito
b. 1974
model
Otohiko Endō
b. 1947
politician
Shiro Misaki
association football player
Ichiyo Shimizu
b. 1969
professional shogi player
Shinichiro Sato
1964 – 2026
drummer
Fumiyo Yoshida
b. 1981
athletics competitor
Isamu Takashima
rower
Kenjirō Kawasaki
b. 1971
baseball player
Shinji Nojima
b. 1963
novelist
Sonoko Chiba
b. 1993
association football player
Ryosuke Ogata
b. 1990
baseball player
Kunihiko Mitamura
b. 1953
actor
Tadashi Takamura
1933 – 2014
photographer