Japan
People of this nationality
Date Yoshimura
1680 – 1752
samurai
Chie Nakamura
b. 1978
seiyū
Masato Watanabe
b. 1979
baseball player
Kōichi Shiota
b. 1965
bureaucrat
Masahiko Tomouchi
b. 1977
judoka
Masaya Imanishi
b. 1947
ceramicist
Yutaro Sugimoto
b. 1991
baseball player
Maiko Fujimoto
b. 1991
Daihachiro Sato
1932 – 2008
mathematician
Yoshito Sugamoto
b. 1973
amateur wrestler
Akihiro Yasui
b. 1977
sprinter
Yasuharu Imano
b. 1973
golfer
Tanomogi Keikichi
1867 – 1940
journalist
Yae Sagara
1913 – 1967
athletics competitor
Yutaka Baba
b. 1934
competitive diver
Shuntarō Itō
1930 – 2023
historian
Masaoki Shindō
b. 1998
mangaka
Emperor Kazan
968 – 1008
ruler
Yoshiyuki Sakamoto
b. 1972
association football player
Hiromi Ozawa
b. 1961
speed skater
Ashika Sakura
mangaka
Aika Ōta
b. 1994
singer
Makoto Sugimoto
b. 1987
association football player
Miyoshi Yoshitsugu
1549 – 1573
samurai
Kaori Chiba
b. 1981
field hockey player
Shūichi Yoneshige
b. 1961
athletics competitor
Shinobu Aoki
b. 1968
rugby union player
Kazumasa Hirai
1938 – 2015
novelist
Aiko Okazaki
b. 1986
archer
Teruo Yajima
1939 – 1999
writer
Go Oiwa
b. 1972
association football player
Osamu Ishiwata
b. 1959
mangaka
Haruhiro Yamashita
1938 – 2026
artistic gymnast
Hinako Ashihara
1974 – 2024
mangaka
Toyoki Takeda
b. 1974
speed skater
Satoshi Takahashi
b. 1968
karateka
Yu Tamura
b. 1989
rugby union player
Nitobe Jūjirō
1820 – 1868
Chihiro Noda
b. 1988
association football player
Naoto
b. 1983
actor
Keisuke Saka
b. 1995
association football player
Akiko Ashizawa
b. 1951
camera operator
Takuo Aoyagi
1936 – 2020
engineer
Yasushi Adachi
b. 1965
politician
Sōta Murakami
b. 1991
actor
Yakichi Tsushimanada
1887 – 1933
rikishi
Yasuhiko Yabuta
b. 1973
baseball player
Shou Tajima
b. 1966
illustrator
Satoshi Honjō
b. 1974
politician
Yukiko Ikeda
b. 1971
archer
Etchū Norishige
Japanese swordsmith
Hiroshi Yamada
b. 1958
politician
Kanta Higashionna
b. 1992
rugby union player
Sadao Wakabayama
1922 – 2001
rikishi
Shōbun Nitta
b. 1982
secretary
Chieko Homma
b. 1964
association football player
Shintake Yuko
b. 1991
artistic gymnast
Tetsumi Takara
b. 1954
legal counselor
Heisuke Abe
1886 – 1943
military personnel
Katsuhiko Ishibashi
b. 1944
seismologist
Takashi Uesugi
b. 1968
journalist
Kimio Yabuki
b. 1934
film director
Gaku Matsumoto
b. 1993
actor
Yoshiko Tsuchida
1948 – 2023
mangaka
Seitarō Gotō
1867 – 1935
waka poet
Minoru Makihara
1930 – 2020
businessperson
Tenkatsu Shōkyokusai
1886 – 1944
magician
Shiho Katō
b. 1998
Japanese idol
Hitoshi Ashida
1887 – 1959
politician
Hiroaki Sato
b. 1942
linguist
Kiyoe Yoshioka
b. 1984
singer
Hiromichi Kozaki
1856 – 1938
pastor
Emiko Okuyama
b. 1951
politician
Kazuyo Katsuma
b. 1968
businessperson
Shinji Yoshida
b. 1984
politician
Anna Nagata
b. 1982
actor
Takayoshi Kawagoe
1949 – 2021
athletics competitor
Sarah Asahina
b. 1996
judoka
Yoshiaki Banno
1952 – 1991
astronomer
Hidetsugu Aneha
b. 1957
architect
Kōhei Asahori
b. 1994
rugby union player
Yū Hayami
b. 1966
actor
Miku Nihira
b. 2002
curler
Aio Fukuda
b. 1994
association football player
Hidetoshi Nakamura
1954 – 2014
seiyū
Kaneyasu Marutani
1919 – 2014
politician
Akira Kuryu
b. 1947
architect
Hiroshi Ogawa
b. 1944
cross-country skier
Keigo Higashino
1958 – 2026
novelist
Nako Mizusawa
b. 1993
actor
Setsu Sawagata
association football player
Rie Suegara
b. 1990
seiyū
Bayashi
b. 1988
culinary writer
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu
1905 – 1987
military personnel
Eijirō Tōno
1907 – 1994
actor
Kisenosato Yutaka
b. 1986
rikishi
Kotonofuji Muneyoshi
b. 1951
rikishi
Tetsuya Yoroizaka
b. 1990
athletics competitor
Kotaro Shimano
b. 1992
kickboxer
Daikichi Suzuki
rower