Japan
People of this nationality
Hidekazu Yoshida
1913 – 2012
music critic
Tanabe Sakuro
1861 – 1944
civil engineer
Takuya Yasui
b. 1998
association football player
Arimayama Ryūemon
1785 – 1835
rikishi
Jun Mukōyama
b. 1983
politician
Yutaka Nagare
b. 1992
rugby union player
Hiram Kano
1889 – 1988
Chūgan Engetsu
1300 – 1375
poet
Akio Sugino
b. 1944
film director
Seiji Kihara
b. 1970
politician
Tsutsui Sadatsugu
1562 – 1615
samurai
Usui Kojima
1873 – 1948
writer
Shōichi Tanaka
1937 – 2025
politician
Momona Kasahara
b. 2003
Japanese idol
Kaidō Yasuhiro
b. 1975
rikishi
J. A. Seazer
b. 1948
composer
Satoshi Yagisawa
b. 1975
composer
Tanabe Chikuunsai IV
b. 1973
bamboo carver
Noritoshi Hirakawa
b. 1960
photographer
Nayoroiwa Shizuo
1914 – 1971
rikishi
Yoritake Matsudaira
b. 1938
educator
Aoi Nakabeppu
b. 1990
actor
Nagai Kita
1912 – 2000
diplomat
Natsue Seki
b. 1966
speed skater
Kyō Noguchi
1939 – 2009
boxer
Takeshi Hidaka
b. 1977
baseball player
Rieko Takahashi
b. 1967
seiyū
Rin Shin
illustrator
Minase Yashiro
b. 1985
actor
Sachi Kokuryu
b. 1984
seiyū
Toru Fukimbara
b. 1982
association football player
Hisashi Hirai
b. 1959
animator
Motokatsu Inoue
1918 – 1993
karateka
George Ohsawa
1893 – 1966
nutritionist
Yoji Kondo
1933 – 2017
astronomer
Kanoko Okamoto
1889 – 1939
poet
Yumi Asō
b. 1963
actor
Shinmen Sokan
samurai
Hidehiko Matsumoto
1926 – 2000
actor
Kazuo Araya
b. 1949
skier
Ryūji Mizuno
1952 – 2022
actor
Kazuki Teshima
b. 1979
association football player
Hieda no Are
700 – 800
historian
Takanori Chiaki
b. 1987
association football player
Kohei Shin
b. 1995
association football player
Shinya Yamanaka
b. 1962
physician
Masahiro Miki
b. 1955
businessperson
Toyotarō Yūki
1877 – 1951
banker
Rikuya Izutsu
b. 1994
association football player
Shin Saburi
1909 – 1982
film director
Toshiyuki Abe
b. 1974
association football player
Sadajirō Yamanaka
1866 – 1936
art dealer
Hiroshi Ohguri
1918 – 1982
composer
Chiyoōtori Yūki
b. 1992
rikishi
Shunsuke Watanabe
b. 1976
baseball player
Tasuku Hiraoka
b. 1996
association football player
Kazushi Ōno
b. 1960
conductor
Kazu Andō
b. 1948
writer
Isao Abe
1912 – 1980
athletics competitor
Mitsuo Horiuchi
1930 – 2016
politician
Yūya Asaoka
b. 1969
singer-songwriter
Hisaichi Ishii
b. 1951
mangaka
Nozomi Sasaki
b. 1988
actor
Hiroshi Katayama
b. 1987
baseball player
Kenji Kimihara
b. 1941
athletics competitor
Morio Yukawa
1908 – 1988
economist
Eijiro Shimizu
b. 2003
racing driver
Yoshitaka Mutō
b. 1987
baseball player
Sawao Katō
b. 1946
artistic gymnast
Matazō Kayama
1927 – 2004
painter
Tatsuhito Noro
b. 1988
basketball player
Fujiwara no Motozane
poet
Hiroshi Yoshizawa
1931 – 2013
ski jumper
Yuuka Kurosaki
b. 1997
association football player
Yasuo Hayashi
1957 – 2018
Kairi Harayama
b. 1997
association football player
Fuga Sato
b. 1996
athletics competitor
Yuya Yamagishi
b. 1993
association football player
Matsumoto Ichiyō
1893 – 1952
professor
Gigadō Ashiyuki
b. 1750
painter
Taichi Yamada
b. 1917
rower
Akemi Satō
1969 – 2019
singer
Kaori Imabeppu
b. 1986
badminton player
Kazuhiko Hattori
b. 1944
composer
Dorothy Chacko
1904 – 1992
social worker
Atsuhito Nakata
1968 – 1993
Goro Kumagai
1932 – 2017
painter
Hiromi Matsunaga
b. 1984
bowler
Teruo Akiyama
1891 – 1943
military personnel
Katsutoshi Okubo
b. 1943
skier
Yukio Nishimoto
1920 – 2011
baseball player
Ryōma Watanabe
b. 1996
association football player
Takuma Arano
b. 1993
association football player
Kazuki Fujitaka
b. 1986
writer
Nobuhito Toriizuka
b. 1972
association football player
Hirotoshi Masui
b. 1984
baseball player
Hirofumi Hayashi
b. 1955
historian
Kairi Shimada
b. 1996
baseball player
Alex Saito
b. 1985
politician
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
1926 – 2011
actor