Japan
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Rintarō Tokunaga
b. 1986
basketball player
Yoichiro Esaki
b. 1958
politician
Seiki Okuda
b. 1960
golfer
Makito Ito
b. 1992
association football player
Naomi Osaka
b. 1997
tennis player
Kishichirō Ōkura
1882 – 1963
art collector
Yuu
b. 1991
judoka
Yuta Fukui
b. 1987
squash player
Fumio Nanjo
b. 1949
art critic
Mikishi Abe
1883 – 1965
architect
Nobusuke Takatsukasa
1889 – 1959
politician
Kohei Hasegawa
b. 1984
amateur wrestler
Megumi Murakami
b. 1985
beach volleyball player
Daiken Okudaira
b. 2003
actor
Hajime Ishimaru
1890 – 1990
painter
Motome Takisawa
b. 1958
politician
Takuya Mitsuma
b. 1992
baseball player
Kumi Miyasato
b. 1969
seiyū
Yuto Suzuki
b. 1993
association football player
Minetarō Mochizuki
b. 1964
mangaka
Masaharu Iwata
b. 1966
composer
Keiichi Suzuki
1889 – 1973
politician
Satomi Arai
b. 1980
seiyū
Kazuo Ikehiro
1929 – 2025
director
Susumu Takano
b. 1961
athletics competitor
Ashima Shiraishi
b. 2001
rock climber
Akinobu Yokouchi
b. 1967
association football player
Arima Naozumi
1586 – 1641
samurai
Yoshirō Muraki
1924 – 2009
scenographer
Minoru N. Tamura
b. 1964
botanist
Ryūsei Furukawa
1893 – 1968
painter
Kentaro Asahi
b. 1975
volleyball player
Shigetatsu Matsunaga
b. 1962
association football player
Miki Sone
b. 1986
figure skater
Taihō Kōki
1940 – 2013
rikishi
Mariko Nanba
b. 1971
engineer
Kaoru Hatoyama
1888 – 1982
educator
Aya Ohori
b. 1996
badminton player
Keisuke Oyama
b. 1995
association football player
Taeko Watanabe
b. 1960
mangaka
Keiji Yamagishi
composer
Kaho Miyake
1869 – 1943
novelist
Eiji Mizoguchi
b. 1964
golfer
Eikichi Yazawa
b. 1949
singer-songwriter
Sea Towaki
stage actor
Kensuke Kagami
b. 1974
association football player
Yukino Komori
b. 1996
Japanese idol
Akifumi Shimoda
b. 1984
boxer
Takashi Tomura
b. 1958
show jumper
Teizō Esaki
1899 – 1957
entomologist
Tatsuo Watanabe
1928 – 2001
ski jumper
Yosuke Nakata
b. 1981
association football player
Hiroki Mizuhara
b. 1975
association football player
Ikuyo Shiotani
b. 1962
writer
Yukihiro Doi
b. 1983
sport cyclist
Yuya Horihata
b. 1990
swimmer
Shigeru Toyama
b. 1970
judoka
Katsunori Ueebisu
b. 1996
association football player
Keiko Nogami
b. 1985
athletics competitor
Hattori Ransetsu
1654 – 1707
haiku poet
Giant Baba
1938 – 1999
baseball player
Hiroshi Yamamoto
b. 1962
archer
Shinji Hosoe
b. 1967
composer
Atsuko Hiyajō
b. 1971
singer-songwriter
Shirō Nukiyama
1896 – 1983
mechanical engineer
Toki Yukutomo
b. 2005
association football player
Daikō Nagato
b. 1948
composer
Masato Yokota
b. 1987
middle-distance runner
Takahiko Ishikawa
1917 – 2008
mixed martial arts fighter
Eiko Koike
b. 1980
actor
Hiroshi Nemoto
1891 – 1966
military personnel
Aizō Morikawa
1878 – 1949
photographer
Yuki Masuda
b. 1973
seiyū
Nobuya Katō
b. 1995
athletics competitor
Yuuka Nanri
b. 1984
singer
Nankichi Niimi
1913 – 1943
writer
Muro Kyūsō
1658 – 1734
philosopher
Kiyoshi Adachi
b. 1914
pole vaulter
Sadao Araki
1877 – 1966
military officer
Shin-ichi Sakamoto
b. 1972
mangaka
Shinya Tsuruoka
b. 1981
baseball player
Toshihiro Mori
samurai
Mamoru Morimoto
1939 – 2021
athletics competitor
Yozuca
b. 1979
singer-songwriter
Zenji Okuzawa
1937 – 2021
athletics competitor
Shūji Muranaka
b. 1981
professional shogi player
Yōsuke Etō
b. 1934
ski jumper
Hisayoshi Takeda
1883 – 1972
botanist
Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda
1933 – 2023
artistic gymnast
Yūta Shitara
b. 1991
athletics competitor
Minori Naito
b. 1994
softball player
Fumiaki Tanaka
b. 1985
rugby union player
Yūkō Miyamoto
b. 1982
professional wrestler
Satoshi Kajino
b. 1965
association football player
Tsutomu Kawasaki
b. 1969
short-track speed skater
Taisei Abe
b. 2004
association football player
Kei Suma
1935 – 2013
actor
Yoshihiko Matsui
b. 1956
film director
Midori Kahata
b. 1995
rhythmic gymnast
Helen Nishikawa
b. 1946
television presenter