Japan
People of this nationality
Kanehisa Arime
b. 1978
baseball player
Nakagawa Kiyohide
1542 – 1583
samurai
Imagawa Ujichika
1473 – 1526
samurai
Kazuaki Saso
b. 1999
association football player
Hideaki Takeda
b. 1985
association football player
Shintarō Yoshitake
b. 1975
baseball player
Sei Ito
1905 – 1969
poet
Ayaka Asai
b. 1992
seiyū
Otake Chikuha
1878 – 1936
painter
Hideo Ōno
b. 1954
physicist
Junya Itō
b. 1993
association football player
Saho Harada
b. 1982
synchronized swimmer
Minoru Honda
1913 – 1990
astronomer
Rokurō Uemura
1894 – 1991
art historian
Shōzō Kudō
b. 1964
politician
Bin Ukishima
b. 1967
association football player
Jiro Nagasawa
1932 – 2010
swimmer
Naoki Kobayashi
b. 1990
sprinter
Ren Shibamoto
b. 1999
association football player
Kimiko Sato
b. 1946
swimmer
Yumi Shizukusa
b. 1984
singer
Masataka Azuma
b. 1901
seiyū
Ryōta Yachi
b. 1991
baseball player
Ryozo Tsujimoto
b. 1973
video game developer
Yukito Ara
b. 1967
singer
Misuzu Narita
b. 1992
golfer
Masako Ogawa
1902 – 1943
physician
Tomoko Kawase
b. 1975
songwriter
Mariya Takeuchi
b. 1955
singer
Misaki Emura
b. 1998
fencer
Jo Kanazawa
b. 1976
association football player
Takeshi Aono
1936 – 2012
seiyū
Yutaka Haniya
1909 – 1997
novelist
Shosuke Kurakane
1914 – 1973
mangaka
Mutsumi Harada
b. 1975
gymnast
Eri Natori
b. 1985
speed skater
Hōjō Sadatoki
1272 – 1311
samurai
Ryuji Muraki
b. 1979
sprinter
Takanobu Nishi
b. 1951
archer
Takatsukasa Hisasuke
1726 – 1733
Seiji Suzuki
b. 1948
politician
Yukiko Kai
1954 – 1980
mangaka
Wu Si-hsuan
b. 1988
singer
Maki Yūkō
1894 – 1989
mountaineer
Arata Fujiwara
b. 1981
athletics competitor
Takeshi Nomoto
b. 1989
basketball player
Misaki Onishi
b. 1985
athletics competitor
Eizo Yamada
1889 – 1950
military personnel
Atsushi Nakajima
1909 – 1942
novelist
Yoji Anjo
b. 1967
professional wrestler
Emi Nitta
b. 1985
seiyū
Satoshi Tanaka
b. 2002
association football player
Kin Endate
b. 1960
amateur astronomer
Wakaba Suzuki
b. 1970
judoka
Kazuya Ōhashi
b. 1997
singer
Toll Yagami
b. 1962
musician
Yuzuru Fujimoto
1935 – 2019
seiyū
Kotoōshū Katsunori
b. 1983
rikishi
Shizuko Gō
1929 – 2014
novelist
Chihiro Yamanaka
b. 1974
pianist
Shinji Murakami
b. 1980
contemporary artist
Akihiko Matsuda
b. 1965
volleyball player
Takashi Aiki
b. 1978
baseball player
Katsuya Nagato
b. 1995
association football player
Hiroki Shinjo
b. 1973
association football player
Takamine Jōkichi
1854 – 1922
chemist
Tomohisa Ozeki
b. 1997
baseball player
Michiko Tomabechi
b. 1980
curler
Chiharu Ogiwara
1957 – 2024
boxer
Hiroshi Minagawa
b. 1970
game designer
Heiichi Sugiyama
1914 – 2012
poet
Gorō Hasegawa
1932 – 2016
inventor
Oka Ichinosuke
1860 – 1916
military personnel
Saigō Takamori
1828 – 1877
bushi
Tomoe Kawabata
b. 2002
figure skater
Kōta Watanabe
b. 1990
association football referee
Seijuro Arafune
1907 – 1980
politician
Tamakichi Sakura
b. 1961
mangaka
Shione Kaminaga
b. 1999
short-track speed skater
Ichirō Satō
1889 – 1958
historian
Takehiro Donoue
b. 1985
baseball player
Ryota Tsuzuki
b. 1978
association football player
Ai Haruna
b. 1972
singer
Kana Ichinose
b. 1996
seiyū
Midori Furusawa
b. 1974
cross-country skier
Ogasawara Hidekiyo
1547 – 1600
samurai
Murata Jukō
1423 – 1502
tea master
Kinyuki Sonoike
1886 – 1974
novelist
Mai Shiraishi
b. 1992
singer
Katsumasa Onishi
b. 1959
sport shooter
Naoki Murata
1949 – 2020
judoka
Tadao Uesako
1921 – 1986
artistic gymnast
Shunsuke Miyake
1854 – 1926
physician
Koki Morita
b. 2000
association football player
Miki Mizokuchi
b. 1965
tennis player
Tokutoshi Torii
b. 1947
architect
Aikawa Katsuroku
1891 – 1973
politician
Mitsuru Hirata
b. 1953
actor
Kazuhiro Nakamura
b. 1979
judoka
Tamanoumi Masahiro
1944 – 1971
rikishi