Japan
People of this nationality
Luke Hasegawa
1897 – 1967
painter
Kanji Okunuki
b. 1999
association football player
Takayuki Sakazume
b. 1972
actor
Yoshitoshi ABe
b. 1971
illustrator
Honinbō Shūsai
1874 – 1940
Go player
Kazuya Ōshima
b. 1987
engineer
Hiroko Nagahara
b. 1952
mineralogist
Yuka Sakurai
b. 1974
volleyball player
Tadashi Nakamura
b. 1971
association football player
Sohei Nihi
b. 1963
politician
Hitomi Matsushita
b. 1954
handball player
Kagamisato Kiyoji
1923 – 2004
rikishi
Kunihiko Obata
b. 1980
amateur wrestler
Nahoko Kojima
b. 1981
sculptor
Itsuki Asai
b. 1971
baseball player
Miho Oki
b. 1974
sport cyclist
Kenta Hori
b. 1999
association football player
Jun Senoue
b. 1970
composer
Techō Suehiro
1849 – 1896
novelist
Hiroatsu Takahashi
b. 1984
skeleton racer
Taksu Cheon
b. 1958
physicist
Yōko Hanabusa
mangaka
Tatsuki Koja
b. 2001
professional baseball player
Ryo Matsumura
b. 1994
association football player
Itagaki Nobukata
1489 – 1548
samurai
Katsuya Kodama
b. 1959
teacher
Hideo Fujimoto
b. 1944
amateur wrestler
Yasunori Tanabe
b. 1967
rower
Jun Tanaka
1890 – 1966
poet
Kojiro Yoshimura
b. 1998
baseball player
Rui Ebata
b. 1991
kickboxer
Wei Son
b. 1989
model
Jisaburo Ohwi
1905 – 1977
botanist
Takeshi Watabe
1936 – 2010
actor
Junko Hiramatsu
b. 1942
figure skater
Kenji Oshiba
b. 1973
association football player
Nagasawa Rosetsu
1754 – 1799
painter
Katsuhisa Namase
b. 1960
actor
Makoto Taniguchi
1930 – 2024
economist
Tsugaru Nobuhira
1586 – 1631
samurai
Kuichirō Totsuka
1891 – 1973
politician
Matsudaira Daini
1823 – 1864
samurai
Masashi Ebara
b. 1953
seiyū
Yuto Sano
b. 2000
goalball player
Mieko Yagi
1950 – 2015
equestrian
Fujiko Kojima
b. 1993
actor
Seiichiro Kashio
1892 – 1962
tennis player
Ryūsei Kawano
b. 1998
baseball player
Kōjirō Yoshikawa
1904 – 1980
sinologist
Tsumaki Hiroko
1530 – 1576
Reiko Suzuki
b. 1944
seiyū
Tokugawa Ieyoshi
1793 – 1853
shogun
Kazuya Kaneko
b. 2000
goalball player
Hiroyasu Matsuoka
b. 1966
businessperson
Sumire Natsu
b. 1992
professional wrestler
Asuka Fukuda
b. 1984
singer
Naoto Satō
b. 1953
amateur astronomer
Futoshi Shinohara
b. 1962
long-distance runner
Masaji Kiyokawa
1913 – 1999
swimmer
Nakamura Utaemon I
1714 – 1791
kabuki actor
Matazō Mimata
b. 1967
actor
Shūhō Satō
b. 1973
mangaka
Riki Takeuchi
b. 1964
singer
Genki Nakayama
b. 1981
association football player
Takuma Koga
b. 1969
association football player
Kaibara Ekken
1630 – 1714
philosopher
Daisuke Kimori
b. 1977
association football player
Shimizu Toshi
1887 – 1945
painter
Kawai Kanjirō
1890 – 1966
ceramicist
Masako Ganaha
b. 1989
political activist
Erika Araki
b. 1984
volleyball player
Shigeaki Uchino
1931 – 2016
pentathlete
Chizuko Yoshida
1924 – 2017
painter
Seiya Sanada
b. 1988
professional wrestler
Yuki Sato
b. 1985
amateur wrestler
Yukari Nakano
b. 1985
figure skater
Daisuke Yako
b. 1988
volleyball player
Tachiyama Mineemon
1877 – 1941
rikishi
Minamoto no Tametomo
1139 – 1170
samurai
Kakeru Tanigawa
b. 1999
child actor
Minamoto no Michichika
1149 – 1202
Naidaijin
Maki Mizuno
b. 1970
actor
Rikiya Koyama
b. 1963
actor
Hiroshi Yamazaki
1946 – 2017
photographer
Rion Ichihara
b. 2005
association football player
Airi Hatakeyama
b. 1994
model
Yutaka Kamikawa
1892 – 2001
dermatologist
Aki Asakura
b. 1991
actor
Kana
b. 1992
Iori Kogawa
b. 1992
pornographic film actor
Yūichi Iguchi
b. 1981
seiyū
Noriko Furuya
b. 1956
politician
Hideki Tasaka
b. 1975
seiyū
Itsuroh Shimoda
b. 1948
singer-songwriter
Makoto Oishi
b. 1979
professional wrestler
Matsudaira Munemasa
1675 – 1724
samurai
Fumiko Uchimura
b. AD 16
seiyū
Mio Takeuchi
b. 1985
actor
Takehiko Bessho
1922 – 1999
baseball player
Tadaaki Miyake
b. 1939
writer