Japan
People of this nationality
Takuma Shikayama
b. 1996
association football player
Yui Kawamoto
b. 1998
golfer
Mitsuhiro Matsunaga
b. 1966
professional wrestler
Meiji Hashimoto
1904 – 1991
painter
Hiroshi Katayama
b. 1940
association football player
Torii Kiyotsune
1757 – 1779
painter
Kanta Tanaka
b. 1998
association football player
Kumaji Furuya
1889 – 1977
businessperson
Kiyotsugu Hirayama
1874 – 1943
astronomer
Minamoto no Yoshihira
1140 – 1160
military personnel
Takae Itō
b. 1968
politician
Katsuya
b. 1975
actor
Chinatsu Mori
1980 – 2006
athletics competitor
Shinta Cho
1927 – 2005
mangaka
Kasuya Takenori
1562 – 1607
samurai
Chō Kōran
1804 – 1879
poet
Wakaba Tomita
b. 1997
judoka
Shinya Ōtaki
b. 1953
actor
Hiroshi Kitadani
b. 1968
vocalist
Akio Yashiro
1929 – 1976
composer
Masako Watanabe
b. 1929
mangaka
Hisatada Otaka
1911 – 1951
composer
Naoya Senoo
b. 1996
association football player
Kazuki Watanabe
b. 1987
swimmer
Miho Shinoda
b. 1972
singer
Makoto Niwano
b. 1964
mangaka
Hari Tokeino
b. 1979
mangaka
Haruka Shimotsuki
b. 1986
singer
V. H. Viglielmo
1926 – 2016
translator
Yasu
b. 1984
mangaka
Toki Yoritoshi
1695 – 1744
samurai
Sasuga Kiyokawa
b. 1996
association football player
Hideo Fukui
b. 1977
triathlete
Koto Hiraoka
b. 1990
Shigeru Kōyama
1929 – 2017
actor
Yuzō Matsuyama
1889 – 1947
military personnel
Mika Sakai
b. 1975
bowler
Hirokazu Yasuhara
b. 1965
game designer
Mayumi Suzuki
b. 1970
seiyū
Bokuzen Hidari
1894 – 1971
actor
Hakuun Yasutani
1885 – 1973
monk
Kusunoki Masatoki
military commander
Kazushige Nojima
b. 1964
screenwriter
Takuya Tasso
b. 1964
politician
Koichi Sugiyama
1931 – 2021
composer
Hikaru Mita
b. 1981
association football player
Yu Takahashi
b. 1983
singer-songwriter
Matsudaira Nobunori
1855 – 1891
samurai
Kenji Nanri
b. 1992
sailor
Ureo Egawa
1902 – 1970
film director
Tadahiro Takayama
b. 1978
golfer
Shōichi Watanabe
1930 – 2000
politician
Kōkei
977 – 1049
Buddhist monk
Otake Hideo
b. 1942
Go professional
Yoshiteru Yamashita
b. 1977
association football player
Momo Asakura
b. 1994
seiyū
Minoru Takita
1912 – 2000
trade unionist
Fumie Hosokawa
b. 1971
actor
Kami
1972 – 1999
musician
Masaki Tsuji
b. 1932
screenwriter
Kojiro Nakamura
1936 – 2023
translator
Yukio Takano
1937 – 2023
politician
Tokugawa Ieshige
1712 – 1761
samurai
Sosuke Ikematsu
b. 1990
actor
Takeo Harada
b. 1971
association football player
Monmu
683 – 707
sovereign
Nelson Ishiwatari
b. 2005
association football player
Shinji Tarutoko
b. 1959
politician
Yukiya Uda
b. 2001
table tennis player
Peter Takeo Okada
1941 – 2020
Catholic priest
Shun Shioya
b. 1982
actor
Eiji Bandō
1940 – 2026
baseball player
Tayuka Nakanishi
b. 1976
fashion designer
Hamuko Hoshi
b. 1982
professional wrestler
Mari Yamazaki
b. 1967
mangaka
Takenori Kanzaki
b. 1943
politician
Naozumi Takahashi
b. 1971
singer
Kiyoto Furushima
b. 1968
association football player
Tsubasa Nakagawa
b. 2005
child actor
Jon-Yakitory
Vocaloid producer
Higashifushimi Kunihide
1910 – 2014
Buddhist monk
Megumi Ohori
b. 1983
Japanese idol
Yayori Matsui
1934 – 2002
journalist
Mami Sekizuka
b. 1985
alpine skier
Taiga Kyomoto
b. 1994
actor
Sayaka Takahashi
b. 1992
badminton player
Norihiro Yokoyama
b. 1968
jockey
Nobuho Nagasawa
b. 1960
artist
Natsume Sōseki
1867 – 1916
writer
Rina Yoshikawa
b. 1987
nurse
Jusaburō Tsujimura
1933 – 2023
marionetteist
Hirofumi Yoshimura
b. 1975
lawyer
Norio Tsuruta
b. 1960
film director
Katsuyuki Matsushima
b. 1966
boxer
Sannosuke Ueshima
1893 – 1987
karateka
Teijiro Tanikawa
1932 – 2025
swimmer
Kurahara Korehiro
1861 – 1949
educator
Tetsuya Noguchi
b. 1980
contemporary artist
Hiromu Mitsumaru
b. 1993
association football player
Akiyuki Hashimoto
b. 1994
athletics competitor