Japan
People of this nationality
Kiyomi Niwata
b. 1970
triathlete
Yui Hiwatashi
b. 2000
actor
Sakurako Omoto
b. 1998
field hockey player
Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami
1920 – 2014
Catholic priest
Hiroyuki Obata
b. 1969
amateur wrestler
Norihiko Machida
b. 1976
record producer
Chiyotaikai Ryūji
b. 1976
rikishi
Emperor Ankō
401 – 456
ruler
Shin'ya Hasegawa
b. 2002
baseball player
Nabeshima Naotsune
1702 – 1749
samurai
Kazuhito Esaki
b. 1986
association football player
Kazuki Oiwa
b. 1989
association football player
Nami Tamaki
b. 1988
singer
Mayu Ishikawa
b. 2000
volleyball player
Yua Aida
b. 1984
AV idol
Fuyumi Ono
b. 1960
novelist
Emi Wada
1937 – 2021
costume designer
Morio Asaka
b. 1967
film director
Kanji Ishiwara
1889 – 1949
historian
Hideko Yoshida
b. 1944
actor
Yuki Kashiwagi
b. 1991
gravure idol
Nagi Nemoto
b. 1999
Japanese idol
Norimasa Nakanishi
b. 1991
association football player
Mayu Sasaki
b. 1993
association football player
Yukiko Motoya
b. 1979
writer
Fusako Sano
b. 1980
Ayumi Kurashima
b. 1977
animator
Misaki Suzuki
b. 1992
rugby union player
Yayoi Matsumoto
b. 1990
swimmer
Ishimoda Shō
1912 – 1986
historian
Hideo Nagata
1885 – 1949
poet
Airi Yamamoto
b. 1992
actor
Noriaki Tsuchimoto
1928 – 2008
film director
Ayaka Watanabe
b. 1997
mixed martial arts fighter
Masashi Tashiro
b. 1956
singer
Yoshihiro Fujita
b. 1952
amateur wrestler
Masudayama Yasuhito
b. 1951
rikishi
Jōji Katō
b. 1985
speed skater
Daisuke Watanabe
b. 1975
athletics competitor
Maeda Toshitaka
1594 – 1637
samurai
Kazuno Kohara
b. 1950
writer
Kotonowaka Terumasa
b. 1968
rikishi
Daichi Hashimoto
b. 1992
professional wrestler
Jin Nakamura
b. 2005
racing driver
Yūji Tokizaki
1940 – 2021
politician
Daisuke Ebisawa
b. 1978
biathlete
Toshiyuki Kuroiwa
b. 1969
speed skater
Ryūichi Tamura
1923 – 1998
linguist
Yasuaki Fujita
engineer
Masaya Ishizuka
karateka
Fujiwara no Tadahira
880 – 949
poet
Tokugawa Masako
1607 – 1678
Tadanobu Asano
b. 1973
guitarist
Baisan Monpon
1350 – 1417
Buddhist monk
Johnny Kitagawa
1931 – 2019
entrepreneur
Nobuyoshi Tsubota
1933 – 2022
artisan
Kengo Nagai
b. 1994
association football player
Atsushi Kisaichi
b. 1972
seiyū
Hiroshi Nakamura
1890 – 1974
biochemist
Takeshi Ito
b. 1987
association football player
Makoto Sasamoto
b. 1977
amateur wrestler
Yutaka Kobayashi
b. 1964
politician
Mutsuko Ayano
1956 – 1983
Germanist
Yoshiazuma Hiroshi
b. 1977
rikishi
Kurō Tanino
b. 1976
psychiatrist
Shōta Hiranuma
b. 1997
baseball player
Tomohiro Miyoshi
b. 1970
swimmer
Ayaka Kikuchi
b. 1993
Japanese idol
Shigeru Aoki
1882 – 1911
painter
Shizuka Hasegawa
b. 1988
seiyū
Kei Ishikawa
b. 1992
association football player
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
900 – 925
waka poet
Ukyō Maegawa
b. 2003
professional baseball player
Ivan
b. 1984
singer
Ryo Shigaki
b. 1980
association football player
Shingo Katsurayama
b. 1972
actor
Osako Naoharu
1844 – 1927
samurai
Kazuo Koike
1936 – 2019
screenwriter
Masatoshi Okada
b. 1989
baseball player
Yuji Nomi
b. 1958
composer
Takuya Matsuura
b. 1988
association football player
Uehara Yūsaku
1856 – 1933
politician
Toshihiko Kojima
b. 1940
actor
Nagisa Sakurauchi
b. 1989
association football player
Abe Uta
b. 2000
judoka
Ryo Ryusei
b. 1993
actor
Seizō Kobayashi
1877 – 1962
civil servant
Toshiki Uematsu
b. 1998
Jinzaburo Yonezawa
b. 1977
mixed martial arts fighter
Nishioka Tsuneo
1924 – 2014
Tanomura Chikuden
1777 – 1835
painter
Jirō Ono
b. 1925
domestic worker cook
Hayashi Misao
1858 – 1942
Sanya Nakade
1897 – 1971
painter
Takaharu Nishino
b. 1993
association football player
Shōjirō Kasuga
1903 – 1976
Kanetake Ebikawa
b. 1973
film director
Tadayoshi Hayashi
b. 1968
equestrian
Yoshifumi Fujimori
b. 1958
hurdler
Shirō Asano
b. 1948
politician