Japan
People of this nationality
Mihoko Iwasa
b. 2005
female shogi player
Yūsuke Ishitsuka
b. 1987
sprinter
Yū Koyama
b. 1948
mangaka
Hideki Miwa
b. 1969
keirin cyclist
Masaharu Take
b. 1967
film director
Ryō Ikebe
1918 – 2010
actor
Koki Kitayama
b. 1999
professional baseball player
Shungo Kaji
b. 1961
film director
Yosuke Sakamoto
b. 1974
association football player
Kenjirō Ishimaru
b. 1953
actor
Shimizu Muneharu
1537 – 1582
samurai
Hideaki Itō
b. 1975
actor
Hitoshi Imamura
1886 – 1968
military personnel
Shunsaku Tamiya
1934 – 2025
businessperson
Kawai Tsuginosuke
1827 – 1868
samurai
Toki Asako
b. 1976
singer
Yōsuke Yamashita
b. 1942
jazz musician
Kiyoshi Ōkubo
1935 – 1976
poet
Shōta Arai
b. 1988
association football player
Mark Musashi
b. 1977
actor
Suehiro Tanemura
1933 – 2004
linguist
Akira Sakata
b. 1945
actor
Takehisa Matsubara
b. 1937
politician
Tōru Uchida
1897 – 1981
zoologist
Arai Hakuseki
1657 – 1725
philosopher
Azusa Watanabe
b. 1969
actor
Shinya Hatta
b. 1984
association football player
Kotaro Fukuoka
b. 2005
Go professional
Hiroto Muraoka
1931 – 2017
association football player
Tatsurō Toyoda
1929 – 2017
businessperson
Tokugawa Akitake
1853 – 1910
military personnel
Yuki Irie
b. 1992
amateur wrestler
Sakyo Komatsu
1931 – 2011
writer
Yūsuke Takahashi
b. 1980
politician
Yukiko Mishima
b. 1969
screenwriter
Takuya Nagata
b. 1994
athletics competitor
Kitabatake Akiyoshi
1326 – 1383
bushi
Hayato Okamoto
b. 1974
association football player
Norihiro Komada
b. 1962
baseball player
Yoichi Takata
b. 1908
ski jumper
Oji Hiroi
b. 1954
comics artist
Maki Enjōji
b. 1901
author
Keizō Nozaki
1852 – 1910
politician
Kohei Nishino
b. 1982
association football player
Shōko Hamada
b. 1986
model
Kyōko Ōshima
b. 1986
artistic gymnast
Masanao Hanihara
1876 – 1934
diplomat
Moga Mogami
b. 1989
singer
Junpei Fujita
b. 1979
composer
Hirokazu Ueyonabaru
b. 1971
athletics competitor
Wataru Endō
b. 1993
association football player
Michihiro Ito
b. 1915
field hockey player
Harley Saito
1967 – 2016
professional wrestler
Masanori Inoue
b. 1972
skeleton racer
Nabeshima Naoharu
1766 – 1825
samurai
Eiichi Nakao
1930 – 2018
politician
Nitchō
1252 – 1317
Buddhist monk
Hideyuki Okano
b. 1959
physician
Minoru Tanaka
1966 – 2011
actor
Yūichi Komano
b. 1981
association football player
Shunbaisai Hokuei
1750 – 1837
painter
Kokona Sakurai
b. 2004
professional golfer
Makoto Chūza
b. 1970
professional shogi player
Yōichi Komori
b. 1953
professor
Masaaki Yuasa
b. 1965
screenwriter
Hansō Sōshitsu
1923 – 2025
painter
Hiromi Konno
b. 1975
seiyū
Shōtarō Yachi
b. 1944
diplomat
Takashi Akatsuka
b. 1973
rugby union player
Hoppy Kamiyama
b. 1960
jazz musician
Toshiya Okada
b. 1991
baseball player
Kazuo Ohno
1906 – 2010
choreographer
Kenji Doihara
1883 – 1948
military personnel
Atsuko Takata
b. 1977
short-track speed skater
Yōko Kamio
b. 1966
mangaka
Hirotaka Sato
b. 1981
basketball player
Mansuke Ōnosato
1892 – 1938
rikishi
Kasugafuji Akihiro
1966 – 2017
rikishi
Kyohei Sakaguchi
b. 1978
architect
Katsuya Saitō
b. 1940
sport cyclist
Toshihiko Izutsu
1914 – 1993
linguist
Takamuko no Kuromaro
550 – 654
diplomat
Ryōta Nagaki
b. 1988
association football player
Bin Shimada
b. 1954
actor
Motoki Sakai
b. 1995
handball player
Koki Yamamoto
b. 1990
rugby union player
Keisuke Ushiro
b. 1986
athletics competitor
Tou Katsu
b. 1982
actor
Takeshi Shirai
1977 – 2024
businessperson
Shuhei Kamimura
b. 1995
association football player
Hiroaki Shukuzawa
1950 – 2006
rugby union player
Yutaka Kawaguchi
b. 1973
ice hockey player
Takero Okajima
b. 1989
baseball player
Etsuko Tada
b. 1981
boxer
Sarina Suno
violinist
Norihito Kobayashi
b. 1982
Nordic combined skier
Shigeru Tonomura
1902 – 1961
writer
Strong Machine J
professional wrestler
Yoshiaki Yatsu
b. 1956
professional wrestler
Kei Nishikori
b. 1989
tennis player