Japan
People of this nationality
Eri Hatayama
b. 1992
sailor
Ishizuka Tomoji
1906 – 1984
poet
Yukio Goto
association football player
Yuta Suenaga
b. 1985
swimmer
Banana Yoshimoto
b. 1964
writer
Shimazu Tadatsune
1576 – 1638
samurai
Ryuji Ishizue
b. 1964
association football player
Masujima Rokuichiro
1857 – 1948
lawyer
Noriyuki Iwadare
b. 1964
composer
Ichizō Kobayashi
1873 – 1957
businessperson
Tatsuya Shinhama
b. 1996
speed skater
Mineko Iwasaki
b. 1949
autobiographer
Mitsu Shimojo
b. 1955
politician
Harumi Tsuyuzaki
b. 1974
singer-songwriter
Hajime Meshiai
b. 1954
golfer
Natsumi Kanzaki
zoologist
Shunta Tanaka
b. 1993
baseball player
Bernardo the Japanese
missionary
Yuri Nakamura
b. 1977
composer
Tsuyoshi Shimamura
b. 1985
association football player
Yōichi Kotabe
b. 1936
animator
Yoshito Shintani
b. 1981
weightlifter
Kōki Aoyagi
b. 1997
baseball player
Fujiwara no Sumitomo
893 – 941
military leader
Genyo Takeda
b. 1949
engineer
Seigo Kitamura
1947 – 2023
politician
Suehiro Nishio
1891 – 1981
politician
Hiromu Naruse
1944 – 2010
engineer
Kana Ōno
b. 1992
volleyball player
Daisuke Ejima
b. 1986
swimmer
Noa Tsurushima
b. 2001
fashion model
Akiko Santō
b. 1942
actor
Keiji Kojima
b. 1969
keirin cyclist
Hashimoto Sanai
1834 – 1859
samurai
Monzo Akiyama
1891 – 1944
military personnel
Nakagawa Jun'an
1739 – 1786
physician
Takako Ishii
b. 1990
sport cyclist
Seitaro Hattori
b. 1954
politician
Kunihiro Hasegawa
b. 1901
film director
Murasaki Shikibu
978 – 1014
lady-in-waiting
Midori Komachi
translator
Mitsu Tanaka
1943 – 2024
writer
Kusuo Kitamura
1917 – 1996
swimmer
Tosayutaka Yūya
b. 1985
rikishi
Kuroki Tamemoto
1844 – 1923
military personnel
Suara
b. 1979
singer
Tae Honma
b. 1986
actor
Antonio Inoki
1943 – 2022
politician
Yoshiharu Tsuge
1937 – 2026
draftsperson
Yoshiya Kakimoto
b. 1938
politician
Command Bolshoi
professional wrestler
Ryuji Wakatake
b. 1987
baseball player
Takashi Matsuo
b. 1960
actor
Masayuki Yanai
b. 1959
amateur astronomer
Takanori Suzuki
b. 1972
baseball player
Ayako Shoda
b. 1981
amateur wrestler
Masataka Yoshida
b. 1993
baseball player
Kageyoshi Noro
1854 – 1923
metallurgist
Kenji Koyama
b. 1972
association football player
Fusako Kuramochi
b. 1955
mangaka
Hitoshi Sasaki
1891 – 1982
association football player
Hiroshi Nakada
b. 1964
politician
Kototsubaki Katsuyuki
b. 1960
rikishi
Chokei Kishaba
1929 – 2000
karateka
Ken'ichi Suemitsu
b. 1976
screenwriter
Keiichi Miki
b. 2000
table tennis player
Fred Kinzaburo Makino
1877 – 1953
newspaper editor
Ryosuke Haneishi
curler
Kazuyuki Aijima
b. 1961
actor
Kashiwado Tsuyoshi
1938 – 1996
rikishi
Natsuki Tanihara
mangaka
Matsudaira Yasutaka
1930 – 2011
volleyball player
Isoda Koryūsai
1735 – 1790
artist
Bungaku Itō
b. 1932
businessperson
Takashi Inui
b. 1988
association football player
Yasuko Matsuyuki
b. 1972
actor
Shinichiro Tomonaga
1906 – 1979
theoretical physicist
Kumoemon Tochuken
1873 – 1916
musician
Miyako Itō
b. 1962
seiyū
Ted Yamamori
b. 1937
non-fiction writer
Kayoko Shibata
b. 1980
actor
Junji Yamauchi
b. 2000
electrical engineer
Kenta Shinohara
b. 1974
mangaka
Tadashi Hyōdō
1899 – 1980
aircraft pilot
Kazuya Onohara
b. 1996
association football player
Hideaki Yanagida
b. 1947
amateur wrestler
Cha Katō
b. 1943
actor
Karin Fujiyoshi
b. 2001
Japanese idol
Uryū Shigeko
1862 – 1928
educator
Go Matsumoto
b. 1993
baseball player
Kōta Miura
b. 1984
actor
Kaori Sakagami
b. 1974
actor
Kenta Kawai
b. 1981
association football player
Yuto Yamashita
b. 1996
association football player
Bandō Mitsugorō VIII
1906 – 1975
actor
Susumu Tadakuma
electrical engineer
Sei Hiraizumi
b. 1944
actor
Kunio Yanagita
1875 – 1962
lexicographer
Toshiko Matsuo
1907 – 1993
politician
Keisuke Mori
b. 1980
association football player