Japan
People of this nationality
Yi Ku
1931 – 2005
businessperson
Ryoko Yano
b. 1978
basketball player
Koshi Fujimori
b. 1961
water polo player
Yusuke Miyata
b. 1991
canoeist
Koki Arita
b. 1991
association football player
Kunihiko Takizawa
b. 1978
association football player
Kōji Ōkubo
1887 – 1950
orientalist
Hisato Aikura
1931 – 2015
music critic
Rie Sato
b. 1980
softball player
Kazuaki Koezuka
b. 1967
association football player
Kyōsuke Hamao
b. 1991
actor
Takayuki Morimura
b. 1973
politician
Uesugi Kagetora
1552 – 1579
samurai
Asanosuke Matsui
b. 1900
equestrian
Masaaki Kishibe
b. 1964
musician
Taiki Shimada
b. 1992
badminton player
Kaoru Itō
b. 1971
professional wrestler
Hidetoshi Takeda
b. 2001
association football player
Kyohei Kuroki
b. 1989
association football player
Jun Tsuji
1884 – 1944
poet
Shizuka Terata
b. 1975
politician
Matsuo Bashō
1644 – 1694
poet
Makoto Nagao
1936 – 2021
librarian
Ibuki Koizumi
b. 1996
sailor
Takao Mikami
1933 – 2026
politician
Taira no Tadatsune
975 – 1031
samurai
Masahiro Andoh
b. 1954
composer
Tatsuya Yamaashi
b. 1993
baseball player
Genjirō Kaneko
b. 1944
politician
Yūji Takada
b. 1960
actor
Takatoshi Matsumoto
b. 1983
association football player
Ken'ichi Mikawa
b. 1946
singer
Kentaro Kudo
1942 – 2021
politician
Kaya Chakrabortty
b. 2001
Akari Takeshige
b. 2003
association football player
Miyako Maki
b. 1935
mangaka
Iou Kuroda
b. 1971
mangaka
Tsukasa Shimomura
b. 1997
association football player
Chieko Aioi
1934 – 2013
actor
Makiko Tanaka
b. 1944
diplomat
Takashi Koizumi
b. 1944
film director
Sōichirō Yamazaki
b. 1998
professional baseball player
Kodai Hagino
b. 2000
association football player
Seiichi Itō
1890 – 1945
aircraft pilot
Saori Kimura
b. 1986
volleyball player
Futoshi Mori
b. 1988
rugby union player
Tatsunori Otsuka
b. 2000
volleyball player
Sachiko Kato
b. 2000
rugby union player
Daichi Taniguchi
b. 1990
basketball player
Mako Komao
b. 1982
light novelist
Tomoya Nakamura
b. 1986
actor
Makoto Nagamine
b. 1969
politician
Richū
336 – 405
ruler
Ueda Arisawa
1850 – 1921
military personnel
Daitetsu Tadamitsu
b. 1956
rikishi
Shōji Hayashi
1928 – 2011
architect
Ichiro Shimamura
b. 1949
archer
Toshio Sakata
1941 – 2023
owarai tarento
Mitsugu Mori
1908 – 1960
aircraft pilot
Nao Ishikawa
b. 1994
professional wrestler
Bidatsu
538 – 585
ruler
Shunsuke Nakamura
b. 1994
association football player
Sakai Tadakatsu
1587 – 1662
samurai
Tsunehiko Kamijō
1940 – 2025
actor
Ikumi Yoshimatsu
b. 1987
model
Michihiro Ogasawara
b. 1973
baseball player
Aiko Otake
b. 1994
model
Osamu Adachi
b. 1987
actor
Chizu Ono
b. 1970
photographer
Yasutoshi Nishimura
b. 1962
politician
Miyuki Tai
b. 1980
badminton player
Yuzaburo Mogi
b. 1935
businessperson
Nobuhiro Maeda
b. 1973
association football player
Tomomi Jiena Sumi
b. 1994
Japanese idol
Yuya Iwadate
b. 1985
association football player
Kiyotaka Katsuta
1948 – 2000
serial killer
Kazuyo Matsui
b. 1957
actor
Ryohei Suzuki
b. 1983
actor
Sachiko Morimura
b. 1972
artistic gymnast
Manaka Matsumoto
b. 1999
association football player
Katsumi Oda
b. 1952
volleyball player
Akishige Kaneda
b. 1990
association football player
Reikichi Nakamura
b. 1916
speed skater
Yoshihiko Itō
b. 1951
photographer
Kazuko Takemura
1954 – 2011
literary scholar
Mori Ōgai
1862 – 1922
linguist
Kenji Utsunomiya
b. 1946
lawyer
Yū Sugimoto
b. 1975
seiyū
Manami Oku
b. 1995
Japanese idol
Fujiwara Nobuzane
1176 – 1266
waka poet
Yukio Odagiri
b. 1956
boxer
Nijō Mitsuhira
1624 – 1682
Azumi Asakura
b. 1987
seiyū
Tatuya Uchi
b. 1985
baseball player
Yoshiaki Oshima
b. 1952
amateur astronomer
Michiko Ishii
1933 – 2012
politician
Ken’ichi Suzuki
b. 1969
amateur wrestler
Mikako Takahashi
b. 1980
seiyū
Takafumi Kawabata
b. 1954
ski jumper
Kōhei Funae
b. 1987
professional shogi player