Japan
People of this nationality
Hirokazu Usami
b. 1987
association football player
Masayoshi Motegi
b. 1962
professional wrestler
Naoji Sato
b. 1942
rower
Emperor Kōkaku
1771 – 1840
sovereign
Mayu Hamada
b. 1994
taekwondo athlete
Kanichi Fujiwara
b. 1961
culinary writer
Mirai Yamamoto
b. 1974
actor
Kaishu Hirano
b. 2002
snowboarder
Miki Koyama
b. 1997
racing driver
Kengo Nakamura
b. 1980
association football player
Rō Takenaka
1930 – 1991
journalist
Yutaro Shin
b. 1990
association football player
Mikuru Uchino
b. 1988
model
Hasegawa Settan
1778 – 1843
printmaker
Hideaki Kikuchi
b. 1964
guitarist
Yasushi Murase
b. 1941
rower
Shohei Moriyasu
b. 1991
association football player
Shōko Shōfukutei
b. 1968
rakugoka
Ryoichi Fukushige
b. 1971
association football player
Mayuko Irie
b. 1962
actor
Yuri Obara
b. 1980
speed skater
Ichirō Sugai
1907 – 1973
actor
Kakizoe Tōru
b. 1978
rikishi
Katsuyuki Minami
b. 1970
volleyball player
Sayoko Eri
1945 – 2007
artist
Kōhei Shibata
b. 1986
baseball player
Akira Kodama
b. 1944
basketball player
Masayoshi Yamashita
b. 1961
bassist
Takanori Hashimoto
b. 1983
professional shogi player
Sarah Tamura
b. 2001
figure skater
Jin Sato
b. 1974
association football player
Kōsō Abe
1892 – 1947
military personnel
Ako Mayama
b. 1958
seiyū
Sayaka Yamaguchi
b. 1980
actor
Nishio Tadaatsu
1850 – 1910
samurai
Riku Tsuchiya
b. 1997
speed skater
Hitoshi Tsukiji
b. 1947
photographer
Yoichiro Murakami
b. 1936
philosopher
Yasuhiro Takami
b. 1980
member of the House of Representatives of Japan
Tetsurō Furukaki
1900 – 1987
poet
Rie Urata
b. 1977
athlete
Yoshiyuki Abe
b. 1969
sport cyclist
Chūjō-hime
753 – 781
lady-in-waiting
Tsuchida Bakusen
1887 – 1936
Nihonga painter
Bunji Sakita
1930 – 2002
physicist
Konoe Iehisa
1687 – 1737
Itakura Katsutsune
1803 – 1849
samurai
Ayami Sato
b. 1989
baseball player
Misa Eguchi
b. 1992
tennis player
Tadanori Yokoo
b. 1936
graphic designer
Masashi Otani
b. 1994
association football player
Ayumi Morita
b. 1990
tennis player
Nakamikado
1702 – 1737
sovereign
Shota Suzuki
b. 1998
baseball player
Date Terumune
1544 – 1585
samurai
Tani Yutaka
1910 – 1942
spy
Kanon Shizaki
b. AD 8
seiyū
Takeshi Abo
b. 1973
composer
Tsugaru Nobuhisa
1669 – 1746
samurai
Sasaki Gensō
b. 1947
calligrapher
Saori Sugimoto
1964 – 2021
seiyū
Asami Hirono
b. 1990
snowboarder
Murata Seifū
1783 – 1855
politician
Naohiro Ishikawa
b. 1981
association football player
Kōichirō Matsuno
b. 1940
physicist
Nanaka Todo
b. 2000
basketball player
Ikuzo Yoshi
b. 1952
singer
Ryuji Fujita
1907 – 1965
painter
Hana Wakimoto
b. 1997
professional golfer
Miho Obana
b. 1970
writer
Evelyn Nazarena Bermúdez
b. 1996
boxer
Ken Uehara
1909 – 1991
actor
Fuboku Kosakai
1890 – 1929
novelist
Nanami Takenaka
b. 1998
rhythmic gymnast
Haruko Hatoyama
1863 – 1938
educator
Nobuko Kan
b. 1945
essayist
Masataka Takayama
1895 – 1981
photographer
Tomotaka Kitamura
b. 1982
association football player
Hiroshi Mitome
b. 1960
rower
Akira Ito
b. 1981
field hockey player
Hiroki Sasase
b. 1989
athletics competitor
Hiroyuki Wakabayashi
1949 – 2026
architect
Hitomi Shimura
b. 1990
athletics competitor
Kozo Watanabe
b. 1942
engineer
Ryuta Hara
b. 1981
association football player
Jūzō Itami
1933 – 1997
actor
Jirō Hatoyama
b. 1979
politician
Takashi Maruyama
b. 1953
coach
Maiko Itai
b. 1984
model
Jirō Yabuki
b. 1949
actor
Akiho Miyashiro
1920 – 2008
earth scientist
Shunpei Yamazaki
b. 1942
engineer
Yu Owada
b. 2000
professional wrestler
Shunji Fujimura
1934 – 2017
actor
Tatsuhiro Tamura
b. 1994
baseball player
Hitoshi Tadakatsu
b. 1997
rikishi
Naoki Kunishima
b. 1994
actor
Tamagusuku Chōkun
1684 – 1734
playwright
Hiroyuki Nagato
1934 – 2011
actor
Shigeru Baba
b. 1948
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