Japan
People of this nationality
Mikio Yahara
b. 1947
karateka
Kōgyō Terasaki
1866 – 1919
painter
Takanowaka Yūki
b. 1976
rikishi
Katsuhiko Sasaki
b. 1944
actor
Kiichirō Kumagai
1866 – 1949
politician
Kazuyuki Miyata
b. 1976
mixed martial arts fighter
Chūjirō Endō
b. 1917
baseball player
Keiko Miura
b. 1975
field hockey player
Maki Meguro
b. 1972
actor
Tadaatsu Ishiguro
1884 – 1960
politician
Shinsuke Ashida
1914 – 1999
actor
Yoichiro Yoshikawa
1957 – 2026
composer
Ango Sakaguchi
1906 – 1955
writer
Ichikawa Danjūrō V
1741 – 1806
kabuki actor
Ben Goto
1929 – 2020
novelist
Ren Sengoku
b. 1990
association football player
Ryotaro Meshino
b. 1998
association football player
Toshio Ikeda
1923 – 1974
engineer
Satoshi Mizukami
b. 1980
mangaka
Osamu Kobayashi
1934 – 2011
actor
Daisaku Kimura
b. 1939
film director
Yoshinori Natsume
b. 1975
mangaka
Ryutaro Megumi
b. 1993
association football player
Seiji Sasaki
b. 1965
seiyū
Anjirō
1512 – 1550
linguist
Take Hagiwara
1873 – 1936
nurse
Takashi A. Okutani
1931 – 2025
malacologist
Naohiro Ishida
b. 1988
professional shogi player
Yuma Maruyama
b. 1998
athletics competitor
Fumiya Hōjō
b. 1994
baseball player
Mariko Mori
b. 1967
photographer
Kaori Mizuhashi
b. 1974
seiyū
Yoshinobu Ōga
b. 1971
musician
Teiji Takai
1911 – 1986
painter
Ryūta Iida
1920 – 2007
poet
Ginko Mirai
b. 1973
actor
Inaba Masami
1815 – 1879
samurai
Yoshihiro Hattori
1975 – 1992
Ōyama Iwao
1842 – 1916
politician
Mizuki Ichimaru
b. 1997
association football player
Kazuki Yamaguchi
b. 1986
association football player
Matsutarō Shōriki
1885 – 1969
politician
Takeharu Asō
1899 – 1993
cross-country skier
Eri Sasaki
b. 1989
singer
Nobuhisa Yamada
b. 1975
association football player
Chisato Miyade
b. 1985
politician
Ami Yoshida
b. 1976
singer
Minamoto no Tsunemoto
890 – 961
samurai
Jun Rekimoto
b. 1961
computer scientist
Koto Kawaguchi
b. 1999
table tennis player
Robert Baldwin
1965 – 2024
actor
Gaku Hirasawa
b. 1973
alpine skier
Hidehiko Tomizawa
1946 – 2018
athletics competitor
Moriji Mochida
1885 – 1974
samurai
Tetsuya Kiyonari
b. 1961
Go player
Takumi Horiike
b. 1965
association football player
Masaki Morinaga
b. 1972
athletics competitor
Rimu Matsuoka
b. 1998
association football player
Naoto Otake
b. 1968
association football player
Katsuzō Kuronuma
1908 – 1992
zoologist
Hideki Matsushita
b. 1990
politician
Yūya Yagira
b. 1990
child actor
Hiroki Shibuya
b. 1966
association football player
Ishikawa Kazumasa
1533 – 1593
samurai
Chisa Okugawa
b. 1995
association football player
Nao Watanabe
singer
Shoma Morita
1874 – 1938
psychologist
Akihiko Ohya
b. 1947
baseball player
Yasuhiro Fueki
b. 1985
athletics competitor
Hiroyuki Imaishi
b. 1971
animator
Juri Kimura
b. 1988
seiyū
Toshiro Kageyama
1926 – 1990
Go professional
Kazuki Shimizu
b. 1990
actor
Knock Yokoyama
1932 – 2007
owarai tarento
Manji Fukushima
b. 2000
table tennis player
Takashi Ishizeki
b. 1972
politician
Shinya Yoshihara
b. 1978
association football player
Naotaka Shinfuku
psychiatrist
Mao Kobayashi
1982 – 2017
news presenter
Kenya Wakatsuki
b. 1995
professional baseball player
Michi
b. 1996
singer
Yūichi Tanaka
b. 1985
professional shogi player
Jun Ando
b. 1984
association football player
Takao Hayashi
b. 1949
mathematician
Toshio Iwai
b. 1962
artist
Jun Uematsu
b. 1972
short-track speed skater
Aaron Wolf
b. 1996
judoka
Yumi Miyakawa
b. 1991
handball player
Seishirō Sakamoto
b. 1993
baseball player
Hiroki Sugajima
b. 1995
association football player
Masami Taniguchi
b. 1976
volleyball player
Minamoto no Masanobu
920 – 993
samurai
Hitomi Saito
b. 1981
singer
Yuto Nakayama
b. 1991
association football player
Kōji Yanagi
b. 1967
novelist
Asako Yuzuki
b. 1981
novelist
Haru
b. 1991
actor
Kazuo Komizu
b. 1946
film director
ZAQ
b. 1988
singer-songwriter
Toshio Yamauchi
b. 1946
politician