Japan
People of this nationality
Kōji Tsuruoka
b. 1952
diplomat
Kosuke Nakamachi
b. 1985
association football player
Takayuki Yanagi
b. 1990
actor
Kaiga Murakoshi
b. 2001
association football player
Mio Backhaus
b. 2004
association football player
Tadashi Kaneko
1912 – 1942
military personnel
Hiroko Makino
b. 1999
swimmer
Shōtei Takahashi
1871 – 1945
printmaker
Yumiko Tsuzuki
b. 1983
volleyball player
Tomio Koyanagi
1916 – 1971
swimmer
Tochiōyama Yuki
1943 – 2001
rikishi
Jinzō Toriumi
1929 – 2008
screenwriter
Isamu Yanagi
1891 – 1989
military personnel
Aya Sugimoto
b. 1968
actor
Daigo
b. 1978
singer-songwriter
Susumu Ogawa
b. 1964
teacher
George Nakashima
1905 – 1990
architect
Takuzo Kawatani
1941 – 1995
actor
Sōjin Kamiyama
1884 – 1954
actor
Tikashi Fukushima
1920 – 2001
painter
Kazushi Hosaka
b. 1956
novelist
Kan Itabashi
b. 1982
kickboxer
Masanobu Gōshū
b. 1986
athlete
Shin'ichirō Tomie
b. 1961
game designer
Yutaka Tsujinaka
b. 1954
political scientist
Arakida Moritake
1473 – 1549
poet
Kentaro Kai
b. 1994
association football player
Toshio Jingu
b. 1948
fencer
Yoshida Tōyō
1816 – 1862
samurai
Takatsukasa Fusako
1653 – 1712
Youka Ogawa
b. 2004
fashion model
Noriko Mitose
singer
Masahito Yamamoto
b. 1978
rugby union player
Toshiro Mayuzumi
1929 – 1997
composer
Shinji Miura
b. 1975
athlete
Yasutaka Tashiro
b. 1974
sport cyclist
Arata Endo
1889 – 1951
architect
Yuga Furutani
b. 2000
racing driver
Yasunari Hirai
b. 1990
swimmer
Seiichi Hatano
1877 – 1950
philosopher
Takeshi Kitano
b. 1947
film director
Chizuko Ueno
b. 1948
sociologist
Yoshiko Sakurai
b. 1945
journalist
Shinji Kawashima
b. 1966
athlete
Kenzo Shirai
b. 1996
artistic gymnast
Kaku Takagawa
1915 – 1986
Go professional
Itow Takumi
b. 1946
painter
Aki Mitsugi
b. 1987
artist
Haruna Yabuki
b. 1984
actor
Shochi Niiyama
b. 1985
association football player
Nariyuki Masuda
b. 1983
sport cyclist
Kengo Kimura
b. 1953
rikishi
Tokuro Konishi
1894 – 1977
baseball player
Taku Ishii
b. 1965
politician
Tadashi Kaminagai
1899 – 1982
painter
Mitsumasa Anno
1926 – 2020
writer
Ken'ichi Takitō
b. 1976
actor
Koji Okumura
b. 1998
association football player
Karen Iwata
b. 1998
singer
Hana Toyoshima
b. 2007
child actor
Kensaku Maeda
b. 1968
kickboxer
Shōma Fujihira
b. 1998
baseball player
Shigenori Kudō
b. 1954
flautist
Mayo Okamoto
b. 1974
singer-songwriter
Yoichi Miyazawa
b. 1950
politician
Minako Sato-Hokari
b. 1955
archer
Yui Itsuki
b. 1984
singer
Artegg-yumi
singer-songwriter
Teppei Arita
b. 1971
actor
Nobushige Kusamitsu
1892 – 1970
painter
Yorinaga Nakamura
b. 1963
amateur wrestler
Ichirō Hatta
1906 – 1983
politician
Tetsuji Hashiratani
b. 1964
association football player
Masanobu Izumi
b. 1944
association football player
Seijin Oikawa
b. 1970
motorcycle racer
Gakuto Kajiwara
b. 1994
seiyū
Zenchū Nakahara
1890 – 1964
ethnologist
Takeshi Kobayashi
b. 1959
film director
Miyuki Miyabe
b. 1960
writer
Seri Ozaki
b. 2002
fencer
Miho Miyahara
b. 1996
karateka
Takuya Takahama
b. 1989
baseball player
Hiroyuki Yabe
b. 1971
radio personality
Shion Miura
b. 1976
novelist
Nagamichi Kuroda
1889 – 1978
ornithologist
Takahiro Shoda
b. 1979
baseball player
Kyōsuke Sasaki
b. 1949
baseball player
Mitsuki Saiga
b. 1973
seiyū
Genki Saito
b. 1998
Para swimmer
Taishi Nakagawa
b. 1990
baseball player
Kintaro Usuda
1906 – 1980
boxer
Asami Tōjō
1972 – 2007
mangaka
Hakubun Shimomura
b. 1954
politician
Yasushi Okada
b. 1968
biologist
Yoshitaka Sakurada
b. 1949
politician
Takaaki Yamazaki
1943 – 2023
politician
Joji Matsuoka
b. 1961
film director
Ao Tanaka
b. 1998
association football player
Makoto Sumikawa
b. 1964
actor
Eiichi Moriwaki
b. 1953
photographer