List of Famous people born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Akihiro Fukatsu
Akihiro Fukatsu is a Japanese male volleyball player. He is part of the Japan men's national volleyball team. On club level he plays for JT Thunders.
Arimasa Osawa
Arimasa Osawa is a Japanese writer of hardboiled and thriller. He served as the 12th President of the Mystery Writers of Japan from 2005 to 2009.
Nobuko Motomura
Nobuko Motomura is a member of the Japanese Communist Party serving in the House of Representatives. She is supportive of foreigner suffrage, giving foreigners living in Japan the right to vote, citing that the foreigners pay taxes and are a part of Japanese communities. She also supports the creation of a committee that would protect the human rights of foreign workers, as the current body, the International Training Cooperation Organization, has income that comes from the companies that commit violations of human rights of the foreign workers.
Miku Ishida
Miku Ishida is a Japanese female singer and used to be a gravure idol, actress and a teen idol, had belonged to the show-business production LesPros Entertainment from 1999 to 2008. She is from Komaki, Aichi, and graduated from Hinode High School in March 2007. Then, on 9 October 2008, she retired as an actress. On June 17, 2009 she returned to the entertainment industry through her musical activities.
Kei Kusunoki
Kei Kusunoki , real name Mayumi Ōhashi , is a Japanese manga artist best known for her horror and comedy manga series. She debuted in 1982 in Ribon Original with Nanika ga Kanojo Tōri Tsuita?. Her twin-sister Kaoru Ōhashi also works as a manga artist.
Hideki Niwa
Hideki Niwa is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Kasugai, Aichi and graduate of Tamagawa University he was elected for the first time in 2005 after an unsuccessful run in 2003.He was defeated in the 2009 election by DPJ candidate Yoshihiro Ishida.
Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one-fourth of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."
Ken Togame
Ken Togame is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Saitama Seibu Lions.
Junichi Sato
Junichi Sato is a Japanese anime director, best known for working on shōjo-based anime and in the magical girl genre. He was formerly associated with TYO Animations.
Sadaharu Tanikawa
Sadaharu Tanikawa is a Japanese combat sports promoter and the president of Fighting and Entertainment Group.