List of Famous people born in Japan

Akira Yasuda is a Japanese animator, character designer, game designer and mecha designer, who works under the pen name "Akiman". Yasuda is a former employee of the video game company Capcom and has worked on many Capcom games, taking on various design roles for works such as the Final Fight series and Street Fighter II: The World Warrior under the pen name Akiman. He has also been involved in anime production, most notably Turn A Gundam, Overman King Gainer and Code Geass. He also went to the United States to work on Red Dead Revolver for Angel Studios. When the studio was bought by Rockstar Games, he went back to Japan, where he officially left Capcom in 2003 and started working as a freelance artist.

Hitoshi Shiota is a Japanese football player who plays for Tochigi SC.

Takayuki Yamaguchi is a Japanese manga artist. He is the creator of Apocalypse Zero and Shigurui.

Kenya Mitsuhashi is a male badminton player from Japan.