List of Famous people born in Japan

Junya Nakano is a Japanese video game composer who was employed at Square Enix from 1995 to 2009. He is best known for scoring Threads of Fate and co-composing Final Fantasy X. He has also worked as an arranger for Dawn of Mana and the Nintendo DS version of Final Fantasy IV. Nakano has collaborated with Masashi Hamauzu on several games.

Sara Nakayama is a Japanese voice actress from Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She was previously credited as Manami Nakayama .

Seiji Ueda is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of minor planets. Between 1987 and 2000, Ueda discovered 705 asteroids.

Kazuyoshi Saito is a Japanese singer-songwriter. Making his professional debut in 1993, Saito's popularity exploded in 2007 after 15 years in the music industry. He is also one-half of the rock duo Mannish Boys with Tatsuya Nakamura and a member of the supergroup the Curling Sitones . In 2013, Saito became the first Japanese musician to have a signature model acoustic guitar with Gibson. As of 2020, he had six signature models with them and one with Epiphone.

Katsuaki Watanabe is senior advisor at Toyota Motor Corporation. He was president and CEO of the company before Akio Toyoda assumed those positions on June 23, 2009.

Anzu Nagai is a Japanese actress. She starred in Hanochi and is best known for her role as the young Nico Robin in the anime One Piece. She also voiced Daisy, in the sixth One Piece film, "Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island". Nagai is represented by Topcoat.

Kazuo Yoshimura is a retired Japanese judoka.

Tsutomu Hanahara is a retired Japanese wrestler who won a gold medal in the flyweight class at the 1964 Olympics. He competed at the 1958 and 1967 world championships and finished in sixth and third place, respectively.

Hiromi Oshima is a Japanese glamour model. In June 2004, she became the second Japanese-born Playboy Playmate.