List of Famous people born in Japan

Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi is a Japanese Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Divine Word Missionaries who has been serving as Archbishop of Tokyo since his appointment in 2017. He was a former worker in the missions of Ghana in Western Africa. Prior to his installation as Archbishop of Tokyo, he had served as the Bishop of Niigata since 2004 when he was first named as a bishop.

Takeki Manabe is a Japanese politician who was the 43rd governor of Kagawa Prefecture in Japan, serving three terms from 1998 until 2010. In 2009 he announced he would not contest the 2010 election and was succeeded by Keizō Hamada.

Frank Charles Spotnitz is an American television writer and executive producer, best known for his work on The X-Files and The Man in the High Castle. Spotnitz is also the chief executive officer and founder of Big Light Productions, a London and Paris-based production company, which specializes in international television series, including drama, comedy and documentaries. Spotnitz's career includes creating, writing and producing series with networks, cable, streaming and other broadcast platforms around the world.

Kôzô Nakamura is a video game composer, who created music for most of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games between 1989-1994, The Simpsons Arcade Game in 1991. His music has also been featured in the Guitar Freaks series of video games as well as Dance Dance Revolution Supernova.

Tsubaki Nekoi , formerly Mick Nekoi , is a member of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp. She is the co-director and her duties in the team include applying screentones and correcting manga illustrations. She was also the lead artist on Legal Drug, The One I Love, Wish, Suki and xxxHolic. As the lead artist in xxxHolic, she is in charge of drawing the male characters while Mokona is responsible for the female characters.

Nanase Ohkawa is a member of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp. She is the director of the team and is primarily responsible for writing the stories and scripts for Clamp's various works.

Yasuichiro Yamamoto is a Japanese anime director, and storyboard artist. He is best known for directing the majority of Detective Conan.