List of Famous people born in Japan

Madoka Nishimura

First Name Madoka
Last Name Nishimura
Born on January 1, 1995 (age 31)
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Eiko Naganawa

First Name Eiko
Born on October 26, 1937 (age 89)
Born in Japan
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Manabu Hosoi

First Name Manabu
Born on March 11, 1959 (age 67)
Born in Japan
Height 165 cm | 5'5
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Hirari Mizui

First Name Hirari
Born on July 22, 2000 (age 26)
Born in Japan

Hirari Mizui is a Japanese badminton player who educated at the Futaba future school. She was the girls' singles bronze medalist at the 2017 Asian Junior Championships. Mizui participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and join the team Theta settled the bronze medal in the mixed team event.

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Hideaki Itsuno

First Name Hideaki
Last Name Itsuno
Born on April 7, 1971 (age 55)

Hideaki Itsuno is a Japanese video game director and video game designer. He has been employed by Capcom for most of his career. He is best known as the director of the Power Stone, Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma series. He was also behind many of Capcom's popular fighting game series such as Darkstalkers, Street Fighter Alpha, Capcom vs SNK, Street Fighter III and Rival Schools.

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Hideaki Kobayashi

First Name Hideaki
Last Name Kobayashi
Born on October 18, 1973 (age 53)
Born in Japan

Sega Corporation is a Japanese multinational video game developer and publisher headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Its international branches, Sega of America and Sega Europe, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California, and London. Sega's arcade division existed as Sega Interactive Co., Ltd. from 2015 to 2020 before it merged with Sega Games to create Sega Corporation with Sega Games as the surviving entity. Sega is a subsidiary of Sega Group Corporation, which is, in turn, a part of Sega Sammy Holdings. From 1983 until 2002, Sega also developed video game consoles.

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Koki Kano

First Name Koki
Last Name Kano
Born on December 19, 1997 (age 28)
Born in Japan

Koki Kano is a Japanese right-handed épée fencer and 2021 team Olympic champion.

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Miki Yakata

First Name Miki
Last Name Yakata
Born on June 29, 1992 (age 34)
Born in Japan
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Toshishiro Obata

First Name Toshishiro
Born on October 20, 1948 (age 78)
Born in Japan
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Takashi Matsuyama

First Name Takashi
Last Name Matsuyama
Born on April 2, 1960 (age 66)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Takashi Matsuyama is a Japanese actor and voice actor; he is well known for playing Takeo Saeki in The Grudge and Mamoru Satake in Zipang.

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