List of Famous people born in Japan

Nonoka Akaki is a Japanese female announcer and newscaster for NHK.

Yuto Nakajima is a Japanese singer, actor and model. He is a member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He played Koji Kiritani in the 2005 Japanese television drama, Nobuta wo Produce.

Yukie Nakama is a Japanese actress, singer and former idol.

Miyu Irino is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He voiced Haku in Spirited Away, Shoya Ishida in A Silent Voice, Yuichiro Hyakuya in Seraph of the End, Jinta "Jintan" Yadomi in Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, Nuts in Yes! PreCure 5 and its sequel GoGo!, Apollon Agana Belea in Kamigami no Asobi and Sora in the Kingdom Hearts video game series. He released his debut mini-album Soleil on June 26, 2009 and his first single album, Faith, on November 25, 2009. On December 2016, he announced that he was gone hiatus to study abroad, which he had been considering on that time.

Risa Taneda is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Office Osawa talent agency. She is also a member of the seiyuu idol unit Rhodanthe* (ローダンセ) since 2013, along with Nao Tōyama, Asuka Nishi, Manami Tanaka and Yumi Uchiyama. Some of her major roles include Mirai Kuriyama in Beyond the Boundary, Yukina Himeragi in Strike the Blood, Rize Tedeza in Is the Order a Rabbit?, Kaori Miyazono in Your Lie in April, Erina Nakiri in Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, and Ai Mizuno in Zombie Land Saga.

Takahisa Masuda is an entertainer with Johnny's Entertainment.

Ryoichi Adachi is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Hideaki Takizawa , also known professionally as Tackey (タッキー), is a Japanese record producer and former singer and actor. In 2002, he debuted with Tsubasa Imai in the group Tackey & Tsubasa under the record label Avex Trax.

Yukari Satō is a Japanese economist and politician of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Tsuneo Watanabe is a Japanese journalist and businessman. He is the Representative Director, Editor-in-Chief of the Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings company, which publishes the largest Japanese daily newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun and substantially controls the largest Japanese commercial television network Nippon Television Network. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of The Yomiuri Shimbun since 1985.