List of Famous people born in Japan

Kyōko Yoshine is a Japanese actress.

Riho Yoshioka is a Japanese actress.

Ryoko Yonekura is a Japanese actress and former fashion model best known for her role in the Japanese medical drama Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon. She is also the official Japanese dubbing roles for Scarlett Johansson in Avengers film series, as Black Widow.

Kanna Hashimoto is a Japanese actress and former singer who began her career as a member of the Japanese idol girl group Rev. from DVL and has starred in a number of films, many of which are live-action adaptations of popular manga and anime series.

Jun Murakami is a Japanese actor. He is not to be confused with Japanese stunt actor Jun Murakami.

Seiko Matsuda is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, known for being one of the most popular Japanese idols of the 1980s. Due to her popularity in the 1980s and her long career, she has been dubbed the "Eternal Idol" by the Japanese media. In 2016, however, Ian Martin of The Japan Times compared her output unfavorably with that of Utada Hikaru, describing Matsuda as "first and foremost an idol rather than an artist. Her legacy is best expressed in singles rather than albums." Seiko once held the record for number-one hits from 1983 to 2000 and for solo artist. Seiko was the overall finale performer of Kouhaku in 2014 and 2015, the prestigious NHK New Year's Eve Music show on which she has performed 21 times. She is still actively releasing new singles and albums, doing annual summer concert tours, winter dinner shows, high-profile TV commercials and movies, and makes frequent TV appearances and radio broadcasts.

Kana Kurashina is a Japanese actress who is represented by the talent agency Sony Music Artists.

The Kobe child murders occurred in Kobe, Japan, on March 16 and May 27, 1997. Two victims, Ayaka Yamashita , age 10, and Jun Hase , age 11, were murdered by a 14-year-old boy reportedly named Shinichiro Azuma , under the alias Seito Sakakibara .

Akio Otsuka is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from the Tokyo Metropolitan area. He is attached to Mausu Promotion.

Seiko Noda is a Japanese politician. As of 2005 she is a member of the House of Representatives, serving her fifth term and representing the 1st District of Gifu Prefecture; she was the State Minister in charge of Consumer Affairs. She is a self-described conservative who affiliates herself with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). She served as the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications from 3 August 2017 to 2 October 2018.