List of Famous people born in Japan

Nobuyuki Hiyama is a Japanese voice actor, narrator, and radio personality currently affiliated with Arts Vision.

Tamayo Marukawa is a Japanese politician and former announcer of TV Asahi, who serves as a member of the House of Councillors of the National Diet. She is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. She served as the head of the Women's Affairs Office of the LDP on October 2009.

Tatsuya Tanaka is a Japanese football player who plys for Albirex Niigata. He played for Japan national team.

Sayuri Matsumura is a Japanese idol singer, model and actress who is a member of the Japanese idol girl group Nogizaka46.

Kazusa Okuyama is a Japanese actress and model who is affiliated with Oscar Promotion and MOC Planning. She is a Miyagi University of Education graduate.

Hiroyuki Akimoto is a Japanese judoka. After moving up from the -66 kg division to the -73 kg division, he won the gold medal in the lightweight (73 kg) division at the 2010 World Judo Championships.

Koji Alexander Murofushi is a former Japanese-Romanian hammer thrower and sports scientist. He has been among the world elite since the 2001 World Championships, where he won the silver medal. He was the 2004 Olympic champion. In 2011, he was crowned world champion.

Haruko Obokata is a former stem-cell biologist and research unit leader at Japan's Laboratory for Cellular Reprogramming, Riken Center for Developmental Biology. She claimed to have developed a radical and remarkably easy way to make stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells that could be grown into tissue for use anywhere in the body. Riken, however, eventually launched an investigation in response to allegations of irregularities in images appearing in several articles she authored, including the paper announcing the discovery of STAP cells. The ensuing scandal in 2014 over STAP cells has since become one of the world's best-known scientific frauds alongside the Schön scandal and Hwang Woo-suk's cloning experiments.

Yūji Tanaka is a Japanese comedian. He is best known as half of the owarai duo Bakusho Mondai along with Hikari Ota. He also played Mike in the Japanese dub of the Pixar movie Monsters, Inc. and Br'er Fox in the Japanese dub of the Disney movie Song of the South. Tanaka was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2010, but was successfully treated following surgery.

Yumi Kawai , better known by the stage name Yumi Morio , is a Japanese actress employed by the talent management firm Stardust Promotion.