List of Famous people born in Japan

Mutsumi Tamura is a Japanese voice actress who is affiliated with I'm Enterprise. She voiced Kobayashi in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Aknori Arihoshi in Yo-kai Watch Shadowside and Lute in Monster Hunter Stories: Ride On.

Rika Kihira is a Japanese figure skater. She is a two-time Four Continents champion, the 2018 Grand Prix Final champion, a four-time Grand Prix series medalist, a two-time International Challenge Cup champion, and a two-time Japanese national champion.

Hirotada Ototake is a Japanese sports writer from Tokyo, Japan.

Shizuka Arakawa is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic Champion and the 2004 World Champion. Arakawa is the first Japanese skater to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating and the second Japanese skater to win any Olympic medal in figure skating, after Midori Ito, who won silver in 1992. She is also the second Japanese woman to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics, following skier Tae Satoya. She was the only Japanese medalist at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Yuriko, Princess Mikasa , is a member of the Imperial House of Japan as the widow of Takahito, Prince Mikasa, the fourth son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. The Princess is the last surviving paternal aunt of the previous emperor, Akihito, and currently is the oldest member of the Imperial Family, and the only living member who was born in the Taishō period.

Ryōtarō Sugi is a Japanese singer and actor. He is the father of actor Jundai Yamada.

Machiko Ono is a Japanese actress.

Makoto Hasebe is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Eintracht Frankfurt. He played for the Japan national team, for which he served as captain.

Shinsuke Suematsu is a Japanese politician and current member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. He has represented the Hyogo at-large district as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party since 2004. Before entering politics, Suematsu graduated from the School of Law and Politics, Kwansei Gakuin University in 1979 and worked for All Nippon Airways.

Akihiro Yano is a former Japanese baseball player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He started his career as the Number 2 Draft pick with the Chunichi Dragons in 1991, and played for the Hanshin Tigers from 1998 until his retirement in 2010.