List of Famous people born in Japan
Gurimu Narita
Gurimu Narita is a Japanese disabled snowboarder. He won gold in Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Paralympics – Men's banked slalom in the SB-LL2 classification and bronze in Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Paralympics – Men's snowboard cross.
Sora Tokui
Sora Tokui is a Japanese voice actress, singer, and manga artist who made her debut as a voice actress in 2009 as Himemiya in Weiß Survive R.
Hitomi Satō
Hitomi Satō is a Japanese actress. She has appeared in more than forty films since 1996.
Ryosuke Hirata
Ryōsuke Hirata is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He has played for the Dragons since 2006.
Eikei Suzuki
Eikei Suzuki is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Mie Prefecture located in Kansai region of Japan.
Toshihiko Seko
Toshihiko Seko is a Japanese former long-distance runner. He was a world-class marathon competitor in the 1980s. He represented his native country at the 1984 and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Norihiro Komada
Norihiro Komada is a former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder.
Hiroshi Ogawa
Hiroshi Ogawa is a Japanese politician and governor of Fukuoka Prefecture since 2011. In 2015, he was re-elected for a second term.
Katsuya Okada
Katsuya Okada is a Japanese politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Japan from January to December 2012. A member of the House of Representatives of Japan, he was the President of the Democratic Party, and previously of the Democratic Party of Japan. He also served as Secretary-General of the DPJ three times. During the DPJ's period in government he was Foreign Minister of Japan.
Umika Kawashima
Umika Kawashima is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She is a former member of the Japanese girl group 9nine. Her solo single "Maji de Koi Suru 5 Byō Mae/Ichigo Iro no Kimochi", on the Watashi no Yasashikunai Senpai soundtrack, reached #46 on the Oricon chart. As an actress, she played in numerous Japanese TV series and movies.