List of Famous people born in Japan

Shōji Satō is a retired Japanese badminton player from NTT East team. He is now works as NTT East singles coach.

Kōyō Kawanishi is a Japanese dentist, amateur astronomer and discoverer of 13 minor planets.

Masaru Arai is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.

Toshiro Nomura is a Japanese astronomer and co-discoverer of 13 asteroids with astronomers Kōyō Kawanishi and Matsuo Sugano.

Mikio Naruse was a Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967.

Kazumi Totaka is a Japanese video game composer and sound director who is best known for his various compositions in many Nintendo games. He occasionally does voice acting as well, including Yoshi from the Mario series. He also directed the development of Wii Music.

Kazushige Nojima is a Japanese video game writer. He is best known for writing several installments of Square Enix's Final Fantasy franchise—namely Final Fantasy VII and its spin-offs Advent Children and Crisis Core, Final Fantasy VIII, and Final Fantasy X and X-2—in addition to the Kingdom Hearts series, the Glory of Heracles series, and the story to the Subspace Emissary mode in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Nojima also wrote the original lyrics of "Liberi Fatali" for Final Fantasy VIII and both "Suteki da Ne" and the "Hymn of the Fayth" for Final Fantasy X. He is also the founder of Stellavista Ltd.

Takeshi Seyama is a Japanese film editor from Tokyo.

Kenzo Suzuki is a Japanese astronomer from Toyota, Aichi, Japan. Between 1984 and 1992, he has discovered 42 minor planets mostly in collaboration with astronomers Takeshi Urata and Toshimasa Furuta.