List of Famous people born in Japan

Keiji Tamada is a Japanese football player who plays for V-Varen Nagasaki.

Tamiyo Kusakari is a Japanese actress and former ballet dancer. In 1997 her portrayal of Mai Kishikawa in Shall We Dance? won a Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.

Yoshinori Muto is a Japanese professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Eibar, on loan from Newcastle United, and the Japan national team as a forward.

Toshihiro Nagoshi is a Japanese video game producer and designer. He is the chief creative officer for Sega, general director of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and a member of the board of directors for Atlus. He joined Sega in 1989.

Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald. On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan.

Wataru Takagi is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Chiba Prefecture. He is affiliated with Arts Vision. He is best known for his roles in Detective Conan, After War Gundam X, Slayers Try, the Beast Wars: Transformers series, Great Teacher Onizuka, Hajime no Ippo, Naruto, the fifth series of GeGeGe no Kitarō, Yes! PreCure 5, and more recently, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable.

Ai Sugiyama is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 37 doubles titles, including three Grand Slam titles and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. Sugiyama held the all-time record, for both male and female players, for her 62 consecutive Grand Slam main draw appearances, until she was surpassed by Roger Federer at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships.

Kenji Urai is a Japanese actor and singer.

Tetsuya Utsumi is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB). He previously played for the Yomiuri Giants.

Nobutoshi Hayashi , better known by the stage name Nobutoshi Canna , is a Japanese actor, voice actor, singer and narrator who is affiliated with Aoni Production. He first started acting as a child. Canna is best known for his performances as Tasuki, Ban Mido (GetBackers), Nnoitra Gilga (Bleach), Lancer, Basara Nekki, Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto), Cao Pi in Dynasty Warriors and Warriors Orochi series, Kai Kogashiwa in Initial D anime and mostly video game is Initial D Arcade Stage series from Arcade Stage 4 all the way to Arcade Stage 8 infinity, Guts (Berserk), Knuckles the Echidna, Lee Pai-Long, Brian Stelbart and Nowaki Kusama.