List of Famous people born in Japan

Aya Endō is a Japanese voice actress and narrator from Yamagata Prefecture. At the 2nd Seiyu Awards, she won Best Singing along with her cast mates in Lucky Star, and at the 3rd Seiyu Awards, she won Best Supporting Actress. She is the current official Japanese dub voice of Minnie Mouse since 2016 replacing the late Yūko Mizutani, and is also the voice for the character Iris in Rockman X DiVE starting July 2020, which was previously released without any voice data.

Hidemasa Morita is a Japanese football player for CD Santa Clara.

Mion Mukaichi is a Japanese idol and a member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She is a member of AKB48's Team A and is the current AKB48 Group General Manager .

Pinko Izumi is a Japanese actress and singer. Her legal name is Sayo Takemoto , and she originally performed under the name Mariko Mikado .

Kōtarō Yoshida is a Japanese actor and theatre director. He is currently affiliated with Horipro.

Otoemon Hiroeda was a Japanese police officer posted to Zhunan, Miaoli in Japanese-era Taiwan. During the Pacific War, he disobeyed orders that he sacrifice the lives of 2000 Taiwanese soldiers under his command in a suicidal attack, and then killed himself. His actions resulted in a spirit tablet for him being enshrined within Quanhua Temple on Lion Head Mountain, Miaoli County, Taiwan.

Kaori Muraji is a Japanese classical guitarist. She is the first Japanese artist to have signed an exclusive international contract with Decca Music Group.

Shirō Kishibe was a Japanese actor from Kyoto.

Ryoko Kobayashi is a Japanese actress.

Satoshi Ōmura [satoɕi oːmu͍ɽa] is a Japanese biochemist. He is known for the discovery and development of various pharmaceuticals originally occurring in microorganisms. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell and Tu Youyou.