List of Famous people born in Japan

Kataoka Ainosuke VI is a Japanese kabuki actor. His yagō is matsushimaya. His mon is the Oikake Go-mai Ichō. His current stage name is Ainosuke Kataoka.

Gal Sone is a female Japanese competitive eater and singer. Her popularity has helped produce a resurgence in Japanese competitive eating, or ōgui, after the outcry following the death of a Japanese schoolboy imitating an eating stunt in 2002 resulted in a three-year hiatus for major Japanese eating contests.

Kami Hiraiwa is a Japanese actress. Her real name is Kana Hiraiwa . She is represented with Otona Keikaku.

Satoshi Hamada is a Japanese politician and radiologist. He is serving as a member of the House of Councillors since 2019.

Etsushi Toyokawa is a Japanese actor.

Shinnosuke Abe is a Japanese former professional baseball player who spent his entire 19-year career with Nippon Professional Baseball's Yomiuri Giants, serving as the team's captain from 2007 to 2014. He has twice been named the MVP of the Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series, in 2007 and 2010.

Takashi Hatakeyama , better known by his stage name Kreva, is a Japanese rapper and record producer signed with the Burger Inn Records and Pony Canyon's Knife Edge labels. He is a solo artist as well as a member of various hip hop groups, including Kick the Can Crew, By Phar the Dopest with fellow MC Cuezero, and a large ensemble of other Japanese hip hop groups in Funky Grammar Unit.

Arisa Sugi is a Japanese actress who is affiliated with LesPros Entertainment. She graduated from Senzoku Gakuen College of Music. She is married to dancer Yoshihiro Usami since 2017.

Tetsuo Kurata is a Japanese television, stage and film actor and restaurateur, best known for portraying Minami Kotaro, the main character in the tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider Black and its sequel, Kamen Rider Black RX. At the age of 19 he made his acting debut in Black, and has since appeared in many other television series and Japanese doramas. His birth name is Tetsuo Kakimoto .

Teppei Arita is a Japanese comedian, television presenter and television writer who performs boke of the comedy duo Cream Stew. His partner is Shinya Ueda. He is nicknamed Aripei (アリペイ) and Aripē (アリペー).