List of Famous people born in Japan

Maki Mori is a Japanese free announcer who is represented with Ten Carat. She is a former announcer for Nippon TV.

Yuji Kaneko is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Saitama Seibu Lions in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Miracle Hikaru , is a Japanese impressionist of the comedic performing arts from Toyooka, Hyōgo. She is best known for her impersonation of Hikaru Utada. Her professional activities are currently managed by Jinsei Pro.

Motoki Ochiai is a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 40 films since 2001.

Kōichi Morita , is a Japanese composer and singer who launched his recording career in the late 1960s and had gained huge commercial success during the 1970s.

Nakamura Shichinosuke II is a Japanese Kabuki, theatre, TV, and film actor. He was born Takayuki Namino , the second son of famed Kabuki performer, Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII. Unlike many kabuki actors, who specialize in a single type of role, Shichinosuke plays both male (tachiyaku) and female (onnagata) parts.

Katsunori Nomura is currently a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) coach for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. Before coaching, he played in NPB from 1996 to 2006, primarily as a second or third-string catcher. Nomura was drafted in 1995 by the Yakult Swallows, the team managed by his father, catching-great and long-time manager Katsuya Nomura. Over the course of his playing career, his father managed him for five seasons with three different teams—two with the Swallows, two with the Hanshin Tigers and one with the Golden Eagles.

Hiromitsu Kitayama is a Japanese idol, singer and actor. He is most well known as the eldest member of the Johnny's boy band Kis-My-Ft2. Kitayama has also appeared in many television drama series such as Kazoku Gari and in musicals such as Let's Sing A Song Of Love.

Naoki Kobayashi is a Japanese dancer, choreographer, actor and model. He is a performer of J-Pop dance and vocal group Exile, and is a leader and performer of J-Pop dance and vocal group Sandaime J Soul Brothers. He was also a member of Nidaime J Soul Brothers until their migration to Exile in 2009. As a member of Sandaime J Soul Brothers, he has received the Japan Record Awards twice, and has received the same award three times as a member of Exile. He choreographed the famous "Pocky Dance" for Pocky's advertisement in 2015.

Kaori Takahashi is a Japanese actress. She starred in the 2003 Fuji TV adaptation of Kuni Arisaka's novel Happiness in Bloom , and played supporting roles in the 1986 NHK series Musashibō Benkei and the 1994 TV Asahi series Troublesome Teacher . In 2009 she appeared in the lead role in Christmas Miracle , her third lead role for Fuji TV after Shiawase saita and the 2005 drama Dangerous Liaisons .