List of Famous people born in Japan

Kazuhiko Ishimine is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder.

Masanori Morimura better known under his ring name Ricky Fuji is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to Action Advance Pro Wrestling, where he also runs the day-to-day operations. He is perhaps best known for his time with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW), where he wrestled between the promotion's early days in 1990 until the promotion's closure in 2002, making him the longest-tenured wrestler in the company's history.

Hiromu Matsuoka is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He played for the Sankei Atoms / Yakult Atoms / Yakult Swallows. He won the Eiji Sawamura Award in 1978.

Kazuhiro Goya is a Japanese rugby sevens player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics for Japan. He played at the 2015 ARFU Men's Sevens Championships where Japan beat Hong Kong to qualify for the Olympics.

Ryo Okui is a Japanese football player for Shimizu S-Pulse.

Ryosei Tanaka is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Warabi, Saitama and graduate of Rikkyo University he was elected for the first time in 2005.