List of Famous people born in Japan

Közi is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and DJ. He is best known as one of the guitarists for the 1990s visual kei rock band Malice Mizer. After they went on indefinite hiatus in 2001, he formed the industrial rock duo Eve of Destiny and also started a solo career. Közi is currently in the bands Dalle, XA-VAT, ZIZ and Vamquet, while occasionally performing solo shows.

Manami Tanaka is a Japanese voice actress from Hiroshima Prefecture. She is affiliated with Production Baobab.

Shinya Fujiwara is a Japanese photographer.

Naoyoshi Hikosaka is a Japanese artist and one of the founders of the activist group Bikyōtō. He was a artist-theorist who critiqued Mono-ha, worked in conceptualism in the first half of the 1970s, and turned to painting from the second half of the 1970s onward.

Mutsumi Inomata is a Japanese illustrator and animator.

Kyosuke Machida is a retired Japanese actor. Before his retirement, Machida had appeared more than 150 films, including many yakuza films produced by Toei. When he was a child, he became Mas Oyama's pupil. Now he is advisor of International Karate Organization Kyokushin-kaikan.