List of Famous people born in Japan

Nagisa Abe is a Japanese singer and actress who had a minor role in the 2004 movie Swing Girls.

Aki Wada is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 1-dan. Her younger sister Hana is also a women's professional shogi player, and the two are the fourth pair of sisters to be awarded women's professional shogi player status.

Shuto Miyazaki is a Japanese actor represented by Watanabe Entertainment.

Toru Suzuki is a Japanese professional golfer, currently playing on the Japan Golf Tour.

Ei Aoki is a Japanese storyboard artist and director. He credits the anime Megazone 23 as his inspiration to have a career in animation. In 2013, he created the animation studio Troyca with Toshiyuki Nagano and Tomonobu Kato, which began animation production on its first work in the fall of 2014. Aoki is the director behind Girls Bravo, The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View, Ga-Rei: Zero, Wandering Son, Fate/Zero, Aldnoah.Zero, Re:Creators and ID: Invaded

Chikara Onodera is a closing pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in Nippon Professional Baseball. His uniform number is 29.

Fumikane Shimada , is an anime and video game illustrator and character designer from Okayama Prefecture.

Kazuya Murata is a Japanese football player.

Masami Kikuchi is a Japanese voice actor and narrator. He was affiliated with Troubador Music Office until March 2010. He then worked as freelance until April 2011, when he was employed by Kenyu Office.

Hiroko Kasahara is a Japanese voice actress, J-pop singer and stage actress. She sang the ending theme song of the PlayStation 2 role-playing video game Shadow Hearts, titled Ending Theme ~ Shadow Hearts, and the ending theme of the PC and PlayStation 2 visual novel Ever 17: The Out of Infinity, titled Aqua Stripe.