List of Famous people born in Japan

Hajime Matsumoto is a Japanese activist, and owner of a second-hand goods shop in Koenji, Tokyo.

Ippei Watanabe is a former Japanese football player.

Shigeru Morioka is a former Japanese football player.

Yasuhiro Nightow is a Japanese manga artist. His major work Trigun was adapted into an anime series and film. He also designed the characters for the video game and anime series Gungrave, and has been working on the manga Blood Blockade Battlefront.

Shu Yoshida is a Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons on a developmental contract in the Western League.

Yorinaga Nakamura , also known as Yori Nakamura, is a retired Japanese shoot wrestler and an instructor in shoot wrestling, Jeet Kune Do, Filipino martial arts, silat, and Muay Thai.

Yuki Sato is a Japanese professional wrestler. He currently wrestles in Kaientai Dojo with his real name, in Michinoku Pro Wrestling as Kenbai and in Pro Wrestling Noah as Haoh .

Shinji Aoto is a retired Japanese sprinter turned bobsledder who represented his country at the 1988 Summer Olympics and 1998 Winter Olympics. He is the first and only Japanese male athlete to competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games. During his athletics career he also competed at two World Indoor Championships, in 1989 and 1993. He was the former national record holder in the 100 metres and the first Japanese to run under 10.3 seconds. He is currently the deputy director of track and field club at Chukyo University.

Mai Hoshimura is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter and pianist.

Keisuke Moriya is a former Japanese football player.