List of Famous people born in Japan

Celes Kobayashi is a former professional boxer from Ibaraki, Japan. He is a former WBA Super flyweight champion. He got his ring name, "Celes", from a company he used to work for. He lives in Chiba, Japan, with his wife and daughter.

Shota Sakaki is a Japanese football player who plays for Tochigi SC.

Tomoyuki Uchiyama is a former pitcher who played for the Seibu Lions and Fukuoka Daiei Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball from 1992 to 1997.

Konami Yoshida is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo, Japan.

Hiroshi Mihara , better known by his ring name Hiroshi Yamato , is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works as a freelancer. Trained by the All Japan Pro Wrestling promotion, he started his career in February 2007 working in Mexico for the International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) promotion, where he won the 2007 Rey del Ring tournament. Yamato returned to Japan and his home promotion in February 2008 and during the next five years went on to become a one-time World Junior Heavyweight and All Asia Tag Team Champion and the winner of the 2012 Junior Hyper League. In June 2013, Yamato left All Japan in a mass exodus to join the new Wrestle-1 promotion. In January 2016, Yamato won the Wrestle-1 Cruiser Division Championship. Yamato also worked as a trainer and sales manager for Wrestle-1 until his departure from the promotion in 2018.

Kanna Arihara , known professionally as Kanna (栞菜), is a Japanese talent, actress, and a former singer.

Hitoshi Iwaaki is a Japanese manga artist, whose works include the science-fiction/horror series Parasyte. The Mixx editions of Parasyte romanize his name as "Hitosi Iwaaki", while the Del Rey Manga editions use "Hitoshi Iwaaki".

Harutaka Ono is a former Japanese football player.

Masayoshi Kato is a Japanese professional baseball infielder. He was born on April 28, 1987 in Sendai. Miyagi. He is currently playing for Yokohama DeNA BayStars of the NPB.

Jiro Ishimaru is a Japanese journalist known for his work covering North Korea.