List of Famous people born in Japan

Koichi Hashiratani is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team. His younger brother Tetsuji Hashiratani is also a former footballer.

Kunihiko Yuyama is a Japanese director best known for his work on the Pokémon anime franchise. He also directed Magical Princess Minky Momo, Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, The Three Musketeers Anime, Ushio and Tora, Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning, Plawres Sanshiro, Slayers Return, Slayers Great, and Wedding Peach.

Shoji Kamata is a Japanese basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Masaru Ogawa is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. He is a four-time Japanese national champion and placed 14th at the 1984 Winter Olympics. After retiring from competition, he became a doctor of dental surgery.

Fumihiro Suzuki is a retired Japanese professional baseball catcher and current coach for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He previously played with the Chunichi Dragons and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes. Suzuki also played for Team Japan at the 2000 Olympics.

Shohei Otsuka is a Japanese football player currently playing for SC Sagamihara.

Fumihiko Sueki is a Japanese academic and historian, and one of Japan's leading scholars of Japanese Buddhism. He is a professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. A member of the advisory board of Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture's Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, he is also a contributor to the journal itself.

Yuki Takahashi is a Japanese freestyle wrestler who currently competes at 57 kilograms. In 2017, Takahashi became the World Champion and the Asian Champion, also medaling at both events in the next editions. He is currently expected to represent Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics after claiming gold at the 2021 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament.

Ryotaro Hironaga is a Japanese football player for Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

Yasuhiro Kanō is a Japanese manga artist from Hokkaido. His first professional work was the short manga Black City, published in the autumn 1992 Shonen Jump special edition, which received Weekly Shōnen Jump's Hop Step Award for rookie artists. Several of his manga were serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump including Pretty Face and M×0. Pretty Face was published in North America by Viz Media.