List of Famous people born in Japan

Yoshinori Suematsu is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet.

Kazuya Kato is a Japanese mathematician. He grew up in the prefecture of Wakayama in Japan. He attended college at the University of Tokyo, from which he also obtained his master's degree in 1975, and his PhD in 1980. He was a professor at Tokyo University, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Kyoto University. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2009.

Tsuneyoshi Saito is a Japanese composer and arranger for anime shows and video games. He composed the original music for the third Tenchi Muyo film Tenchi Forever! The Movie, the feature anime film xxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Fafner anime series including the original anime series, its feature film Fafner: Heaven and Earth, and its 2014 sequel Fafner: Exodus He composed and arranged the soundtrack for the anime series Dennō Coil, Kamen Rider Kiva, and Idolmaster: Xenoglossia. In video games, he co-composed music for Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, and co-arranged the music for Final Fantasy VI that appears on the album Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale.

Ryo Yoshimoto is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder.

Aoi Tada is a Japanese singer and former voice actress. She formerly belonged to Gekidan Himawari. Her most noted voice role is that of Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV in Cowboy Bebop. She also performed an insert song to the series, "Wo Qui Non Coin".

Yosuke Nozawa is a Japanese retired football player.

Kenji Arima is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Kazuhiro Tsuga is the current President of Panasonic.

George Takano , born June 23, 1958, is an American-Japanese retired professional wrestler who was billed from Uganda under the alias The Cobra, a masked wrestler persona. He worked for various Japanese and American wrestling promotions from the late 1970s to early 1990s. He is the older brother of Shunji Takano.