List of Famous people born in Japan

Tomoko Tamura is a member of the Japanese Communist Party serving in the House of Councillors. She has been elected twice to this position—once in 2010, and again in 2016. She criticized Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe's cabinet picks, saying that they were just trying to appeal to minorities such as women without choosing people who are actually supportive of the women's movement.

Aki Maeda is a Japanese actress and singer. She has an older sister named Ai Maeda.

Miho Tanaka is a Japanese model, entertainer, and actress who was represented by Office Palette until March 31, 2010, and by Asia Business Partners after that. Her husband is former Japan national football team player Junichi Inamoto.

Naotarō Moriyama is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. His mother is Ryōko Moriyama, a well-known folk singer.

Atsuko Tanaka , is a Japanese voice actress and narrator associated with Mausu Promotion. Her most-known voice role is Motoko Kusanagi in the Ghost in the Shell film and franchise and Konan in the Naruto series. She also voices Caster in the Fate/stay night series, Lisa Lisa in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Claudette in Queen's Blade, Francis Midford in Black Butler, and Karura in Utawarerumono, Bayonetta in the Bayonetta: Bloody Fate film adaptation and Bayonetta 2 and Kyrie Ushiromiya from Umineko no Naku Koro ni. She attended the Tokyo Announcement Academy where she studied voice training in 1991. In 2012, a Biglobe poll named her the voice actress with the sexiest voice.

Hajime Ishii is a Japanese politician who served in the Diet for 39 years between 1969 and 2013. A native of Kobe, Hyogo, he attended Konan University as an undergraduate and University of California, Los Angeles as a graduate and received a master's degree in political science from Stanford University. During his time in the Diet he served as the head of the National Land Agency for six months in 1989-1990 and as Minister for Home Affairs for two months in 1994.

Machiko Washio is a Japanese actress who works in both live action as well as voice over work for anime. To anime fans, she is well known as the voice of Sakura in Urusei Yatsura.

Yuka Itaya is a Japanese actress and caster. She is represented with Amuse, Inc.

Masahiro Yanagida is a Japanese male volleyball player. He is a member of the Japan men's national volleyball team, playing Outside Hitter. At the club level he plays for the Suntory Sunbirds.. Yanagida captained the senior national team’s captain from 2018 to 2021.

Ryōyū Kobayashi is a Japanese ski jumper. He is one of the most successful contemporary athletes in ski jumping, having won during the 2018–19 season thirteen World Cup events and all six possible titles in the World Cup season: overall title, ski flying title, Four Hills Tournament, Raw Air, Planica7, and Willingen Five. He is the third ski jumper in the history to win all four competitions in the Four Hills Tournament. He won a gold medal at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing on the normal hill and the silver medal on the large hill.