List of Famous people born in Japan

Reiko Kusamura (草村礼子) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 18th Yokohama Film Festival for Shall We Dance?

Joy is a Japanese male fashion model, variety television personality, commentator, singer, and chairperson. His real name is Joseph Greenwood . He is represented with Grick, and he's currently the only male to be represented by this agency.

Hideyuki Tanaka is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Tokyo who is attached to Aoni Production. He is a graduate of the Toho Gakuen School of Music. He is most known for his roles in One Piece, Dokaben, Kinnikuman, Captain Tsubasa, Detective Conan, Touch, Saint Seiya and Narration, Metal Gear, Slam Dunk and the current voice actor of Zoffy in the Ultra Series.

Saori Ikeuchi is a member of the Japanese Communist Party, serving in the House of Representatives. She is one of the representatives representing the Tokyo proportional representation block. She thinks that the government should do more to protect the rights of LGBT people.

Kuniko Tanioka is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Osaka Prefecture, she graduated from the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada and gained a bachelor's degree in developmental biology. She was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2007. She is president of Shigakkan University.

Asami Sugiura , known by her birth name Asami Konno is a Japanese television presenter and former singer and actress.

Nako Yabuki is a Japanese singer and actress. She is a member of the Japanese idol girl group HKT48 and is a former member of the South Korean-Japanese girl group Iz*One after the competition television show Produce 48. She joined HKT48 in November 2013. From 2015 to 2017, she was a concurent member of AKB48. In 2018, Nako competed in the South Korean survival show Produce 48. She placed sixth and debuted as a member of Iz*One. She is an exclusive model for Love Berry. Nako is also known for her role as young Minami Asakura in the film Touch (2005).

Ryo Kase is a Japanese actor.

Makoto Koga was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet and formerly Minister of Transport. A native of Setaka, Fukuoka and graduate of Nihon University, he was elected for the first time in 1980 after an unsuccessful run in 1979.

Isao Shibata is a former professional baseball outfielder who played his entire career with the Yomiuri Giants from 1962 to 1981.