List of Famous people born in Japan

Mie Hamada is a Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor.

Yoshihide Kiryū is a Japanese sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.

Naomi Hosokawa is a Japanese actress and singer.

Saki Fukuda is a Japanese actress and singer.

Hidetoshi Miyuki is a Japanese football player who plays for Shonan Bellmare.

Shinsuke J. Sugiyama is a Japanese diplomat who is currently Japanese ambassador to the United States.

Emi Shinohara is a Japanese voice actress and singer employed by 81 Produce who is most known for voicing Sailor Jupiter in the original Japanese anime of Sailor Moon and Kushina Uzumaki in Naruto: Shippuden. She was born in Fukushima Prefecture and raised in Nagano. She is married to tokusatsu actor Hiroshi Watari. She shares a birthday with fellow Sailor Moon star Rica Fukami, who voiced Sailor Venus.

Kazuo Tokumitsu is a Japanese TV presenter and announcer.

Kei Igawa is a Japanese left-handed pitcher. He played for the Hanshin Tigers and Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He led all pitchers in the Central League for strikeouts in 2002, 2004 and 2006. He also played in the 2006 Major League Baseball Japan All-Star Series.

Yui, stylized as YUI or yui, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actress. In her solo career, she sold more than 5 million physical copies in Japan. She is popular in Japan and in surrounding countries, ranking number one in 2011 Count Down TV "Dearest Female Artist" and Music Station "Artist You Most Want to Marry" polls, as well as Radio Television Hong Kong's "Most Popular Japanese Artist".