List of Famous people born in Japan

Seiichi Tanabe (田辺誠一) is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 24th Yokohama Film Festival for Hush! and at the 27th Hochi Film Award for Hush! and Harmful Insect.

Satoru Nakajima is a former racing driver from Japan. He is a five-time Japanese Top Formula champion and the first full-time Japanese Formula One driver. He also became the first Japanese F1 driver to score points, at the 1987 San Marino Grand Prix, where he finished sixth in only his second F1 race.

Keiro Kitagami is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Tokyo and graduate of Kyoto University, he joined the Ministry of Finance. After leaving the ministry, he was elected for the first time in 2005. In 2004, Kitagami was honored as an Inamori Fellow by the Inamori Foundation and in 2007 as a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum.

Waka Inoue is a Japanese idol, tarento and actress. She was born in Meguro, Tokyo as Naoko Niimura. Her mother is former actress Kyoko Saga.

Phongchi is a Japanese idol of Vietnamese descent. Often dubbed "Idoling No. 8", she is a former member of Japanese all-girl idol group Idoling. She was one of original members and had been the most popular member of the group. She also does glamour modeling as a gravure idol, having released two photobooks and five DVDs since 2008.

Minori Suzuki is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with E-Stone Music. She started her career after passing an audition for the role of Freyja Wion in the 2016 anime television series Macross Delta, beating 8,000 other auditionees for the role.

Tomoya Ugajin is a Japanese footballer who plays for Urawa Red Diamonds.

Kyoko Hamaguchi is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. She has won five FILA Wrestling World Championships and two Olympic Bronze medals in the 72 kg weight class.

Kumiko Ogura is a Japanese badminton player, affiliated with the Sanyo Electric team.

Rika Kakiuchi , previously known by her stage name, Rina Aiuchi and now professionally known as R, is a Japanese singer, songwriter and entrepreneur. Born in Higashiōsaka, Japan, she won the first season of the audition Super Starlight Contest, winning a recording contract with Giza Studio. Her eurobeat-sounding debut album, Be Happy (2001) was certified gold in Japan and spawned a top-five single, "Koi wa Thrill, Shock, Suspense", which served as the theme song to the Japanese anime television series Case Closed. Aiuchi's second album Power of Words became her best-selling album, selling over 419,000 copies nationwide and certificated platinum in Japan.