List of Famous people born in Japan

Toshiyuki Someya is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and model. He debuted as an actor in 2008 and has starred in multiple theater and film projects including Musical: The Prince of Tennis 2nd Season, Stage: Touken Ranbu, Kokuchō no Himitsu, and Koisuru Futari.

Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. Sakurai was a member of I'm Enterprise, but later became freelance up until her retirement. She previously announced her retirement on September 1, 2016, but on June 1, 2019, she announced that she would return to the entertainment industry.

Yasuhiro Hanashi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Ibaraki Prefecture and graduate of the University of Tokyo he joined the National Police Agency in 1982. Leaving the agency in 1999, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2003. He represents the 3rd District of Ibaraki prefecture, which includes the cities of Ryugasaki and Ushiku, among others.

Mio Yūki , whose real name is Rina Kanno , is a Japanese actress, model and tarento from Fukushima Prefecture.

Takashi Usami is a Japanese footballer who plays for Gamba Osaka in the J1 League. He plays as an attacking midfielder, second striker or winger.

Nana Takagi is a Japanese speed skater who is a member of the Nidec Sankyo speed skating team.

Takaya Ishikawa is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Chunichi Dragons.

Vice-Admiral Prince Kuni Asaakira , was third head of the Kuni-no-miya, a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family and vice admiral in the Japanese Imperial Navy during World War II. He was the elder brother of Empress Kojun (Nagako), the consort of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito), and thus a maternal uncle to the Heisei Emperor.

Tetsuro Matsuzawa is a primatologist who was a past director of the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University.

Masashi Kishimoto is a Japanese manga artist. His best known work, Naruto, was in serialization from 1999 to 2014 and has sold over 250 million copies worldwide in 46 countries as of May 2019. The series has been adapted into two anime and multiple films, video games, and related media. Besides the Naruto manga, Kishimoto also personally supervised the two canonical anime films, The Last: Naruto the Movie and Boruto: Naruto the Movie, and has written several one-shot stories. In 2019, Kishimoto wrote Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru which ended in March 2020. From May 2016 through October 2020 he supervised the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations manga written by Ukyo Kodachi and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto. In November 2020 it was announced that he had taken over as writer on the series, replacing Kodachi.