List of Famous people born in Japan

Hiroshi Katsuno is a Japanese actor.　He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. Katsuno's debut was as a detective Texas in the television series Taiyō ni Hoero! in 1974 and he won great popularity through the role. The episode his character Texas was killed recorded 42.5% audience rating, it was highest audience rating in Taiyō ni Hoero!.

Miwako Ichikawa is a Japanese actress, sister of actress Mikako Ichikawa. She began in 1991 as a model, and released a single in 1998 and an album the following year. She debuted in acting in 2000 and immediately starred in the movies Another Heaven in 2000 and Konsento in 2001. But after that, she received minor roles in films All About Lily Chou-Chou, Karaoke Terror, Princess Raccoon, and in TV dramas, including Mike Hama or Anego with Ryoko Shinohara. She was given one of the main roles 2008 movie Nightmare Detective 2.

Kaori Mochida is the lead singer of Japanese pop group Every Little Thing.

Takashi Ogino is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder and shortstop for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Wataru Endo is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for German club VfB Stuttgart and the Japan national team. Until 2019, he played for Sint-Truiden, whom he joined after beginning his professional career with Shonan Bellmare.

Machiko Satonaka is a Japanese manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1964 during her second year of high school with the one-shot Pia no Shōzō. She has since created nearly 500 manga in a variety of genres. Two of her most notable works are Ashita Kagayaku, which won the 1974 Kodansha Publishing Culture Award, and Karyūdo no Seiza, which won the 1982 Kodansha Manga Award. In addition to creating manga, Satonaka teaches at the Osaka University of Arts as the head of the Character Creative Arts Department and serves on the board of various manga-related organizations in Japan.

Koji Miyoshi is a Japanese football player who plays as a midfielder for Royal Antwerp and the Japanese national team.

Sho Inagaki is a Japanese footballer who plays for Nagoya Grampus.

Mako Hyōdō , also credited as Mako Hyoudou, is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan.

Akinori Otsuka is a retired Japanese baseball pitcher who coaches for the Chunichi Dragons in Nippon Professional Baseball. He was formerly the set-up man for the San Diego Padres and the Texas Rangers. He was also the closer for Japan's 2006 World Baseball Classic winning team.