List of Famous people born in Japan

Reina Tanaka is a Japanese singer, actress and voice actress. She is one of the vocalists of the Japanese rock band Lovendor. From 2002 to 2013, she was a member of idol group Morning Musume and participated in other music acts under the Hello! Project name.

Hajime Isayama is a Japanese manga artist. His first and currently ongoing series, Attack on Titan, became one of the best-selling manga series of all time with 100 million copies in circulation as of December 2019.

Fumiya Nishiguchi , born September 26, 1972 in Wakayama, Japan, is a Japanese baseball player. He is a right-handed pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball for the Saitama Seibu Lions.

Saburo Kawabuchi is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for and managed the Japan national team. He is the founder and honorary chairman of the J.League. Between 2002 and 2008 he served as president of the Japan Football Association.

Kyohei Muranaka is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Auckland Tuatara of the Australian Baseball League (ABL). He previously played for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of the Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB).

Katsuya Ogawa is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Kamikawa, Hokkaidō and graduate of Nihon University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1995 as a member of the New Frontier Party.

Shino Shimoji is a Japanese voice actress from the Okinawa prefecture, affiliated with Aoni Production. She debuted as a singer in 2016 by performing the opening theme song for Magic of Stella.

Yuko Hara is the keyboardist for Southern All Stars. She is also a vocalist and writes many of her own songs.

Naoki Inose is a Japanese politician, journalist, historian, social critic and biographer of literary figures such as Yukio Mishima and Osamu Dazai. He served as Vice Governor of Tokyo from June 2007 until becoming Acting Governor on 1 November 2012 following the resignation of Shintaro Ishihara. He was elected Governor in a historical landslide victory in December 2012, but announced his resignation on December 19, 2013, following a political funds-related scandal; his resignation was approved and became effective December 24, 2013.

So Taguchi is a Japanese former outfielder. After ten seasons with the Orix BlueWave of Nippon Professional Baseball, he played eight years in Major League Baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs, followed by a final two years in Japan with the Orix Buffaloes.