List of Famous people born in Japan

Kyoko Hinami is a Japanese gravure idol and actress known for her role as Mitsuki Aoyagi/Akiba Blue in the 2012 Super Sentai parody series Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger. She was affiliated with Stardust Promotion.

Tae Satoya is a Japanese freestyle skier. She won the Olympic title in the moguls event at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and she finished third at the 2002 games.

Katsura Bunshi VI is a Japanese TV presenter and rakugo artist. Bunshi Katsura VI is his stage name and his real name is Shizuya Kawamura .

Yumi Yoshino is a Japanese actress. She is represented with Production Harmony.

Saori Minami was born in Okinawa on July 2, 1954 to Japanese parents. In the 1970s she was active as an idol.

Yoshiharu Tsuge is a Japanese cartoonist and essayist. He was active in comics between 1955 and 1987. His works range from tales of ordinary life to dream-like surrealism, and often show his interest in traveling about Japan. He has garnered the most attention from the surrealistic works he had published in the late 1960s in the avant-garde magazine Garo.

Kazuyuki Aijima is a Japanese stage and film actor, and one of the original Tokyo Sunshine Boys, a theatrical troupe that lasted from 1983 to about 1994. He is currently seen in television dramas and onstage in Japan.

Merle Dandridge is a Japanese-born American actress and singer who performed in a number of stage productions, including Broadway musicals Jesus Christ Superstar, Spamalot and Rent. She is widely known for her role as Alyx Vance in the Half-Life series and Marlene in The Last of Us. Dandridge is also known for her recurring role on television series such as Sons of Anarchy and The Night Shift. In 2016, she began starring as Grace Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf. She played Papa Ge in the 2017 revival of Once on this Island, until January 8, 2018.

Ryo Nishikata is a Japanese tarento and actress. Her real name is Atsuko Kimura . She appeared in the Nippon TV series Koi no kara Sawagi as the ninth generation member from 2002 to 2003 and was nicknamed Sakan-ya (左官屋). In 2004 she started other careers other than a tarento. She appeared in television advertisements and music videos. Her film debut was Nise-satsu in April 2009.

Kokona Hiraki or Cocona Hiraki is a Japanese skateboarder. She won a silver medal in the women's park event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the youngest Japanese athlete on record to participate in the Summer Olympic Games.