List of Famous people born in Japan

Toshiyuki Toyonaga is a Japanese actor, voice actor and singer. He began working on television and stage. Following his debut as a voice actor in 2002, he currently works with the Super Eccentric Theater Inc. He played Mikado Ryugamine in Durarara!!, Katsuki Yuri in Yuri on Ice, Shun Matsuoka in Kimi to Boku, Hideyoshi Nagachika in Tokyo Ghoul, Yuuki Tenpouin in Code:Breaker, Mahiro Fuwa in Blast of Tempest, Takeru Totsuka in Kamigami no Asobi and Goshi Kaneshiro in B-Project.

Hideo Yokoyama is a Japanese novelist.

Taisaku Akino is a Japanese actor.

Akira Koike is a Japanese politician, who is the secretariat head and vice chair of the Japanese Communist Party. He also serves as a member of the House of Councillors for the party.

Toshirō Mutō is the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan.

Fumikazu Kimura is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Saitama Seibu Lions in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Iehiro Tokugawa is an author, translator, and the heir of the main Tokugawa house. His great-great-grandfather was the famed Matsudaira Katamori of Aizu, and his maternal great-great-grandfather was Tokugawa Iesato, the sixteenth head of the Tokugawa clan.

Tetsuya is a Japanese musician, best known as the leader and bassist of the rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel. Formerly known by the stage name tetsu, on December 1, 2009 he started to use his birth name. While in L'Arc-en-Ciel his name is stylized as tetsuya, whereas in his solo work it is stylized as TETSUYA.

Takashi Fukunishi is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

Hiroyuki Kobayashi is a Japanese right-handed pitcher. He played in the 2006 World Baseball Classic for Japan.