List of Famous people born in Japan

Yōko Tawada is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German. Tawada has won numerous literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Goethe Medal, the Kleist Prize, and a National Book Award.

Yoshifu Arita is a Japanese writer, journalist and politician from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. He currently serves as a member of the House of Councillors, and was elected from the National Representation list in 2010. Before he was elected, he was a regular commentator of Nippon Television's The Wide.

Daisuke Shima is a Japanese singer and actor. He is best known for appearing on television in tokusatsu and other dramas, such as Yuusuke Amamiya in the series Choujuu Sentai Liveman, as Shuji Koboku in Tokyo Elevator Girl, as Captain Harumitsu Hiura in Ultraman Cosmos, and as the cafe owner in Kisarazu Cat's Eye.

Kaoru Hasuike is a Japanese citizen who was abducted by North Korean spies along with his girlfriend Yukiko Okudo. They were abducted from their hometown of Kashiwazaki in Niigata prefecture on July 19, 1978. Hasuike was a law student at the time. During their captivity, in May 1980, Hasuike and Okudo were married. They had two children: a daughter, Shigeyo, and a son, Katsuya. On October 15, 2002, the North Korean government allowed Hasuike, Okudo and other victims to leave North Korea to visit Japan. Once there, Hasuike and Okudo decided to remain in Japan and to plead for the release of their children, which was eventually allowed in 2004.

Tomoyo Kurosawa is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from Chichibu, Saitama. Her major voice acting roles in anime are in Yuki Yuna Is a Hero as Itsuki Inubozaki, Sound! Euphonium as Kumiko Ōmae and Land of the Lustrous as Phosphophyllite.

Sara Dosho is a female wrestler from Japan.

Hirokazu Ibata is a Japanese former professional baseball player in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He played second base for the Yomiuri Giants and short stop for the Chunichi Dragons but is able to play at other positions.

Anna Santos, better known by her stage name Anna, is a singer of the group Bon-Bon Blanco. She has five brothers and is the youngest sibling in the family. She uses Anna in her solo efforts, but she uses her real name when part of the band. She was born in Tokyo, Japan, but she has American citizenship.

Makoto Ozone is a Japanese jazz pianist.

Anna Iriyama is a Japanese singer and a member of the Japanese idol group AKB48, in which she is a member of Team A. She is represented by the talent agency Ohta Production. She was part of the cast for the telenovela Like and lived in Mexico from 2018 to 2019. As of 2020, she has returned to Japan to continue with her activities in AKB48.