List of Famous people born in Japan

Mac Suzuki is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. Over his career, Suzuki played 18 seasons in professional baseball, including six in Major League Baseball and two in the Japan Pacific League. In his major league career, he has played for the Seattle Mariners, the Kansas City Royals, the Colorado Rockies (2001), and the Milwaukee Brewers (2001). With those teams, he has had a combined record of 16–31 with a 5.72 earned run average (ERA), one complete game, one shutout, and 327 strikeouts in 117 games, 67 starts.

Nanako Takushi is a J-pop singer from Okinawa, Japan, and an original member of the group Super Monkey's. After the group disbanded, she formed the group MAX with other Super Monkey's vocalists.

Shingo Murakami is a Japanese singer, presenter, variety tarento and actor. He is the keyboardist of the Japanese male idol group Kanjani Eight.

Takeshi Masu is a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 80 films since 1981.

Ayaka Imamura is a retired Japanese voice actress from Osaka Prefecture. She was previously affiliated with With Line. On June 29, 2018, her management announced that she would retire from voice acting due to poor health.

Asuka Kuramochi is a singer, actress, and a former member of the idol group AKB48 under Team K.

Naoko Hayashiba , who is also known by the pen name Masaru Katori , is a Japanese writer and manga author from Fukuoka. She had a successful career as professional shogi player but quit during a sex scandal with another professional player, Makoto Nakahara, in 1995. Since then, she has focused on writing and TV work. She has written two novel series, Tondemo Police and Kiss Dakeja Iya, and the manga Shion no Ō. In 2010, after a 15-year absence, she returned to shogi.

Naoko Kawai (河合奈保子), is a 1980s era Japanese pop idol, singer-songwriter, composer, and actress.

Britney Young is an American actress, best known for her role as Carmen "Machu Picchu" Wade in GLOW.

Akira Sone is a female Japanese judoka. Sone's favorite techniques are Tai Otoshi, Ouchi Gari