List of Famous people born in Japan

Mac Suzuki

First Name Mac
Last Name Suzuki
Born on May 31, 1975 (age 51)
Height 191 cm | 6'3

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.

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Nanako Takushi

First Name Nanako
Born on March 25, 1976 (age 50)

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.

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Shingo Murakami

First Name Shingo
Born on January 26, 1982 (age 44)

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

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Takeshi Masu

First Name Takeshi
Last Name Masu
Born on December 9, 1955 (age 70)
Born in Japan, Tokyo
Height 180 cm | 5'11

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

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Ayaka Imamura

First Name Ayaka
Born on August 5, 1993 (age 32)
Born in Japan

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.

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Asuka Kuramochi

First Name Asuka
Last Name Kuramochi
Born on September 11, 1989 (age 36)
Height 156 cm | 5'1

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

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Naoko Hayashiba

First Name Naoko
Born on January 24, 1968 (age 58)

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.

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Naoko Kawai

First Name Naoko
Born on July 24, 1963 (age 62)

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

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Britney Young

First Name Britney
Born in Japan, Tokyo

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

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Akira Sone

First Name Akira
Last Name Sone
Born on July 9, 2000 (age 25)

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

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