List of Famous people born in Japan

Yuri Morishita is a Japanese idol who is represented by the talent agency Asche.

Takumi Miyayoshi is a Japanese football player currently playing for Kyoto Sanga FC.

Rika Kawamura is a Japanese model, actress, and gravure idol.

Yu-ki Matsumura is a Japanese actor who has appeared in nine feature films, as well as a number of television series and theater productions. He is also a singer and has released eight albums and eight singles. He is represented with All-Stars Company.

Airi Miyabe is a Japanese female volleyball player who is part of the Japan women's national volleyball team.

Minoru Kiuchi is a Japanese politician and former Ministry of Foreign Affairs official, who had been an independent candidate for most of his political career but has run for office as an LDP candidate since 2012. He has served as state minister for foreign affairs and state minister for the environment and currently holds the office of deputy chairperson of the LDP's Diet Affairs Committee. Kiuchi is known for his close ties with Germany and his German language skills.

Yasuhiro Ichiba is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher.

Yoko Taro is a Japanese video game director and scenario writer. Starting his career at the now-defunct game company Cavia, his best-known work was on the action role-playing video game series Drakengard, and its spin-offs, Nier and Nier: Automata. Yoko was born in Nagoya, Aichi, and studied at the Kobe Design University in the 1990s. While he did not initially intend to pursue a career in video games, after working at Namco and Sony, he joined Cavia and became the director and scenario writer for the first Drakengard game. He has since worked extensively on every game in the series, and on mobile titles, after becoming a freelancer after Cavia's absorption into AQ Interactive.

Hiroaki Nakanishi KBE is a Japanese businessman and the current chairman of Hitachi, a Japanese multinational electronics and engineering conglomerate. He became the 10th president of Hitachi in 2010, and in 2014, assumed the position of chairman and CEO. He is also chairman of the compensation committee and general manager of the post-earthquake reconstruction & redevelopment division.

Norikazu Otsuka is a Japanese TV presenter. He was the main presenter of Fuji TV's morning TV magazine show Mezamashi TV from its start in 1994 until he left the show in November 2011 due to illness.