List of Famous people born in Japan

Atsushi Harada is a Japanese actor in the Tokusatsu genre. He is best known for being Kamen Rider Delta in Kamen Rider 555, and Shou Tatsumi/Go Green in the 1999 Super Sentai Series Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGo-V, and reprised his role in the Sentai Teamup Special Timeranger vs. GoGo-V and Gokaiger. He was also involved in a band with fellow ranger Masashi Taniguchi called [G]. In 2012, he worked with the Aimachi Marching Band on their 50th anniversary concert event Evolution where he served as a Story Teller.

Mika Oguma is a female announcer for Nippon TV.

Tomorowo Taguchi is a Japanese actor, film director and musician.

Takahito Kudo is a retired Nippon Professional Baseball player. He played for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, Yomiuri Giants, Chiba Lotte Marines and Chunichi Dragons over a 14-year professional career.

Tomoyuki Kubota is a Japanese pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He was selected as a member in the 2006 World Baseball Classic.

Miwa Nishikawa is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Nishikawa received a degree in literature from the University of Waseda, and after working on several independent films as well as catching the eye of Hirokazu Kore-eda, her film making career took off with her first film, Wild Berries, which won the award for best screenplay at the Mainichi Film Award. In addition to her film making career, Nishikawa has also written a book titled The Long Excuse.

Ryo Ikuemi is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She writes mainly for Margaret, where she debuted in 1979 at age 15 with Maggie. In 1993, her high school romance Pops was adapted as an OVA by Madhouse. She received the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Bara-Iro no Ashita, and the 2009 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Kiyoku Yawaku. In 2013, Kiyoku Yawaku was adapted into a live-action film starring Masami Nagasawa and Masaki Okada. Ikuemi drew the cover art for Kazuyoshi Saito's October 2013 single "Kagerō", which was the film's theme song.

Taro Iwashiro is a Japanese composer.

Hajime Satomi is a Japanese business magnate. Satomi is known as the founder of Sammy Corporation, which merged with the Japan-based video game and arcade game producer Sega to form the holding company Sega Sammy Holdings.

Kaori Moritani , also known as Wanku (わんくぅ), is a Japanese singer from Aichi Prefecture, Japan. She retired after marrying in 1997, but resumed activities in 2008 for the record label Healing World.