List of Famous people born in Japan

Hiroki Uemoto is a Japanese former professional baseball player. He has played in his entire career with the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers.

Kaoru Matsumoto , better known by her ring name Dump Matsumoto , is a semi-retired Japanese professional wrestler. She came to prominence as one of the leading female wrestlers in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling during the 1980s. The longtime leader of the stable Gokuaku Domei — which included Crane Yu, Condor Saito and Bull Nakano — she was one of the main rivals of the popular tag team Crush Gals. Their long running feud would become extremely popular in Japan during the 1980s, with their televised matches resulting in some of the highest rated in Japanese television as well as the promotion regularly selling out arenas.

Shinji Miyazaki is a Japanese composer and arranger. He was born in Kobe, and lived in a variety of areas on the island of Shikoku for much of his childhood. He developed a taste for pop music, which eventually led him to study musical arrangement and piano instruction at the Shobi College of Music. He took some time in deciding that music would become his career, but eventually decided to become an arranger, and later a composer.

Nobuharu Asahara is a Japanese former athlete who specialized in the 100 metres and long jump. He won the 100 m at the Japanese national championship on five occasions in 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2002, and he took part in the Olympics four times in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008. He represented Japan six times at the World Championships in Athletics.

Teramoto Asuka is a Japanese gymnast.

Tsuneyasu Miyamoto is a former Japanese association football player, who last coached Gamba Osaka. He played for Japan national team.

Naomi Tokashiki is a former Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Kyoto, Kyoto and graduate of Showa University and business school at Waseda University she was elected for the first time in 2005 after working at Shiseido and serving in the local assembly in Suginami, Tokyo. She was defeated in the 2009 election by former MP Osamu Fujimura of the DPJ.

Nami Tamaki is a Japanese pop singer. As a teenager under the Sony Music Japan label, she had four top-ten albums, two of which reached number one. Her singles were used as theme songs for animated shows such as Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, Gundam Seed Destiny, and D. Gray-man, as well as being representative of the J-Pop music trend. She has various commercial tie-ins with the anime and games industry, and has also performed in stage musicals and a movie.

Kenjiro Tanaka is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Hideko Yoshida (吉田日出子) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 14th Hochi Film Award for Shaso.