List of Famous people born in Japan

Kota Matsuda is a Japanese entrepreneur, enterprise manager, politician from Tokyo formerly belonging to Your Party until it was disbanded in December 2014. He founded The Assembly to Energize Japan in January 2015 and is the party leader.

Mitsuru Adachi is a Japanese manga artist. After graduating from Gunma Prefectural Maebashi Commercial High School in 1969, Adachi worked as an assistant for Isami Ishii. He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kieta Bakuon, based on a manga originally created by Satoru Ozawa. Kieta was published in Deluxe Shōnen Sunday.

Hatsue Yuasa (湯浅 初枝 Yuasa Hatsue, was a Japanese operatic soprano.

Kei Oshiro is a Japanese footballer currently playing as a centre back for YSCC Yokohama, on loan from Urawa Red Diamonds.

Yuko Nakazawa is a Japanese pop and enka singer, and actress, best known as one of the original members of the all-female J-pop group Morning Musume. She is also a member of Japanese pop group Dream Morning Musume.

Kenshi Hirokane is a Japanese manga artist from Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. He graduated from Waseda University with a degree in law, then worked for Matsushita Electric for four years, before making his manga debut in 1974 with Kaze Kaoru.

Atsushi Onita is a Japanese actor, politician, and semi-retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his work in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) and is credited with introducing Japan to the deathmatch style of professional wrestling.

Tsuneko Okazaki is a Japanese pioneer of molecular biology known for her work on DNA replication and specifically for discovering Okazaki fragments, along with her husband Reiji. Dr. Tsuneko Okazaki has continued to be involved in academia, contributing to more advancements in DNA research.

Mitsuyo Kakuta is a Japanese author born in Yokohama. She has been engaged in translating into modern Japanese the 11th-century proto-novel The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部).

Makoto Kaneko is a professional baseball player from Abiko, Chiba, Japan. He is an infielder for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Japanese baseball team.