List of Famous people born in Japan

Asana Mamoru is a Japanese actress and gravure idol who is represented by the talent agency, FMG. Her old stage name was Mana Kono .

Yuya Saito is a Japanese rugby union player. He plays as No. 8, currently for Toyota Jido Shokki. He graduated from Meiji University and used to play for Suntory Sungoliath before he went to play professional rugby in France for about one season.

Hideaki Yamazaki is a Japanese Shotokan kickboxer and a veteran of the Japanese Krush organization, winning the -65 kg and -63 kg titles. He also won the Krush-63 kg WILDRUSH League in 2012.

Katsuto Momii is a Japanese businessman who was elected as NHK's 21st Director-General on 20 December 2013. He worked for Mitsui & Co. from 1965 until 2005. From 2005 until 2011 he worked as President and representative director of Unisys Japan.

Mai Yamamoto is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for Toyota Antelopes of the Women's Japan Basketball League. She also plays for Japan women's national 3x3 team. She brought the U23 national team to a gold medal at the FIBA 3x3 Under-23 World Cup in Lanzhou, and was named the tournament MVP and shoot-out contest gold medalist. This was Japan's very first world title in basketball.

Takahiro Kunimoto is a Japanese football player who plays for Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors of the K League 1.

Eiichi Koyano is a Japanese former professional baseball player (infielder) and currently the hitting coach for the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He is a native of Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan.

Gō Wakabayashi is a Japanese film and television actor from Nagasaki.

Kojiro Shimizu is a Japanese actor. His career spans more than 30 years. Among his movies are Bee Bop High School (1985), Bee Bop highschool; Koko yotaro elegy (1986), Bee Bop highschool; Koko yotaro march (1987), and Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994).

Kiyoshi Kimura is known as the "Tuna King" of Japan. Kimura is the head of Kiyomura Corporation which runs the Sushi Zanmai chain of restaurants. In January 2019, Kimura paid a record 333.6 million yen for a 278 kg (613 lb) blue fin tuna and has been the highest bidder at the Japanese new year tuna auction in eight out of the past nine years. The fish normally sells for $88/kilogram.