List of Famous people born in Japan

Momoko Abe , is a Japanese actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Japan 2017 and represented Japan at Miss Universe 2017.

Kensuke Nagai is a Japanese football player who plays as a striker for J1 League club FC Tokyo.

Ryota Morioka is a Japanese professional footballer who plays for Belgian Pro League side Charleroi.

Tetsuya "Teddy" Kumakawa is a Japanese ballet dancer and a former principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.

Gota Miura is a Japanese freestyle skier. He competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1998 Winter Olympics. His father, Yūichirō Miura, became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest.

Tomoya Yagi is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He won the Pacific League Rookie of the Year Award in 2006. He played for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, Orix Buffaloes, and Chunichi Dragons from 2006 to 2017.

Morning Musume '21 , formerly simply Morning Musume and colloquially referred to as Momusu , are a Japanese female idol group, holding the second highest overall single sales on the Oricon charts as of February 2012, with the Oricon record of most top ten singles with an amount of 64, and they have sold over 21 million copies in Japan alone.

Ikuei Yamamoto is a Japanese former wrestler who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is the father of Miyuu Yamamoto, Norifumi Yamamoto and Seiko Yamamoto.

Takumi Yamamoto is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons.

Hikaru Kawase is a Japanese Professional baseball Infielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.