List of Famous people born in Japan

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto is a Japanese character designer, manga artist, and one of the founding members of the Gainax anime studio.

Hiromasa Yonebayashi , nicknamed Maro (麻呂), is a Japanese animator and director, formerly for Studio Ghibli. After his directorial debut with Studio Ghibli, he became the youngest director of a theatrical film produced by the studio. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2015 for his second film, When Marnie Was There.

Asahi Ito is a Japanese actor who is represented by Ken-On.

Yuuna Sugiyama is a Japanese child actress, who also records on Universal Music Japan.

Domenica "Nikka" Costa is an American singer whose music combines elements of pop, soul, and blues. She also had a career as a child singer starting in the early 1980s. She is the daughter of music producer Don Costa.

Kie Nakai is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 7th Yokohama Film Festival for Kanashii kibun de joke.

Naoki Shirane is a former professional Japanese baseball player. He played outfielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Asami Sanada is a Japanese actress and voice actress. She is affiliated with Amuleto. She is best known as the voices of Vita in the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series, Jun Sakurada in the Rozen Maiden series, Kurumi Tokisaki in the Date A Live series, Sawako Yamanaka in the K-On! series, and her debut role as Dejiko in Di Gi Charat.

Yusuke Suzuki is a Japanese racewalker. He has represented Japan in the 20 km event twice at the World Championships in Athletics and competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is the pending world record holder for the 20 km walk with a time of 1:16:36 hours at an event in his home town of Nomi in 2015.

Kenyu Sugimoto is a Japanese football player. He currently plays for Urawa Red Diamonds.