List of Famous people born in Japan

Sayaka Yoshino is a Japanese actress, model, and television personality. One of the first popular teen models / idols known in Japan as "Chaidoru", she has appeared in numerous TV drama's, commercials, and films.

Toshiyuki Moriuchi is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is a Lifetime Meijin who won the title eight times, and also a former Ryūō, Kiō and Ōshō title holder. He is also a former senior managing director of the Japan Shogi Association.

Mitsuru Miyamoto is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Tokyo. He is attached to Theatre Company Subaru. He is best known for Roger Smith from The Big O, Ougai Mori from Bungo Stray Dogs, Gaku Yashiro from Erased, Steven A. Starphase from Blood Blockade Battlefront and Maiza Avaro from Baccano!, as well as the Japanese voice of adult Simba from The Lion King. He is also known for dubbing over Ethan Hawke and Adrien Brody. He was also the first dubbing voice actor of Keanu Reeves and Brad Pitt in their early days.

Kanji Nishio is a Japanese intellectual and professor emeritus of literature at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Japan.

Akitake Okada is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

Harumi Sato is a Japanese dancer, model and actress. She is a former member of J-Pop group E-girls and Flower and exclusive model for the Japanese fashion magazine Ray.

Jun Toba is a Japanese actor and musician who is represented by the talent agencies, Amuse, Inc., and later, Office Nigun Niiba.

Shunsuke Kikuchi is a prolific Japanese composer. He specializes in incidental music for media such as television and film. Active since the early 1960s, he has been one of Japan's most highly demanded film and TV composers, working principally on tokusatsu and anime productions for children, as well as violent action films, jidaigeki and television dramas. Kikuchi has been inactive since 2017, when he stated that he was taking a break to be treated for an illness.

Ryūhei Obata is a professional Japanese baseball infielder for the Hanshin Tigers.

Masayoshi Yoshino is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Iwaki, Fukushima and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the assembly of Fukushima Prefecture in 1987 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000. In 2012, he won a seat in the House of Representatives for the Chugoku region, and in 2014 returned to Fukushima which he has represented since 2014.