List of Famous people born in Japan

Shuto Takajo is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played for the Orix Buffaloes.

Hanako Ouchi , stage name Hanako (華子) is a Japanese actress, tarento and gravure idol. Her former stage name is Hanako Takigawa .

Tomokazu Yoshida is a former Japanese actor previously under the management of Agape and Avex Entertainment.

Keiji Takayama is a Japanese professional wrestler and manager, currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) under the ring name Gedo . Gedo has been the main booker of NJPW since the early 2010s. As a wrestler, Gedo is best known for his tag team work with partner Jado, forming a very successful tag team from 1990 through the mid-2010s.

Shinji Inoue is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Chiyoda, Tokyo and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Construction in 1994, which later became part of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. While in the ministry, he received a master's degree from the University of Cambridge in England. Leaving the ministry in 2003, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in the same year.

Motoharu Sano , is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician. A graduate of Rikkyo University, Sano is a frontman with a history of performing in several bands which feature music both in Japanese and occasionally, English, playing songs that often have a rock and roll sound to them. In 2007, Rolling Stone Japan ranked his album Someday number 11 on a list of the greatest Japanese rock albums of all time.

Kazutomo Iguchi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.

Masashi Ozawa is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. Popularly known as Killer Khan, he was billed from Mongolia and had numerous high-profile matches with André the Giant in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) during the 1980s, including a high profile "Mongolian stretcher match". Khan used Asian mist against opponents.

Toshinori Omi is a Japanese actor.

Mayumi Ogawa (小川眞由美) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 3rd Japan Academy Prize and at the 4th Hochi Film Award for Vengeance Is Mine and The Three Undelivered Letters.