List of Famous people born in Japan

Kanako Higuchi is a Japanese actress. Her credits include film, television, and radio dramas, stage, commercials, and voice roles.

Masaaki Mori is a retired professional Japanese baseball player and manager.

Koshiro Shimada is a Japanese figure skater. He is the 2019 Bavarian Open senior champion and the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist. He has won three other medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series. He placed 14th at the 2017 World Junior Championships and is a two-time Japan Junior national medalist.

Takurō Kubo , better known by his stage name TAKURO, is a Japanese musician and lyricist best known as one of the guitarists and leader of the rock band Glay, for which he is also the main composer and lyricist. As a musician and composer, Takuro has worked with different artists and has also released solo works.

Yuko Takayama is a Japanese actress known for her role as Rei in Mutant Girls Squad and also Rinko Daimon in the 2012 Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Wizard. She is affiliated with Stardust Promotion.

Katsuhiro Suzuki is a Japanese actor and model known for his starring role as Hiromu Sakurada/Red Buster in the 2012 Super Sentai Series Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters. Until August 24, 2020, he was affiliated with Ever Green Entertainment. He is also a Keio University, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies student.

Shōhōzan Yūya is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Chikujō, Fukuoka. He made his professional debut in March 2006, reaching the top makuuchi division in November 2011. He has earned three Fighting Spirit prizes to date, and has been runner-up in one tournament. He has five kinboshi or gold stars for defeating yokozuna, three earned against Harumafuji and two against Kakuryū. The highest rank he has reached is komusubi, which he has achieved on five separate occasions, firstly in 2013.

Masatoshi Kushibiki is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Montedio Yamagata in the J2 League.

Kenta Kobashi is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. Widely regarded as the greatest professional wrestler of all time, he started his career in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in 1988, where he became one of the promotion's top stars, holding the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship three times, and winning the Champion Carnival in 2000. Kobashi left All Japan in June 2000, taking part in a mass exodus led by Mitsuharu Misawa, which led to the formation of Pro Wrestling Noah. Kobashi worked for Noah for thirteen years, and became the longest reigning GHC Heavyweight Champion of all time, holding the championship for 735 days between 2003 and 2005, a record that stands to this day. He was a four-time world champion.

Takaharu Furukawa is an athlete from Japan. He competes in archery. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the Men's individual event.