List of Famous people born in Japan

Noriaki Fujimoto is a Japanese football player, who plays for Vissel Kobe as a forward.

Mayu Shinjo is a Japanese manga artist born in 1973. She debuted in 1994 in Shogakukan's Shōjo Comic with "Anata no Iro ni Somaritai". She continued writing for Shogakukan until 2007, with her works appearing in both Shōjo Comic and their other magazine Cheese!. She left the company to go freelance citing a dispute over working conditions and abusive treatment by her editor.

Yuka Yasukawa , better known by the ring name Act Yasukawa , is a Japanese retired professional wrestler.

Cecil Kishimoto is a Japanese model.

Masanori Murakawa ,, is a Japanese professional wrestler, promoter and politician, currently wrestling for Michinoku Pro Wrestling (MPW) under the ring name The Great Sasuke . Aside from professional wrestling, he is also a former Iwate Prefectural Assembly legislator. He has wrestled in Japan and in the United States in various professional wrestling promotions. He is said to have an incredible tolerance for pain, mainly in reference to the injuries he has had including a cracked skull on two occasions.

Keigo Moriyasu is a Japanese footballer. He played professionally for JPV Marikina during the 2018 Philippines Football League season. Previously he played as a striker for Edgeworth FC in the National Premier Leagues Northern NSW.

Akira Niho is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.

Wasabi Mizuta is a Japanese voice actress who currently resides in Iga, Mie and is previously represented by Kenji Utsumi's Ken Production.

Fumiko Okuno is a former competitor in synchronised swimming from Japan. She competed in both the women's solo and women's duet events at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and won two bronze medals.

Harumi Takahashi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and currently a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. She served as governor of the prefecture of Hokkaido for four terms from 2003 to 2019. She graduated from Hitotsubashi University with a Bachelor of Economics degree in 1976. She started her career as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and quit in 2003. She was elected in April 2003, becoming the first female governor of Hokkaido and the fourth female governor in Japanese history.