List of Famous people born in Japan

Jingi Irie is a Japanese actor. He is represented with Ken-On. He graduated from Horikoshi High School. He is a member of Men On Style.

Masatoshi Ono , also known as Sho, is a Japanese rock/heavy metal singer-songwriter and vocal coach. Ono got his start in the 1980s as vocalist of the heavy metal band Fort Bragg. In 1992, he released his first solo single, "Pure ni Nare", on Sony Records. It was not until his third single, "You're the Only...", that he began to receive notable attention. The single helped Ono win the "Rookie of the Year" award at the 34th Japan Record Awards and an invitation to that year's Kōhaku Uta Gassen.

Chris Hung is a Taiwanese enka and Hokkien pop singer. Widely known as the "king of Taiwanese pop," he has won five Golden Melody Awards and one Golden Bell Award.

Asuka Kurosawa is a Japanese actress and gravure model. She has appeared in more than twenty films since 1988.

Tatsuya Shimizu is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons.

Rimi Natsukawa is a Japanese singer. She is best known for her 2001 single "Nada Sōsō."

Kazuhiko Nishimura is a Japanese actor who is represented by the talent agency Sony Music Artists.

Akimi Yoshida is a Japanese manga artist and a graduate of Musashino Art University. She made her professional debut in 1977 with the short story Chotto Fushigi na Geshukunin , published in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine. Yoshida is best known for the crime thriller series Banana Fish, which received an anime adaptation produced by MAPPA in 2018.

Kanechika Kazunori is a former sumo wrestler and coach from Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Mamiko Takai is a Japanese idol from the eighties, who debuted in 1985 with the J-pop girl band Onyanko Club, and its first sub-group, duo Ushiroyubi Sasaregumi with her co-worker Yukiko Iwai. She quit those two bands in 1987, becoming a solo artist, and released four albums before marrying her producer Yasushi Akimoto and subsequently retiring.