List of Famous people born in Japan

Hiroyasu Tanaka is a Japanese former professional baseballer. He was the number 1 draft pick for the Yakult Swallows in 2005.

Yasunari Iwata is a Japanese jockey who rode the winner of the 2006 Melbourne Cup, Delta Blues. It was Iwata's first race outside Japan.

Yasumasa Tanida is a Japanese curler from Kitami.

Shunji Igarashi is a former Japanese actor known for his role as Mirai Hibino/Ultraman Mebius in the 2006-2007 tokusatsu series Ultraman Mebius and several spin-offs in the Ultra Series following that. Igarashi was affiliated with the acting unit D-BOYS, produced by Watanabe Entertainment.

Kaoru Sugayama is a Japanese volleyball player. Although her nickname is "yuu", Ai Otomo already had that nickname on the All-Japan women's Team, so she was given the new nickname "kaoru". Her nickname in television broadcasts is "koushuni kagayaku Kaoru-hime",. Also, she is sometimes known as "shiroi yousei" due in part to her fair skin. However, she is embarrassed to be called "Princess Kaoru" or "White fairy". She belongs to the volleyball team JT Marvelous of the V.League. In May 2008, she retired from the team and from organized volleyball.

Yoshiko Hirano , known mononymously as Yoshiko , is a Japanese professional wrestler. She is currently working for Seadlinnng.

Norimasa Fujisawa is a Japanese singer.

Kenta Asakura is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. Asakura played with the Chunichi Dragons from 2000 to 2015 and was employed as a pitching coach for the Dragons first team from 2016 to 2018.

Noboru Kawasaki is a Japanese manga artist. He is most famous for drawing the series Star of the Giants. He won the 14th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1969 for Animal 1 and Inakappe Taishō as well as the eighth Kodansha Children's Manga Award for Star of the Giants in 1967 and its successor Kodansha Manga Award in shōnen category for Football Hawk in 1978. He is also the creator of The Song of Tentomushi, Skyers 5 and Kōya no Shōnen Isamu.

Takamasa Abiko is a Japanese footballer currently playing as a forward for YSCC Yokohama.