List of Famous people born in Japan

Miki Yanagi is a Japanese actress and fashion model managed by Jiotto Model Management.She is well known for her role as Sela/Zyuoh Shark in the 40th entry of the Super Sentai series, Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger

Tomokazu Ohka is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Boston Red Sox (1999–2001), Montreal Expos (2001–2004), Washington Nationals (2005), Milwaukee Brewers (2005–2006), Toronto Blue Jays (2007), Cleveland Indians (2009), as well as the Fukushima Hopes in Japan's Baseball Challenge League. He started his professional career with the Yokohama BayStars in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. He throws right-handed and is a switch hitter.

Erika Yazawa is a Japanese gravure idol. She is from Tokyo, and was a first year member (#7) of the idol group Idoling!!!. On December 11, 2011 it was announced that she would graduate from Idoling!!! on December 31 together with Fonchi (#8). Her nickname is 'Yaza-pai'.

Jun Hirose is a former professional Japanese baseball player. He played as an outfielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

Sei Hiraizumi is a Japanese actor. In 1964, Hiraizumi joined Daiei Film company and started his acting career. In the 1970s to early 1980s, he appeared in a lot of jidaigeki and detective television dramas as a guest villain actor.

Ashihei Hino was a Japanese author, who wrote about military life during World War II. He was born in Wakamatsu and in 1937 he received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels, Fun'nyōtan . At that moment he was a soldier for the Japanese army in China. He then got promoted to the information corps and published numerous works about the daily lives of Japanese soldiers. It is for his war novels that he became famous during the war. His book Mugi to Heitai sold over a million copies.

Banana Yoshimoto is the pen name of Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto . From 2002 to 2015, she wrote her name in hiragana.

Hideto Katsuya , professionally known as Katsuya (勝矢), is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He is represented by Beacon Alliance.

Nozomi Maeda is a Japanese model and actress. Maeda modeled exclusively for the pre-teen fashion magazine Pichi Lemon from 2006 to 2010. From 2011 to 2017, Maeda was an exclusive model for the fashion magazine Popteen. In her early television career, Maeda was known for her appearances on Oha Suta as the show's then-Oha Girl.

Tatsumi Yoda is a Japanese businessman.