List of Famous people born in Japan

Tetsuya Matsumoto is a Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Central League. He was named the 2009 Central League Rookie of the Year.

Hiroyuki Shirasaki is a Japaneseprofessional baseball infielder who is currently a free agent.. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars and Orix Buffaloes.

Masanori Morita is a Japanese manga artist who is responsible for creating the manga series Rokudenashi Blues and Rookies. Rokudenashi Blues was made into a live action movie. At the beginning of Masanori's career he was an assistant of Tetsuo Hara on Hokuto no Ken.

Mitsuko Horie is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer.

Akiko Kojima is a Japanese model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1959, making her the first Japanese and Asian woman to win the title.

Yoshihito Wayama , better known by his stage name JIRO, is a Japanese musician best known as the bassist of the rock band Glay. He is also the bassist in the sideband The Predators.

Reina Kondō is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Chiba Prefecture who is affiliated with Hirata Office. She is known for her roles as Hana Ichinose in Slow Start and Suzuka Nagami in My Sister, My Writer. She, together with her Slow Start co-stars Ayasa Itō, Tomomi Mineuchi, and Maria Naganawa performed the series' opening theme "Ne! Ne! Ne!" under the name STARTails.

Atsushi Nakajima was a Japanese author.

Natsuko is a Japanese actress, singer and columnist who is a former member of the female idol group SDN48. Her real name is Natsuko Oki .

Yumi Hara is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She is affiliated with Arts Vision. In December 2017, her management announced that she would put her singing career on hiatus and she will be focusing on her voice acting career. She announced her marriage on September 26, 2019. On July 17, 2020, she announced that she had given birth to a baby boy.