List of Famous people born in Japan

Satoru Noda is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Golden Kamuy, for which he won the 2016 Manga Taishō and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Akane Takada is a Japanese ballerina and a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London. Her lead roles have included the title role in Giselle, Nikiya in La Bayadère, Kitri in Don Quixote, and Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty.

Miho Morikawa is a Japanese singer and model.

Motomu Kiyokawa is a Japanese actor and voice actor.

Akira Onodera is a Japanese actor. He is well known for his role in Taiyō ni Hoero!.

Atsuko Sakuraba is a Japanese gravure idol, tarento, actress and one-time mixed martial arts fighter.

Jumpei Takahashi is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Yoshiyuki Morisaki is a former Japanese football player.

Hanae Ito is a Japanese backstroke swimmer.

Kazuhiro Mizoguchi is a Japanese former javelin thrower. He set the world best year performance in 1989, throwing 87.60 metres at a meet in San Jose, California, United States on May 27, 1989.