List of Famous people born in Japan

Yoshiaki Fujioka is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher who is currently a pitching coach for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and BayStars.

Takanori Hoshino is a Japanese voice actor. He is best known for his role as Jack Atlas in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.

Kōta Kagami , known professionally as K Dub Shine, is a Japanese rapper.

Hiro Mashima is a Japanese manga artist. He gained success with his first serial Rave Master, published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 to 2005. His best selling work, Fairy Tail, published in the same magazine from 2006 to 2017, has become one of the best-selling manga series with over 72 million copies in print. Fairy Tail won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga in 2009, and Mashima was given the Harvey Awards International Spotlight award in 2017 and the Fauve Special Award at the 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival.

Nobuhiro Takeda is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. He was a forward and known as an opportunistic goal-scorer, making most of his quick thinking and canny positioning. He currently works at Nippon Television and belongs to an entertainment agency Horipro as a sportscaster.

Shinsuke Sakimoto is a former Japanese football player.

Shinya Adachi is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party for the People, and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet.

Ryouma Baba is a Japanese actor who is affiliated with Toki Entertainment. He played the role of Ryuji Iwasaki in the 2012 Super Sentai TV series Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters. His blood type is B.

Daisuke Naito is a former professional boxer from Japan. He is the former WBC and lineal flyweight champion, and former Japanese and OPBF flyweight champion.

Mine Yoshizaki is a Japanese manga creator. His most well known works are Sgt. Frog, a manga he created which later received an anime adaption, and Kemono Friends, a multimedia franchise for which Yoshizaki serves as concept designer.