List of Famous people born in Japan

Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet and Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs. A native of Kurobe, Toyama and dropout of Kyoto University, he was elected to the first of his four terms in the assembly of Toyama Prefecture in 1983 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1998.

Shōgo Arai is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Nara Prefecture in Japan, first elected in 2007. A graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Transport, attending Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as a ministry official. Leaving the ministry in 2001, he was elected to the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan for the first time in the same year.

Tsuguo Mogami is a Japanese voice actor from Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

Eiko Kakehata is a Japanese goalball player who won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

Wakanosato Shinobu is a retired sumo wrestler from Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan. He made his debut in the top division in 1998, and his highest rank was sekiwake. He holds the record for the most consecutive tournaments ranked in the junior san'yaku ranks of sekiwake and komusubi. He won ten special prizes and was twice runner-up in a tournament. He earned two gold stars for defeating yokozuna at a maegashira rank. He had 1691 career bouts, sixth on the all-time list. He retired in 2015 and was a coach at Tagonoura stable, until opening his own Nishiiwa stable in February 2018.

Feng Tian, also known as Win Feng, is a Japanese actor, singer and model. He is a member of the Taiwanese boyband SpeXial since 2015. His real name is Hajime Kazeda .

Maki Tsukada born January 5, 1982) is a Japanese female judoka, who was born in Shimotsuma, Ibaraki Prefecture. She won the Women's +78 kg category gold medal at the Athens Olympic in 2004 and the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics.

Yusuke Torigoe, nicknamed "Usuki", is a former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder.

Kazunori Yamanoi is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Kyoto, Kyoto, he attended the University of Kyoto as both undergraduate and graduate. He also studied in a school in Sweden for two years. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000.

Masashi Oguro is a Japanese football player who plays for Tochigi SC. He played for Japan national team.