List of Famous people born in Japan

Asahi Uenaka is a Japanese footballer currently playing as a forward for V-Varen Nagasaki.

Yūya Hirose is a Japanese voice actor from Chiba Prefecture who is affiliated with Arts Vision. He is known for his roles as Junichi Aizawa in Handa-kun, Aki Kashii in Dynamic Chord, Yūta Hibiki in SSSS.Gridman, and Takuma Akutsu in Val × Love.

Shinichi Mitsui , better known as Nakamura Baijaku II , is a Japanese actor, bassist, and composer. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Ogikubo High School and later graduated from Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music.

Yoshito Watabe is a Japanese nordic combined skier who has competed since 2007. He skis with the Waseda University club. He has one FIS Nordic Combined World Cup podium from Oslo in season 2012–13 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup. His older brother Akito is one of the most successful athletes in nordic combined history.

Kenji Mizuhashi is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films since 1997.

Yuko Oga is a Japanese professional basketball player. She is a former point guard playing for JX Sunflowers of the Women's Japan Basketball League. She formerly played for Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA. Her nickname is Shin.

Mariko Gotō is a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer and actress.

Hisashi Mizutori , is a Japanese gymnast. He was part of the Japanese team that won the gold medal in the team competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was also part of the team to win the silver medal in the team event at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. At that competition, he also won three individual bronze medals, winning them in the all-around, the floor exercise, and the horizontal bar. He is currently a professor at Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus.

Hiroya Oku is a Japanese manga artist who is the creator of Gantz, Hen and Inuyashiki, the first two of which have been serialized in Weekly Young Jump. Originally influenced by Katsuhiro Otomo and Ryoichi Ikegami, his manga often contain explicit violence, sexual depictions, and matters that are considered taboo by the public, and he is known as a pioneer in the use of digital processing for manga backgrounds.

Yumi Shimura is a Japanese voice actress from Yamanashi Prefecture. She is employed by the talent management firm I'm Enterprise.