List of Famous people born in Japan

Kotoki Zayasu is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for RC Cannes. She played for the Japan national team during the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Shinnosuke Hatanaka is a Japanese footballer who plays for Yokohama F. Marinos.

Jun Natsukawa is a Japanese gravure idol from Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

Shintaro Tsuji is a Japanese businessman who is the founder of Sanrio Co., Ltd.. Tsuji founded Sanrio, the Tokyo-based character-branded merchandise company, in 1960. He has also served as producer for the anime movies Sanrio made from 1977 to 1985 and is a storywriter. Some of his stories include Nutcracker Fantasy, The Sea Prince and the Fire Child, and A Journey Through Fairyland, all of which have been made into animated movies by Sanrio.

Kazue Ikura is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator who works for Aoni Production. She was previously affiliated with theater groups/production companies 劇舎燐, 俳協, Production Baobab and NABEYA.

Edward Shoji Foulkes is a Japanese–Welsh professional darts player, who currently plays in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments. He is also known as a soft tip darts professional. Foulkes was born to a Welsh father, and a Japanese mother.

Teruhiko Mashiko is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet.

Hidenoumi Takuya is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. A former amateur sumo competitor at Nihon University, he made his professional debut in 2012 and was promoted to the top makuuchi division in July 2015. His highest rank is maegashira 12. He has six tournaments ranked in the top division as of March 2018 but has yet to record a kachi-koshi or majority of wins in makuuchi. He has one jūryō division yūshō or championship. He is a member of Kise stable.

Kan Usuki is an idol, musician, pin artist belonging to Yoshimoto Creative Agency. He is part of the multi-active unit Infini and is the drummer of the pop rock band Spin Cross. Previously, he was in charge of tsukkomi for a ikemen stage unit L.A.F.U. and the comedy duo d Button.

Park Il-gyu is a South Korean football player, who plays for Sagan Tosu as a goalkeeper.