List of Famous people born in Japan

Itsurō Terada is a Japanese lawyer who served as the 18th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan.

Takayuki Shimizu is a former professional baseball outfielder for Nippon Professional Baseball. He was the Number 3 draft pick by the Yomiuri Giants in 1996 and played for them until 2008. He is currently a Giants coach.

Hikaru Naomoto is a Japanese football player. She plays for Urawa Reds and Japan national team.

Kazunori Tanaka is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and Minister of Reconstruction. A native of Toyoura District, Yamaguchi and graduate of Hosei University he was elected for the first time in 1996 after serving in local assemblies. Tanaka was elected seven times in Kanagawa, prefecture 10th district Tanaka is general director of the Liberal Democratic Party International bureau in 2015.

Yoshiyuki Okamura , known by the pen names Buronson (武論尊) and Sho Fumimura , is a Japanese manga writer. Making his debut in 1972, he first found success with the hardboiled detective manga series Doberman Deka (1975–1979) alongside illustrator Shinji Hiramatsu. He is best-known for creating the post-apocalyptic martial arts series Fist of the North Star (1983–1988) with artist Tetsuo Hara, which is one of the best-selling manga in history with over 100 million copies in circulation. He has since worked with Ryoichi Ikegami on several series, including Heat (1998–2004), which won the 2002 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.

Yusuke Chiba is a Japanese musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the singer for the Japanese band Thee Michelle Gun Elephant. He formed the side-project Rosso in 2001, and when Thee Michelle Gun Elephant disbanded in 2003 he continued with Rosso, until he started the band The Birthday in 2006.
He has been playing music nearly all his life, having taken violin lessons as a young child. He created his first band, called Trunker, when he was in high school, which disbanded when he began attending Meiji Gakuin University where he would later meet the future members of Thee Michelle Gun Elephant.

Hiroki Azuma is a Japanese cultural critic, novelist, and philosopher.

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Yuki Karakawa is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher with the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Pacific League.

Rusher Itamae is a Japanese comedian who is a member of the Takeshi Gundan. His real name is Hiroshi Suzuki .