List of Famous people born in Japan

Yoshishige Yoshida , also known as Kijū Yoshida, is a retired Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Kazuko Sawamatsu is a retired tennis player from Japan.

Naoya Uchida is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan. He has played several minor roles of authority in various television dramas. He debuted in 1972 in the NHK program Maboroshi no Satsui , and continued acting in theater and television dramas until the late 1990s. Since then, he has refocused his career on vocal performances such as opera and dubbing. He is best known for his roles as Tatsuya Midorikawa/DenjiGreen in Denshi Sentai Denjiman, Madara Uchiha in Naruto, and Askeladd in Vinland Saga. He is also the famous Japanese dubbing roles for Bruce Willis and Woody Harrelson.

Madoka Asahina is a Japanese voice actress from Shizuoka Prefecture who is affiliated with 81 Produce. She is known for her roles as Nene Sakura in New Game! and Liones Yelistratova in Hina Logi: from Luck & Logic.

Akinobu Mayumi is the former manager for the Hanshin Tigers baseball team in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. After serving 3 seasons (2009–2011) with the team, he was released in October after failing to make the 2011 play-offs. He was shortly replaced with by Yutaka Wada, who had also previously played for the team during his baseball career.

Miru Shiroma is a Japanese singer and model. She is a member of Team M of the Japanese idol girl group NMB48.

Yōko Asaji is a Japanese actress from Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Tomomi Nishimoto (西本智実) is a Japanese conductor.

Yūrei Yanagi is a Japanese actor and tarento. He was born in Fuchū, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Yanagi was originally a member of Takeshi Kitano's gundan. In 1990 he continued to work with Takeshi for the film Boiling Point. Afterwards, he appeared in over eight more films before meeting up with Takeshi again for the 1997 film Hana-bi. His most recent roles have been in horror films such as Ring, Ju-on and Ju-on 2.

Taichi Yamazaki is a space engineer, and spouse of Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki.