List of Famous people born in Japan

Kenji Kamiyama is a Japanese anime director.

Mayumi Ozaki is a Japanese professional wrestler.

Kazumi Yamashita is a Japanese manga artist. Although she writes primarily older shōjo manga, she is best known for The Life of Genius Professor Yanagizawa, which was published in the seinen magazine Morning, and for which she received the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.

Asano Nagasato is a Japanese former footballer. She played for Japan national team. Her brother Genki Nagasato and sister Yuki Nagasato are footballers.

Megumi Ōhara is a female Japanese voice actress affiliated with Kekke Corporation.

Tomoe Kawabata is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2019–20 Japanese national bronze medalist. She has represented Japan at two World Junior Championships.

Ryo Hatsuse is a Japanese football player. He currently plays for Vissel Kobe in the J1 League having previously turned out for Gamba Osaka.

Akio Nojima is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Nishitōkyō, Tokyo. His sons, Hirofumi Nojima and Kenji Nojima, are voice actors and his other son Satoshi is a nature writer. He was formerly affiliated with Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society and is attached to Sigma Seven as of 2016. He is most known for the roles of Saga in Saint Seiya and the Japanese voice of KITT in Knight Rider.

Junichi Ishii is a Japanese politician, currently a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, and affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi. A graduate of a high school in Chiba Prefecture, he served in the assembly of Chiba Prefecture since 2003, and was elected to the national House in 2007.

Keito Nakamura is a Japanese footballer who plays for 2. Liga (Austria) club FC Juniors OÖ on loan from Gamba Osaka. He plays either as an attacking midfielder or a forward.