List of Famous people born in Japan

Yuta Yoneyama is a Japanese male volleyball player. He was part of the Japan men's national volleyball team at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in Italy. He plays for Toray Arrows.

Eriko Hatsune is a Japanese actress. Her career began in 1998, when she appeared in several television commercials. At the age of 18 she played the female lead in the 2000 film Uzumaki and also had the lead role in the 2012 film Emperor.

Peeco is a Japanese tarento, fashion critic, journalist, and chanson singer. His younger identical twin brother is film critic Osugi, they both came out gay during their debut and took his advantage as a tarento and commentator.

Shimanoumi Koyo is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Shima, Mie. He debuted in sumo wrestling in July 2012 and made his makuuchi debut in May 2019. His highest rank has been maegashira 3. He wrestles for Kise stable.

Tetsuya Yoroizaka is a Japanese long-distance runner. He competed in the 10,000 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing.

Hanami Sekine is a Japanese female long-distance runner who competes in track events. She competed for Japan at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Tsuneyuki "Tommy" Nakajima (Japanese: 中嶋常幸, is a Japanese professional golfer.

Yuto Horigome is a Japanese football player. He currently plays for Albirex Niigata.

Tōru Miyamoto is a member of the Japanese Communist Party serving in the House of Representatives as a representative of the Tokyo proportional representation block, a position to which he was elected to in 2014. Miyamoto is opposed to increasing the budget for the Ministry of Defense. He is also opposed to preemptively striking North Korea, thinking that the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe should put pressure on the United States to not attack North Korea, saying the number of lives that would be lost would be enormous.

Maiko Sakae is a Japanese pop singer, she was a former bassist and vocalist for the all-female pop rock band Zone. She is also a former the lead singer and one of two bassists for the pop/rock band Maria.