List of Famous people born in Japan

Hachiro Sugimoto is a Japanese chemist and pharmacologist, known for his discovery of Donepezil.

Rina Sawayama is a Japanese female fashion model, tarento, and professional figure skater. Her academic degree is a bachelor's degree (Literature). She is currently represented as a tarento by the agency Platinum Production.

Shu Kurata is a Japanese international football player currently playing for Gamba Osaka in the J1 League. His regular playing position is attacking midfielder.

John Ken Nuzzo is a Japanese-born Italian tenor.

Ki-Yo is a Japanese pop singer. Since his debut, Ki-Yo has worked as a singer, composer, lyricist and ambassador of Miyagi Prefecture. He's known as one of the few openly LGBT musicians in Japan.

Takeshi Mizuuchi is a former Japanese football player.

Naoki Okada is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Kanazawa, Ishikawa and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he had worked at Hokkoku Shimbun, a regional newspaper in Kanazawa since 1989 and had served in the assembly of Ishikawa Prefecture since 2002. He was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2004.

Masashi Motoyama is a former Japanese football player who played for Kelantan United F.C. in Malaysia Premier League, began from 2021. He played for Japan national team.

Asahisato Kenji is a former sumo wrestler from Ikeda, Osaka, Japan. His active career spanned 17 years and 102 tournaments from 1981 until 1998, and his highest rank was maegashira 14. Upon his retirement he became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association. He took charge of Nakagawa stable in January 2017, but the stable was closed in July 2020 and he was demoted two rungs in the Sumo Association's hierarchy after he was found to have mistreated wrestlers in the stable.

Kiyotaka Mitsugi is a Japanese actor. His career has centered on television tokusatsu and jidaigeki. He starred in the 1967–68 television series Kōsoku Esper and the 1973 series Shirojishi Kamen, and played a supporting role as the ninja Saizō in Series III, Episodes 1–57, of Abarenbō Shōgun. In NHK's eleventh Taiga drama, Kunitori Monogatari, Mitsugi portrayed Akechi Mitsuharu. He appeared regularly in Episodes 436–509 of Tokusō Saizensen. A frequent guest actor, he made six appearances on Ōedo Sōsamō and four on Zenigata Heiji, three on Taiyō ni Hoero!', and two on Happyaku Yachō Yume Nikki. Fans of the tokusatsu Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman know him as Dr. Hoshikawa. The producers of Abarenbō Shōgun selected him to reprise his role in the 500th episode special, and again to portray the daimyō Tokugawa Munenao in Series VI.