List of Famous people born in Japan

Moe Miura is a Japanese model, actress, and idol who is represented by the talent agency, Our Songs Creative. She was a former member of 9nine and was originally represented by LesPros Entertainment.

Misuzu Narita is a Japanese professional golfer with over a dozen wins on the LPGA of Japan Tour.

Shōgo Sakamoto is a Japanese actor, voice actor and singer affiliated with Amuse.

Kaho Shimada is a Japanese singer and musical theater actress. Born and raised in Minato, Tokyo, she attended Tokyo Municipal Jonan High School. She is an assistant professor of drama at the Osaka University of Arts located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

Kenji Kazama is a Japanese martial artist. He played the henchman Spider who fought Fred Williamson in the 1973 action film That Man Bolt and he played Yokohama a mean and brutal Japanese official who fought Jhoon Rhee in the 1973 martial arts classic When Taekwondo Strikes. In 1974 he played the part of Senkaku Kan in the Sonny Chiba cult classic The Street Fighter.

Mitsuru Igarashi is the former keyboarder and songwriter of Japanese pop group Every Little Thing. He founded the band in early 1996 with his old friend Ichirō Itō and then 18-year-old singer Kaori Mochida. He left Every Little Thing in April 2000 after releasing the third album, Eternity. Since leaving the band, he started producing music for the band Day After Tomorrow which disbanded in 2005. Currently he plays keyboards and is a songmaker and producer in band Rushmore. He was also involved in composing and writing song lyrics for Every Little Thing's ninth album, Change.

Ichiro Aisawa is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Mitsu District, Okayama and graduate of Keio University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1986.

Kō Machida is a Japanese author, punk rock singer, poet and actor.

Mariko Kouda is a Japanese actress, voice actress, J-pop singer and radio personality. She graduated from Kasukabe Kyōei High School and went on to major in Communications at Tamagawa University in Machida City, Tokyo, graduating in 1990. Kouda has had at least one song appear on the program Minna no Uta.

Mamare Touno , real name Daisuke Umezu is a Japanese author of light novels and manga. He has written the series Log Horizon and Maoyuu Maou Yuusha, both series have been adapted into anime. He is also the author of a manga series titled Trattoria After School .