List of Famous people born in Japan

Masato Kumashiro is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Saitama Seibu Lions in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Hideaki Tezuka is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tochigi Prefecture. He is affiliated with Seinenza Theater Company. He is an actor, known for The Last: Naruto the Movie (2014), Choujin Sentai Jetman(1991) and Naruto Shippûden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3(2013).

Minori Chiba is a Japanese female announcer for NHK. She was born in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

Yutakayama Katsuo is a former sumo wrestler from Niigata, Japan. His highest rank was ōzeki. Although he never won a top division tournament championship he was a runner-up on eight occasions. Before wrestling professionally he was an amateur champion at Tonodai University and he was the first former collegiate competitor to reach the ōzeki rank. After retirement he was head coach of the Tokitsukaze stable. From 1998 until 2002 he was the chairman (rijichō) of the Japan Sumo Association.

Nobuo Satō is a Japanese figure skater and coach. He is a ten-time Japanese national champion. He represented Japan at the 1960 Winter Olympics, where he placed 14th, and at the 1964 Winter Olympics, where he placed 8th. His best finish at the World Championships was 4th in 1965.

Toshio Suzuki is a film producer of anime and a long-time colleague of Hayao Miyazaki, as well as the former president of Studio Ghibli. Suzuki is renowned as one of Japan's most successful producers after the enormous box office success of many Ghibli films.

Tomohito Yoneno is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Norifusa Mita is a Japanese manga artist born in 1958 from Iwate Prefecture. He is best known for Dragon Zakura for which he received the 29th Kodansha Manga Award. Dragon Zakura has been adapted to live-action television series in Japan and South Korea, its spin-off series Angel Bank received live-action television adaptation as well. His manga Investor Z was adapt into live-action television series in 2018 and The Great War of Archimedes was adapted into a film in 2019.

Shinji Tajima is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons.

Natsumi Tsunoda is a Japanese judoka.