List of Famous people born in Japan

Masato Matsui is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He previously played for the Chunichi Dragons.

Kyosuke Mikami is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working under the ring name El Desperado . He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is the current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion in his first reign. Mikami was trained by the NJPW dojo and worked for NJPW for two years as a Young Lion. In 2012 he traveled to Mexico for a learning excursion, working for NJPW's Mexican affiliate Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) as the masked character Namajague, a Spanish translation of Namahage, a Japanese folk demon. While in CMLL he won his first professional wrestling title alongside Okumura, the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship, in March 2013. After being unmasked due to losing a match and briefly working without one, Mikami returned to NJPW in January 2014 and was repackaged under another mask as El Desperado.

Rika Fukami is a Japanese voice actress, singer and narrator from Saitama Prefecture who is affiliated with Vi-Vo. She made her voice acting debut in 1982 with Tokimeki Tonight. Fukami is best known for her role in the Sailor Moon series as Sailor Venus. She had major roles in Final Fantasy XII, Ashita no Nadja, Ninja Senshi Tobikage and New Cutey Honey. In addition to anime shows, she provides the Japanese dub localization for numerous international film and television actors including Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Sharon Stone and Jodie Foster.

Shun Tono is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player. He is currently with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Japan's Pacific League. He made his Giants debut in 2007 against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, pitching 2/3 of an inning and giving up a hit and a walk in that span.

Atsushi Miyauchi is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He is the best known dubbing roles as Bruce Banner / Hulk in Avengers film series.

Shoma Doi is a Japanese football player for Kashima Antlers.

Manpei Takagi is a Japanese former actor and model from Seto, Aichi. He is best known for portraying Retsu Fukami/Geki Blue in the Super Sentai series Juken Sentai Gekiranger. He is the twin brother of actor Shinpei Takagi.

Hiromi Igarashi is a Japanese voice actress from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is affiliated with Mausu Promotion. Her major roles are Anzu Futaba in the Japanese idol franchise The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls; Hina Takanashi, the youngest daughter in Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!; and Wilhelmina in High School Fleet.

Kaori Oguri is a Japanese actress.

Osamu Hamanaka is a former Japanese professional baseball player. Drafted by the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball in 1996, Hamanaka spent 11 years with the club from 1997 to 2007. Following his time with Hanshin, Hamanaka spent three seasons with the Orix Buffaloes from 2008 to 2010 and one season with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in 2011. In November 2014 it was announced that Hamanaka had signed a contract to return to Hanshin as a batting coach for the farm team.