List of Famous people born in Japan

Yuko Arakida is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion. She is now Chairwoman of Athlete's Committee of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA).

Masakazu Watanabe is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 5-dan.

Masao Uchibori is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. He previously served as the vice-governor of his predecessor Yūhei Satō and was elected in October 2014 after Satō chose not to contest the election.

Kenjiro Nomura is a retired Japanese baseball player. He was with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Japan's Central League.

Mariko Kihara is a Japanese figure skater. She has won three senior internationals – the 2014 Coupe du Printemps, 2015 Bavarian Open, and 2016 Triglav Trophy.

Yukiko Iwai , also known by the nickname Yūyu , is a Japanese singer and actress born May 26, 1968 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Iwai was a member of the all-girl pop group Onyanko Club, and she was the shortest of all the members at 150 centimetres. She was also half of the pop group Ushiroyubi Sasaregumi, a spin-off group of Onyanko Club. She graduated from Kaetsu Women's Junior High and High School, but left Kaetsu Women's Junior College before she finished. She is the younger in a set of identical twins.

Shuta Tanaka is a retired Japanese professional Nippon Professional Baseball player.

Shōya Yamamoto is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Central League.

Ayaka Kikuchi is a Japanese singer, actress, former model and a former member of idol group AKB48. She was fired after it was revealed that she broke the "boyfriends prohibited" policy of her management agency. She was a member of Team B and had returned to AKB48 as one of the seventh generation AKB48 Research Students, later Team K and finally Team A.

Noriyuki Sakemoto is a Japanese football player who plays for Kagoshima United FC.