List of Famous people born in Japan

Mami Umeki is a female Japanese judoka.

Takuya Mizoguchi is a Japanese actor. Mizoguchi is also a member of the 5-dimensional idol group DearDream from DreamFes!

Yamada Amy born February 8, 1959, is a popular but controversial contemporary Japanese writer who is most famous for her stories that address issues of sexuality, racism, and interracial love and marriage. Her debut and subsequent popular success in the 1990s was a part of Japan's hip-hop and Black culture boom. While she is most known for her stories of complicated and messy romantic love, she also writes on the daily minutiae of life (slice-of-life), child-raising, and bullying.

Yuto Iwasaki is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for JEF United Chiba in the J1 League.

Yūki Mihara is a Japanese model and gravure idol who is affiliated with Discovery Entertainment. She has a bachelor's degree in literature from Rikkyo University.

Juichi Yamgiwa is a Japanese anthropologist and the president of Kyoto University.

Satomu Shimizu , better known by the pen name of Shūgorō Yamamoto , was a Japanese novelist and short-story writer active during the Shōwa period of Japan. He was noted for his popular literature, and is known to have published works under at least fourteen different pen names.

Naoya Tomita is a Japanese breaststroke swimmer. In 2010, he won the 200 m event at the World Championships and at the Asian Games. At the 2014 Asian Games he was caught on surveillance cameras while stealing a video camera belonging to the Yonhap News Agency. He admitted to the fact and paid a fine of 1 million won. On October 7, 2014, he was banned for 18 months from competitions by Japan Swimming Federation and fired by his employer, sports apparel manufacturer Descente Ltd.

Arina Tanemura is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, and character designer. She made her professional manga debut in 1996 with the short comic The Style of the Second Love in the shōjo manga magazine Ribon Original and later published her first series, I.O.N, in 1997, in the main Ribon magazine. She gained mainstream popularity from the late 1990s to mid-2000s with her series Phantom Thief Jeanne, Full Moon o Sagashite, and The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross.

Kazuya Nakayama (中山一也) is a Japanese actor and producer known for films such as Izo and Agitator directed by Takashi Miike.