List of Famous people born in Japan

Yukari Miyake is a Japanese petty officer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and vocalist of the Tokyo SDF Band. The first and only official vocalist for the Music Corp to join the JMSDF, Miyake has released a number of CDs she sang with the SDF Band.

Kazuhiro Kawata is a former Japanese football player who last appeared for Blaublitz Akita.

Yui Watanabe is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She is affiliated with Dandelion.

Masato Morishige is a Japanese football player who plays for Japanese club FC Tokyo.

Shigeru Nakahara is a Japanese voice actor. He is attached to Local Dream and was formerly attached to Arts Vision, Sigma Seven and Vi-Vo.

Takuya Takagi is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team. He is currently the manager at V-Varen Nagasaki in the J2 League. He was a physical forward and the Japanese media and fans dubbed him as the Cannon of Asia.

Sayuri Fujita is a Japanese television personality based in South Korea. From 2007, she regularly appeared on KBS's Global Talk Show as a representative of Japan, until the show's second season ended. She had also been a regular on Wonderful Friday, including its predecessor, Live Show: Friday Wide, since 2011 until the show ended in 2014. In 2014, she joined the reality-variety TV show, With You, with singer and television personality, Lee Sang-min and remained on the show until the first season finished. She is currently a panelist on the reality-variety show, My Neighbor, Charles, and has been since 2015.

Kazuyoshi Ishii is a Japanese master of Seidokaikan karate and founder of the K-1 fighting circuit, a widely televised international martial arts competition combining Muay Thai, karate, sanshou, taekwondo, kenpo, boxing, and kickboxing. His karate training began with Kyokushin karate, but he formed his own karate organization in 1980, began promoting televised karate competitions, and started staging K-1 events in 1993.

Akio Watanabe is a Japanese animator, illustrator, character designer, animation supervisor, anime director, and dōjin artist who is a member of the circle Pokopii (ぽこぴー). His pseudonym is Poyoyon♥Rock (ぽよよん♥ろっく). As an animator, he has been working with Akiyuki Shinbo for a long time before he became a mainstay at Shaft. His representative works include key animation for Popotan and character design for Nurse Witch Komugi, The SoulTaker, and the Monogatari series, for which he also served as chief animation director. His characters are often drawn wearing a translucent green bracelet.

Rintaro Norizuki is a Japanese mystery/crime writer. He is the President of Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing. His works are deeply influenced by Ellery Queen and Ross Macdonald.