List of Famous people born in Japan

Rena Hasegawa is a Japanese voice actress and a former singer. Hasegawa started her career as a member of the idol girl group NGT48 in 2015, debuting as a regular member of the group's Team NⅢ. In 2018, she was transferred to Team G, which later merged with Team NⅢ to become a unified first generation in 2019. On May 18, 2019, she left the group to pursue voice acting.

Kengo Hanazawa is a Japanese manga artist known for his seinen works. He won the Topic Award of the 2005 Sense of Gender Awards for Ressentiment and was nominated for the 3rd, 4th and 5th Manga Taisho for I Am a Hero. His series Boys on the Run was adapted into a live action film in 2010. He formerly worked as Osamu Uoto's assistant.

Yasuharu Konishi is a Japanese musician, composer and DJ. He was a founding member of Pizzicato Five and the only such to stay with the group until its breakup in 2001. Konishi's current activities are through his company readymade entertainment and his record label 524 records.

Jun Murai is a Japanese professor and administrator known as "the father of Internet in Japan" and "Internet Samurai". He is a professor at Keio University. Murai is the founder of JUNET and founder of the WIDE Project. Murai graduated from Keio University in 1979 and received a Ph.D. from the same school in 1984. On October 1, 2009, Murai became the Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies.

Takanori Hoshi was a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Yomiuri Giants and Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball.

Junzo Yamamoto is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2004 after serving in the assembly of Ehime Prefecture for six terms since 1983.

Mamoru Kishida is a Japanese professional baseball starting pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He made his debut in 2006 and wears the uniform number 14.

Sosuke Takatani is an amateur Japanese freestyle wrestler, who competes in the middleweight category.

Tetsuya Honda is a Japanese writer of mystery and thriller novels and one of Japan's bestselling authors. He is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and has won many prestigious awards. Several of his popular Reiko Himekawa crime novels have been translated into English, German, Polish, Chinese, Persian, Thai and Vietnamese. In Japan, many of Honda's works have been adapted into major theatrical motion pictures and TV dramas.

Junji Majima is a Japanese voice actor who is contracted to I'm Enterprise. He was born in Nagoya, Aichi.