List of Famous people born in Japan

Yūta Kuroki is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes.

Shōgo Orita is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 4-dan. Orita is the fourth amateur to obtain professional status without doing so via the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice professional school after he became the second player to pass the Professional Admission Test in February 2020.

Nagaru Tanigawa is a Japanese author. He is a graduate of the law school at Kwansei Gakuin University. He is best known as the creator of the Haruhi Suzumiya series for which he won the grand prize at the eighth annual Sneaker Awards and has been adapted into an anime television series. While Tanigawa was on hiatus from writing his light novel series, he wrote the manga series Amnesia Labyrinth, which was serialized in Dengeki Bunko Magazine.

Fumiya Sashida is a Japanese singer-songwriter. He is represented with Stardust Promotion and his record label is Warner Music Japan.

Hotsumi Ozaki was an Imperial Japanese journalist working for the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, communist, Soviet Union intelligence agent, and an advisor to Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe. The only Japanese person to be hanged for treason by the Japanese government during World War II, Ozaki is well known as an informant of the Soviet agent Richard Sorge.

Fuka Nagano is a Japanese footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chifure AS Elfen Saitama. In 2017, she was named Asian Young Footballer of the Year at the AFC Annual Awards.

Yuri Komuro is a Japanese actress, author and former AV idol. She was one of the top actresses in the AV field during the late 1990s and in her dominant period from 1996 to 1999 was called "The AV Queen".

Erena Ono , is a former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She was in "Team K" and her talent agency was Ohta Production. She was also part of AKB48 subgroups "Honegumi from AKB48", "AKBIdoling !! " and "ICE from AKB48".

Michie Tomizawa is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer born in Maruko, Nagano Prefecture and raised in Shinmachi, Gunma.

Hiroki Ino is a Japanese actor associated with Stardust Promotion's Section 2.