List of Famous people born in Japan

Towa Tei is an artist, record producer and DJ born in Yokohama, Japan. Towa debuted as a member of Deee-Lite, from the US label Elektra Records in 1990 and shot to fame via their international hit single, "Groove Is In the Heart". He made his solo debut with the album Future Listening! in 1994. He has since relocated back from New York to rural Nagano prefecture in Japan.

Machiko Tezuka is a Japanese idol, and member of SDN48. She has previously had careers as a gravure idol/bikini model under the stage name Ourei Harada , and Eiko Maeda , as a member of idol group SKE48.

Sonoko Kawai , married name Sonoko Gotō is a former Japanese singer. She was originally member number 12 of Onyanko Club.

Ayaka Saitō is a Japanese actress and voice actress formerly employed by Vocal before transferring to remax. She is best known for voicing Momiji Sohma in Fruits Basket, Tomoka Rana Jude in Girls Bravo, Mitsukuni Haninozuka in Ouran High School Host Club and Ruby in the Jewelpet franchise.

Miwako Date is a Japanese businesswoman, and the president and CEO of Mori Trust.

Tatsuji Sugimoto is a Japanese politician. He currently serves as governor of Fukui Prefecture since 2019.

Nobumasa Fukuda is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Ayana Onozuka is a Japanese freestyle skier. She won a bronze medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2013 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships.

Eriko Tsuchiya is a retired Japanese professional wrestler known as Shark Tsuchiya (シャーク土屋). She worked most of her career for Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling.

Shinpei Takagi is a Japanese former actor from Seto, Aichi. He is the twin brother of actor Manpei Takagi; both are affiliated with Stardust Promotion.