List of Famous people born in Japan

Yūji Kishi is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He started his acting debut in the 1996 Super Sentai series, Gekisou Sentai Carranger as Red Racer Since then, he has become a very prominent voice actor in both Anime and video games. He is more prominently known as the main voice actor for Ken Masters in the Street Fighter series of video games produced by Capcom.

Nozomi Furuki is a Japanese voice actress from Gotō Islands, Nagasaki Prefecture. She is a member of the idol voice acting unit One Little Kiss. She is affiliated with Mausu Promotion.

The Tokyo subway sarin attack was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo. In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on three lines of the Tokyo Metro during rush hour, killing 14 people, injuring 5,500 people in varying degrees, and causing temporary vision problems for nearly 1,000 others. The attack was directed against trains passing through Kasumigaseki and Nagatachō, where the Diet is headquartered in Tokyo.

Miki Itō is a Japanese freestyle skier active since 2004. She competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics and competed for Japan at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Ladies' Moguls.

Yuko Gibu is a Japanese voice actress.

Namie Odama (尾玉なみえ), born June 1, 1979, in Osaka Prefecture, known as "Namie-han" to her fans, is a Japanese gag manga artist. Her works have been featured in Shueisha's magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump and, more recently, its sister publications Business Jump, Ultra Jump and Young Jump.

Kunio Hiramatsu was the mayor of Osaka in Japan. He was elected in 2007 with centre-left support from the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), People's New Party and the Social Democratic Party, defeating the centre-right supported incumbent Jun'ichi Seki by 50,000 votes.

Natsuki Ikezawa is a Japanese poet, novelist, essayist and translator.

Kei Nakazawa is the professional name of Emiko Honda , a Japanese writer and professor. Nakazawa has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers and the Noma Literary New Face Prize, and two of her novels have been adapted for film. Since 2005 she has been a professor of literature at Hosei University.

Takahiro Kumagai is a Japanese professional baseball infielder, playing for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.