List of Famous people born in Japan

Miho Hazama is a Tokyo-born composer and jazz musician, based in New York City.

Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese manga artist who is best known for his unusual drawing style. One of his best known manga is What's Michael?, a manga about a curious orange cat and his many adventures that is often compared with Garfield. His earliest work is Grapple Three Brothers, which won the Shōnen magazine New manga artist award. He has twice won the Kodansha Manga Award, for Sanshiro of 1, 2 (ja) in 1981 and What's Michael? in 1986.

Bin Furuya , real name Satoshi Furuya is a Japanese actor best known for his uncredited portrayal of the title character in the 1966 series Ultraman. Furuya would later portray the character Amagi in the sequel series Ultra Seven. Furuya has also made appearances in Gorath, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Ultraman Zearth and Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy.

Oji Hiroi , real name Teruhisa Hiroi , is an author and video game developer. He co-authored Samurai Crusader with Ryoichi Ikegami. He also created the Far East of Eden and Sakura Wars role-playing video game franchises, and wrote the Sakura Wars manga.

Daichi Sawano is a Japanese pole vaulter.

Nobuharu Matsushita is a Japanese racing driver that formerly competed in the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship for MP Motorsport before being replaced by Ferrari Driver Academy driver Giuliano Alesi. Matsushita is yet to announce future Motorsport plans.

Hisao Niura, also known as Kim Il-young, is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher who played Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan and KBO League baseball in South Korea. Over a 22-season career, he was a five-time champion, four times with the Yomiuri Giants and once with the Samsung Lions. He was a two-time ERA champion of Japan's Central League. A workhorse during much of his career, he had success as both a starter and a reliever.

Kyohei Sakaguchi is a Japanese artist and architect who was born in Kumamoto. He graduated from Waseda University's department of architecture in 2001. He is most known for his Zero Yen Project, which involves studying structures built at no cost, such as shanties made by the homeless.

Toru Taniguchi is a Japanese professional golfer.

Yūzō Saeki was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing modernism and Fauvist Expressionism within the yōga (Western-style) art movement in early twentieth-century Japanese painting.