List of Famous people born in Japan

Mizuki Kawashita is a Japanese manga artist, best known for her romantic comedy Strawberry 100% which was published by Shueisha in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 2002 to 2005 and would later receive a television anime and OVA adaptation. During the early part of her career, she wrote and illustrated under the pen name Mikan Momokuri . Her first public work was a dōjinshi called Innocent in 1993. Another series, First Love Limited, was adapted into a 12-episode anime television series and aired in 2009. Other works include Lilim Kiss, Akane-chan overdrive and Anedoki.

Masami Ishigaki is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Fumihiko Sori is a Japanese film director and film producer. He received a nomination for the 'Best Director' prize at the Japanese Academy Awards for his directing debut, Ping Pong.

Chumei Watanabe , born Michiaki Watanabe , was a Japanese film score and television score composer. He worked on various tokusatsu shows and mecha anime.

Sohji Izumi is a Japanese actor.

Masatomo Taniguchi was a Japanese basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Kazuyuki Sekiguchi is a Japanese musician, best known for playing the bass guitar for Southern All Stars. As a solo artist, he has played ukulele. He is a fan of Hawaiian music, and is the founder of the annual Ukulele Picnic music festival in Hawaii. For nearly twenty years, Sekiguchi has worked with Akira Sakuma in the Momotaro Dentetsu video game series as a music producer.

Makate Asai is a Japanese writer of historical fiction. She has won the Naoki Prize and the Oda Sakunosuke Prize, and two of her novels have been adapted for television by NHK.

Kazumi Kurigami is a commercial and fine art Japanese photographer.

Daijiro Morohoshi is a Japanese manga artist. He grew up in Adachi-ku, Tokyo. He is well known for SF comics, allegorical comics and horror/mystery comics based on pseudohistory and folklore. The indirect influence by Cthulhu Mythos also appears here and there in his works.