List of Famous people born in Japan

Makoto Ninomiya is a Japanese professional tennis player.

Hajime Yoshikawa is a member of the Social Democratic Party serving in the House of Representatives. He is opposed to the Anti-Conspiracy Bill.

Yōichi Takahashi is a Japanese cartoonist and manga artist, best known for his work Captain Tsubasa. Takahashi has published art books, manga, novels, and guides, most of which are about Captain Tsubasa. He is also known for his soccer series, Hungry Heart: Wild Striker.

Hiroyuki is a Japanese manga artist from Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. He is notable for the creation of the four-panel comic strip manga Dōjin Work which is the first of his works to be adapted into an anime television series. He also created the four-panel manga series The Comic Artist and His Assistants, which was serialized from 2008 to 2012, with a sequel serialized from August 2013, and adapted into an anime television series which aired in 2014. Hiroyuki has also created dōjinshi based on the Type-Moon visual novels Tsukihime and Fate/stay night. His older sister, Kouji Megumi , is also a manga artist.

Kazushige Abe is a contemporary Japanese writer.

Moeko Nagaoka is a Japanese basketball player. She represented Japan in the basketball competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal.

Ryuho Kikuchi is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Vissel Kobe.

Yuta Koike is a Japanese football player who plays for Cerezo Osaka.

Jirō Shiizaki was a lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He served as a member of the staff of the domestic affairs section of the Military Affairs Bureau's War Affairs Section. Shiizaki was one of several members of that staff to participate in a coup in the early morning of August 15, 1945, the day the Emperor would declare Japan's surrender.

Hirohito Gotō is a Japanese director, playwright, and actor. Born in Yamagata prefecture, he graduated from Yamagata Prefectural Yamagata East High School and dropped out of Hindi studies from Osaka University of Foreign Studies.