List of Famous people born in Japan

Hayao Kawabe is a Japanese footballer who plays for Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

Seria Fukagawa is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Axl-One.

Satoru Sasaki is a Japanese long-distance runner who specialises in marathon running.

Kazumi Inamura is a Japanese politician. She has been mayor of Amagasaki since 13 December 2010. She is member of the Greens Japan political party and was its co-president from 2008 to 2010. She was a student at the University of Kobe during the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake. She was a member of the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly.

Takahiro Shimotaira is a former Japanese football player and manager. He is currently the manager of Yokohama FC.

Erika Miyoshi is a Japanese pop singer and former member of the Hello! Project-associated trio v-u-den.

Takeshi Kizu is a Japanese rugby union player. He was named in Japan's squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

Norihito Kaneto is a Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Pacific League.

Kyoko Inoue is a Japanese female professional wrestler. She has held the WWWA World Single Championship three times, and is the first woman to win a men's title in Japan.

Yoshiki Okamoto , sometimes credited as Kihaji Okamoto, is a Japanese video game designer. He is credited with producing popular titles for Konami, including Gyruss and Time Pilot, and for Capcom, including Final Fight and Street Fighter II. He also played a role in the creation of Rockstar's Red Dead franchise. He later founded the company Game Republic, and then created the hit mobile games Dragon Hunter and Monster Strike for Mixi. Several franchises he helped create are among the highest-grossing video game franchises of all time, including Street Fighter II, Monster Strike and Red Dead.