List of Famous people born in Japan

Koichi Tani is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Muraoka, Hyōgo and graduate of Meiji University he was elected for the first time in 2005.

Fumie Mizusawa is a Japanese actress, voice actress and novelist. She is represented by Aoni Production.

Kodai Matsumoto is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He played with the Chiba Lotte Marines and the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball from 2008 to 2013.

Sayaka Kinoshita is a Japanese voice actress from Chiba Prefecture.

Fuyuko Matsui is a female contemporary Japanese artist, specialized in Nihonga paintings. She is known for her "new Kusozu" series. Matsui has been making her works based on her psychoanalysis result, putting heavy weight on her feelings and interests in violence, experience of loss, repression, stress, and trauma.

Ippei Shinozuka or Ippey Sinodzuka is a Japanese-Russian professional footballer for Japanese club Kashiwa Reysol.

Masahiro Andoh is a Japanese composer, guitarist and T-Square's leader from Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He was also one-third of Ottottrio, a Superband led by three Japanese guitarists: himself, Hirokuni Korekata of KORENOS and Issei Noro of Casiopea.

Shūhei Sakaguchi is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Aksent. He is also best known for dubbing Lee Byung-hun.

Seito Yamamoto is a Japanese pole vaulter. He competed in the pole vault event at the 2012 Summer Olympics failing to clear any height in the qualifying round. His biggest success to date is the sixth place at the 2013 World Championships.

Masaaki Suzuki is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and musical director of the Bach Collegium Japan. With this ensemble he is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for which he is also recording Bach's concertos, orchestral suites, and solo works for harpsichord and organ. He is also an artist-in-residence at Yale University and the principal guest conductor of its Schola Cantorum, and has conducted orchestras and choruses around the world.