List of Famous people born in Japan

Yutaka Mizutani is a Japanese actor and singer. He was born on July 14, 1952, in Ashibetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan.

Akie Abe is a Japanese radio DJ and the spouse of politician Shinzō Abe, who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. She was the longest serving First Lady in Japanese history.

Yoshio Itoi is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Hanshin Tigers. Itoi bats left-handed and throws right-handed. He played for team Japan in WBC 2013, and hit for Japan in games against Brazil and China.

Kodai Senga is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Takuma Sato , nicknamed "Taku", is a Japanese professional racing driver. Sato is a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, having won the event in 2017 and 2020. He was the first Asian driver to win the Indy 500, and the twentieth driver to have multiple Indy 500 wins. He also became the first Japanese driver to win an IndyCar race when he won the 2013 Grand Prix of Long Beach.

Mio Sugita is a Japanese politician. Sugita is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and an incumbent member of the House of Representatives for the Proportional Chugoku Block.

Takeshi Aikoh is a retired Nippon Professional Baseball player who played for the Lotte Orions and the Chunichi Dragons.

Yuina Kuroshima is a Japanese model, actress, and tarento.

Kisenosato Yutaka born July 3, 1986, as Yutaka Hagiwara is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Ibaraki. He made his professional debut in 2002, and reached the top makuuchi division in 2004 at the age of just 18. After many years in the junior san'yaku ranks, he reached the second highest rank of ōzeki in January 2012. He earned three kinboshi or gold stars by defeating yokozuna in his career leading up to ōzeki and nine special prizes. He scored more than 20 double-digit winning records at the ōzeki rank. In 2016, he secured the most wins in the calendar year, the first wrestler to do so without winning a tournament in that year.

Remi Hirano is a Japanese chef, TV personality, and chanson singer. Her father is French writer Imao Hirano. Her husband is illustrator Makoto Wada. Her eldest son is Sho Wada, member of the band Triceratops, and whose wife is the actress Juri Ueno. The wife of her second son is chef and model Asuka Wada. Her grandfather is Japanese art historian and jurist Henry Pike Bowie.