List of Famous people born in Japan

Aoi Nanase is a Japanese manga artist.

Masahiro Doi is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder in Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Kintetsu Buffaloes from 1962 to 1974 and the Taiheiyo Club / Crown Lighter / Seibu Lions from 1975 to 1981. Despite a stellar 20-year career as a slugger, Doi never made it to the postseason or got a chance to play in the Japan Series.

Makoto Kosaka , nicknamed "Kosa", is a former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder and the current coach of the Chiba Lotte Marines.

Naoko Sato is a retired Japanese professional tennis player.

Mari Horikawa is a Japanese volleyball player. She plays for the Japan women's national volleyball team.

Hisashi Imai is a Japanese musician and songwriter. He is known as lead guitarist of the rock band Buck-Tick since 1983. He has also performed in musical side-projects such as Schaft (1991–1994), Schwein (2001), and more recently Lucy (2004).

Kana Kobayashi is a Japanese idol who is a former member of AKB48 who was part of Team B and later Team K. She has appeared in a number of television shows, feature films and stage productions. Kobayashi is represented with Promage.

Akira Takasaki is a Japanese musician and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist and sole constant member of the heavy metal band Loudness. He is also the guitarist of the band Lazy, with which he first rose to prominence in the 1970s.

Yoshihiro Doi is a Japanese baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Saitama Seibu Lions and Yokohama BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball from 1998 through 2010.

Takahiro Yamada is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.