List of Famous people born in Japan

Koya Yuruki is a Japanese footballer who plays as a midfielder for Urawa Red Diamonds in the J1 League.

Satoshi Iida is a Japanese professional boxer from Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Iida won the WBA super flyweight championship of the world in 1997 when he defeated Thai champion Yokthai Sithoar via a 12th-round unanimous decision.

Kiyoyuki Yanada is a Japanese voice actor.

Kōji Matsushita is a male Japanese former international table tennis player.

Taiki Mitsumata is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Risa Nishioka , nicknamed Haku, is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for Mitsubishi Electric Koalas of the Women's Japan Basketball League. She also plays for Japan women's national 3x3 team.

Hirai Kawato is a Japanese professional wrestler, signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) under the ring name Master Wato where he is currently one half of the IWGP Junior Tag Champions with Ryusuke Taguchi. He was previously on an international learning excursion, working for NJPW's Mexican partner Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the ring name Kawato-San/Kawato San. He is a former CMLL World Lightweight Champion and competed in the main event of CMLL's 2020 Sin Piedad supercard show.

Eiji Kanamori is a former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder and the current coach of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.

Shinji Aoyama is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, film critic, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka.

Haruko Okamoto is a Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor. She retired from skating shortly after placing 26th in the 1968 Winter Olympic Games. Her sister is Ayumi Ishida, who is a singer and actress.