List of Famous people born in Japan

Junichi Hirokami is a Japanese conductor.

Hiroshi Iwata is a Japanese professional golfer who plays on the Japan Golf Tour and the PGA Tour.

Keita Inoue is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is currently serving as an executive director of the Japan Shogi Association.

Eiji Moriyama is a Japanese stage actor and voice actor who is best known for his stage works, such as originating Takeshi Momoshiro of the first generation Seigaku cast of The Prince of Tennis musical series, and as Renji Abarai in Rock Musical BLEACH series. He is currently employed by Sun Music Group and is also a member of the entertainment group *pnish*.

Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese physicist, engineer and inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor technology. For his work he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for "the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".

Koichi Kobayashi is a Japanese Go player. He is one of the 'Six Supers' who championed Japanese Go in the last three decades of Japanese Go.

Nobuyasu Okabayashi is a Japanese folk singer-songwriter. He has been called "Japan's Bob Dylan."

Yasushi Endo is a Japanese footballer who plays for Kashima Antlers.

Daichi Shibata is a former Japanese football player.

Annu Mari is an Indo-Japanese actress best known in the West for her role as the femme fatale in Branded to Kill movie (1967). Her sisters are model Prabha Sheth and actress Yuka Kumari. She is married to conductor Yoshikazu Fukumura.