List of Famous people born in Japan

Takuya Kitade is a Japanese rugby union player who plays as a Hooker. He currently plays for Sunwolves in Super Rugby and Suntory Sungoliath in Japan's domestic Top League.

Michiko Hattori is a Japanese professional golfer and former Player of the Year on the LPGA of Japan Tour. Before turning professional, she became the first Japanese born champion of the U.S. Women's Amateur.

Yuki Midorikawa is a Japanese manga artist.

Date Yasumune is the 34th head of the Date clan.

Sachiko Kojima is a Japanese actress and voice actress who is affiliated with Mausu Promotion. She is married to Makoto Yasue, a sound director employed by Glovision. On Twitter under the name chiffons, she reported the birth of her first son on August 3, 2011 in a tweet on August 11, 2011, and the birth of her second son on May 15, 2013 in a tweet on May 17, 2013.

Takashi Shiina is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily for the weekly Shogakukan manga publication Weekly Shōnen Sunday. When he started at the company in 1989, he began with an anthology of various shorts and one-shots collectively known as Shiina Department Store. Eventually one of these one-shots, about a beautiful, money grubbing female exorcist and her lecherous companion, would become the basis of his best known work: Ghost Sweeper Mikami: Gokuraku Daisakusen!! Running from 1991 through 1999, it became well known and popular work in Sunday, leading to an anime of the series from 1993 through 1994 by Toei Animation as well as a Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1993. Even as he had success with Mikami, Shiina continued to create various one-shot stories on the side of his main series.

Setsurō Wakamatsu is a Japanese film director. His film Shizumanu Taiyō won the Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize.

Naoki Yuasa is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Japan.

Junpei Shinoda is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player. A pitcher, he is currently with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in Japan's Central League.

Daiki Takamatsu is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.