List of Famous people born in Japan

Masami Kurumada is a Japanese manga artist and writer, known for specializing in fighting manga featuring bishōnen and magical boy.

Genki Oshikawa , known professionally as Genki Okawa , is a Japanese actor and voice actor who has appeared in a number of feature films, stage productions and television series. He is represented with Amuleto.

Hiroyuki Endo is a Japanese badminton player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2009, he joined the Unisys badminton team.

Masaki Mimori is a Japanese professional baseball Infielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.

Masaki Terasoma , real name Masaki Terasoma is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He is affiliated with Mausu Promotion.

Ryo Yokoyama is a Japanese actor. He is represented with A-team.

Minoru Sano is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. He is the 1977 World bronze medalist and a five-time Japanese national champion (1972–76).

Sayaka Kitahara , born on November 29, 1993 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese singer, actress and voice actress.

Saya Ito is a Japanese kickboxer and Nak Muay. She is the current WMC World Mini Flyweight champion, the former WPMF World, Interim and Japanese Pinweight champion and the former WBC Muaythai World Mini Flyweight Champion.

Ryōji Noyori is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, Noyori shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions.