List of Famous people born in Japan

Akihiko Ohya is a former Japanese baseball player and manager. He was the manager of the Yokohama BayStars baseball team in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball until he was fired on May 18, 2009, for not maintaining club standards.

Hiroshi Nagakubo is a Japanese former figure skating coach and pair skater. With his skating partner, Kotoe Nagasawa, he became a five-time (1967–1971) Japanese national champion and competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics, placing 16th.

Tatsuya Furuhashi is a Japanese football player. He plays for Japan Football League club Honda FC.He is Matsuzaka Generation.

Aika Kobayashi is a Japanese singer and voice actress from Kanagawa Prefecture. Kobayashi is currently affiliated with Newcome Inc, and her singles are released under label Media Factory. She is best known for her role as Yoshiko Tsushima in the multimedia franchise Love Live! Sunshine!!.

Yuka Komatsu is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator from Tokyo. She is affiliated with Aoni Production.

Mikiko Hagiwara is a Japanese former professional basketball player. She won a silver medal with the Japan women's national basketball team at the 1994 Asian Games. Hagiwara also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where Japan's team came in seventh place.

Shimako Satō is a Japanese screenwriter and film director.

Daisuke Yamashita was a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player.

Jun Horie is a Japanese singer-songwriter.

Junko Hiramatsu, née: Ueno is a Japanese former competitive figure skater who is now a coach and International Skating Union (ISU) official. She is a five-time Japanese national champion and represented Japan twice at the Winter Olympics, in 1960 and 1964. She was the flag bearer for Japan at the 1960 Winter Olympics.