List of Famous people born in Japan

Shiori Kanzaki is a Japanese actress. She is best known for playing Yuka Sanada in Genseishin Justirisers.

Takuma Asahara is a Japanese international rugby union player who plays in the prop position. He currently plays for the Sunwolves in Super Rugby and the Toshiba Brave Lupus in Japan's domestic Top League.

Shigetatsu Matsunaga is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

Toyoki Takeda is a Japanese speed skater. He competed in two events at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Tetsuro Shimizu is a Japanese curler from Sapporo. He competed at the 2015 Ford World Men's Curling Championship in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, as vice-skip for the Japanese team, which placed sixth in the tournament.

Yoshizumi Ogawa is a Japanese retired footballer and current head coach of TIAMO Hirakata.

Yukari Yoshihara née Yukari Umezawa is a Japanese Go professional.

Takami Akai is an illustrator, game creator, character designer and animator born on November 21, 1961 in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, Japan.

Mari Kumamoto is a Japanese-born professional pianist known for her recordings of Spanish and Japanese composers.

Kenya Yasuda is a water polo player from Japan. He appeared in the Japanese Reality TV series Terrace House: Boys × Girls Next Door (2012), episodes 75 - 98 which depicts his water polo training and in which he expresses his dream to one day represent Japan in the Olympics. He makes a cameo appearance in the Japanese movie Terrace House: Closing Door (2015) in which he outlines the necessary steps he and his team must take to qualify for entry to the 2016 Rio Olympics. He was part of the Japanese team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where the team was eliminated in the group stage.