List of Famous people born in Japan

Kentaro Tsuruoka is a Japanese snowboarder. He competed in the men's parallel giant slalom event at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Atsuhiko Mori is a former Japanese football player.

Natsumi Murakami is a Japanese voice actress associated with Yūrin Pro. She is best known for voicing Ako Saotome in Aikatsu Stars! and Ai Miyashita in Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars for the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club.

Daiya Maekawa is a Japanese football player.

Kaname Tajima is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. A native of Nagoya, Aichi he attended the University of Tokyo and also earned MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected for the first time in 2003 after working at NTT for 20 years.

Shintaro Ito is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Tokyo and graduate of Keio University, he received his master's degrees from Keio University and Harvard University and completed a program at the American Film Institute. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2001.

Jin Izumisawa is a Japanese football player. He plays for Ventforet Kofu.

Miyako Yamaguchi (山口美也子) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 7th Hochi Film Award for Farewell to the Land.

Masaki Haruna , known professionally as Klaha, is a Japanese former singer-songwriter. He is best known as third vocalist of the visual kei rock band Malice Mizer from 2000 to 2001. He was previously in the 1990s new wave band Pride of Mind, and started a solo career after leaving Malice Mizer.

Katsuichi Honda is a Japanese journalist and author most famous for his writing on the Nanjing Massacre. During the 1970s he wrote a series of articles on the atrocities committed by Imperial Japanese soldiers during World War II called "Chūgoku no Tabi". The series first appeared in the Asahi Shimbun.