List of Famous people born in Japan

Yoshio Hachiro is a Japanese politician from the Constitutional Democratic Party and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet.

Takayoshi Ohmura is a Japanese musician and songwriter. Born in Osaka Prefecture, his first instrument was the piano, which he began playing when he was three years old. By the age of 11, he had started to play acoustic guitar, moving to electric guitar at the age of 14. By the age of 17, he had developed an interest in western hard rock and heavy metal music and devoted himself to it.

Kazuki Takahashi is a Japanese manga artist and game creator, best known for creating Yu-Gi-Oh!.

Kentaro Takasaki is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Koichi Isobe is a former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder.

Yukimi Matsuo is a Japanese actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Japan 2013 and represented Japan in Miss Universe 2013.

Tatsuo Sugimoto is a Japanese sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Kiyonori Imamura , better known by his stage name Norio Imamura , is a Japanese stage actor and voice actor from Gifu. He is a graduate of the Fine Arts department of Nihon University. Imamura began his career in the musical troupe Musical Company It's Follies and was coached by Nachi Nozawa.

Miya Tachibana is a Japanese competitor in synchronised swimming from Ōtsu, Shiga.

Shiho Katō is member of Japanese idol group Hinatazaka46. She is represented by Sony Music Records, and is an exclusive model for the fashion magazine CanCam.