List of Famous people born in Japan

Hideaki Okubo is a Japanese baseball catcher who won a silver medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics. He also played for the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes in the Pacific League from 1998 to 2000.

Mihona Fujii is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She is best known for her manga GALS!, which was published in Ribon magazine, and adapted into an anime television series under the name Super GALS! Kotobuki Ran. Her debut work was Mujaki na mama de, published in the 1990 autumn issue of Ribon Original. In 2006, she created Tokyo Angels which ran in Margaret throughout that year.

Tadashi Ishimine is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Keisuke Otoguro is a Japanese wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle 74 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.

Minami Tsukui is a Japanese actress who is formerly affiliated with Japan Action Enterprise. She is best known for her role as the character Yoko Minato/Kamen Rider Marika, from the Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Gaim.

Yohei Nishibe is a Japanese football player who plays for Shimizu S-Pulse.

Yusuke Higa is a former Japanese footballer who last played for Tokyo Verdy.

Kohei Kameyama is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He won a gold medal at the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in pommel horse. One of Japan's oldest male gymnasts at 32 competing since 1964 as host, he participated in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as one of the two apparatus individuals allocated to the Japanese men's artistic gymnastics team on pommel horse.

Jungo Fujimoto is a Japanese football player, who currently plays for SC Sagamihara in the J3 League.

Chocolat is a Japanese singer from the greater Tokyo area in Japan. Her first single, "Chocolat a la mode", was released in 1997 on Epic Records (Japan). Her younger twin sister Heaco is also a singer. In 1998, Chocolat married the musician Akito Katayose from the band GREAT3 in Maui, Hawaii, which subsequently became her favorite place. In 2000, she moved from Epic Records to Warner Bros. Japan and later that year recorded the duet single "VERANDA" with her husband, credited as Akito Katayose featuring Chocolat. In 2005, she and her husband formed the group Chocolat & Akito.