List of Famous people born in Japan

Makiko Kikuta is a Japanese politician and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Kamo, Niigata, she graduated from a high school in Kamo and studied in Heilongjiang University in China. After having served in the assembly of Kamo for two terms since 1995, she ran unsuccessfully for the Niigata-4th seat in the House of Representatives in 2000 as a member of Ichirō Ozawa's Liberal Party, which merged into the DPJ in 2003. She ran again in 2003 and was elected for the first time.

Yuma Uchida is a Japanese voice actor and singer who works for I'm Enterprise. His big roles have included Yuuma Kousaka in Gundam Build Fighters Try, Nagisa Kiryū in Classroom Crisis, Eishirō Yabuki in The Asterisk War, Hayate Immelmann in Macross Delta, Ein Dalton in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Iori Kitahara in Grand Blue, and Ash Lynx in Banana Fish. In 2017, he received the 11th Seiyu Awards for Best Male Newcomer with Setsuo Itō and Yusuke Kobayashi. In 2019, he won Best Male Lead Actor in the 13th Seiyu Awards. He made his singing debut in May 2018 under the King Records label. His older sister is voice actress Maaya Uchida who also works in the same company.

Akira Emoto is a Japanese actor.

Yui Yokoyama is a singer, actress and member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She was the second General Manager of the AKB48 Group. She has served as the captain of AKB48 Team A, and was a former member of AKB48 sister group NMB48. Since 2011, Yokoyama has also been also a member of the group Not Yet.

Yurie Omi is a Japanese female announcer, television reporter, television personality, and news anchor for NHK. She is the co-host of NHK's morning talk show Asaichi. She is famous for being the co-host of NHK's geological television series Bura Tamori from April 2016 until March 2018.

Takeya Nakamura is Japanese baseball player. He is an infielder for the Seibu Lions in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Junichi Ishida is a Japanese actor and television personality from Tokyo. He is married to professional golfer Riko Higashio.

Yasukaze Motomiya is a Japanese actor. His real name is Yasuyuki Hirai . He is represented by Triple A.

Ayumu Goromaru is a Japanese rugby union player who plays at fullback for Yamaha Júbilo as well as the Japan national rugby union team.

Ryōta Murata is a Japanese professional boxer. He has held the WBA (Super) middleweight title since January 2021 and previously held the WBA (Regular) title twice between 2017 and January 2021. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at the 2011 World Championships, and gold the following year at the 2012 Olympics. As of January 2021, he is ranked as the world's fifth best active middleweight by The Ring and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and sixth by BoxRec.