List of Famous people born in Japan

Hiroki Iikura is a Japanese football player who currently plays for Vissel Kobe.

Atsuko Yuya is a Japanese actress and voice actress who works for Gekidan Subaru. Yuya is originally from Nagasaki. She voices officer Miwako Sato in the long-running anime series Case Closed. She also do Jackie Tristan in Tite Kubo's manga : Bleach. She is the official Japanese voice dub-over artist for actresses Angelina Jolie and Natasha Henstridge.

Yasuharu Sorimachi is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.

Michelle Ferre is a former French–Japanese actress and journalist. She is a former CNN correspondent in Japan, as well as being a former game show host.

Katsura Hoshino is a Japanese manga artist from Shiga Prefecture. She made her debut in July 2003 with the publication of her first manga series Continue and is known for her work, D.Gray-man, which began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in May 2004. She most recently designed characters for the 2013 Sunrise anime, Valvrave the Liberator, making it her first original work on an anime.

Haruhiko Arai is a Japanese screenwriter. He is also a publisher and an editor of the Eiga Geijutsu magazine and a professor of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.

Kenta Kano is a Japanese retired football player.

Miho Teramura is a Japanese competitive swimmer who specializes in individual medley.

Hiroshi Matsuyama , born in 1970 in Fukuoka, is a Japanese game designer. He is the CEO of the company CyberConnect2. He developed multiple games including the .hack franchise as well as adaptations of the anime series including Naruto and Dragon Ball. Besides developing games, Matsuyama has participated in directing two .hack films as well as voicing a character from the series.

Mitsuru Chiyotanda is a former Japanese football player.