List of Famous people born in Japan

Ryohei Kawamoto is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays catcher for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.

Ryutarou Akimoto is a Japanese actor and model. He is part of Evergreen Entertainment and has appeared several times in Japanese movies and TV dramas. He received a Junon Super Boy Photogenic Award.

Takaji Muranaka was an Imperial Japanese Army officer who was a conspirator in the February 26 Incident in 1936 and was subsequently arrested by the Japanese authorities for the attempted coup.

Yasushi Watanabe is a full Professor at Keio University in Japan. He earned a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 1997 with a dissertation on "Nurturing A Context: The Logic of Individualism and the Negotiation of the Familial Sphere in the United States." After post-doctoral fellowships at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, he joined Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance as well as Faculty of Environment and Information Studies in 1999. He attained the rank of full Professor in 2005, and is one of Japan's most prominent experts on cultural policy, public diplomacy, and American Studies.

Kentaro Hayashi is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

Masahito Kohiyama is a former professional baseball player from Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

Hidetoshi Takeda is a Japanese footballer currently playing as a midfielder for the Urawa Reds.

Yuri "Yureeka" Yasuda also known as Yureeka is a Japanese businesswoman and art collector. Born in Tokyo and raised in New York City, she graduated from Sophia University with a bachelor's degree in Comparative Cultures.

Aoi Enomoto is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder. He played in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles from 2012 to 2015 and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in 2017. Enomoto then played for the Toyama GRN Thunderbirds in the BC League in 2018 and 2019.

Maria (マリア), born Ayaka Itō on January 29, 1987, is a Japanese pop singer signed under Universal Music Japan. She had been active in singing for several years before debuting as a solo artist in 2009. Maria plays electric guitar and writes her own lyrics.