List of Famous people born in Japan

Yuumi Shida is a Japanese model and actress who is affiliated with Tambourine Artists. She is best known for her role as Mai Takatsukasa/Maiden of Fate, the main heroine of the Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Gaim.

Sota Nakazawa is a former Japanese football player.

Rena Kato is a Japanese singer, dancer, model, and an actress. She is a member of the Japanese female idol group AKB48, and is in Team A.

Tomio Fujii was a Japanese politician who served as the leader of the Komei splinter party between 1994 and 1998. In addition, he was a founding member of Komeito who served as an 11-term member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly as well as a leading figure in Komeito's Tokyo chapter.

Kyoko Ishida is a Japanese former volleyball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Tsumori Chisato is a Japanese fashion designer.

Masaya Takatsuka is a Japanese voice actor. He is married to voice actress Keiko Nemoto.

Mizuko Itō or Mizuko Ito or Mimi Ito is a Japanese cultural anthropologist who is a Professor in Residence at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine. Her main professional interest is young people's use of media technology. She has explored the ways in which digital media are changing relationships, identities, and communities.

Sabu is the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director Hiroyuki Tanaka .

Kōsuke Morita is a Japanese experimental nuclear physicist, known as the leader of the Japanese team that discovered nihonium. He currently holds a joint appointment as a professor at Kyushu University’s Graduate School of Science and as director of the Super Heavy Element Research Group at Riken's Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science.