List of Famous people born in Japan

Yuji Yaso is a former Japanese football player.

Katsushi Takemura is a Japanese retired professional wrestler, mostly known for his ring name Takemura. Having worked for New Japan Pro-Wrestling for most of his career, he was an occasional member of the renowned stable Tokyo Gurentai.

Kenji Sato is a Japanese professional baseball player. He was born on August 26, 1988. He debuted in 2010. He had 9 runs in 2013.

Kazutomi Yamamoto is a Japanese voice actor and singer affiliated with Production Ace. In 2013, he won the 7th Seiyu Awards as the Best Rookie actors along with Nobunaga Shimazaki.

Shū Kunimitsu , also known as Yoo Soo-young and professionally as Shoo, is a Korean-Japanese actress and singer who debuted as a member of the South Korean girl group S.E.S. in 1997 and continued until 2002 when the group disbanded. She contributed songs as a solo artist after the group's disbandment before she went on hiatus from her music career to pursue an acting career in 2006. She returned to the music scene with releasing her single album Devote One's Love in 2010. Afterwards, she went back on hiatus for four years to take care of her family before transitioning back into acting in 2014 and from then on she is active as a celebrity and appeared in many variety shows like Oh! My Baby! with her family. In 2016 Shoo had a special 20th anniversary comeback with her group members and S.E.S released a special album with a special concert. In December 2018 Shoo had some issues and went on a hiatus and in October 2020 Shoo released her first Japanese digital album "I Found Love". Shoo made an official come back in 2022 with her life documentary. She is now an ambassador of Korean Gambling Prevention Treatment Agency.

Takayoshi Amma is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Ikki Shimamura is a former professional Japanese baseball player.

Yoshihiro Nakamura is a Japanese film director and screenwriter, known for his 2009 film Fish Story, which premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival, and A Boy and His Samurai, which won the Audience Award at the 2011 New York Asian Film Festival.

Wakako Tsuchida is an athlete from Tokyo, Japan, who is an accomplished women's wheelchair marathoner and ice sledge racer. She was the first professional wheelchair athlete from Japan and the first Japanese athlete to win gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Paralympics. She has paraplegia.

Rio Natsume is a Japanese gravure idol. She has released several DVDs and photobooks and has appeared in several TV shows in Japan.