List of Famous people born in Japan

Michiko Hamamura is a Japanese singer and actress. She was known as the "Banana Boat Girl" after she recorded a bi-lingual cover of the "Banana Boat Song"

Jun Mayuzuki is a Japanese manga artist. Her most famous work is the series After the Rain, which was serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly Big Comic Spirits magazine in June 2014, before moving to the magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits in January 2016 and finished in March 2018. In 2018, she won the 63rd Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category with the manga.

Kiyoshige Maekawa is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet.

Yuka Sato is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She is the 1994 World champion, the 1990 World Junior champion and the 1993 & 1994 Japanese national champion. She placed 7th at the 1992 Winter Olympics and 5th at the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Ichiko Aoba is a Japanese folk singer and songwriter who was born in Urayasu, Chiba and raised in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. She releases music on her own label, hermine. Her main instrument is guitar, which most of her music is mainly composed of, but she also plays the piano, clarinet, accordion, and flute on her own. Aoba is known for her acoustic sound and songwriting which is inspired by her dreams.

Ayumu Seko is a Japanese footballer who plays for Cerezo Osaka.

Yuji Nishino is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Yoshihiro Takahashi is a Japanese manga artist. He writes under a pen name in which his first name Yoshihiro is spelled out in hiragana (よしひろ).

Kodai Sakurai is a former Japanese baseball player from Yasu, Shiga Prefecture.

Kensuke Ushio is a Japanese composer, rock and EBM musician who performs under the moniker agraph..