List of Famous people born in Japan

Rion Azuma is a former member of the Japanese idol girl group SKE48. She was a member of SKE48's Team E.

Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one-fourth of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."

Kimie Hatano is a member of the Japanese Communist Party serving in the House of Representatives. She represents the 10th District of Kanagawa prefecture.

Anna Ogino is a Japanese author and professor of literature at Keio University. She has won the Akutagawa Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Itō Sei Literature Prize.

Kenji Kasahara is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded mixi, a social networking site. He is ranked as the 37th richest Japanese person.

Aya Kawai is a Japanese former competitive ice dancer. She competed with Hiroshi Tanaka. They placed 23rd in the 1998 Winter Olympic Games. They were two-time Japanese national champions.

Kozo Shoda is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder.

Satoshi Mizukami is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Spirit Circle, and the anime television series Planet With.