List of Famous people born in Japan

Takero Okajima is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Ken Iwase is a former Japanese football player and current manager of J2 league team Omiya Ardija.

Yasuhiko Yabuta is a Japanese former baseball pitcher.

Hidenari Ugaki is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo. He is currently attached to 81 Produce. He is best known for his roles in Mobile Fighter G Gundam, the TV Tokyo edition of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the 2005 Doraemon series, and the Yakuza video game series.

Masayuki Deai is a Japanese actor from Osaka Prefecture. He is most famous for his portrayal of Eiji Takaoka in the tokusatsu series GoGo Sentai Boukenger.

Tetsu Takano is a Japanese rock musician and singer-songwriter. He first became known as vocalist of the visual kei rock band Malice Mizer from 1992 to 1994. After leaving them, Tetsu formed and performed with Mega8Ball from 1995 to 1997. From 1999 to 2002 he was part of the supergroup Zigzo, who became quite popular despite being an independent band and reunited in 2012. In addition to Zigzo, Tetsu is currently active in the bands Nil, The JuneJulyAugust and The Black Comet Club Band, all of which are on his record label Afro Skull Records.

Keiji Yamada is a Japanese politician and former Governor of Kyoto Prefecture. A native of Hyōgo Prefecture and 1977 graduate of the University of Tokyo, he had worked at the Ministry of Home Affairs since 1977 and served as the vice governor of Kyoto Prefecture before elected governor for the first time in 2002. In 2011 he also took over from Wataru Asō as President of the National Governors Association.