List of Famous people born in Japan

Rika Miura is a Japanese actress. She was born in Iwaizumi, Iwate and moved to Saitama Prefecture as a child. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Yoyogi High School.

Yuka Kaneko is a former professional tennis player from Japan.

Mine Kawakami is a Japanese pianist and composer.

Kaoruko Himeno is a Japanese writer. She has been nominated five times for the Naoki Prize and won the 150th Naoki Prize for her novel Showa Dog . Two of her novels have been adapted for film.

Kisaki is a Japanese musician who has worked with several visual kei bands, including La:Sadie's, Syndrome, Kisaki Project and Phantasmagoria. Besides playing bass and keyboards and composing music, he also works as a producer, previously for the Matina label and currently for Under Code Production. In 2008, when Phantasmagoria broke up, Kisaki once announced his retirement as a musician. However, in 2010, he announced that he was ending his retirement and debuted his new band, Lin -the End of Corruption World .

Yutaka Hara is a Japanese writer and illustrator of children's literature. He was born in Kumamoto in 1953, and is the winner of the 1974 KFS Contest Kodansha Children's Literature Award (KFSコンテスト・講談社児童図書部門賞受賞).

Yuki Fuji is a Japanese football player for Suzuka Unlimited FC.