List of Famous people born in Japan

Chinami Tokunaga is a Japanese singer. She is a former member of the J-pop idol group Berryz Kobo.

Hiroshi Matsuda is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Takuji Ichikawa is a Japanese novelist. Ichikawa's bestsellers include Ima ai ni yukimasu (2003), Ren'ai shashin (2003) and Sono Toki wa Kare ni Yoroshiku (2004).

Mana Ogawa is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. Her debut album 1 Teenage Blues was released on July 21, 2010. The album charted at No.100 on the Oricon album charts. She was previously a soloist under NICE GIRL Project! and was a member of Canary Club CAN'S division with Ayumi Takada from 2007 until its hiatus in 2012.

Kamijo is a Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, and music producer. He is best known as lead singer of the visual kei bands Lareine and Versailles. He has also been the head of two independent record labels; the first being Applause Records, and currently Sherow Artist Society since 2006, being renamed to Chateau Agency since 2016. His music covers many genres, Lareine having mainly a baroque pop style, and Versailles a clear symphonic and neoclassical metal sound. He has an extensive discography with the bands Lareine, New Sodmy and Versailles, consisting of 15 albums, and a large amount of EPs and singles. In 2013, Kamijo began a solo career with his debut single "Louis ~Enketsu no La Vie en Rose~".

Akira Kasai is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives for the Japanese Communist Party, of which he is the policy chief. He is critical of the United States' intervention in the Syrian Civil War in absence of resolutions by the UN Security Council, saying that the actions are aggravating the civil war. He is supportive of normalizing Japan's relationship with North Korea, claiming that the issues with North Korea can only be solved by developing a dialogue and trust. He similarly thinks that Japan should push the United States to hold talks with North Korea to avert a war caused by accident or misunderstanding. Kasai is against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Mariko Suzuki is a Japanese voice actress who works for Aoni Production. She is the famous voice actress as Nōhime in both series of Samurai Warriors and Warriors Orochi.