List of Famous people born in Japan

Nao-Cola Yamazaki is the professional name of Naoko Yamazaki , a Japanese writer. They pride themselves on writing "things no one else can say in words anyone can understand". They have won the Bungei Prize and the Shimase Award for Love Stories. They have been nominated multiple times for the Akutagawa Prize, and their work has been adapted for film. Nao-Cola has chose not to make their gender public, and has stated that their pronoun is singular "they". They have two children.

Masaya Emura is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Fukushima Hopes.

Ryosuke Ogata is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Yūma Ohshita is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.

Akira Mori is the Chairman of the Board of Mori Trust, a real estate developer in Tokyo, Japan and an offshoot of Mori Building, the company his father Taikichiro Mori founded in 1959. Forbes estimates that as of 2013, he is the fourth-wealthiest person in Japan with a net worth of approximately $5 billion.

Yuji Hirayama is a Japanese rock climber, specializing in lead climbing competitions. He won two Lead World Cup, in 1998, and 2000. He is noted as the first climber to onsight an 8c (5.14b) route, and for various speed records on El Capitan.