List of Famous people born in Japan

Koichiro Koga is a Japanese male volleyball player. He is part of the Japan men's national volleyball team. On club level he plays for Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza.

Kazuhiro Kiuchi is a Japanese manga artist, film director and novelist. As a manga writer, he is best known for the series Be-Bop High School, which won the 1988 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen and was adapted as series of live-action movies and as a 7 episode anime OVA series. He was director of one segment of Killers.

Ume Aoki is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator and dōjin artist from Hyōgo Prefecture. She officially romanizes her name as aokiume. She illustrates under the pennames apricot+ for many of her dōjinshi, and Apply Fujimiya for the visual novel Sanarara.

Kunio Nakagawa was the commander of Japanese forces which defended the island of Peleliu in the Battle of Peleliu which took place from 15 September to 27 November 1944. He inflicted heavy losses on attacking U.S. Marines and held Peleliu Island for almost three months. On the evening of 24 November, after the battle was lost, he performed seppuku in the tradition of Japanese samurai warriors. He was posthumously promoted to lieutenant general.