List of Famous people born in Japan

Chisako Wakatake is a Japanese writer. Her 2017 book Ora ora de hitori igu mo won the Akutagawa Prize and the Bungei Prize.

Tetsu Nagasawa is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Mamoru Hatakeyama is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 8-dan.

Tsutomu Yamazaki 山崎 力 was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the House of Councillors from 1995 until 2007 and again from 2010 until 2016. Yamazaki was born in Aomori, Japan.

Kumiko Ōsugi is a J-pop artist from Tokyo. In 1964 she recorded a song with Crown Records using the pseudonym Momoko Shibayama . The first song to be released under her real name was Attack No. 1 , the opening theme for the Attack No. 1 anime. She went on to perform theme songs for many other anime, including Doraemon, Aim for the Ace!, Araiguma Rascal, Flanders no Inu, and Oz no Mahōtsukai.