List of Famous people born in Japan

Shinnosuke Mitsushima is a Japanese actor. He graduated from Okinawa Prefecture Koza High School. He is represented with Humanitè.

Akiko Matsumoto is a Japanese TV personality and actress.

Yūko Nakagawa is a Japanese politician in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). She represented Hokkaido in the House of Representatives from 2012 to 2017. Her husband, Shōichi Nakagawa, was also a politician, serving as Minister of Finance of Japan in 2008 and 2009. Nakagawa was born in Niigata Prefecture and graduated from University of the Sacred Heart in 1981. She worked at Mitsubishi for a year until her marriage to Shōichi, and moved to Hokkaido shortly afterward.

Hiroki Moriuchi , better known as his stage name Hiro, is the lead vocalist of the Japanese rock band My First Story.

Yasushi Adachi is a member of the Nippon Ishin no Kai serving in the House of Representatives, a position that he has been elected to two times, once in 2012, and again in 2014. Adachi supports the making free education a constitutional right, saying that it would help slow the decline in birthrate.

Mitsu Dan is the professional name of Shizuka Saitō , a Japanese actress, gravure idol, and writer. She has played multiple lead roles in television and film, including Naoko in the 2013 erotic thriller Amai Muchi, for which she received a Newcomer of the Year award at the 37th Japan Academy Prize ceremony.

Risa Hayashida is a Japanese announcer, television reporter, television personality, and news anchor for NHK. She is the anchor for NHK's local news program Shutoken Network airing in Tokyo Metropolis and peripheral prefectures. She was the co-host for NHK's geological TV series Bura Tamori, as well as a newsreader for morning news show NHK News Ohayō Nippon.

Noriyuki Yamaguchi is a former Japanese journalist and biographer of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He is accused of raping Shiori Itō, who was an intern at Thomson Reuters. His denials and the police refusing to press rape charges against Yamaguchi sparked the Me too movement in Japan.

Rio Uchida is a Japanese actress and gravure idol who is affiliated with LesPros Entertainment. She is best known for her role as Kiriko Shijima, the main heroine of the Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Drive.

Jun Mizutani is a male Japanese table tennis player. He became the youngest Japanese national champion at the age of 17. His consecutive singles titles at the national championships from 2007 to 2011 made him the first man to win the event five times in a row.