List of Famous people born in Japan

Naoki Ishikawa is a Japanese football player who plays for Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo.

Hina Sugita is a Japanese football player. She plays for INAC Kobe Leonessa and the Japan women's national football team.

Takahiro Shikine is a Japanese fencer. In 2017, he won one of the bronze medals in the men's foil event at the 2017 World Fencing Championships held in Leipzig, Germany. In the same year, he also won the gold medal in the men's team foil event at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan. He also competed in the men's individual foil event without winning a medal.

Hideo Ishikawa is a Japanese voice actor from Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. He works for Aoni Production.

Asami Chiba , or Tanno, is a Japanese sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. She is the Japanese record holder in the event, and has also broken the national record in the 4×400 metres relay on multiple occasions. She is a member of Natureal Athlete Club in Japan and is coached by Kazuhisa Kawamoto.

Tsutomu Nishioka is a professor of International Christian Studies at Tokyo Christian University. He specializes in Japan-Korean relations, South Korea/North Korea Studies. His research focuses on the Comfort women and the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens. He is a chairman of the National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea (NARKN).