List of Famous people born in Japan

Naomi Nagasawa , known professionally as Nao Nagasawa is a Japanese voice actress from Toyonaka, Osaka who used to be represented by Aoni Production and Ken Production and is now represented by Kekke Corporation. She was married to Ryōtarō Okiayu and have a daughter. They are now divorced.

Kosuke Takahashi is a Japanese journalist. He contributes to IHS Jane's Defence, NK News and Toyo Keizai Online among other media by writing in both English and Japanese. He is also currently a regular TV commentator of Tokyo MX's Morning Cross program. He worked as the senior online news editor at Thomson Reuters in Tokyo from April 2016 to January 2017, where he focuses on expanding its online news coverage across multiple digital channels. He was appointed editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Japan in September 2014 where he was in charge of overseeing all of the day-to-day editorial content and operations of the Huffington Post Japan. Previously, he has worked as Tokyo correspondent for IHS Jane's Defence Weekly from January 2009 to early September 2014, specializing in Japan's defense and politics as well as East Asian affairs such as on Sino-Japanese relations and Korean Peninsula issues. He also has worked for the Asahi Shimbun, Bloomberg News, Dow Jones Japan and The Wall Street Journal Japan as staff writer/editor, and Nikkei CNBC Japan as regular TV commentator. He used the pen name Kosuke Goto at Bloomberg.

Akane Yamagishi is a Japanese female volleyball player.

Taisei Takagi is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball catcher/infielder/outfielder.