List of Famous people born in Japan

Yukihiko Akutsu is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet.

Yuki Kakita is a Japanese footballer who plays for Tokushima Vortis on loan from Kashima Antlers.

Akira Hasegawa is a theoretical physicist and engineer who has worked in the US and Japan. He is known for his work in the derivation of the Hasegawa–Mima equation, which describes fundamental plasma turbulence and the consequent generation of zonal flow that controls plasma diffusion. Hasegawa also made the discovery of optical solitons in glass fibers, a concept that is essential for high speed optical communications.

Masamoto Nasu was a Japanese children's writer.

Kazunari Abe is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played with the Chiba Lotte Marines from 2011 to 2013 and from 2015 to 2019.

Akira Endo is a Japanese biochemist whose research into the relationship between fungi and cholesterol biosynthesis led to the development of statin drugs, which are some of the best-selling pharmaceuticals in history.