List of Famous people born in Japan

Shinichi Yokota is a Japanese professional golfer.

Yasuo Saitō is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the Republic of France, and is a former ambassador of Japan to Russian Federation and Saudi Arabia.

Yasumasa Nagamine is a Japanese jurist who has served as an associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan since 2021.

Yōji Enokido is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist born in Shiga. He has written scripts for Sailor Moon, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Revolutionary Girl Utena, FLCL, RahXephon, Melody of Oblivion, Ouran High School Host Club, Nodame Cantabile, Redline, Star Driver, Captain Earth, Bungo Stray Dogs, and The Dragon Dentist. He has also written a three volume novelization of FLCL, which was released in the United States by Tokyopop from 2008 to 2009. Prior to becoming a scriptwriter, he was an employee at Nippon Telenet Corporation which focused on MSX personal computer communication services.

Shigeo Yanagida is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder and current coach for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played with Chunichi Dragons from 2007 to 2013 and with Yokohama from 2014 to 2016.

Kenji Kodama is a Japanese anime director, and storyboard artist. He is best known for being one of the main directors on the long-running anime Case Closed, as well as the City Hunter series and Lupin III Part III.