List of Famous people born in Japan

Masaharu Ueda is a Japanese cinematographer. He worked several times with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work in the film Ran (1985).

Sotaro Shimauchi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He is a pitcher for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Tomoko Sasaki is a Japanese lawyer, politician, novelist and former prosecutor.

Tomoko Akiya is a Japanese voice actress and former model. Her best-known role is voicing Hazuki Fujiwara in the Ojamajo Doremi series, and Suzume Mizuno in Zatch Bell.

Shinmon Aoki is a Japanese writer and poet. He is best known for his memoirs Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician, published in 1993. The book was based on his diaries during a period in which he worked as a mortician in the 1970s, a profession which is traditionally regarded as a taboo in Japan due to their perception of death. In 2008 his memoirs were adapted into a successful Academy Award-winning feature film, Departures, by filmmaker Yōjirō Takita.

Hiroyuki Kobayashi is a Japanese video game and anime television series producer and supervisor. He is employed by Capcom.