List of Famous people born in Tokyo, Japan

Shirō Sagisu

First Name Shirō
Last Name Sagisu
Born on August 29, 1957 (age 68)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Shirō Sagisu is a Japanese music producer and composer. With a career spanning over 45 years, he is best known for his works as a record producer for acts including various choir members Mike Wyzgowski, Misia, Satoshi Tomiie, and Ken Hirai. Sagisu has also worked as a film composer for several anime and films and is well known for his collaborations with Gainax, especially the soundtrack to Hideaki Anno's series Neon Genesis Evangelion. He won the Tokyo Anime Award for Best Music in 2010 for Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance.

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Tomoyasu Asaoka

First Name Tomoyasu
Last Name Asaoka
Born on April 6, 1962
Died on October 6, 2021 (aged 59)
Born in Japan, Tokyo
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Tomoyasu Asaoka was a Japanese professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Nippon Kokan, Yomiuri and the Japan national team.

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Masato Shimon

藤川 正治
First Name Masato
Born on January 4, 1944 (age 82)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Masato Shimon is a retired Japanese vocalist from Meguro, Tokyo. He is most known for his contributions to the theme songs of various anime and tokusatsu series. In his career, he has sung under the names Koichi Fuji and Akira Tani . "Masato Shimon" is also his recording name, as he was born with the name Masaharu Fujikawa . He recorded a song "Oyoge! Taiyaki-kun" (1975) with only 50,000 yen, but the single sold 4,547,620 copies and became the best-selling single in Japan, a fact certified by Guinness World Records.

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Yūko Mita

First Name Yūko
Last Name Mita
Born on August 14, 1954 (age 71)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Yūko Mita is a Japanese actress and voice actress from Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. She is known for playing gentle, sexy bishōjo as well as many roles of young boys. Her hobbies include tennis and skiing. She is employed by the talent management firm Aoni Production.

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Jin Shirosaki

First Name Jin
Last Name Shirosaki
Born on September 23, 1977 (age 48)
Born in Japan, Tokyo
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Junichi Okayama , better known as Jin Shirosaki , is a Japanese entertainer and radio personality who is represented by the talent agency, Sun Music.

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Yujiro Kushida

First Name Yujiro
Born on May 12, 1983 (age 42)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Yujiro Kushida is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Kushida.

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Shigehiko Hasumi

First Name Shigehiko
Born on April 29, 1936 (age 90)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Shigehiko Hasumi is a film critic and an academic researcher on French literature from Japan. He was president of the University of Tokyo from 1997 to 2001.

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Naoya Ogawa

First Name Naoya
Last Name Ogawa
Born on March 31, 1968 (age 58)
Born in Japan, Tokyo
Height 193 cm | 6'4

Naoya Ogawa is a Japanese Olympic and world champion judoka, retired professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist. He won a total of seven medals at the All-Japan Judo Championships, and set a record of seven medals at the World Judo Championships. Ogawa won the silver medal in the +95 kg judo weight class at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

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Shin Kibayashi

First Name Shin
Last Name Kibayashi
Born on July 22, 1962 (age 63)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Shin Kibayashi is a Japanese manga storywriter, novelist and screenwriter. Under the name Yuma Ando, he received the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for writing Kunimitsu no Matsuri. The pen name "Tadashi Agi" is shared with his sister Yūko Kibayashi . He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi Senior High School and Waseda University School of Economics & Political Science.

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Ryosei Konishi

First Name Ryosei
Born on February 20, 1982 (age 44)
Born in Japan, Tokyo
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Ryosei Konishi is a Japanese actor and voice actor. Until January 19, 2007, he was known by his birth name. He belonged to Stardust Promotion until the end of May 2015. He is best known for portraying Kouga Saejima/GARO, the title character from the Japanese tokusatsu television series GARO from 2005 to 2006, its 2010 film adaptation, Garo: Red Requiem, and the 2011 television series Garo: Makai Senki.

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