List of Famous people born in Tokyo, Japan

Kyoko Mizuki

First Name Kyoko
Born on November 28, 1949 (age 76)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Kyoko Mizuki is one of the pen names of Keiko Nagita . She is a Japanese writer who is best known for being the author of the manga and anime series Candy Candy.

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Kento Hashimoto

First Name Kento
Last Name Hashimoto
Born on August 16, 1993 (age 32)
Born in Japan, Tokyo
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Kento Hashimoto is a Japanese football player, who plays for Rostov as a defensive midfielder.

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Hitoshi Murayama

First Name Hitoshi
Born on March 21, 1964 (age 62)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Hitoshi Murayama (村山斉) is a Japanese-born physicist with notable contributions in the fields of particle physics and cosmology. He is currently a professor at the Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo.

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Sowelu

Born on November 6, 1982 (age 43)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Aki Harada better known by her stage name, Sowelu, is a Japanese pop/R&B singer signed onto Avex Group's label Rhythm Zone.

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Minoru Kamata

First Name Minoru
Last Name Kamata
Born on June 28, 1948 (age 77)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Minoru Kamata is a Japanese physician, writer, and humanitarian. Throughout his medical career he has been an advocate of patient-centered care, and he has also been actively involved in international medical and humanitarian aid. As a founding member of the Japan Chernobyl Foundation, Kamata has been particularly active in promoting medical aid programs for victims of the Chernobyl disaster, and subsequently for victims of other international and domestic disasters and conflicts. His book Gambaranai, which became a best seller in Japan in 2000, was dramatized for Japanese television. Kamata has been the recipient of numerous awards for his contributions to medicine, publishing and broadcasting, as well as for his overseas aid work and peace efforts.

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Noriko Arai

First Name Noriko
Last Name Arai
Born on January 1, 1962 (age 64)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Noriko H. Arai is a Japanese researcher in mathematical logic and artificial intelligence, known for her work on a project to develop robots that can pass the entrance examinations for the University of Tokyo. She is a professor in the information and society research division of the National Institute of Informatics.

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Hiromu Takahashi

First Name Hiromu
Born on December 4, 1989 (age 36)
Born in Japan, Tokyo
Height 171 cm | 5'7

Hiromu Takahashi is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is a member of Los Ingobernables de Japon, and is the current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion in his fourth reign.

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Kazuo Hirai

First Name Kazuo
Last Name Hirai
Born on December 22, 1960 (age 65)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai is a Japanese businessman. He is best known as the former chairman of Sony Corporation, serving from April 2018 to June 2019, as well as president and CEO from April 2012 to April 2018. He also served as a board member of Sony Computer Entertainment and chairman and co-CEO of Sony Entertainment. He was noted by Entertainment Weekly as one of the most powerful executives in the entertainment industry. He led the Sony Computer Entertainment division between 2007 and 2012, and then became president and CEO of Sony on April 1, 2012. Through his tenure as CEO, Sony experienced a resurgence during the 2010s. On April 1, 2018, Hirai stepped down as president and CEO, becoming chairman of Sony Corporation. He fully retired from Sony on June 18, 2019, otherwise remaining as a senior adviser to the company.

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Motoka Murakami

First Name Motoka
Born on May 31, 1951 (age 75)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Motoka Murakami is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily shōnen manga. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Gakuto Retsuden (ja) in 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, for shōnen for Musashi no Ken in 1984 and for general manga in 1996 for Ron, serialized in Big Comic Original from 1991 to 2006. In 1998, he received an Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Ron. Jin won the Grand Prize at the 2011 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. On a list published in the beginning of August 2011, he ranked as the 35th best-selling manga artist since January 2010, with 1,901,000 copies sold.

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Miki Narahashi

First Name Miki
Last Name Narahashi
Born on January 25, 1960 (age 66)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Miki Narahashi , professionally using the Hiragana ならはし みき, is a Japanese voice actress who works for Arts Vision. She was born in Tokyo.

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