List of Famous people born in Tokyo, Japan
Yukihiro Takahashi
Yukihiro Takahashi is a Japanese musician, singer, record producer and actor, who is best known internationally as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and as the former drummer of the Sadistic Mika Band. He is currently a member of the group METAFIVE.
Taiyō Matsumoto
Taiyō Matsumoto is a manga artist from Tokyo. He made his debut with STRAIGHT in Morning, Kodansha's monthly seinen manga magazine, but is known for his works with Kodansha's rival publisher Shogakukan, including Tekkonkinkreet, Ping Pong and No. 5. He has received critical praise for his unconventional and often surrealist art style. Ping Pong and Blue Spring have been adapted into live-action feature films. Animation studio Studio 4°C adapted Tekkonkinkreet into an animated feature film. Matsumoto has been called one of the best artists in the recent history of manga and has won numerous awards, including the Shogakukan Manga Award, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the Eisner Awards. He is the cousin of Santa Inoue, another manga artist.
Hisashi Hieda
Hisashi Hieda is a Japanese television executive who is the chief executive officer at Fuji Media Holdings, Inc, and chairman since June 2001. He also is chairman of the Japan Art Association.
Yū Shimamura
Yū Shimamura is a Japanese voice actress. She was formerly affiliated with Office Kaoru and is now affiliated with Ken Production.
Ken Sakamura
Ken Sakamura , as of April 2017 is a Japanese professor and dean of the Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation and Design at Toyo University, Japan. He is a former professor in Information science at the University of Tokyo. He is the creator of the real-time operating system architecture TRON.
Fusanosuke Natsume
Fusanosuke Natsume is a Japanese columnist and cartoonist. Born in Tokyo to Jun'ichi Natsume, son of novelist Natsume Sōseki, he attended Aoyama Gakuin University, where he graduated in 1973.
Yoshiyuki Morishita
Yoshiyuki Morishita is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in more than eighty films since 1996.
Yumi Kumakura
Yumi Kumakura is a Japanese volleyball player. She plays a V-Premier League team Takefuji Bamboo.
Akira Eto
Akira Eto is a Japanese former professional baseball third baseman in Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp from 1990 to 1999, Yomiuri Giants from 2000 to 2005 and the Seibu Lions / Saitama Seibu Lions from 2006 to 2009.
Miyuki Kojima
Pai Pai Miyuki is a Japanese actress and singer. Until 1970, she used the stage name Miyuki Kojima . She is represented with Kagawa Office. She graduated from Musashino-shi Daiichi Elementary School, Musashino Municipal First Junior High School, and Nakano Fumizono High School.