List of Famous people born in Tokyo, Japan
Tsugumi Ohba
Tsugumi Ohba is the pen name of a Japanese gensakusha or writer of manga, best known for authoring the Death Note manga series with illustrator Takeshi Obata from 2003 to 2006, which has 30 million collected volumes in circulation. The duo's second series Bakuman. (2008–2012), was also successful with 15 million in circulation. In 2014, Ohba collaborated with My Little Monster creator Robico for the one-shot "Skip! Yamada-kun". Another series with Obata called Platinum End began in the December 2015 issue of Jump SQ on November 4, 2015.
Yasuji Okamura
Yasuji Okamura was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, and commander-in-chief of the China Expeditionary Army from November 1944 to the end of World War II. He was found not guilty of any war crimes by the Shanghai War Crimes Tribunal after the war. As one of the Imperial Japanese Army's top China experts, General Okamura spent his entire military career on the Asian mainland.
Gozo Shioda
Gozo Shioda was a Japanese master of aikido who founded the Yoshinkan style of aikido. He was one of aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba's most senior students. Shioda held the rank of 10th dan in aikido.
Ulrich Wickert
Ulrich Wickert is a German journalist. He is one of the best known broadcasters in Germany.
Shin-ichiro Miki
Shin-ichiro Miki is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo. He is a member of 81 Produce.
Seiji Miyaguchi
Seiji Miyaguchi was a Japanese actor.
Princess Nobuko Asaka
Princess Nobuko Asaka , born Nobuko, Princess Fumi , was the twelfth child and eighth daughter of Emperor Meiji of Japan and one of his consorts, Sachiko Sono.
Mitsuko Aoyama
Mitsuko Thekla Maria, Countess of Coudenhove-Kalergi, formerly known as Mitsu Aoyama (青山みつ), was one of the first Japanese people to immigrate to Europe, after becoming the wife of an Austro-Hungarian diplomat, Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi, in Tokyo. She was the mother of Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi.
Toichiro Kinoshita
Tōichirō Kinoshita is a Japanese-American theoretical physicist. Kinoshita studied physics at the University of Tokyo, earning his bachelor's degree in 1947 and then his PhD in 1952. Afterwards he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and then one year at Columbia University. His research interests include quantum field theory, and the Standard Model.
Takumi Yamazaki
Takumi Yamazaki is a Japanese voice actor.