List of Famous people with last name Arai

Ryōhei Arai is a Japanese athlete specialising in the javelin throw. He represented his country at the 2015 World Championships finishing ninth. In addition, he won the silver at the 2014 Asian Games.

Shōgo Arai is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Nara Prefecture in Japan, first elected in 2007. A graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Transport, attending Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as a ministry official. Leaving the ministry in 2001, he was elected to the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan for the first time in the same year.

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.

Arai Ryoichiro (新井 領一郎) was a Japanese businessman. He helped to build trade relationships between the United States and Japan, especially in the silk industry.

Shu Arai , born Zhou Xuan, is a Chinese-born table tennis player who represented Japan at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Motoko Arai is an award winning Japanese science fiction and fantasy writer. Her writing is characterized by her use of a light conversational tone geared towards a young adult audience. She has published three series of novels and several short stories. Her works, Green Requiem and Neptune, received the Seiun Award for short story in 1981 and 1982.

Shota Arai is a Japanese football player. He plays for JEF United Chiba.

Haruhiko Arai is a Japanese screenwriter. He is also a publisher and an editor of the Eiga Geijutsu magazine and a professor of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.

Man Arai was a Japanese writer and singer. In 1987, he won the Noma Literary New Face Prize for Vexation and Akutagawa Prize in 1988 for Tazunebito no Jikan.