Famous Japanese

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• Kobo Abe writer, playwright, photographer, inventor
• Ryuichi Abe professor
• Shinzo Abe former prime minister
• Hiroyuki Agawa author
• Sugiyama Ai tennis player
• Angela Aki singer, songwriter
• Akihito emperor
• Miki Ando figure skater
• Momofuku Ando entrepreneur, inventor
• Shizuka Arakawa Olympic medalist, figure skater
• Mori Arinori statesman, diplomat
• Mao Asada Olympic medalist, figure skater
• Kanichi Asakawa historian
• Tadanobu Asano actor
• Taro Aso former prime minister
• Kiyoshi Atsumi actor

• Nichiren Daishonin Buddhist monk
• Osamu Dazai author
• Fujita Den entrepreneur
• Dogen Zen Buddhist teacher
• Takao Doi astronaut
• Yuri Ebihara actress
• Eita actor
• Fumiko Enchi writer
• Shusaku Endo writer
• Tatsuya Fujiwara actor
• Yasuo Fukuda former prime minister
• Ai Fukuhara table tennis player

• Masatoshi Hamada comedian
• Murakami Haruki writer
• Yukio Hatoyama former prime minister
• Anno Hideaki film director
• Ichiyo Higuchi author
• Hirohito former emperor
• Hiroshi comedian
• Masami Hisamoto comedian
• Kenichi Horie yachtsman
• Masuji Ibuse author
• Kon Ichikawa film director
• Saburo Ienaga historian
• Tokugawa Ieyasu shogun
• Mao Inoue actress
• Nisio Isin novelist
• Kyoka Izumi author

• Naoto Kan former prime minister
• Yasunari Kawabata author, Nobel laureate
• Chieko Kawabe singer, actress
• Ikuko Kawai violinist
• Tange Kenzo architect
• Rinko Kikuchi actress
• Natsuo Kirino novelist
• Kosuke Kitajima Olympic medalist swimmer
• Takeshi Kitano comedian, actor, singer
• Shibasaburo Kitasato physician, bacteriologist
• Abe Kobo writer
• Junichiro Koizumi former prime minister
• Masatoshi Koshiba physicist
• Harumi Kurihara television personality
• Meisa Kuroki actress
• Akira Kurosawa painter, director

• Esaki Leona physicist, Nobel laureate
• Masao Maruyama scholar, historian
• Kobayashi Masaki director
• Crown Princess Masako crown princess of Japan
• Ryuhei Matsuda actor
• Ken Matsudaira actor
• Hideki Matsui baseball player
• Meiji emperor
• Yukio Mishima author
• Kazuo Miyagawa cinematographer
• Issey Miyake fashion designer
• Hayao Miyazaki artist, film director, animator
• Kenji Miyazawa poet, author
• Minae Mizumura novelist
• Yoshiro Mori former prime minister
• Kaori Muraji guitarist
• Haruki Murakami writer, translator
• Ryu Murakami novelist, filmmaker
• Koji Murofushi Olympic medalist, hammer thrower
• Miyamoto Musashi painter, warrior, journalist

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