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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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