Famous people of Japanese origin

Hayao Miyazaki (78)

Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter

Hachikō (1923 - 1935)

Japanese dog

Hirohito (1901 - 1989)

Japanese emperor

Shinji Kagawa (39)

Japanese footballer

Haruki Murakami (70)

Japanese author

Jiroemon Kimura (1897 - 2013)

Japanese super-centenarian

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (26)

Japanese singer and model

Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)

Japanese director

Nujabes (1974 - 2010)

Japanese DJ and producer

Shigeru Miyamoto (66)

Japanese video game designer

Akira Toriyama (64)

Japanese manga and game artist

Akihito (85)

Japanese emperor

Oda Nobunaga (1534 - 1582)

Japanese warlord

Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916 - 2010)

Japanese businessman, and survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings

Isoroku Yamamoto (1884 - 1943)

Japanese naval commander

Ken Watanabe (59)

Japanese actor

Hideki Tōjō (1884 - 1948)

Japanese general and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan

Yu Darvish (32)

Japanese baseball player

Ichiro Suzuki (45)

Japanese baseball player

Hideo Kojima (55)

Japanese video game director and producer

Masashi Kishimoto (44)

Japanese illustrator

Shinzō Abe (64)

Japanese politician

Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543 - 1616)

Japanese shogun

Yushin Okami (37)

Japanese mixed martial artist

Ayumi Hamasaki (40)

Japanese singer-songwriter and actress

Yukio Mishima (1925 - 1970)

Japanese author, poet, and playwright

Hiroyuki Sanada (58)

Japanese actor

Ash Ketchum (25)

Japanese actor/pokemon master

Gackt (45)

Japanese singer

Rinko Kikuchi (38)

Japanese actress

Aya Hirano (31)

Japanese voice actress and singer

Eiichiro Oda (44)

Japanese illustrator

Keisuke Honda (32)

Japanese footballer

Kazushi Sakuraba (49)

Japanese mixed martial artist and wrestler

Takeru Kobayashi (41)

Japanese competitive eater

Chiaki Kuriyama (34)

Japanese actress

Takeshi Kitano (72)

Japanese actor and director

Tadao Ando (77)

Japanese architect, designed Piccadilly Gardens

Ryo Miyaichi (26)

Japanese footballer

Osamu Tezuka (1928 - 1989)

Japanese animator and producer

Joe Hisaishi (68)

Japanese composer

Sadako Sasaki (1943 - 1955)

Japanese victim of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Toshiro Mifune (1920 - 1997)

Japanese actor

Atsuko Maeda (27)

Japanese actress and singer

Takeshi Kaneshiro (45)

Japanese actor and singer

Rina Nakanishi (30)

Japanese model and singer

Namie Amuro (41)

Japanese singer

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (68)

Japanese actor

Rie Kugimiya (39)

Japanese voice actress

Kana Hanazawa (30)

Japanese voice actress

Mamoru Miyano (35)

Japanese voice actor

Nana Mizuki (39)

Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress