List of Japanese people

Famous Japanese people

Emperors
See: List of Japanese Emperors

Entrepreneurs

• Soichiro Honda
• Genichi Kawakami, Yamaha president
• Konosuke Matsushita
• Akito Morita
• Mikimoto Kokichi
• Eiji Toyoda
• Torakusu Yamaha, Yamaha president (stub)

Film-makers

• Kurosawa Akira
• Miyazaki Hayao
• Ozu Yasujiro

Authors
See: List of Japanese authors

Musicians

• Ozawa Seiji
• Nobuo Uematsu

Historians

• Naito Torajiro

Artists

• Hiroshige
• Hokusai
• Sharaku

Actors

• Seiyuu (Japanese voice actors)

Military leaders

• Anami Korechika
• Togo Heihachiro
• Yamamoto Isoroku
• Tojo Hideki

Prime Ministers
See: Prime Minister of Japan

See: List of Japanese politicans

Sports

• Hasegawa Shigetoshi
• Irabu Hideki
• Nomo Hideo
• Ishii Kazuhisa
• Ohka Tomokazu
• Komiyama Satoru
• Sasaki Kazuhiro
• Shinjo Tsuyoshi
• Suzuki Ichiro
• Suzuki Mac
• Taguchi So
• Yoshii Masato

Other Historic People

• Miyamoto Musashi
• Kita Ikki

See also: List of people by nationality