Ichiyo Higuchi
1872 - 1896
Writer and poet
Masaru Emoto
1943 - 2014
Water researcher and author
Shigeo Shingo
1909 - 1990
Industrial engineer and consultant
Daijiro Kato
1976 - 2003
Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
Mitsuru Ushijima
1887 - 1945
Commander of the 32nd Army in the Battle
Saigo Takamori
1828 - 1877
Samurai, Meiji Restoration leader
Shu Uemura
1928 - 2007
Makeup artist and founder of Shu Uemura Cosmetics
Sessue Hayakawa
1886 - 1973
Silent film star and Academy Award nominee
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
1159 - 1189
Military commander of the Minamoto clan
Osamu Tezuka
1928 - 1989
Manga artist, cartoonist, animator
Tokugawa Ieyasu
1543 - 1616
Shogun of Japan, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate
Emperor Taisho
1879 - 1926
Emperor of Japan
Fumimaro Konoe
1891 - 1945
Prime Minister of Japan
Fujiko Fujio
1933 - 1996
manga artist and screenwriter
Hasekura Tsunenaga
1571 - 1622
Leader of the Keichō Embassy
Togo Heihachiro
1848 - 1934
Admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy
Chishu Ryu
1904 - 1993
Film actor
Tokugawa Hidetada
1579 - 1632
Second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty
Antonio Inoki
1943 - 2022
Professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Wong Ka Kui
1962 - 1993
Hong Kong musician, singer and songwriter
Mako Iwamatsu
1933 - 2006
Actor and voice actor
Hanzo HATTORI
1542 - 1596
Ninja master and tactician
Masahiko Kimura
1917 - 1993
Judo champion and professional wrestler
Vasily Vereshchagin
1842 - 1904
War artist
Jigoro Kano
1860 - 1938
Founder of judo and first Asian member of the IOC
Shoya Tomizawa
1990 - 2010
Moto2 rider
Gunpei Yokoi
1941 - 1997
Creator of Game Boy and Game & Watch
Ito Hirobumi
1841 - 1909
Prime Minister of Japan and genrō
Kusunoki Masashige
1294 - 1336
Military strategist
Tomoyuki Yamashita
1885 - 1946
General in the Imperial Japanese Army
Toyotomi Hideyori
1593 - 1615
Samurai lord, last scion of the Toyotomi clan
Empress Kojun
1903 - 2000
Empress consort of Japan
Koxinga
1624 - 1662
Southern Ming general and ruler of Taiwan
Maeda Toshiie
1538 - 1599
General of Oda Nobunaga and founder of Kaga Domain
Kantaro Suzuki
1868 - 1948
Prime Minister of Japan
Eiko Ishioka
1938 - 2012
Art director, costume designer, graphic designer
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni
1887 - 1990
Imperial prince and army general
Emperor Jimmu
-660 - -585
Founder of the imperial dynasty
Setsuko Hara
1920 - 2015
Actress in Yasujirō Ozu's films
Ishiro Honda
1911 - 1993
Director and co-creator of the Godzilla franchise
Konosuke Matsushita
1894 - 1989
Founder of Panasonic
Emperor Sutoku
1119 - 1164
Emperor of Japan
Ryutaro Hashimoto
1937 - 2006
Prime minister of Japan
Hiromi Hayakawa
1982 - 2017
Musical theatre
Emperor Antoku
1178 - 1185
81st emperor of Japan
Okita Soji
1802 - 1868
Captain of the first unit of the Shinsengumi
Shintaro Ishihara
1932 - 2022
Governor of Tokyo
Matsuo Basho
1644 - 1694
Haiku poet and traveler
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
1891 - 1945
Commander of the Japanese garrison at the Battle
Akechi Mitsuhide
1528 - 1582
Samurai general and assassin of Oda Nobunaga
Emperor Tenji
626 - 672
Emperor of Japan, government reformer
Emperor Sakuramachi
1720 - 1750
Emperor of Japan from 1735 to 1747
Shumei Okawa
1886 - 1957
Political theorist, historian, Islamic scholar
Miyoshi Umeki
1929 - 2007
Singer and actress
Taishi Shotoku
574 - 622
Regent, politician, and author
Shishaku Shibusawa Eiichi
1840 - 1931
Financier, entrepreneur, philanthropist
Doppo Kunikida
1871 - 1908
Novelist and romantic poet
Satoru Iwata
1959 - 2015
President and CEO of Nintendo
Emperor Shomu
701 - 756
Emperor of Japan
Kaneto Shindo
1912 - 2012
Film director, screenwriter, film producer, writer
Emperor Go Momozono
1758 - 1779
Emperor of Japan from 1771 to 1779
Akira Kurosawa
1910 - 1998
Film director, screenwriter, producer, editor
Takashi Shimura
1905 - 1982
Actor in Akira Kurosawa's films
Osamu Dazai
1909 - 1948
Novelist, short story writer
Emperor Go-Mizunoo
1596 - 1680
Emperor of Japan
Emperor Go-Sai
1638 - 1685
Emperor of Japan
Osami Nagano
1880 - 1947
Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff
Yasuhiro Nakasone
1918 - 2019
Prime Minister of Japan
Maurice Paul Krafft
1946 - 1991
Volcanologist
Sugawara Michizane
845 - 903
Scholar, poet, and politician
Masaru Ibuka
1908 - 1997
Co-founder of Sony
Yasujiro Ozu
1903 - 1963
Film director and screenwriter
Nobuhiko Obayashi
1938 - 2020
director, screenwriter and editor of films
Akiyuki Nosaka
1930 - 2015
Novelist, singer, lyricist
Tokugawa Iemochi
1846 - 1866
14th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
Uesugi Kenshin
1530 - 1578
Ruler of Echigo province and Kanto Kanrei
Mutsuhito
1852 - 1912
Emperor of Japan and leader
Date Masamune
1567 - 1636
Regional ruler and founder of Sendai city
Keizo Obuchi
1937 - 2000
Prime Minister of Japan
Saionji Kinmochi
1849 - 1940
Prime Minister of Japan
Kyu Sakamoto
1941 - 1985
Singer and actor
Sen Rikyu
1522 - 1591
Tea master who perfected the tea ceremony
Sanada Nobushige
1567 - 1615
Leading general of the Siege of Osaka
Fukuzawa Yukichi
1835 - 1901
Founder of Keio University and Jiji-Shinpō
Kenji Mizoguchi
1898 - 1956
Film director and screenwriter
Inejiro Asanuma
1898 - 1960
Leader of the Japan Socialist Party
Mitsuharu Misawa
1962 - 2009
Professional wrestler and promoter
Masa Saito
1942 - 2018
professional wrestler
Masako Natsume
1957 - 1985
portrayal of Tripitaka in the TV series Monkey
Tsuguharu Foujita
1886 - 1968
Painter and printmaker
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
1886 - 1965
Modern Japanese literature
Son Byong-hi
1861 - 1922
Third leader of Donghak (Eastern learning)
Terauchi Masatake
1852 - 1919
Prime Minister of Japan
Shigeru Yoshida
1878 - 1967
Prime minister of Japan
Kirin Kiki
1943 - 2018
Actress for Japanese cinema and television
Honda Tadakatsu
1548 - 1610
Samurai, general and daimyo
Shintaro Katsu
1931 - 1997
Zatoichi, the blind swordsman
Taira no Masakado
870 - 940
Provincial magnate and rebel leader
Isoroku Yamamoto
1884 - 1943
Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Yasunari Kawabata
1899 - 1972
Novelist and short story writer
Soichiro Honda
1906 - 1991
Founder of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Kato Kiyomasa
1562 - 1611
Military leader and feudal lord
Korechika Anami
1887 - 1945
General in the Imperial Japanese Army
Shunroku Hata
1879 - 1962
Field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army
Hideto Matsumoto
1964 - 1998
Lead guitarist of X Japan and solo artist
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
1894 - 1972
Founder of Paneuropean Union
Yasuko Namba
1949 - 1996
Businesswoman and climber
Emperor Kanmu
735 - 806
Emperor of Japan
Inukai Tsuyoshi
1855 - 1932
Prime Minister of Japan
Juzo Itami
1933 - 1997
Film director, screenwriter, actor
Oda Nobunaga
1534 - 1582
Warlord and unifier of Japan
Nakano Takeko
1847 - 1868
Leader of the Jōshitai (Girls' Army)
Kwon Rise
1991 - 2014
Member of Ladies' Code
Akira Yoshizawa
1911 - 2005
Origami master
Norio Ohga
1930 - 2011
Former president and chairman of Sony Corporation
Yoichiro Nambu
1921 - 2015
Theoretical physicist
Kiichiro Toyoda
1894 - 1952
Founder and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation
Norifumi Yamamoto
1977 - 2018
Mixed martial artist and kickboxer
Iwane Matsui
1878 - 1948
Commander of the expeditionary force sent to China
Genda Minoru
1904 - 1989
Planner of the Pearl Harbor attack
Edogawa Ranpo
1894 - 1965
Mystery and thriller writer
Isao Tomita
1932 - 2016
Electronic music pioneer
Ishida Mitsunari
1559 - 1600
Commander of the Western army in the Battle
Ken Shimura
1950 - 2020
comedy actor and TV personality
Utagawa Hiroshige
1797 - 1858
Ukiyo-e artist and printmaker
Sosuke Uno
1922 - 1998
Prime Minister of Japan
Himiko
170 - 248
Ruler of Yamatai-koku
Takeda Shingen
1521 - 1573
Feudal lord and military leader
Izumo no Okuni
1578 - 1613
Founder of kabuki theatre
Hiroo Onoda
1922 - 2014
Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer
Kijuro Shidehara
1872 - 1951
Prime minister of Japan
Takahashi Korekiyo
1854 - 1936
Prime Minister of Japan and Minister of Finance
Masanobu Fukuoka
1913 - 2008
natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified
Tura Satana
1938 - 2011
Exploitation film star
Chuya Nakahara
1907 - 1937
Poet, translator
Tamon Yamaguchi
1892 - 1942
Naval officer and commander
Toshiki Kaifu
1931 - 2022
Prime minister of Japan
Yukio Mishima
1925 - 1970
Novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, critic
Nobusuke Kishi
1896 - 1987
Prime minister of Japan
Jiro Horikoshi
1903 - 1982
Chief engineer of Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter
Hideki Yukawa
1907 - 1981
Theoretical physicist and meson theory
Miyamoto Musashi
1584 - 1645
Founder of Niten Ichi-ryū swordsmanship
Koji Wada
1974 - 2016
Singer of Digimon theme songs
Hideki Irabu
1969 - 2011
Pitcher
Tokugawa Iemitsu
1604 - 1651
Third shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty
Shinzo Abe
1954 - 2022
Prime minister of Japan
Kido Takayoshi
1833 - 1877
One of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration
Shin'ichiro Tomonaga
1906 - 1979
Quantum electrodynamics
Akiko Yosano
1878 - 1942
Poet, writer, educator, social reformer
Ken Takakura
1931 - 2014
Yakuza and action films
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