January 2 - Yutaka Takenouchi, actor
January 4
- Junichi Kakizaki, botanist and floral designer
- Hiroyuki Sato, professional baseball player
- Futoshi Yamabe, professional baseball player
January 5 - Mayuko Takata, actress
January 6 - Mitsuru Manaka, professional baseball player
January 8 - Kenjiro Kawasaki, professional baseball player
January 17 - Youki Kudo, actress
January 18 - Junko Furuta, torture and murder victim (d. 1989)
January 19 – Tamayo Marukawa, politician, cabinet minister, representative and former TV announcer
January 20 - Masaru Hanada, sumo, 66th generation Yokozuna
January 23
- Kaori Kawamura, singer (d. 2009)
- Akira Ota, professional baseball player
January 27 - Tomoefuji Toshihide, sumo,
January 31 - Yasuo Manaka, soccer player
February 2 – Kiyoshi Toyoda, former professional baseball pitcher
February 14
- Risa Hirako, model
- Noriko Sakai, pop singer and actress
February 22 – Etsuko Kozakura, voice actress
March 2 - Manami Toyota, professional wrestler
March 4 - Satoshi Motoyama, professional racing driver
March 6 - Maguro Fujita, manga artist
March 10
- Ryu Fujisaki, manga artist
- Tsubuyaki Shirō, comedian
March 13 - Tsutomu Nishino, football player
March 15 - Risa Junna, actress and singer
March 16 - Tae Kimura, actress
March 17 - Masataka Gōda, professional shogi player
March 20 - Shinichiro Ohta, voice actor and TV announcer
March 24 - Shinichi Hatori, free announcer, tarento, and TV presenter
March 26 - Moyoco Anno, manga artist
March 29
- Shizuka Ishikawa, voice actress
- Hidetoshi Nishijima, actor
April 2
- Makoto Hasegawa, basketball player
- Cunning Takeyama comedian and actor.
- Zeebra, rapper
April 5
- Takami Itō, author
- Ayako Nishikawa, cosmetic surgeon
April 8 - Yoshinobu Ohga, musician
April 12 - Takako Katō, basketball player
April 18 - Junya Ogawa, politician
April 22 - Daisuke Enomoto, would-be first Japanese space tourist
April 23 - Shigetoshi Hasebe, football player and manager
April 26 - Naoki Tanaka, comedian, actor and presenter
May 2
- Musashimaru Kōyō, sumo wrestler
- Shu Takumi, creator of Ace Attorney
May 3 - Ryo Kawano, baseball player
May 9 - Hiroki Azuma, cultural critic, novelist, and philosopher
May 11 – Tsutomu Iwamoto, former professional baseball pitcher
May 12
- Kayoko Okubo, comedian, tarento and actress
- Nao Nagasawa, voice actress
May 14 - Takashi Kashiwada, baseball player
May 20 - Yasuko Mitsuura, comedian
May 21 - Yoshikazu Mera, countertenor
May 24 - Taizō Mikazuki, politician and governor
May 25 - Kōtarō Isaka, author
May 26 - Takuro, musician
May 28 - Miho Otani, JMSDF officer
June 5
- Miyuki Komatsu, actress
- Tomoko Nakajima, actress
June 8 - Teru, musician and singer
June 10 - Tadashi Nakamura, footballer
June 11 - Kenjiro Tsuda, voice actor
June 14 - Ken Maeda, comedian, impressionist, and actor
June 18 - Yoshiyuki Shinoda, footballer and manager
June 23 - Katsuhiro Maeda, baseball player
June 24 - Toshihiro Noguchi, baseball player
June 27 - Shizuka Ochi, actress
June 28 - Norika Fujiwara, actress and television personality
June 29 - Junko Noda, voice actress
July 1 - Yusuke Torigoe, baseball player
July 17 - Ritsuko Tanaka, actress and singer.
July 19 - Naoki Soma, footballer
July 23 - Noriko Mizoguchi, judoka
July 24 - Tetsuji Nakamura, politician
July 26 - Kazuki Sakuraba, author
August 25 - Ayumi Miyazaki, singer
September 2 – Fumie Hosokawa, actress
September 7 - Tomomi Okazaki, speed skater
September 10 - Tomo Sakurai, voice actress
September 12 – Atsuko Wakai, karateka
October 1 - Tatsuya Ide, baseball player
October 4 - Toshihisa Nishi, former professional baseball player
October 6 - GaaSyy, businessman and politician
October 8 - Hiroki Kokubo, baseball player
October 25 - Midori Gotō, violinist
November 12 - Yasuo Aiuchi, snowboarder
November 29 - Naoko Mori, actress
December 2 - Mine Yoshizaki, Manga artist
December 28 - Machiko Toyoshima, voice actress
December 30 – Daisuke Motoki, former professional baseball player

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Governors

Events

Births

Deaths

See also

References