Japanese Buddhists

94th Prime Minister of Japan

Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin (1584–1645)

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

Japanese aesthetician and playwright

Japanese association football player

80th Prime Minister of Japan (1935-2017)

Japanese farmer and philosopher (1913-2008)

74th Prime Minister of Japan (1924-2000)

50th Prime Minister of Japan

Japanese businessman (1894–1952)

poet and court noble (1162–1241)

16th-century samurai; assassin of Oda Nobunaga

Japanese professional wrestler, businessman, and politician (1943-2022)

Japanese inventor and industrialist (1867–1930)

Japanese philosopher (1870–1945)

16th-century Japanese daimyo (1562-1611)

Japanese Buddhist leader (1928–2023)

Japanese composer and music producer

Japanese poet

founder of Reiki (1865-1926)

Japanese politician (1837–1919)

Japanese empress consort (1884–1951)

Japanese supercentenarian (1908–2024)

Japanese flying ace (1916–2000)

Japanese nobleman of the Heian period (966-1028)

Japanese physician and endocrinologist (1881–1934)

Japanese writer (1734–1809)

Japanese actress

Japanese actress (1892–1961)

Japanese industrialist (1913–2013)

twentieth century Japanese philosopher (1893–1966)

Japanese singer-songwriter, lyricist, composer, music producer

was a Japanese sculptor of the Kei school, which flourished in the Kamakura period. He specialized in statues of the Buddha and other important Buddhist figures. Unkei's early works are fairly traditional, similar in style to pieces by his father, Kōkei. However, the sculptures he produced for the Tōdai-ji in Nara show a flair for realism different from anything Japan had seen before. Today, Unkei is the best known of the Kei artists, and many art historians consider him its "most distinguished member".

American art historian and orientalist (1853-1908)

Japanese educator (1871-1944)

Japanese artist (1733-1795)

Japanese educator (1900–1958)

Japanese actress (b. 1941)

Japanese consort

Japanese sculptor

thumb|Amitābha in [[Byōdō-in created by Jōchō. 1053.]] Jōchō (定朝; died 1057 AD), also known as Jōchō Busshi, was a Japanese sculptor of the Heian period. He popularized the yosegi technique of sculpting a single figure out of many pieces of wood, and he redefined the canon of body proportions used to create Buddhist imagery. His style spread across Japan and defined Japanese sculpture for the next 150 years. Today, art historians cite Jōchō as "the first of a new kind of master sculptor" and "one of the most innovative artists Japan has ever produced."

Japanese politician

Japanese voice actress

Japanese philosopher

was a Japanese Noh actor, author, and musician during the Muromachi period. Born in Iga Province, Kan'ami also went by and . He is the father of the well-known playwright .

Japanese politician, mixed martial artist, singer, and actor

Japanese artist (1885-1977)

Japanese politician (born 1958)

Japanese anime director (1925–2010)

Japanese mathematician

Japanese writer (1889–1936)

Japanese warlord (1540–1591), half-brother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Japanese politician (born 1952)

Japanese roboticist

Japanese sculptor

Founder of the Buddhist new religious movement Rissho Kosei-kai

Japanese baseball player

Japanese poet, calligrapher, historian (1881–1956)

Japanese scholar of religion, critic (1873–1949)

Japanese princess and empress consort in 10th century