Japanese Roman Catholics

President of Peru from 1990 to 2000

Japanese actress (1932-1998)

Japanese architect (1913–2005)

Japanese association football player

Prime minister of Japan (1878–1967)

Prime Minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921

Japanese samurai and diplomat

Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist, war criminal and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army)

Japanese diplomat, political scientist and university teacher (1927–2019)

Japanese film director (1901-1970)

French painter (1886-1968)

Japanese violinist and pioneer of musical pedagogy (1898-1998)

Japanese general (1882–1949)

Japanese catholic daimyo, martyr and blessed

Japanese daimyō who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi

wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe

leader of the Shimabara Rebellion

Japanese voice actress (1970-2011)

Japanese princess; widow of Prince Tomohito of Mikasa

Japanese chemist (1854–1922)

Japanese prince (1887-1981)

member of the Akechi family during the Sengoku period

Japanese Catholic daimyo of the 16th century CE

Japanese boxer and prisoner

Japanese actor (1928-1996)

Japanese finance minister (1938-2017)

daimyo during the late Azuchi-Momoyama and Early Edo Period; 1st lord of Fukuoka

daimyo

daimyo

Japanese anime director

First Japanese person to emigrate to Europe (1874-1941)

Christian samurai of the Sengoku period. leader of Tenshō embassy

or , baptized as Paulo de Santa Fé, was the first recorded Japanese Christian, who lived in the 16th century. After committing a murder in his home domain of Satsuma in southern Kyushu, he fled to Portuguese Malacca and he sought out Saint Francis Xavier (1506–1552) and returned to Japan with him as an interpreter. Along with Xavier, Anjirō returned to Japan with two other Jesuits, two Japanese companions, and a Chinese companion who had been baptized to Catholicism to form the first Jesuit mission to Japan.

the son of Oda Nobutada and lived during the Azuchi-Momoyama period in the late-16th century

Japanese daimyo who lived from the late Sengoku period through the early Edo period

Japanese actor (1926–2003)

samurai

Japanese Japanese legal scholar and judge (1890–1974)

Japanese Christian convert

Japanese trader, diplomat, technician; early Japanese contact with the Americas

daimyo

Japanese politician (1922-2014)

Japanese novelist (1929–2023)

actor and musician

Japanese writer

Japanese writer (1917–1986)

medical scientist in Japan

Japanese-American Physicist

Japanese samurai

geisha

Japanese Catholic social worker (1929–1958)

daimyo of the Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo period. lord of Aizu domain

Japanese sculptor (1953-)

Japanese Daimyo (1586-1631)

Japanese politician

Japanese professional wrestler

Japanese politician

samurai of the Sengoku period to early-Edo period

Japanese shogi player

Japanese actor