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Sanae Takaichi
Sanae Takaichi is a Japanese politician who has been Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since October 2025. She is the first woman to hold either of these positions in Japanese history. A member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003 and since 2005, she also held ministerial posts during the premierships of Shinzo Abe and Fumio Kishida.
Toyohiro Akiyama
first Japanese astronaut

Yoshiko Yamaguchi
Japanese singer and actress (1920-2014)
Renhō
, known mononymously as Renhō, is a Japanese politician and former journalist who has served as a member of the House of Councillors from 2004 to 2024, and again since 2025. She was the leader of the now-defunct major opposition party, the Democratic Party from 2016 to 2017. Renhō was a candidate for the 2024 Tokyo gubernatorial election with the support of the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), Japanese Communist Party (JCP), and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), but was defeated by incumbent Yuriko Koike, placing third behind Shinji Ishimaru.
Yoshinori Sakai
Torch relay last runner, Games of the XVIII Olympiad, in Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshi Sekiguchi
Japanese actor
Akira Ikegami
Japanese journalist
Marie Yanaka
Japanese beauty pageant winner
Jun Hori
Japanese journalist, former NHK announcer (born 1977)
Soichiro Tahara
Japanese journalist, critic, newscaster
Maya Kobayashi
Japanese announcer

Yūji Abe
Japanese actor
Satoshi Mitazono
Japanese journalist and the governor of Kagoshima Prefecture