Japanese translators

Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)

Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism (1875-1947)

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.

Japanese writer

Japanese writer

Japanese translator of Russian works (1878–1958)

Japanese translator and writer (1878–1957)

Japanese activist

American actress