This is a list of notable Japanese people.
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Mori Arinori
Tsunesaburō Makiguchi
Midori Suzuki
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Tsuda Yukio
Ienaga Saburō
Kanda Nobuo
Maruyama Masao
Naitō Torajirō
Abe Masakatsu
Adachi Kagemori
Adams, William (foreign born)
Aiou Mototsuna
Akao Kiyotsuna
Akechi Mitsuhide
Akiyama Nobutomo
Amago Haruhisa
Amago Yoshihisa
See also Amago clan
Ankokuji Ekei
Aochi Shigetsuna
Arai Hakuseki
Araki Motokiyo
Araki Murashige
Araki Muratsugu
Arima Kihei
Asakura Yoshikage
Ayame Kagekatsu
Azai Hisamasa
Azai Nagamasa
Azai Sukemasa
Baba Nobufusa
Bessho Nagaharu
Chosokabe Morichika
Chosokabe Kunichika
Chosokabe Motochika
Chosokabe Nobuchika
Collache, Eugene
Date Masamune
See also Date clan
Doi Toshikatsu
Endo Naotsune
Enjoji Nobutane
Enomoto Takeaki
Era Fusahide
Fuma Kotaro
Fuwa Mitsuharu
Fukushima Masanori
Gamo Katahide
Gamo Ujisato
Harada Naomasa
Hasekura Tsunenaga
Hattori Hanzo
Hatano Hideharu
Hasegawa Eishin
Hirate Masahide
Hitotsubashi Keiki
Hōjō Masako
Hōjō Tokimune
Hōjō Ujiyasu
Hojo Ujimasa
Honda Tadakatsu
Honda Komatsu (Inahime)
Honganji Kennyo
Hosokawa Fujitaka
Hosokawa Gracia
Hosokawa Tadaoki
Hotta Masatoshi
Ii Naoaki
Ii Naomasa
Ii Naomori
Ii Naonaka
Ii Naosuke
Ii Naotaka
Ii Naoyuki
Ii Naozumi
Iizasa Ienao
Ijuin Tada'aki
Imagawa Yoshimoto
Imai Kanehira
Inugami Nagayasu
Ishida Mitsunari
Isshiki Fujinaga
Itagaki Nobukata
Itagaki Taisuke
Ito Hirobumi
Iwanari Tomomichi
Jinbo Nagamoto
Kaneko Ietada
Katagiri Katsumoto
Kataoka Mitsumasa
Kato Kiyomasa
Kawakami Gensai
Kido Takayoshi
Kikkawa Hiroie
Kimotsuki Kanetsugu
Kobayakawa Hideaki
Kobayakawa Hidekane
Kobayakawa Takakage
Kojima Toyoharu
Kuroda Kanbei Don Sim(e)on Josui Yoshitaka
Kuroda Kiyotaka
Kusunoki Masashige
Kuwana Tarozaemon
Kumagai Naozane
Maeda Keiji
Maeda Nagatane
Maeda Toshiie
Maeda Toshinaga
Maeda Toshitsune
Magome Kageyu
Manabe Akifusa
Matsudaira Nobutsuna
Matsudaira Nobuyasu
Matsudaira Higo no Kami Katamori
Matsudaira Sadanobu
Matsudaira Tadayoshi
Matsudaira Teru
Matsunaga Hisahide
Matsunaga Hisamichi
Matsuo Bashō
Matsudaira Motoyasu
Minamoto no Mitsunaka
Minamoto no Yoshiie
Minamoto no Yoshimitsu
Minamoto no Yoshinaka
Minamoto no Yoshitomo
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Minamoto no Tameyoshi
Minamoto no Yorimasa
Minamoto no Yorimitsu
Minamoto no Yoritomo
Minamoto no Noriyori
Minoro Takashi
Mirei Kiritani
Miura Anjin
Miura Yoshimoto
Miyamoto Musashi
Miyoshi Chokei
Miyoshi Yoshitsugu
Mizuno Tadakuni
Moniwa Yoshinao
Mori Motonari
Mori Nagasada
Mori Nagayoshi
Mori Okimoto
Mori Ranmaru
Mori Takamoto
Mori Tadamasa
Mori Terumoto
Mori Yoshinari
Nagakura Shinpachi
Nagao Harukage
Nagao Kagenobu
Nagao Masakage
Nagao Tamekage
Naoe Kanetsugu
Nakagawa Kiyohide
Naoe Kagetsuna
Naoe Kanetsugu
Nihonmatsu Yoshitsugu
Niimi Nishiki
Niiro Tadamoto
Niwa Nagahide
Niwa Nagashige
Oda Hiroyoshi
Oda Nobuhide
Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobutada
Oda Nobutomo
Oda Nobukatsu
Oda Nobuyasu
Ogasawara Shosai
Oishi Kuranosuke
Okada Izō
Judge Ooka
Ōta Dōkan
Ōtomo Sōrin
Okita Soji
Okubo Toshimichi
Okunomiya Masaie
Ōuchi Yoshitaka
Reizei Takatoyo
Rokkaku Sadayori
Rokkaku Yoshiharu
Rokkaku Yoshitaka
Rusu Masakage
Ryuzoji Takanobu
See also Ryuzoji clan
Saigo Kiyokazu
Sagara Taketo
Saigō Takamori
Saigo Yoshikatsu
Saitō Dōsan
Saito Hajime
Saito Musashibo Benkei
Saito Yoshitatsu
Sakai Tadakiyo
Sakai Tadashige
Sakai Tadayo
Sakamoto Ryōma
Sakuma Morimasa
Sakuma Nobumori
Sanada Masayuki
Sanada Nobuyuki
Sanada Yukimura
Sasaki Kojiro
Sasaki Yoshikiyo
Serizawa Kamo
Shibata Katsuie
Shima Sakon
Shimada Ichiro
Shimazu Katsuhisa
Shimazu Tadahisa
Shimazu Tadatsune
Shimazu Tadayoshi
Shimazu Takahisa
Shimazu Yoshihiro
Shimazu Yoshihisa
Shindou Hiroshii
See also Shimazu clan
Sogo Nagayasu
Sue Yoshitaka
Tachibana Muneshige
Tachibana Dosetsu
Tachibana Ginchiyo
Taigen Sessai
Taira no Kiyomori
Taira Masakado
Takahashi Shigetane
Takenaka Shigeharu
Takaoka Muneyasu
Takasugi Shinsaku
Takayama Justo (Shigetomo)
Takayama Ukon
Takechi Hanpeita
Takeda Katsuyori
Takeda Nobukatsu
Takeda Nobushige
Takeda Shingen
Tani Tadasumi
Tani Tateki
Toki Yorinari
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Hidetada
Tokugawa Nariaki
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Toyotomi Hideyori
Tozuka Tadaharu
Tsukahara Bokuden
Uesugi Kagekatsu
Uesugi Kagetora
Uesugi Kenshin
Ujiie Naomoto
Ukita Naoie
Ukita Okiie
Umezawa Michiharu
Usami Sadamitsu
Uyama Hisanobu
Wada Shinsuke
Watanabe Kazan
Watanabe no Tsuna
Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi
Yasuke
Yamada Arinaga
Yamada Arinobu
Yamada Nagamasa
Yamagata Masakage
Yamanami Keisuke
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
Yonekura Shigetsugu
Yagyu Munenori
Yamauchi Kazutoyo
Yūki Hideyasu
- Minamoto no Yoritomo, r. 1192-1199
- Minamoto no Yoriie, r. 1202-1203
- Minamoto no Sanetomo, r. 1203-1219
- Kujō Yoritsune, r. 1226-1244
- Kujō Yoritsugu, r. 1244-1252
- Prince Munetaka, r. 1252-1266
- Prince Koreyasu, r. 1266-1289
- Prince Hisaakira, r. 1289-1308
- Prince Morikuni, r. 1308-1333
- Prince Morinaga, r.1333-1334
- Prince Norinaga, r. 1334-1338
- Hōjō Tokimasa, r. 1203-1205
- Hōjō Yoshitoki, r. 1205-1224
- Hōjō Yasutoki, r. 1224-1242
- Hōjō Tsunetoki, r. 1242-1246
- Hōjō Tokiyori, r. 1246-1256
- Hōjō Tokimune, r. 1268-1284
- Hōjō Sadatoki, r. 1284-1301
- Hōjō Morotoki, r. 1301-1311
- Hōjō Takatoki, r. 1316-1326
- Ashikaga Takauji, ruled 1338–1358
- Ashikaga Yoshiakira, r. 1359–1368
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, r. 1368–1394
- Ashikaga Yoshimochi, r. 1395–1423
- Ashikaga Yoshikazu, r. 1423–1425
- Ashikaga Yoshinori, r. 1429–1441
- Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, r. 1442–1443
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa, r. 1449–1473
- Ashikaga Yoshihisa, r. 1474–1489
- Ashikaga Yoshitane, r. 1490–1493, 1508–1521
- Ashikaga Yoshizumi, r. 1494–1508
- Ashikaga Yoshiharu, r. 1521–1546
- Ashikaga Yoshiteru, r. 1546–1565
- Ashikaga Yoshihide, r. 1568
- Ashikaga Yoshiaki, r. 1568–1573
Over the course of the Edo period, influential relatives of the shogun included:
Tokugawa Mitsukuni of the Mito domain
Tokugawa Nariaki of the Mito domain
Tokugawa Mochiharu of the Hitotsubashi branch
Tokugawa Munetake of the Tayasu branch.
Matsudaira Katamori of the Aizu branch.
Matsudaira Sadanobu, born into the Tayasu branch, adopted into the Hisamatsu-Matsudaira of Shirakawa.
Emperor Go-Toba
Kusunoki Masashige
Taira no Kiyomori
Taira no Masakado
Fujiwara no Hidesato (Tawara no Tōda)
Anami Korechika
Doihara Kenji
Enomoto Takeaki
Kuroki Itei (Kuroki Tamemoto)
Matsui Iwane
Ōta Minoru
Suzuki Kantarō
Tōgō Heihachirō
Tōjō Hideki
Yamamoto Isoroku
Shiro Kawase
Ishiwara Kanji
Aya Ueto
Becky
Kazushige Nagashima
Kano sisters
Mina Fukui
Momoiro Clover Z
TV and radio personalities
Iijima Ai
Mao Inoue
Kano sisters
Sugita Kaoru
Mino Monta
Shinohara Tomoe
Kurihara Harumi
Papaya Suzuki
Under the Meiji Emperor
Under the Taishō Emperor
Under the Shōwa Emperor
Under the Shōwa Emperor
Under Emperor Akihito
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Reika Hashimoto
Anna Tsuchiya
Anna Umemiya
Linda Yamamoto
Beni Arashiro
Tadanobu Asano
Meisa Kuroki
Angela Aki
Chieko Kawabe
Megumi Nakajima
Emi Watanabe
Keisuke Ogihara
Masayoshi "Mabo" Kabe
Minami Hinase
Sowelu
Marcus Tulio Tanaka
LISA
Koji Murofushi
Hidenori Kusaka (creator of Pokémon)
Yuka Murofushi
Masumi Okada
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Yuu Shirota
Koji Ota
Hiromi Hayakawa
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