List of Japanese people

This is a list of notable Japanese people.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Japanese.

Architects

Artists

Athletes

Authors

Kobo Abe, author of The Woman in the Dunes Ryunosuke Akutagawa Matsuo Basho, author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North Osamu Dazai, author of No Longer Human Yasunari Kawabata, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Yukio Mishima Haruki Murakami Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Murasaki Shikibu, author of The Tale of Genji Sei Shonagon, author of The Pillow Book Natsume Soseki, author of Kokoro Junichiro Tanizaki Yoshida Kenkō, author of Essays in Idleness

Company founders

Yoshisuke Aikawa (1880–1967), founder of Nissan Takeo Fujisawa (1910–1988), co-founder of the automobile manufacturer Honda Hirotoshi Honda (born 1942), founder of Mugen Motorsports Konosuke Matsushita (1894–1989), founder of Panasonic Hiroshi Mikitani (born 1965), founder of Rakuten Mitsui Takatoshi (1622–1694), founder of Mitsui Kokichi Mikimoto (1858–1954), founder of Mikimoto Soichiro Honda (1906–1991), co-founder of the automobile manufacturer Honda Jujiro Matsuda (1875–1952), founder of Mazda automobile company Michio Suzuki (1887–1982), founder of Suzuki Eiji Toyoda (1913–2013), founder of luxury automobile manufacturer Lexus Kiichiro Toyoda (1894–1952), founder of automobile manufacturer Toyota in 1937 Sakichi Toyoda (1867–1930), founder of Toyota Industries and Toyota Group

Educators

Mori Arinori Tsunesaburō Makiguchi Midori Suzuki Fukuzawa Yukichi Yukio Tsuda Kanō Jigorō Imai Yone

Emperors