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Japan
island country in East Asia
80 entities
19 domains
Human
59
Matsuo Bashō
Person
Japanese poet（1644–1694）
Naruhito
Person
Emperor of Japan (born 1960)
Akira Kurosawa
Person
Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)
Katsushika Hokusai
Person
Japanese artist (1760-1849)
Shinzō Abe
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954–2022)
Murasaki Shikibu
Person
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
Hirohito
Person
emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989
Akihito
Person
Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019
Haruki Murakami
Person
Japanese writer (born 1949)
Toshirō Mifune
Person
Japanese actor (1920–1997)
Yasunari Kawabata
Person
Japanese novelist (1899–1972)
Hayao Miyazaki
Person
Japanese animator, filmmaker, and mangaka (born 1941)
Yukio Mishima
Person
Japanese author (1925–1970)
Yoshihide Suga
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2020 to 2021
Kenzaburō Ōe
Person
Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate (1935–2023)
Yoko Ono
Person
Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
Ichirō Mizuki
Person
Japanese singer, voice actor (1948-2022)
Sanae Takaichi
Person
Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan since 2025
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Person
Japanese writer (1892–1927)
Fumio Kishida
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2021 to 2024
Emperor Meiji
Person
Emperor of Japan from 1867 until 1912
Hideki Yukawa
Person
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
Naoto Kan
Person
94th Prime Minister of Japan
Hideki Tojo
Person
Japanese general and politician (1884–1948)
Junichiro Koizumi
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
Tarō Asō
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Person
founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1543–1616)
Eisaku Satō
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972
Yukio Hatoyama
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2009 to 2010
Naomi Osaka
Person
Japanese tennis player (born 1997)
Oda Nobunaga
Person
Japanese samurai and warlord (1534–1582)
Yasuo Fukuda
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008 (1936–2026)
Yoshihiko Noda
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2011 to 2012
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Person
Japanese samurai and daimyo (1537–1598)
Shinichiro Tomonaga
Person
Japanese physicist (1906-1979)
Isoroku Yamamoto
Person
Japanese Marshal Admiral (1884–1943)
Takeshi Kitano
Person
Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter and video game designer (born 1947)
Leo Esaki
Person
Japanese physicist (1925-)
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Person
Japanese molecular biologist (1945 - )
Masatoshi Koshiba
Person
Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)
Keisuke Honda
Person
Japanese association football player
Kōbō Abe
Person
Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor
Shuji Nakamura
Person
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
Emperor Taishō
Person
Emperor of Japan from 1912 until 1926
Momoko Kōchi
Person
Japanese actress (1932-1998)
Akira Toriyama
Person
Japanese manga artist and character designer (1955-2024)
Itō Hirobumi
Person
1st, 5th, 7th and 10th Prime Minister of Japan (1841–1909)
Hidetoshi Nakata
Person
Japanese association football player
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Person
Japanese politician (1918–2019)
Isamu Akasaki
Person
Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
Sei Shōnagon
Person
Japanese author and court lady
Natsume Sōseki
Person
Japanese novelist
Takaaki Kajita
Person
Japanese physicist and astronomer
Utagawa Hiroshige
Person
Japanese ukiyo-e artist (1797–1858)
Shinji Kagawa
Person
Japanese association football player
Hiroshi Amano
Person
Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
Makoto Hasebe
Person
Japanese association football player
Shinji Okazaki
Person
Japanese association football player
Makoto Kobayashi
Person
Japanese theoretical physicist (1944–)
