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Famous Japanese People

Fujimura Shinichi - Japanese Archeologist & Fraud
Esaki Leona - Japanese Physicist & Nobel Prize Winner
Jokichi Takamine - Japanese Chemist
Goro Shimura - Japanese-American Mathematician
Jiro Watanabe - Japanese Former Boxer
Kamato Hongo - World's Oldest Living Person
Kanichi Asakawa - Japanese Historian
Kanjuro Shibata XX - Bowmaker and Kyudo Teacher
Kawabata Yasunari - Japanese Novelist
Kazuo Miyagawa - Japanese Cinematographer
Kazuo Umezu - Famous Author of Japanese Horror Manga
Kenzaburo Oe - Japanese Writer
Keio University - Japan's Oldest Institution of Higher Education
Kimono - Japanese Traditional Women's Garment
Kitano Takeshi - Japanese Actor, Author, Poet, Painter and Filmmaker
Kiyoshi Atsumi - Japanese Film Actor
Kobayashi Masaki - Japanese Director
Kogo Noda - Japanese Screenwriter
Kon Ichikawa - Japanese Film Director
Masatoshi Koshiba - Japanese Physicist
Mikio Sato - Japanese Mathematician
Mitoyo Kawate - Oldest Person in the World
Motoori Norinaga - Japanese Scholar
Naoko Takeuchi - Japanese manga artist
Natsume Soseki - pen-name of Natsume Kinnosuke, a Japanese novelist
Nichiren Daishonin - Buddhist monk in 13th century Japan
Oda Sakunosuke - Japanese author
Ryoji Noyori - recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ryuichi Abe - professor of Japanese religions and Buddhism
Sen no Rikyu - Japanese tea ceremony influential figure
Shibasaburo Kitasato - Japanese physician and bacteriologist
Shigechiyo Izumi - oldest living man in the world
Shoko Asahara - founder of Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult
Shunryu Suzuki - Japanese Zen master of the Soto school
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga - Japanese physicist
Takao Doi - Japanese astronaut
Takeru Kobayashi - world's record holder for hotdog eating
Takuma Sato - Japanese automobile racing driver
Tange Kenzo - Japanese architect
Terada Torahiko - Japanese physicist and author
Yoshihiro Asai - wrestler known as Ultimo Dragon
Yoshihiro Tajiri - Japanese professional wrestler
Yukawa Hideki - first Japanese to win Nobel prize
Yutaka Taniyama - Japanese mathematician
Yukichi Chuganji - world's oldest documented man

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