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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)
Katsushika Hokusai
Person
Japanese artist (1760-1849)
Akira Kurosawa
Person
Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)
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)
Yoshihide Suga
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2020 to 2021
Yukio Mishima
Person
Japanese author (1925–1970)
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)
Fumio Kishida
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2021 to 2024
Naoto Kan
Person
94th Prime Minister of Japan
Emperor Meiji
Person
Emperor of Japan from 1867 until 1912
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Person
Japanese writer (1892–1927)
Hideki Yukawa
Person
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
Sanae Takaichi
Person
Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan since 2025
Junichiro Koizumi
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
Tarō Asō
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009
Hideki Tojo
Person
Japanese general and politician (1884–1948)
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Person
founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1543–1616)
Yukio Hatoyama
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2009 to 2010
Eisaku Satō
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972
Oda Nobunaga
Person
Japanese samurai and warlord (1534–1582)
Naomi Osaka
Person
Japanese tennis player (born 1997)
Yoshihiko Noda
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2011 to 2012
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Person
Japanese samurai and daimyo (1537–1598)
Yasuo Fukuda
Person
Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
Person
Japanese physicist (1906-1979)
Masatoshi Koshiba
Person
Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)
Isoroku Yamamoto
Person
Japanese Marshal Admiral (1884–1943)
Keisuke Honda
Person
Japanese association football player (born 1986)
Takeshi Kitano
Person
Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet,...
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Person
Japanese molecular biologist (1945 - )
Leo Esaki
Person
Japanese physicist (1925-)
Kōbō Abe
Person
Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor
Emperor Taishō
Person
Emperor of Japan from 1912 until 1926
Itō Hirobumi
Person
1st, 5th, 7th and 10th Prime Minister of Japan (1841–1909)
Hidetoshi Nakata
Person
Japanese association football player
Shuji Nakamura
Person
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
Isamu Akasaki
Person
Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
Momoko Kōchi
Person
Japanese actress (1932-1998)
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Person
Japanese politician (1918–2019)
Akira Toriyama
Person
Japanese manga artist and character designer (1955-2024)
Shinji Kagawa
Person
Japanese association football player
Natsume Sōseki
Person
Japanese novelist
Takaaki Kajita
Person
Japanese physicist and astronomer
Sei Shōnagon
Person
Japanese author and court lady
Utagawa Hiroshige
Person
Japanese ukiyo-e artist (1797–1858)
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
Shigeru Ishiba
Person
President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2024 to 2025 and Prime Minister of Japan from 2024 to...
