Notable people

Japanese poet

Emperor of Japan since 2019

Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)

Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)

Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989

Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019

Japanese writer

Japanese novelist (1899–1972)

British novelist (born 1954)

Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (born 1941)

Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate (1935–2023)

Japanese writer (1892–1927)

Emperor of Japan from 1867 until 1912

Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)

Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin (1584–1645)

founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1543–1616)

Japanese samurai and warlord (1534–1582)

Japanese tennis player

Japanese physicist (1906-1979)

Japanese physicist (1925-)