Most Famous People from Japan
People from Japan, ranked by worldwide fame rather than local attention.
As of August 28, 2026, Shohei Ohtani leads iFANN's Famous rankings for Japan, ahead of Sanae Takaichi and Hayao Miyazaki.
Powered by the Global Fame Engine v5.61, which combines multiple worldwide public signals and discloses evidence coverage for each People ranking. Updated daily.
Hideo Kojima
122.7K Wikipedia views · 38+ news articles
Shinzo Abe
143.1K Wikipedia views · 613 news articles
Naruhito
179K Wikipedia views · 67 news articles
Haruki Murakami
157.4K Wikipedia views · 159 news articles
Akira Kurosawa
183.4K Wikipedia views · 11+ news articles
Yoko Ono
335.5K Wikipedia views · 148 news articles
Hirohito
268.6K Wikipedia views · 90 news articles
Eiichiro Oda
68.4K Wikipedia views · 171 news articles
Naomi Osaka
948.9K Wikipedia views · 206 news articles
Miyamoto Musashi
158.2K Wikipedia views · 70 news articles
Akira Toriyama
85.3K Wikipedia views · 96 news articles
Kazuo Ishiguro
149.3K Wikipedia views · 76 news articles
Fumio Kishida
32.2K Wikipedia views · 44 news articles
Shigeru Miyamoto
117K Wikipedia views · 83 news articles
Oda Nobunaga
123.5K Wikipedia views · 53 news articles
Yayoi Kusama
59.1K Wikipedia views · 1K news articles
Kazuyoshi Miura
161.8K Wikipedia views · 24+ news articles
Hokusai
53.9K Wikipedia views · 13+ news articles
Emperor Meiji
110.8K Wikipedia views · 60 news articles
Keisuke Honda
71.1K Wikipedia views · 8 news articles
Masashi Kishimoto
39.5K Wikipedia views · 75 news articles
Tokugawa Ieyasu
100.8K Wikipedia views · 40 news articles
Yukio Mishima
200.7K Wikipedia views · 3+ news articles
Wataru Endō
60.6K Wikipedia views · 39 news articles
Akihito
146.7K Wikipedia views · 11 news articles
Takehiro Tomiyasu
103.7K Wikipedia views · 51 news articles
Hideki Tojo
112.5K Wikipedia views · 129 news articles
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
95.8K Wikipedia views · 55 news articles
Joe Hisaishi
62K Wikipedia views · 21 news articles
Osamu Dazai
85.4K Wikipedia views · 5+ news articles
Takefusa Kubo
68.4K Wikipedia views · 7+ news articles
Takeshi Kitano
54.5K Wikipedia views · 13 news articles
Makoto Shinkai
69.8K Wikipedia views · 37 news articles
Daichi Kamada
51.1K Wikipedia views · 9 news articles
Ayumi Hamasaki
32.1K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Ichiro Suzuki
99.7K Wikipedia views · 80 news articles
Hiroo Onoda
130.7K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Junichiro Koizumi
24K Wikipedia views · 105 news articles
Ryuichi Sakamoto
65.2K Wikipedia views · 20 news articles
Ken Watanabe
97.4K Wikipedia views · 3+ news articles
Isoroku Yamamoto
83.6K Wikipedia views · 14 news articles
Emperor Taishō
79.6K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Hidetoshi Nakata
50K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Kei Nishikori
44.1K Wikipedia views · 46+ news articles
Matsuo Bashō
16.9K Wikipedia views · 5 news articles
Satoshi Kon
73K Wikipedia views · 17 news articles
Shinji Kagawa
50.6K Wikipedia views · 4+ news articles
Empress Masako
43.5K Wikipedia views · 7+ news articles
Yasunari Kawabata
24K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Ayase Ueda
71.3K Wikipedia views · 23+ news articles
Daizen Maeda
138.7K Wikipedia views · 44 news articles
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
31.9K Wikipedia views · 8 news articles
Yūto Nagatomo
55.1K Wikipedia views · 5+ news articles
Keigo Higashino
83K Wikipedia views · 116 news articles
Murasaki Shikibu
20.3K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Ritsu Dōan
40.4K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Kenshi Yonezu
21.7K Wikipedia views · 9+ news articles
Mitski
79.7K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Ado
76.3K Wikipedia views
Yoshihide Suga
22K Wikipedia views · 31 news articles
Soichiro Honda
23.7K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Itō Hirobumi
25.6K Wikipedia views · 6+ news articles
Gosho Aoyama
12.4K Wikipedia views · 12 news articles
Emperor Jimmu
44.6K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Natsume Sōseki
26.5K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Tarō Asō
16.2K Wikipedia views · 29 news articles
Yoshinori Ohsumi
34.1K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Shuji Nakamura
18.9K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Empress Michiko
20.1K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Chiaki Kuriyama
31.8K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Kaoru Mitoma
65.8K Wikipedia views · 18 news articles
Kenzaburō Ōe
17K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Rui Hachimura
124.5K Wikipedia views · 75 news articles
Emperor Kōmei
33K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Yoshihiko Noda
12.2K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Junya Itō
49.7K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Hajime Moriyasu
112.8K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Hiroyuki Sanada
144.1K Wikipedia views · 21 news articles
Shoko Asahara
55.7K Wikipedia views · 5 news articles
Yukio Hatoyama
12.3K Wikipedia views · 46 news articles
Mamoru Miyano
21.9K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Naoto Kan
11.2K Wikipedia views · 7 news articles
Hidemasa Morita
42.1K Wikipedia views · 7+ news articles
Chiune Sugihara
21.6K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Hiroki Itō
35.1K Wikipedia views · 21 news articles
Naoya Inoue
121.3K Wikipedia views · 11 news articles
Date Masamune
20.2K Wikipedia views · 6 news articles
Akechi Mitsuhide
29.4K Wikipedia views · 9 news articles
Shigeru Yoshida
16.2K Wikipedia views · 16 news articles
Nobusuke Kishi
20.1K Wikipedia views · 9 news articles
Sakura
62.3K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Hiromu Arakawa
78.9K Wikipedia views · 16 news articles
Yasuo Fukuda
13.7K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Sumire Uesaka
27.9K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
IYO SKY
79.4K Wikipedia views · 46 news articles
Shōgo Taniguchi
31.3K Wikipedia views · 4+ news articles
Airi Suzuki
15.8K Wikipedia views · 54 news articles