is a Japanese novelist who was the governor of Nagano prefecture in 2000 to 2006. As of July 2007 he is the president of New Party Nippon.

born (born February 9, 1973) is a Japanese anime director, animator, and principal voice actor. A native of the Nagano prefecture in Japan, he studied Japanese literature in university. He traces his passion for creation to the manga, anime, and novels he read while in middle school. His favorite anime is "Castle in the Sky" by Hayao Miyazaki. Shinkai has been called the new Miyazaki in several reviews including Anime Advocates and ActiveAnime, …

Tsutomu Hata is a Japanese politician and was the 80th Prime Minister of Japan for several weeks in 1994. Born in Tokyo, Hata graduated from Seijo University and was employed by the Odakyu bus company from 1958 to 1969. In 1969, he entered the House of Representatives of Japan, representing Nagano Prefecture as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He rose to become a top lieutenant in the Tanaka/Takeshita faction in the 1980s.

"'"'(1154-1184) was a general of the late Heian Period of Japanese history. A member of the Minamoto samurai clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo was his cousin and rival during the Genpei War between the Minamoto and the Taira clans. Born in Musashi province, Yoshinaka's father Minamoto no Yoshikata was killed and his domain was seized by Minamoto no Yoshihira in an interfamily feud while he was still an infant.

Yoichi Sai (崔洋一 Japanese: "Sai Yōichi", Korean: Choi Yang-il (Hangul: 최양일, Hanja: 崔洋一, Revised Romanization: "Choe Yang-il", McCune-Reischauer: "Ch'oe Yang-il"), born 6 July 1949 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan) is an ethnic-Korean Japanese film director. His 2004 film "Chi to hone" won four Japanese Academy Awards, including two for Sai himself, for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Tomoko Fuse is a Japanese origami writer who has written several books on the subject of modular origami and is by some considered to be a queen of unit origami. She developed many modular boxes and geometric objects, and is one of the most prolific origami authors in the world. She was born in Niigata and now lives with her husband Taro, a respected woodblock printmaker and etcher, in a hillside village, in rural Nagano prefecture, Japan.

; (14 January 1884 - 12 August 1935) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, famous as the victim of the Aizawa Incident of 1935. Nagata was born in Suwa city in Nagano Prefecture. He graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in October 1904, and from the War College in November 1911. He served as military attaché to several Japanese embassies in Europe, including Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, …

Hiroshi Yamazaki is a Japanese photographer whose works concentrate on the sun and the sea. Born in Nagano, he studied at Nihon University but dropped out in 1968, starting out as a freelance cameraman a year later, working in both still photography and 16mm film. Yamazaki is best known for two series. "Heliography" uses long exposures to show the path of the sun near the horizon. "Horizon" ("Suiheisen saishū") is a study of sea horizons.

Noriyuki Iwadare is a Japanese video game music composer. He was born in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He began to compose video game music after years of being involved with university bands. The first award he won the Best Game Music award, the Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis in U.S.) category for Lunar: The Silver Star in 1991.

Kunihiko Kodaira was a Japanese mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds; and as the founder of the Japanese school of algebraic geometers. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1954, being the first Japanese to receive this honour. He was born in Nagano Prefecture. His early work was mostly in functional analysis. During the war years he worked in isolation, but was able to master Hodge theory as it then stood.

Viscount, (27 May 1852 – 19 February 1919) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Japanese Secret Intelligence Services, also known as the Kempeitai. Fukushima was born to a "samurai" family; his father was a retainer to the "daimyo" of Matsumoto, in Shinano Province (modern Nagano Prefecture).

Yoko Sugimura (Japanese: 杉村 陽子 "Sugimura Yoko", born November 01, 1974 in Nagano, Japan) was a Japanese gravure idol and race queen. Yoko Suimura began her modeling career as race queen for Kure in 1997, where she teamed up together with Fumika Suzuki. As for Fumika Suzuki, the race queen modeling for Kure gave her career a good start. In 1997 she also was Toyota's event girl at the 32nd Tokyo Motor show In 1998 she appeared as a K1 round girl, …

Luis Nishizawa Flores (born February 2nd, 1918 in San Mateo Ixtacalco, Mexico) is a Mexican artist. His father, Kenji Nishizawa is Japanese with origins from Nagano prefecture and his mother, María de Jesús Flores is Mexican. Nishizawa's artistic studies began when he was admitted to the Academy of San Carlos in 1942 and since 1951, the date of his first exhibition in the Hall of Mexican Plastic Art, he has been a tireless producer and exponent of Mexican art.

Hayuma Tanaka (born July 31, 1982 in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese football player. He made his senior national team debut on August 9, 2006, in a friendly match against Trinidad and Tobago.

born in the town of Usuda、in the Saku district of Nagano Prefecture on 2 October 1910 and died of oesophagal cancer on 3 March 1977 was a distinguished Japanese student of China and Chinese literature, a cultural critic and translator.. In 1931 he graduated from high school and entered the department of Sinology at Tokyo University, where he encountered Takeda Taijun. Together they founded a Chinese literature study group.

was born in Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture on May 15, 1946. He is among the most popular TV stars, comedians, vaudevillian actors, and singers in Japan. Though he has not recorded a new hit in over thirty years, but he continues to make appearances on Kōhaku Uta Gassen, the popular New Year's Eve music broadcast. Mikawa's true name is. Momose is a common family name in Matsumoto City, Nagano, which is around his hometown. He has Type A blood and is 172.5cm tall.

born March 13, 1982 in Nagano, is a seiyū who works for 81 Produce.

Manabu Miyazaki, born in Nagano Prefecture in 1949, is a Japanese wildlife photographer. His work "Fukurō / Ural Owl" won the Domon Ken Award in 1990.

Tachibanaya Takezou is a rakugo artist (real name is Kouketsu Tokio), born October 22, 1947, in Iida, Nagano, Japan. He currently resides in Tokyo. He first performed in September, 1965 at Shinjuku Suehirotei, with a story called Karanuke. He regular performs in Shinjuku, Asakusa, Ueno and Ikebukuro. In 2005, he released a DVD from Avex titled Tachibanaya Takezou.

Yasuo Furuhata (降旗康男 "Furuhata Yasuo", born 19 August 1934 in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan) is a Japanese film director.

is a Japanese seiyū, best known as the voices of Michiru Ogawa in Bleach and Dejiko in Di Gi Charat. She is 5 foot in height (1.53m).

(May 6, 1949 -) is a male seiyū from Nagano Prefecture.

(21 July 1877-17 January 1950) was a Japanese philosopher, best known for his work in the philosophy of religion. Hatano was born in Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture, and educated at Tokyo Imperial University, from which he graduated in 1899. He was very influential in stimulating the study in Japan of Western philosophy and religion, both through his teaching (he was the first to teach the history of Western philosophy at Tokyo Semmon Gakko, now Waseda University), …

Baron ; (20 October 1853 - 29 August 1932) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and 6th Governor-General of Taiwan from 30 April 1915 to June 1918. He was also holder of the Order of the Golden Kite (3rd Degree). He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun (1st class with Paulownia Blossoms, Grand Cordon) posthumously. A native of Iida in Shinano Province (present-day Nagano Prefecture), …

Atsushi Matsuura (May 10, 1968) is a Japanese guitarist born in Shiojiri City, Nagano Prefecture. He currently resides in the Philippines.

Sachiko Watanabe （渡辺幸子 "Watanabe Sachiko"） is the mayor of Tama, Tokyo, Japan, born on 1950 at Nagano Prefecture.

is a seiyū born in 1966 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.