- male
- Myōan Eisai was a Japanese Buddhist priest, credited with bringing the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism and green tea from China to Japan. He is o...
- female, 22 years old
- Mai (born February 19, 1987) is a Japanese vocalist. She is from Fukuoka, Kyūshū, Japan. Her blood type is AB. Her special talents are guitar and Ko...
- female, deceased (2003)
- Kamato Hongo Hongō Kamato, September 16, 1887 – October 31, 2003) was apparently the world's oldest recognized living person from March 2002 unt...
- male, deceased (2003)
- Yukichi Chuganji Chūganji Yūkichi, March 23, 1889 - September 28, 2003) was the world's oldest documented man from the death of Antonio Todde in Ja...
- male, deceased (1993)
- Alan Booth was a well-known English travel writer, who wrote two insightful books on his journeys by foot through the Japanese countryside. The...
- female, deceased (248)
- was a female ruler of Yamataikoku, an ancient state-like formation thought to have been located either in the Yamato region or in northern Kyūshū of...
- male, deceased (1611)
- Shimazu Yoshihisa was a daimyo of Satsuma Province and the eldest son of Shimazu Takahisa. His mother was a daughter of "Nyurai'in...
- male, deceased (1619)
- Shimazu Yoshihiro was the second son of Shimazu Takahisa and younger brother of Shimazu Yoshihisa. It had traditionally been believed that he...
- male, deceased (1945)
- Matome Ugaki was a Japanese admiral during World War II, most notably serving at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Born in Okayama prefecture, Ugaki...
- male, deceased (1571)
- Shimazu Takahisa, the son of Shimazu Tadayoshi, was a daimyo during Japan's Sengoku period. He was the fifteenth head of the Shimazu clan. On 1526,...
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