Born in the Hyōgo Prefecture capital city of Kobe, he studied oil painting at Osaka University of Arts.

Born on 4 September 1913 in Osaka, Japan, Tange spent his early life in the Chinese cities of Hankow and Shanghai ; he and his family returned to Japan after learning of the death of one of his uncles.

Born in Osaka, Japan, where her father ( of Jiaoling, Guangdong origin ) worked as a merchant, Lin's parents moved first to Taiwan, before settling in Beijing when she was 5.

Born to an Osaka prostitute and an unknown father, Ueda was adopted in his fourth year by a wealthy merchant who reared him in comfort and provided him with a good education.

Born in Osaka, Japan, Kitamura quit high school and went to the School of Visual Arts in Australia at age 17.

Born on April 3 in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka.

Born in Osaka, Japan, Ryuji Sasai began his musical career at the age of 15 playing instruments and forming a band.

Born in Yao, Osaka, he started studying Kawachi ondo with his father, Kawachiya Kikusui, at the age of nine.

Born in Osaka, Abe was the third of six children.

Born in Osaka to missionary parents of Assyrian background who themselves were born in northwest Iran, Dooman knew Japanese as a native language.

Born in Kishiwada, Osaka ,, 22-year-old Keiji joined the Capcom corporation not long after graduating, in 1987, in search of a job as an illustrator.

Born in Osaka and a graduate of Kansai University, Hōjō moved to Tokyo in 1926, and found employment with the Hakone Tozan Railway.

Born in Ikuno-ku, Osaka, Kitagawa graduated from Faculty of Law, Soka University and became a lawyer.

* Born: Takashi Fujii, Japanese comedian, in Toyonaka, Osaka ; Matt Kenseth, American NASCAR driver, in Cambridge, WI ; Michael Lucas, Russian-born gay pornographic actor and director, in Moscow

All of the Love is Born concerts take place in Japan, ending in her hometown of Osaka.

Born in Wakaegun, Kawachi Province ( today Yao, Osaka ), in his youth Dōkyō became the disciple of the monk Gien and learned Sanskrit from Rōben.

Born in Osaka, Yabe played soccer in his youth.

: Born May 11, 1963 in Naniwa-ku, Osaka and raised in Amagasaki, Hyōgo.

Born in Osaka Prefecture, he dropped out of school of liberal arts in Tokyo University and joined Ken ' yusha.

Born in Hiroshima, Aki Province ( modern Hiroshima Prefecture ) to a samurai family, Katō enrolled in the 7th class Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and graduated second out of a class of 30 cadets.

Born in Ishikawa Prefecture, to a samurai-class family formerly in service to Kaga Domain, Hayashi dropped out of school in July 1894 to enlist in the Imperial Japanese Army at the start of the First Sino-Japanese War.

Born on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Ikki Kita ’ s real name was Kita Terujirō ( 北 輝次郎 ).

Born in the village of Iizasa in Shimosa Province he moved when young to the vicinity of the famous Katori Shrine, a venerable Shinto institution northeast of Tokyo in what is today's Chiba Prefecture.

Born in the Fuchun Prefecture of the Wu Commandery ( 吳郡富春, present day Fuyang, Zhejiang ), Sun Jian was said to be a descendant of the renowned military strategist Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War.

Born with the surname Chen ( 陳 ) in Huarong District, Jing Prefecture ( 荊州華容 ), Zhiyi left home to become a monk at eighteen, after the loss of his parents and his hometown Jiangling that fell to the Western Wei army when Zhiyi was seventeen.

Born at Daikancho 82, Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Ishizaka went to Hirosaki Middle School in 1913 and then to Keio University in 1920.

Born to a family of a Kishu Tokugawa ( today's Wakayama Prefecture ) clansman, Torakusu was captivated by Western science and technology from early on.

Born in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture as the fourth child in a prosperous and conservative family, whose wealth was derived from the management of wholesale seed nurseries, Kusama has experienced hallucinations and severe obsessive thoughts since childhood, often of a suicidal nature.

* Born on August 20, 1968 in Kanagawa Prefecture

Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1939, Iijima graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1963 from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo.

Born as the third son to a poor samurai in the Matsuyama Domain, Iyo Province ( modern Ehime Prefecture ), Akiyama's family was so poor in his childhood that he was forced to work as a fire stoker and janitor in a local public bathhouse for a pittance each day.

Born in the village of Urami in Bitchū Province ( in present-day Asakuchi, Okayama Prefecture ) as the second son of the Kandori farming family.

Born in Tomioka city, Gunma Prefecture, Tohmatsu graduated from the 6th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Paymaster Academy in 1917.

Born in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Kawaguchi studied at Shimizu Commercial High School and was a member of the football team there.

Born in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, he is a member of the House of Representatives and the Liberal Democratic Party.

Born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Tamura gained notoriety as an advocate for the Lolita fashion movement, wearing Lolita-style clothing in public, as well as for her music releases, often in music videos and on the covers of her CD releases.

Born Yakichi ( 勇吉 ) to a lower-ranked samurai family in Hagi, Chōshū Domain ( present day Yamaguchi Prefecture ), Inoue attended the Meirinkan Domain school with his brother Ikutarō ( 幾太郎 ).

Born on November 18th, 1966 in Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan.

Born in Kakeda, Date County in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, he immigrated to Hawaii in 1906.

Born in Afagnan in Lacs Prefecture, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé was one of Gnassingbé Eyadéma's many children ; his mother was Séna Sabine Mensah.

Born in Matto, Kaga Province ( now Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture ) as a daughter of a picture framer, Chiyo-ni began writing haiku poetry aged 7.