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Hiroshi Abe was born on 22 June 1964 in Kanagawa, Japan. He is an actor, known for Still Walking (2008), Godzilla 2000 (1999) and After the Storm (2016).

Josh Kelly was born on 25 April 1982 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. He is an actor and director, known for Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Cope (2009).

Chiaki Kobayashi was born on 4 June 1994 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He is an actor, known for Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (2023), Metallic Rouge (2024) and Ragna Crimson (2023).

James was born in Yokohama and raised in rural Yamagata, Japan. He moved to the U.S. after high school and earned a BA in literature from Wheaton College and an MFA in acting and directing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

James is based in NYC, working as an actor, director, translator, and writer. Many fans know him as Robert Minoru from Marvel's Runaways. He has originated many roles on and off Broadway, including Sarah Ruhl's The Oldest Boy, Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out (2003 Tony Award for Best Play), A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, John Guare's A Few Stout Individuals, and Julia Cho's Durango. His credits also include characters in world-premiere stage adaptations of literary classics, such as Yunioshi in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway and Toru in Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle at the Edinburgh Int'l Festival and the Singapore Arts Festival.

For the stage, he has directed My Friend Has Come for the Asian American Writers Workshop, Dancing with the Bird at the Japan Society in New York, "Clippy and Ms. U" for Ma-Yi Studios, and Ready or Not and It's a Jungle Out There for the 52nd Street Project Playmaking series. He made his filmmaking debut in '11 with Lefty Loosey Righty Tighty, which won Best Feature in the DIY film competition at Northside Festival, a trendsetter art festival in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

James was the conceiver of the theater benefit "SHINSAI: Theaters for Japan" which took place on March 11, 2012, the one-year anniversary of the disasters in Japan, with participation from nearly 100 theaters, internationally. He also collaborates frequently with Japanese artists, translating award winning contemporary Japanese plays and subtitling major Japanese studio films.

James is also a martial artist with black belts in judo and aikido.

Yôko Hikasa was born on 16 July 1985 in Kanagawa, Japan. She is an actress, known for Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005), Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online (2018) and Infinite Stratos (2011).

is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Io Shirai who is currently signed to the WWE, performing on their developmental brand NXT, where she is a former NXT Women's Champion.

Making her debut in March 2007, Io spent several years working as a tag team wrestler, teaming with her older sister Mio, with whom she would wrestle for various promotions across Japan and Mexico, winning the TLW World Young Women's Tag Team Championship in the process. In June 2010, the Shirais came together with Kana to form the Triple Tails stable, which would last for fifteen months, before Io broke out of the group and started her singles career with the World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion. In April 2013, she won the promotion's top title, the World of Stardom Championship, which she would hold for over fifteen months.

She is currently in her record sixth reign as one third of the Artist of Stardom Champions, while also being a former two-time World of Stardom Champion and a one-time Goddess of Stardom, Wonder of Stardom, High Speed and SWA World Champion. She is recognized as the "ace" of Stardom, and was named the 2015 and 2016 women's wrestler of the year by Tokyo Sports.

Misato Morita was born on 13 September 1996 in Kanagawa, Japan. She is an actress, known for City Hunter (2024), Missing (2021) and The Naked Director (2019).

Lynn was born in Kanagawa, Japan. She is known for The Promised Neverland (2019), Overwatch (2016) and I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018).

Tokuma Nishioka began his career as a child actor but had to suspend his activities due to childhood asthma. He later resumed studying theater in Tamagawa Gakuen university and joined one of the most prestigious theater companies, Bungakuza, in Japan. Ten years later, he left the company and expanded his career into television dramas, movies, and stage performances.

Tôru Furuya was born on 31 July 1953 in Isogo-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He is an actor, known for Paprika (2006), Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013) and Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988). He has been married to Satomi Majima since March 1985. They have one child. He was previously married to Mami Koyama.

Sayaka Ôhara was born on 6 December 1975 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She is an actress, known for Your Name. (2016), Code Geass (2006) and XxxHOLiC the Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005).

Masanobu Andô was born on 19 May 1975 in Kanagawa, Japan. He is an actor, known for Battle Royale (2000), Kids Return (1996) and Sukiyaki Western Django (2007). He has been married to unknown since 2014. They have one child.

Kazuya Tanabe was born on 31 July 1985 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He is an actor, known for Tokyo Vice (2022), Kate (2021) and The Terror (2018).

Tôri Matsuzaka was born on 17 October 1988 in Kanagawa, Japan. He is an actor and writer, known for The Blood of Wolves (2018), Impossibility Defense (2017) and Call Boy (2018). He has been married to Erika Toda since 10 December 2020.

Seiyô Uchino was born on 16 September 1968 in Kanagawa, Japan. He is an actor and producer, known for 13 Assassins (2010), Haru (1996) and Love & War of a Samurai (2003). He was previously married to Maki Ichiro.

Nae was born on 12 May 1970 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. She is an actress, known for Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Inland Empire (2006) and A Class to Remember (1993).

One goes to Atsugi to see the American war machine at work or see where one of Japan's leading pop singers was born. Born in Kanagawa just south of Tokyo in 1966, Koizumi Kyoko participated in and won the Staa Tanjo! ('A Star Is Born') television talent program in 1981 and subsequently released her first single in March of 1982. She shaved her hair at age 17 in 1984 in order to portray a different image than the other pop idols and defy her agent at Burning Production. She landed a number 1 hit in the Japanese charts in 1984 and quickly became a Japanese idol at age eighteen. She appeared on the annual New Year's Eve variety show Kohaku Uta Gassen in 1984. She ruled the Japanese charts for the next ten years. She introduced the JD Salinger novel Catcher In The Rye on the radio, which made the novel better-known in Japan. Ironically, she later admitted to having not read the book at the time. She also had her own radio show. She married character actor Nagase Masatoshi in 1995 and divorced in 2004. They had met at the magazine AnAn where she was a staff photographer. Kyoko shifted her focus to acting and was in films like Onmyoji in 2001, Tokyo Tower and the superlative Tenten both in 2007 and Tokyo Sonata in 2008 among others. She returned to the small screen to work with Kurosawa Kiyoshi of Tokyo Sonata on the Penance serial in 2012. She participated in the Yell From Nippon charity group to buy soccer balls for Eritrean children in 2006. She was romantically connected to Kazuya Kamenashi of the group KAT-TUN, who was half her age, in 2006. Koizumi and her two-decade long friends of Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra performed a cover version of Makana Tayou ('Red Sun') by Misora Hibari in 2011. She won the award for Best Actress at the 66th Mainichi Film Awards for Mainichi Kaasan. She was back in the top ten of the Japanese charts when Shiosai No Memori ('Memories By The Waterside') from the NHK serial Amachan, in which she also acted, in 2013. She was dating actor Toyohara Kosuke, who was still married but separated, as of 2015. Like all celebrities she has pushed products like Shiseido, Lotte, JR, Suzuki and Kirin beer. She is self-managed.

Nene Hieda was born on 15 January 1997 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She is an actress, known for I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018), The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World (2023) and Kaiju No. 8 (2024).

Akira Kamiya was born on 18 September 1946 in Kanagawa, Japan. He is an actor, known for Pom Poko (1994), Fist of the North Star (1984) and Detective Conan (1996).

Kenji Sahara was born Masayoshi Kato on May 14, 1932 in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa, Japan. He came in second in the "Mr. Ordinary Contest" in 1953 and his cinema debut was as an extra in two small roles in Godzilla (1954), one as a ship passenger and one as a journalist. He initially went by the name Tadashi Ishihara. However, his break-through in Toho Studios' sci-fi films came when he portrayed the male lead Shigeru in Rodan (1956), where he changed his name to "Kenji Sahara." He would go on to become a familiar face in Toho's sci-fi films, playing a wide variety of heroes and villains. Appearing in films from all three of the Godzilla series, "Showa, "Heisei," and "Millennium," Sahara has appeared in Godzilla films more than any other actor. He is also a regular cast member in Japan's "Ultraman" television shows.

With his wife, who is fluent in English, they have visited the United States several times.

Filmmaker, Comic actor and TV Presenter

Born in Japan and raised in Adelaide and Bangkok, Yujiro (YT) studied economics (Bachelors degree) at Keio University, Tokyo, before starting a career in show business.

His television credits include presenting and acting in a variety of programs on TV Tokyo, ITV (England), MBC (Korea) , Hunan TV (China), RTL (Holland) and the BBC. Neo-Japan Award Director for the Shortshorts Film Festival 2008. He is a big fan of MJ and the mighty British "Businessman of the year 1993" Keith Lemon from Leeds.

Finalist for the inaugural "Democracy Challenge" hosted by the U.S State Department. "Samurai Democracy" advocate.

Ami Tomite was born on 17 March 1994 in Kanagawa, Japan. She is an actress, known for Antiporno (2016), Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger (2012) and Tag (2015).

Kotone Furukawa was born on 25 October 1996 in Kanagawa, Japan. She is an actress, known for Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021), Cloud (2024) and Pending Train (2023).

Aki Asakura was born on 23 September 1991 in Kanagawa, Japan. She is an actress, known for The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013), Fullmetal Alchemist (2017) and Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020).

Masato Hagiwara was born on 21 August 1971 in Kanagawa, Japan. He is an actor, known for Cure (1997), Kyôso tanjô (1993) and A Class to Remember (1993). He was previously married to Emi Wakui.