June 26: 51 people
Yuka Orihara (折原 裕香, Orihara Yuka; born 26 June 2000) is a Japanese ice dancer who competes for Finland. With her…
Yuka Orihara (折原 裕香, Orihara Yuka; born 26 June 2000) is a Japanese ice dancer who competes for Finland. With her current partner, Juho Pirinen, she is the 2019–20 Finnish national champion and a five-time Finnish national silver medalist (2022–26).
Yuki "James" Nomura (野村 佑希, Nomura Yuki; born June 26, 2000) is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays…
Yuki "James" Nomura (野村 佑希, Nomura Yuki; born June 26, 2000) is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.
Tatsuya Itō (Japanese: 伊藤 達哉; born 26 June 1997) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward and…
Tatsuya Itō (Japanese: 伊藤 達哉; born 26 June 1997) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward and currently play for J1 League club, Kawasaki Frontale.
Hiroki Muto (Japanese: 武藤 弘樹, Mutō Hiroki) is a Japanese archer. He competed in Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In…
Hiroki Muto (Japanese: 武藤 弘樹, Mutō Hiroki) is a Japanese archer. He competed in Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In the bronze medal match of the Men's team event, Muto hit a do-or-die bullseye in the tie-breaker set to win bronze for Japan.
Ryoma Ishida (石田 崚真, Ishida, Ryoma; born June 21, 1996 in Shizuoka) is a Japanese football player for FC Gifu.
Yuya Hiraki (平木湧也, Hiraki Yūya; born 26 June 1996) is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in Super GT for HELM…
Yuya Hiraki (平木湧也, Hiraki Yūya; born 26 June 1996) is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in Super GT for HELM Motorsports.
Natsuhiko Watanabe (渡辺 夏彦, Watanabe Natsuhiko; born 26 June 1995) is a Japanese footballer who plays as a forward.
Miki Sato (佐藤 美希, Satō Miki; born 26 June 1993, in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture) is a former Japanese tarento…
Miki Sato (佐藤 美希, Satō Miki; born 26 June 1993, in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture) is a former Japanese tarento, actress and fashion model. Sato is formerly represented with Horipro. She won the Horipro Talent Scout Caravan Grand Prix. Sato is the second generation J.League female manager. She was an exclusive model for the magazine non-no. Sato is nicknamed Satomiki (サトミキ).
Masakazu Tashiro (Japanese: 田代 真一, born June 26, 1988) is a Japanese football player who currently plays for the SC…
Masakazu Tashiro (Japanese: 田代 真一, born June 26, 1988) is a Japanese football player who currently plays for the SC Sagamihara in J3 League.
The Japanese idol girl group AKB48 has many members who have left the group for various reasons such as focusing on…
The Japanese idol girl group AKB48 has many members who have left the group for various reasons such as focusing on solo careers. Some members have left to help launch AKB48's sister groups. The member lineup often changes as when girls get older, they graduate from the group, and are replaced by members promoted from the trainees. Others have dropped out of the group without any graduation. Yuki Usami was the first member to graduate from the group on March 31, 2006. Alumnae are presented with the years in which they were on the AKB48 rosters. The list does not include the AKB48 sister group members who were not part of AKB48 proper but might have participated on their singles, events and albums. It also does not include the girls who were exclusively temporary, such as Baito AKB48, unless notable.
Kenta (健太) is a Japanese professional kickboxer.
Tomoko Fukumi (福見 友子, Fukumi Tomoko; born 26 June 1985 in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki) is a Japanese judoka from Tsukuba…
Tomoko Fukumi (福見 友子, Fukumi Tomoko; born 26 June 1985 in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki) is a Japanese judoka from Tsukuba University. She competed for Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Fukumi is a 4th dan in judo. She is the only judoka to have beaten Ryoko Tani twice. Later she won the gold medal in the extra-lightweight (–48 kg) division at the 2009 World Judo Championships. She is known for her seoinage, kouchigari, and newaza. In 2014, Fukumi took a year off to study abroad at Loughborough University.
Takeshi Handa (半田 武嗣, Handa Takeshi; born June 26, 1985) is a former Japanese football player.
Rio Asumi (明日海 りお, Asumi Rio; born June 26, 1985) is a Japanese actress and former leading otokoyaku (男役, "male role")…
Rio Asumi (明日海 りお, Asumi Rio; born June 26, 1985) is a Japanese actress and former leading otokoyaku (男役, "male role") of Takarazuka Revue.
Yuki Maki (巻 佑樹, Maki Yūki; born June 26, 1984) is a Japanese former footballer. He played in the J1 League for Nagoya…
Yuki Maki (巻 佑樹, Maki Yūki; born June 26, 1984) is a Japanese former footballer. He played in the J1 League for Nagoya Grampus from 2008 to 2012, and he played in the J2 League for Shonan Bellmare in 2011. He played as a forward and defender. He is also the brother of Japan national team player, Seiichiro Maki and Japan Handball League Omron's European handball Team's Karina Maki.
Emi Tawata (多和田えみ, Tawata Emi), born on June 26, 1984, in Okinawa, is a Japanese singer. Her music is a mix of soul…
Emi Tawata (多和田えみ, Tawata Emi), born on June 26, 1984, in Okinawa, is a Japanese singer. Her music is a mix of soul, R&B, jazz, blues and funk.
Hirotoshi Masui (増井 浩俊, born June 25, 1984) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He was selected for the 2018…
Hirotoshi Masui (増井 浩俊, born June 25, 1984) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He was selected for the 2018 NPB All-Star game.
Toyonoshima Daiki (born June 26, 1983, as Daiki Kajiwara) is a former professional sumo wrestler from Sukumo, Kōchi…
Toyonoshima Daiki (born June 26, 1983, as Daiki Kajiwara) is a former professional sumo wrestler from Sukumo, Kōchi, Japan. He made his professional debut in January 2002, reaching the top makuuchi division in September 2004. He was a runner-up in five tournaments, and earned ten special prizes. His highest rank was sekiwake, which he first reached in September 2008 and held for five tournaments in total. Following a suspension in July 2010 he was demoted to the jūryō division, but upon his return to makuuchi in November 2010 he took part in a playoff for the championship. He won four kinboshi or gold stars awarded for yokozuna upsets, three of them earned by defeating Harumafuji from 2013 to 2015. He wrestled for Tokitsukaze stable. He retired in 2020 and was an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name of Izutsu-oyakata until his departure from the association in January 2023.
Keiji Kuraishi (倉石 圭二, Kuraishi Keiji; born 26 June 1982) is a Japanese professional football manager and former…
Keiji Kuraishi (倉石 圭二, Kuraishi Keiji; born 26 June 1982) is a Japanese professional football manager and former footballer who is manager of J2 League club Vanraure Hachinohe.
Masashi Chikazawa (近澤 昌志, Chikazawa Masashi; born June 26, 1982) is a former baseball player from Japan. Chikazawa…
Masashi Chikazawa (近澤 昌志, Chikazawa Masashi; born June 26, 1982) is a former baseball player from Japan. Chikazawa played in the Japan Pacific League for the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes. He later played for Reno.
Takashi Toritani (鳥谷 敬, Toritani Takashi; born June 26, 1981) is a Japanese former professional baseball shortstop…
Takashi Toritani (鳥谷 敬, Toritani Takashi; born June 26, 1981) is a Japanese former professional baseball shortstop, commentator, critic, and coach. Toritani was one of the most highly coveted position players in years as a senior for Waseda University in 2003. He holds the current NPB record for most consecutive games played without missing an inning as a shortstop, and appeared in every Tigers game for over 13 years from 2005 to May 27, 2018 (1,939 regular season games).
Miku Matsumoto (known in Japan as MIKU) (松本未来, Matsumoto Miku), born June 26, 1981, is a female Japanese mixed martial…
Miku Matsumoto (known in Japan as MIKU) (松本未来, Matsumoto Miku), born June 26, 1981, is a female Japanese mixed martial artist. She retired as the DEEP Women's Lightweight (106-Pound) Champion in 2010. Growing up, Matsumoto studied piano and penmanship and was not interested in sports. She began training in MMA as a part-time job to kill time and save money after studying overseas but went on to become one of the most successful female mixed martial artists in the world. On February 28, 2010 at DEEP: 46th Impact, Matsumoto confirmed weeks of speculation by announcing that she would be retiring from mixed martial arts. She officially retired following an exhibition match with Megumi Fujii at DEEP: 47th Impact on April 17, 2010.
Tetsu Sugiyama (杉山 哲, Sugiyama Tetsu; born June 26, 1981) is a Japanese football player.
Hideomi Yamamoto (山本 英臣, Yamamoto Hideomi; born June 26, 1980) is a Japanese football player who plays for Ventforet…
Hideomi Yamamoto (山本 英臣, Yamamoto Hideomi; born June 26, 1980) is a Japanese football player who plays for Ventforet Kofu.
Ippei Asada (麻田一平, Asada Ippei; born 26 June 1980) is a former Japanese rugby union player who played as a scrum-half.…
Ippei Asada (麻田一平, Asada Ippei; born 26 June 1980) is a former Japanese rugby union player who played as a scrum-half. He spent his whole career playing for Toyota Verblitz in Japan's domestic Top League, playing over 75 times and captaining the side. His performances domestically earned him a call-up as a replacement player for the 2011 Rugby World Cup for Japan. He though did not make an appearance at the World Cup, or in any other matches for Japan.
Ryō Fukuda (福田良 Fukada Ryō, born June 26, 1979, in Fukuoka) is a Japanese former racing driver. He was a Formula One…
Ryō Fukuda (福田良 Fukada Ryō, born June 26, 1979, in Fukuoka) is a Japanese former racing driver. He was a Formula One test driver. In the 2005–2006 season, he raced in A1 Grand Prix Japan Team. Fukuda started his career in France, at 1996 in Formula Campus, Formula Renault and Formula 3. In this category, after second place in 2000, in 2001, he became the French Formula Three champion with the Saulnier Racing team. In 2002, he was in Formula One BAR–Honda test driver, and also participated in one race in the Porsche Supercup and FIA GT Championship with Paul Belmondo Racing. Fukuda also participated in Formula Nippon in 2003, World Series by Nissan in 2004, Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2005 and 2006 with Saulnier Racing and Tech 1 Racing.
Ryo Fukudome (福留 亮, Fukudome Ryo; born June 26, 1978) is a former Japanese football player.
Asako Tajimi (多治見麻子 Tajimi Asako, born 26 June 1972) is a Japanese former volleyball player and three-time Olympian.…
Asako Tajimi (多治見麻子 Tajimi Asako, born 26 June 1972) is a Japanese former volleyball player and three-time Olympian. She competed with the Japanese women's national volleyball team at the 1992, 1996, and 2008 Olympics. Tajimi helped Japan win the bronze medal at the 1994 Goodwill Games in Saint Petersburg.
Koji Seki (関 浩二, Seki Koji; born June 26, 1972) is a former Japanese football player.
Takeshi Konomi (許斐 剛, Konomi Takeshi; born June 26, 1970) is a Japanese manga artist, known for creating the manga…
Takeshi Konomi (許斐 剛, Konomi Takeshi; born June 26, 1970) is a Japanese manga artist, known for creating the manga series The Prince of Tennis. On February 25, 2023, it was reported Konomi is unable to walk and has to use a wheelchair. As of June 2023, Konomi seems to have recovered as he states he was able to attend Tenipuri Festa from the audience and posts a photo of him standing without assistance.
Masao Sugimoto (杉本 雅央, Sugimoto Masao; born June 26, 1967) is a former Japanese football player.
Yoji Omoto (大本洋嗣, Ōmoto Yōji; born 26 June 1967) is a Japanese water polo coach. He was the head coach of the Japan…
Yoji Omoto (大本洋嗣, Ōmoto Yōji; born 26 June 1967) is a Japanese water polo coach. He was the head coach of the Japan men's national water polo team at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. Omoto has a master's degree in physical education from the Nippon Sport Science University in Japan.
Yoshitaka Nakayama (中山義隆, Nakayama Yoshitaka) is a Japanese politician and the current mayor of Ishigaki. Nakayama was…
Yoshitaka Nakayama (中山義隆, Nakayama Yoshitaka) is a Japanese politician and the current mayor of Ishigaki. Nakayama was re-elected in 2022, with endorsements by the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito. In 2020, Nakayama passed a bill changing the name of Tonoshiro (a locale in Ishigaki) to “Tonoshiro Senkaku”, as the Senkaku Islands are a de facto part of Tonoshiro in an administrative sense. This was immediately condemned by both China and Taiwan, who also claim sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands (also known as Diaoyu Islands). In June 2025, the Ishigaki Council found that some health insurance budget was not discussed via the council, and Nakayama declared false statements to the council. Public distrust of Nakayama started to arise. On June 18, the Ishigaki Council passed a motion of no confidence against the Nakayama cabinet. On 29 June, Nakayama agreed to resign, stating that dissoluting the parliament didn't make sense.
Hiroyuki Morita (森田 宏幸, Morita Hiroyuki; born June 26, 1964) is a Japanese animator and director. He is best known for…
Hiroyuki Morita (森田 宏幸, Morita Hiroyuki; born June 26, 1964) is a Japanese animator and director. He is best known for working as director on the Studio Ghibli film The Cat Returns.
Hiroshi Sakamoto (坂本 弘, Sakamoto Hiroshi; born 26 June 1960) is a former Japanese swimmer who competed in the 1984…
Hiroshi Sakamoto (坂本 弘, Sakamoto Hiroshi; born 26 June 1960) is a former Japanese swimmer who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Takafumi Kawabata (川端 隆普美, Kawabata Takafumi; born 26 June 1954) is a Japanese ski jumper. He competed in the normal…
Takafumi Kawabata (川端 隆普美, Kawabata Takafumi; born 26 June 1954) is a Japanese ski jumper. He competed in the normal hill and large hill events at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Fusae Ōta (太田 房江, Ōta Fusae; born June 26, 1951) is a Japanese politician, a former governor of Osaka Prefecture, and…
Fusae Ōta (太田 房江, Ōta Fusae; born June 26, 1951) is a Japanese politician, a former governor of Osaka Prefecture, and the country's first female prefectural governor. Her married name is Fusae Saitō (齊藤 房江, Saitō Fusae). She is affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi.
Naoyoshi Hikosaka (彦坂尚嘉, Hikosaka Naoyoshi, born June 26, 1946, Tokyo) is a Japanese artist and one of the founders of…
Naoyoshi Hikosaka (彦坂尚嘉, Hikosaka Naoyoshi, born June 26, 1946, Tokyo) is a Japanese artist and one of the founders of the activist group Bikyōtō. He was an artist-theorist who critiqued Mono-ha, worked in conceptualism in the first half of the 1970s, and turned to painting from the second half of the 1970s onward.
Machiko Kinoshita Yamada (山田 満知子, Yamada Machiko; born June 26, 1943) is a figure skating coach and former Japanese…
Machiko Kinoshita Yamada (山田 満知子, Yamada Machiko; born June 26, 1943) is a figure skating coach and former Japanese competitive figure skater.
Takayuki Kuwata (桑田 隆幸, Kuwata Takayuki; born June 26, 1941) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan…
Takayuki Kuwata (桑田 隆幸, Kuwata Takayuki; born June 26, 1941) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Jerry Fujio (ジェリー藤尾, Jerī Fujio); 26 June 1940 – 14 August 2021) was a Japanese singer, actor and tarento. Born to a…
Jerry Fujio (ジェリー藤尾, Jerī Fujio); 26 June 1940 – 14 August 2021) was a Japanese singer, actor and tarento. Born to a British mother and Japanese father in Shanghai, in Japanese-occupied China, his real name was Shigeki Fujio (藤尾 薫紀, Fujio Shigeki). Fujio was represented with Office Kiko. He was known for one of his songs "Tōku e Ikitai". Fujio dropped out from Senshi University Keio High School. His daughters were former actresses Miki Fujio and Aki Fujio. Fujio's ex-wife was singer and tarento Tomoko Watanabe. He died in Yokohama of acute pneumonia.
Sumiko Shiratō (白土 澄子, Shiratō Sumiko; June 26, 1935 – November 25, 2015) known professionally as Sumiko Shirakawa (白川…
Sumiko Shiratō (白土 澄子, Shiratō Sumiko; June 26, 1935 – November 25, 2015) known professionally as Sumiko Shirakawa (白川 澄子, Shirakawa Sumiko) was a Japanese actress who specialized in voice acting. She is best known known for her roles as Hiroshi Nakajima in Sazae-san, Hidetoshi Dekisugi in Doraemon, and Ace in Space Ace.
Toru Goto (後藤 暢, Gotō Tōru; born June 26, 1934) is a former freestyle swimmer from Japan, who represented his native…
Toru Goto (後藤 暢, Gotō Tōru; born June 26, 1934) is a former freestyle swimmer from Japan, who represented his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. There he won a silver medal as a member of the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay team, alongside Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Hiroshi Suzuki and Teijiro Tanikawa. Goto was born in Fukuoka.
Yoshiro Nakamatsu (中松 義郎, Nakamatsu Yoshirō; born June 26, 1928), also known as Dr. NakaMats (ドクター中松, Dokutā…
Yoshiro Nakamatsu (中松 義郎, Nakamatsu Yoshirō; born June 26, 1928), also known as Dr. NakaMats (ドクター中松, Dokutā Nakamatsu), is a Japanese inventor. He regularly appears on Japanese talk shows demonstrating his inventions. Nakamatsu is known as a perennial candidate in Japanese politics, having contested elections regularly since the early 1990s.
Sonoko Sugimoto (杉本苑子; June 26, 1925 – May 31, 2017) was a Japanese novelist. She was best known for writing historical…
Sonoko Sugimoto (杉本苑子; June 26, 1925 – May 31, 2017) was a Japanese novelist. She was best known for writing historical fiction.
Toyo Shibata (柴田 トヨ, Shibata Toyo; June 26, 1911 – January 20, 2013) was a bestselling Japanese poet.
Toshikazu Wakatsuki (若月俊一, Wakatsuki Toshikazu; June 26, 1910 – August, 2006) was a Japanese medical doctor. He…
Toshikazu Wakatsuki (若月俊一, Wakatsuki Toshikazu; June 26, 1910 – August, 2006) was a Japanese medical doctor. He received a M.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1936 and a PhD from the same institution in 1947, after imprisonment for anti-war views during World War II. In 1946, Wakatsuki performed Japan's first tubercular spinal caries and also organised its first blood bank. He founded the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine. Wakatsuki was awarded the 1976 Ramon Magsaysay Award for his contributions to rural medicine, as well as the Order of the Rising Sun with Gold and Silver Star in 1981. He died of pneumonia in August 2006, at the age of 96.
Ōtsuki Takeji (Japanese: 大槻武二; 1906–2004) was the founder of the third largest independent Japanese church, known as…
Ōtsuki Takeji (Japanese: 大槻武二; 1906–2004) was the founder of the third largest independent Japanese church, known as the Holy Ecclesia of Jesus (or Sei Iesu Kai, 聖イエス会). Ōtsuki was born in Ayabe City in 1906, and as a young man converted to Christianity while a student at Dōshisha Middle school, a private mission school in Kyoto. Ōtsuki was attracted to the faith through the evangelistic preaching of Kanamori Michinori during the daily chapel program and went on to receive baptism. Dissatisfied with Dōshisha's "liberal and socialistic" form of Christianity, Ōtsuki found his way into the Japan Holiness Church in 1930. Ōtsuki completed his theological training at the Holiness Bible Seminary in Tokyo and engaged in evangelistic work in several locations around Japan before accepting appointment as a missionary to Manchuria in 1936. It was while serving as a Holiness missionary in Manchuria that Ōtsuki had a "direct encounter with the living Christ," life-transforming experience that was to become the foundation of his independent ministry. While praying in preparation for the New Year Convention (the first Seikai 聖会 or revival meeting of the year) and asking God to send him a guiding motto, he was presented with the words of Jesus from there Sermon on the Mount, "Blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God." Ōtsuki explains that his belief in God was beyond question, even though he had never seen God.
Tomoji Abe (阿部 知二, Abe Tomoji; 26 June 1903 – 23 April 1973) was a Japanese novelist, social critic, humanist, and…
Tomoji Abe (阿部 知二, Abe Tomoji; 26 June 1903 – 23 April 1973) was a Japanese novelist, social critic, humanist, and translator of English and American literature. Although he began writing as a modernist, in his later works he represented the intellectual movement in Japanese literature. This movement departed from Japanese traditional thinking and from established forms of narration, which focused on aesthetic values and emotional states of mind (such as appear in the works of Junichiro Tanizaki and Ryunosuke Akutagawa); it also departed from modernist views, which continued to be popular in world literature and in Japan (Japanese modernist writers included Haruo Satō, Sei Ito, Tatsuo Hori, Riichi Yokomitsu and Yasunari Kawabata). Abe's intellectual approach was incompatible with the socio-political atmosphere of Japan in the early Shōwa period (1926–1945), with rising fascism and militarism, and the crusade to preserve Japanese feudal traditions.
Tsubasa Yamaguchi (Japanese: 山口つばさ, Hepburn: Yamaguchi Tsubasa; born June 26) is a Japanese manga artist. After she…
Tsubasa Yamaguchi (Japanese: 山口つばさ, Hepburn: Yamaguchi Tsubasa; born June 26) is a Japanese manga artist. After she graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, she created two one-shots before launching her first full series, a manga adaptation of She and Her Cat. Following its completion, she launched Blue Period.