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This is a list of notable Japanese people. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Japanese. ... Modern Japan (Imperial ...
Japanese people ( Japanese: 日本人, Hepburn: Nihonjin) are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago. [ 15][ 16] Japanese people constitute 97.5% of the population of the country of Japan. [ 1] Worldwide, approximately 125 million people are of Japanese descent, making them one of the largest ethnic groups.
The Ryukyuan people (also Lewchewan) are an indigenous people native to the Ryukyu Islands. There are different subgroups of the Ryukyuan ethnic group, the Okinawan, Amami, Miyako, Yaeyama and Yonaguni peoples. Their languages comprise the Ryukyuan languages, [ 11] one of the two branches of the Japonic language family (the other being Japanese ...
List of shoguns. List of Japanese spies, 1930–1945. List of spouses of prime ministers of Japan. List of people on the postage stamps of Japan. Japanese students in the United Kingdom. List of Japanese supercentenarians.
Matsuda Yusaku (1949–1989) One of Japan's most important actors. Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) The last Queen of France before the French Revolution. Ōishi Kuranosuke (1659–1703) (karō) of the Akō Domain in Harima Province. Ikariya Chosuke (1931–2004) comedian and film actor. Wright Brothers.
Yukichi Chuganji (中願寺 雄吉; Chūganji Yūkichi, 23 March 1889 – 28 September 2003) was a Japanese silkworm breeder, instructor in the agricultural specialty, bank employee and community welfare officer who lived for 114 years and 189 days. At the time of his death, he was the oldest Japanese man ever and the world's oldest living person.
Kanazawa brothers. US$1.6 billion. Sanyo Bussan. Yokyu, Zenkyu and Shinkyu Kanazawa. 21. Hiroko Takei & family. US$1.6 billion. Takefuji. The late Yasuo Takei 's widow.
The first hypothesis proposes a dual-structure model, in which Japanese populations are descendants of the indigenous Jōmon people and later arrivals of people from the East Eurasian continent, known as the Yayoi people. Japan's indigenous culture originates primarily from the Yayoi people who settled in Japan between 1000 BCE and 300 CE.