Inventors from Japan
48 inventors
- Aikitsu TanakadateBorn: October 16, 1856Occupation: geophysicist
- Atsunari SuganoBorn: June 4, 1962Occupation: social entrepreneur
- Haruaki TazakiBorn: 1959Occupation: physicist
- Hideki IshimaBorn: March 21, 1944Occupation: composer
- Hidetsugu YagiBorn: January 28, 1886Occupation: electrical engineer
- Hiroaki OtaBorn: 1949Occupation: psychiatrist
- Ikuo TakeuchiBorn: 1946Occupation: computer scientist
- JōeBorn: 643Occupation: Buddhist monk
- Kashiwa ŌyamaBorn: June 2, 1889Occupation: historian
- Katsuhiko SatōBorn: August 30, 1945Occupation: physicist
- Kazuo YamagishiBorn: April 28, 1934Occupation: ramen chef
- Kenzo SuzukiBorn: 1950Occupation: amateur astronomer
- Kesao TakamizawaBorn: 1952Occupation: astronomer
- Kōyō KawanishiBorn: January 18, 1959Occupation: amateur astronomer
- Masanori HirasawaBorn: 1956Occupation: astronomer
- Masaru AraiBorn: 1952Occupation: astronomer
- Masaru MukaiBorn: 1949Occupation: astronomer
- Mikami SanjiBorn: October 29, 1865Occupation: historian
- Miyoshi ManabuBorn: January 4, 1862Occupation: lichenologist
- Morito ŌmiyaBorn: 1919Occupation: ramen chef
- Motohide TamuraBorn: 1959Occupation: astronomer
- Naoto SatōBorn: 1953Occupation: amateur astronomer
- Nenozō UtsurikawaBorn: November 16, 1884Occupation: anthropologist
- Noritaka TsunetōBorn: February 11, 1857Occupation: geologist
- Sakae SuzukaBorn: October 17, 1888Died: September 1957
- Sakuhei FujiwharaBorn: October 29, 1884Occupation: meteorologist
- Sanpei UedaBorn: March 15, 1881Occupation: archaeologist
- Sen'ei IkenobōBorn: July 21, 1933Occupation: kadōka
- Shinzō AbeBorn: September 21, 1954Occupation: politician
- Shohei SuzukiBorn: 2000Occupation: astronomer
- Shuroku KuroiwaBorn: November 20, 1862Occupation: journalist
- ShōdōBorn: May 21, 735Occupation: Buddhist monk
- Shōzō ArisakaBorn: February 4, 1868Occupation: businessperson
- Shūretsu MiyashitaBorn: December 15, 1909Occupation: composer
- Takanobu UshiyamaBorn: January 14, 1967Occupation: office worker
- Takeichi MasamuraBorn: September 5, 1906Occupation: businessperson
- Tamotsu AriyoshiBorn: August 1927Occupation: literary scholar
- Toshiko OkamotoBorn: 1926Died: April 20, 2005
- Toshiro NomuraBorn: 1954Occupation: astronomer
- Tsuboi ShōgorōBorn: February 22, 1863Occupation: biological anthropologist
- Tsuruhiko KiuchiBorn: June 4, 1954Occupation: amateur astronomer
- Yasube KimuraBorn: August 2, 1817Occupation: baker
- Yasuhiko ShōgakiBorn: January 6, 1946Occupation: businessperson
- Yoshiaki OshimaBorn: November 23, 1952Occupation: amateur astronomer
- Yoshiaki ShiraishiBorn: November 22, 1913Occupation: businessperson
- Yoshikazu KurokiBorn: 1937Occupation: geneticist
- Yukio HatoyamaBorn: February 11, 1947Occupation: university teacher
- Ōguchi ShūgyoBorn: May 12, 1864Occupation: waka poet