Born in Yamagata Prefecture

Yamagata Prefecture

Prefecture of Japan

Yamagata Prefecture as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. Japanese badminton player, Japanese association football player and manager, Japanese model and AV idol): Yu Igarashi, Norio Sasaki, Rin Aoki and some more.

Celebrities from Yamagata Prefecture

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Yu Igarashi

Japanese badminton player

*May 15th, 1995

65

Norio Sasaki

Japanese association football player and manager

*May 24th, 1958

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Rin Aoki

Japanese model and AV idol

*February 28th, 1985

35

Yuto Suzuki

Japanese voice actor

*May 5th, 1989

58

Yoshihiro Togashi

Japanese manga artist

*April 27th, 1966

44

Aya Endō

Japanese voice actress

*February 17th, 1980

54

Masahiko Amakasu

Officer/Imperial Japanese army (1891-1945)

*January 26th, 1891 †August 20th, 1945, Changchun

48

Shigematsu Sakaibara

Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Japanese garrison commander on Wake Island during World War II

*December 28th, 1898 †June 18th, 1947, Guam

59

Toshiharu Ikeda

Film director and screenwriter

*February 23rd, 1951 †December 26th, 2010

70

Kiyoshi Hayasaka

Japanese cross-country skier

*February 4th, 1954

47

Chihiro Suzuki

Japanese voice actor

*February 17th, 1977

61

Hirofumi Ishigaki

Japanese actor

*February 20th, 1963

44

Takeshi Saito

Japanese association football player (born 1979)

*June 1st, 1979

87

Tōru Murakawa

Film director

*March 1st, 1937

75

Kunio Shibata

Japanese cross-country skier

*June 15th, 1948

55

Katsumi Suzuki

Japanese association football player

*April 21st, 1969

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Hiroko Suzuki

Japanese voice actress

*February 10th, 1944

45

Megu Ashiro

Japanese voice actress

*August 10th, 1978

49

Junji Sato

Japanese association football player

*February 4th, 1975

Birthdays of famous people