Category
page 120th-century Japanese male writers
Akira Kurosawa
Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)
Hayao Miyazaki
Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (born 1941)
Kōbō Abe
Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor
Osamu Dazai
Japanese author
Shūsaku Endō
author from Japan (1923–1996)

Nitobe Inazō
Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
Kafū Nagai
Japanese writer (1879−1959)
Eiji Tsuburaya
Japanese film director (1901-1970)
Yasushi Inoue
Japanese writer (1907–1991)
Atsushi Nakajima
Japanese writer (1909–1942)
Masamune Shirow
Japanese manga artist
Tōson Shimazaki
Japanese writer (1872–1943)
Donald Keene
Japanese/American academic (1922–2019)
Shūji Terayama
Japanese playwright, writer (1935-1983)
Naoya Shiga
Japanese writer (1883–1971)
Doppo Kunikida
Japanese writer and journalist (1871–1908)
Toyohiko Kagawa
Japanese Christian social reformer (1888–1960)
Sion Sono
Japanese filmmaker, author and poet
Sakutarō Hagiwara
Japanese writer (1886–1942)
Masuji Ibuse
Japanese author (1898–1993)
Shinichi Hoshi
Japanese artist and writer (1926-1997)
George Ohsawa
twentieth century Japanese philosopher (1893–1966)
Akiyuki Nosaka
Japanese novelist, singer and politician (1930-2015)
Nagaru Tanigawa
Japanese author
Tekkan Yosano
Japanese writer (1873–1935)
Tatsuo Hori
writer, poet, and translator in Japan (1904–1953)
Ton Satomi
Japanese author (1888–1983)
Riichi Yokomitsu
Japanese writer (1898-1947)
Seiichi Morimura
Japanese novelist and author (1933–2023)
Kyoshi Takahama
Japanese writer (1874–1959)
Tamiki Hara
Japanese writer
Yoshii Isamu
Japanese writer (1886–1960)
Jirō Asada
Japanese writer
Santōka Taneda
Japanese poet (1882–1940)
Junnosuke Yoshiyuki
Japanese writer (1924-1994)
Jirō Akagawa
Japanese novelist
Hideo Kobayashi
Japanese writer (1902–1983)
Yumeno Kyūsaku
Japanese writer (1889–1936)
Rofū Miki
Japanese poet and writer (1889-1964)
Takashi Yanase
Japanese manga artist (1919–2013)

Jun Ishikawa
Japanese writer (1899-1987)
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
Japanese novelist, translator, literary critic, art critic (1928–1987)
Shōtarō Yasuoka
Japanese author, novelist (1920–2013)
Ikuma Arishima
Japanese artist (1882-1974)
Mitsuo Aida
Japanese poet and calligrapher (1924–1991)
Haruhiko Yamanouchi
Japanese-Italian actor (born 1946)
Hidemi Kon
Japanese writer
Matsutarō Kawaguchi
Japanese writer and film producer
Kazuaki Takano
Japanese writer
Debito Arudou
author/activist with Japanese citizenship born in the USA

Roh Ogura
Japanese composer (1916-1990)
Chōgorō Kaionji
Japanese writer (1901-1977)
Ozaki Hōsai
Japanese poet (1885-1926)
Yutaka Haniya
Japanese writer (1909–1997)
Yukito Ayatsuji
Japanese writer of mystery and horror
Honobu Yonezawa
Japanese writer
Mantarō Kubota
Japanese writer (1889–1963)
Yōjirō Ishizaka
Japanese writer (1900–1986)
Dakotsu Iida
Japanese poet (1885-1962)
Chin Shunshin
Taiwanese-Japanese novelist, translator and cultural critic