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The most-searched people from Japan right now, with the latest news on each.

Matsuo Bashō
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Matsuo Bashō

Japanese poet (1644–1694)

Takashi Usami
Sports

Takashi Usami

Japanese association football player

Hiroki Sakai
Sports

Hiroki Sakai

Japanese association football player

Yasuo Fukuda
Politics

Yasuo Fukuda

Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008

Hiroshi Amano
Tech

Hiroshi Amano

Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics

Shōgo Taniguchi
Sports

Shōgo Taniguchi

Japanese association football player

Ryō Miyaichi
Sports

Ryō Miyaichi

Japanese association football player (born 1992)

Mike Havenaar
Sports

Mike Havenaar

Japanese association football player

Junya Itō
Sports

Junya Itō

Japanese association football player (born 1993)

Homare Sawa
Sports

Homare Sawa

Japanese footballer (born 1978)

Hidemasa Morita
Sports

Hidemasa Morita

Japanese association football player

Yukinari Sugawara
Sports

Yukinari Sugawara

Japanese association football player

Sports

Tsuyoshi Watanabe

Japanese association football player

Daiki Hashioka
Sports

Daiki Hashioka

Japanese association football player

Hinata Miyazawa
Sports

Hinata Miyazawa

Japanese association football player

Fūka Nagano
Sports

Fūka Nagano

Japanese association football player

Yūki Sōma
Sports

Yūki Sōma

Japanese association football player

Hitoshi Imamura
Other

Hitoshi Imamura

Hitoshi Imamura was a Japanese general who served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, and was subsequently convicted of war crimes. Finding his punishment to be too light, Imamura built a replica of his prison in his garden and confined himself there until his death.

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Atsuto Uchida
Sports

Atsuto Uchida

Japanese association football player

Eiji Kawashima
Sports

Eiji Kawashima

Japanese footballer (born 1983)

Hiroshi Kiyotake
Sports

Hiroshi Kiyotake

Japanese association football player

Yoshinori Muto
Sports

Yoshinori Muto

Japanese association football player

Gaku Shibasaki
Sports

Gaku Shibasaki

Japanese association football player

Gōtoku Sakai
Sports

Gōtoku Sakai

Japanese association football player