, often known simply as Tomita, was a Japanese composer, regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic music and space music, and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements.

, sometimes credited as Kō Kimura, was a Japanese stage and film actor who appeared in more than one hundred films of directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Mikio Naruse, Tadashi Imai and Yoshishige Yoshida.

(May 19, 1926 – March 16, 2001) was a Japanese businessman and the former chairman of Sega.

is a Korean former Nippon Professional Baseball player and holder of the record for most hits in the Japanese professional leagues.