Birth country
Japan
87 award-winning recipients with a recorded birthplace in this country.
- Shinya Yamanaka
- Yasutomi Nishizuka
- Yoshinori Ohsumi
- Akira Endo
- Kazutoshi Mori
- Yoichiro Nambu
- Shimon Sakaguchi
- Susumu Tonegawa
- Isamu Akasaki
- Shizuo Akira
- Leo Esaki
- Toshio Hirano
- Tasuku Honjo
- Kimishige Ishizaka
- Kiyoshi Itō
- Takaaki Kajita
- Masaki Kashiwara
- Tadamitsu Kishimoto
- Kunihiko Kodaira
- Masatoshi Koshiba
- Syukuro Manabe
- Yoshio Masui
- Shuji Nakamura
- Ryōji Noyori
- Seiji Ogawa
- Masatoshi Takeichi
- Akira Yoshino
- Hirotsugu Akaike
- Hiroshi Amano
- Shun-ichi Amari
- Isao Arita
- Akira Fujishima
- Makoto Fujita
- Kenji Fukaya
- Kenichi Fukui
- Kazuo Hagimoto
- Hidesaburo Hanafusa
- Kunihiro Hattori
- Chūshirō Hayashi
- Izuo Hayashi
- Heisuke Hironaka
- Kenichi Honda
- Hideo Hosono
- Tomoyuki Igawa
- Hiroo Inokuchi
- Teruko Ishizaka
- Masao Ito
- Shun-ichi Iwasaki
- Takeo Kanade
- Hiroo Kanamori
- Hidetoshi Katori
- Susumu Kitagawa
- Takehisa Kitazawa
- Makoto Kobayashi
- Toyoki Kunitake
- Toshihide Maskawa
- Takashi Mimura
- Tsutomu Miyasaka
- Takurō Mochizuki
- Shigefumi Mori
- Makoto Nagao
- Masataka Nakazawa
- Masatoshi Nei
- Kōichirō Nishikawa
- Ken'ichi Nomoto
- Tomoko Ohta
- Yoshio Okamoto
- Satoshi Ōmura
- Masato Sagawa
- Mikio Sato
- Masatoshi Shima
- Osamu Shimomura
- Hideki Shirakawa
- Kenso Soai
- Yasuharu Suematsu
- Hiroaki Suga
- Takashi Sugimura
- Akira Suzuki
- Atsuto Suzuki
- Yōichirō Suzuki
- Yutaka Takahasi
- Koichi Tanaka
- Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
- Ryuzo Yanagimachi
- Masashi Yanagisawa
- Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
- Hideki Yukawa