Nara
Nara is the capital of Japan's Nara Prefecture, in south-central Honshu. The city has significant temples and artwork dating to the 8th century, when it was Japan's capital. Deer roam in Nara Park, site of Tōdai-ji temple. Daibutsu, Tōdai-ji's 15m-high bronze Buddha, is displayed in a large wooden hall. On the park's east side is the Shinto shrine Kasuga Taisha, which dates to 768 A. D. and more than 3,000 lanterns.
People born in Nara (First 49 people) - Page 6
Kaori Fukushima
Japanese journalist
Kazumi Inamura
Mayor of Amagasaki
Kōji Kinutani
Artist
Keishi Saeki
Economist
Masako Usui
Newscaster
Maiko Kozuka
Japanese tarento
Ryōta Murata
Japanese boxer
Sayaka Kojima
Announcer
Shintarō Saitō
Professional shogi player
Shu Sasaki
Japanese football player
Naoki Matsuyo
Former football player
Takashi Kikutani
Japanese rugby union player
Tokushōryū Makoto
Japanese rikishi
Takeshi Takigawa
Japanese announcer
Motoko Katakura
Japanese anthropologist
Hidenori Okamura
Japanese archaeologist
Norio Nakada
Japanese teacher
Akihiko Okamoto
Movie producer
Sakie Akiyama
Japanese executive
Shigeki Kobayashi
Former Member of the House of Representatives of Japan
Masahiko Mori
President of DMG Mori Seiki Co.
Yoshishige Shimatani
President of Toho
Hisaya Iwasa
Director
Masato Ishida
Former football player
Yumi Fukuda
Actress
Takenori Hayashi
Former football player
Tōru Asō
Internet personality
Yoshitaka Azuma
Musical composer
Noto-naishinnō
Emperor of Japan
Sergei Shcherbatov
Painter
Princess Tōchi
Member of the Imperial House of Japan ‧ Kōbun's wife
Madoka Ichikawa
Tarento
Atsuo Okunaka
Japanese movie director
Yuichi Shoda
Psychologist
Ikko Tanaka
Japanese graphic designer
Yugo Nakamura
Japanese designer
Aki Onda
Musical artist
Naomichi Nishiura
Professional baseball player
Taiji Nakamura
Japanese lyricist
Harumichi Tatekawa
Japanese rugby union player
Hiroki Ono
Japanese motorcycle racer
Kyôko Yanagihara
Actress
Atsushi Ueda
Film director
Yoshiko Sai
Singer
Shiro Takatani
Japanese artist
Yu Nakamura
Japanese singer
Masatoshi Okada
Baseball player
