Who are the other Japanese personalities that are popular nowadays?
The following are other contemporary Japanese personalities that have gained popularity: Tomoya Nagase (Lead singer with pop group Tokio); Junichiro Tanizaki (Nobel Prize winning author); Hanae Mori (Queen of fashion in Japan); Hitomi (Sultry songstress); Yoshio Kodama (Powerful, postwar yakuza Godfather); Fumiya Fujii (’80s boy band member); Masao Sen (Poor man-rich man-poor man); Wakanohana (Controversial big man of sumo); Yuko Arimori (The former marathon queen);Tengu (Mischievous swordsman); Hideki Saijo (Pop legend in the making); Terao (The Tom Jones of Sumo); Mitsugoro Bando X (Kabuki actor Yasosuke Bando); and Shingo Katori (Saucy SMAP bo).