Deletion of List of Japanese people

Comment: Our users are in need of sourced, annotated information about notable Japanese individuals as contained in this article. Improve, don't delete, if you have our users in mind. There is no reason in WP's guidelines that calls for us to hamper our users' research by entirely blanking this article. As seen by the many similar deletions over the past months, this delete proposal seems to have been made solely to prove a , and the case that our users should not be permitted to have a well sourced, annotated list of individuals of this notable group has not been convincingly made. Neither has the case been made that a category "does the same job," as a category is clearly not sourced and properly annotated, organized by occupation and date of birth and death, etc. If editors within the community of editors active in Japan-related article (who work together at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan decide that they wish to split this article into sub-articles, then we should let them make this decision, via consensus of editors knowledgeable in this subject
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT)