page_title: 1972 in Japan
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1972 in Japan / Births
caption_attribution_description: English: Yūko Miyamura speaking at an event in Phoenix, Arizona.
context_page_description: Events in the year 1972 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 47 in the Japanese calendar.
context_section_description: January 7 – Tamakasuga Ryōji, sumo wrestler
  January 8 – Ryō Tamura, comedian
  January 13
  Yukiko Iwai, voice actress
  Akinori Otsuka, baseball pitcher
  January 17 – Ken Hirai, singer-songwriter
  January 22 - Romi Park, voice actress
  January 24 – Junko Kubo, announcer and presenter
  January 28 – Tsuyoshi Shinjo, baseball player
  January 29 – Masaru Hamaguchi, comedian
  February 2 – Hisashi Tonomura, musician
  February 5 – Koriki Chōshū, comedian
  February 7 – Akiko Suwanai, violinist
  February 8 – Hiroshi Tsuchida, actor and voice actor
  February 17 - Yuki Isoya, singer
  March 10 - Takashi Fujii (Matthew Minami), television performer
  March 29 - Junichi Suwabe, voice actor
  April 5 - Junko Takeuchi, voice actress
  April 30 - Takako Tokiwa, voice actress
  May 6 - Naoko Takahashi, long-distance runner
  May 21 - Kaoru Fujino, voice actress
  May 30 - Sōichirō Hoshi, voice actor
  July 1 – Tetsu Inada, voice actor
  July 5 - Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Zainichi-Korean wrestler
  July 14 - Masami Suzuki, voice actress
  July 27
  Takako Fuji, actress
  Takashi Shimizu, director
  August 14 - Takako Honda, voice actress
  August 20 - Anna Umemiya, model
  September 8 - Tomokazu Seki, voice actor
  September 10 - Rio Tahara, snowboarder
  September 20 – Sawa Suzuki, actress
  September 29 – Taizo Son, entrepreneur and investor
  October 9 - Kōki Miyata, voice actor
  October 19 - Sayaka Aoki, voice actress
  October 21 - Masakazu Morita, voice actor
  October 29 - Takafumi Horie, entrepreneur
  November 1 - Naoki Yanagi, voice actor
  November 9 - Naomi Shindou, voice actor
  November 13 - Takuya Kimura, member of SMAP and actor
  December 3 - Saki Takaoka, actress
  December 4 - Yūko Miyamura, voice actress and singer
  December 12 - Arihito Muramatsu, baseball player
  December 13 - Jun Itoda, comedian
  December 14 - Kiriko Nananan, manga artist
  December 18 - Shinji Takeda, actor
  December 19 - Hideki Niwa, politician
  December 20 - Takeshi Rikio, professional wrestler
  December 22 - Takayuki Yokoyama, football player
  December 28 - Shinobu Terajima, actress
caption: Yūko Miyamura
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