page_title: 1949 in Japan
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1949 in Japan / Births
caption_attribution_description: English: Japanese writer Haruki Murakami giving a lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005.
context_page_description: Events in the year 1949 in Japan.
context_section_description: January 12: Haruki Murakami, author
  January 15: Rumi Tama, film director, actress, and screenwriter
  January 24: Rihoko Yoshida, voice actress
  January 28: Masachika Ichimura, voice actor and musical singer
  February 2: Yasuko Namba, mountaineer, summited the Seven Summits (d. 1996)
  March 3: Hiroshi Kajikawa, archer
  March 23: Aruno Tahara, voice actor
  April 26: Morio Kazama, actor
  April 26: Issei Sagawa, murderer
  May 9: Kenji Shimaoka, volleyball player
  May 11: Terumi Niki, actress
  May 12: Moto Hagio, manga artist
  June 5: Guts Ishimatsu, boxer
  June 20: Arase Nagahide, sumo wrestler (d. 2008)
  June 27: Norio Nagayama, spree killer (d. 1997)
  July 14: Toyokazu Nomura, judoka
  August 18: Takeshi Shudo, scriptwriter (d. 2010)
  September 19: Sayoko Yamaguchi, model and actress (d. 2007)
  September 20: Yutaka Higuchi, figure skater
  September 21: Yūsaku Matsuda, actor (d. 1989)
  October 5: Takajin Yashiki, singer and television celebrity
  October 7: Yuji Katsuro, Nordic combined skier
  October 21: Masao Ohba, boxer (d. 1973)
  November 17: Yoshito Yasuhara, actor and voice actor
  November 21: Kazumasa Hirai, weightlifter
  November 28: Kyoko Mizuki, author and manga artist
  December 2: Shūichi Ikeda, voice actor
  December 16: Kensaku Morita, actor, singer and governor of Chiba Prefecture
  December 20: Takao Okawara, film director, writer and producer
  December 28: Kaoru Kitamura, writer
caption: Haruki Murakami
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