page_title: 1976 in Japan
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1976 in Japan / Births
caption_attribution_description: English: Mieko Kawakami in 2014, giving a lecture in Tokyo.
context_page_description: Events in the year 1976 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 51 in the Japanese calendar.
context_section_description: January 4 – Shiro Amano, manga artist/writer
  January 5 – Shintarō Asanuma, voice actor
  January 12 – Miki Nakatani, actress
  January 28 – Emiko Kado, professional wrestler (d. 1999)
  February 14 – Juju, jazz singer
  February 16 – Kyo, rock musician
  February 27 – Yukari Tamura, voice actress and songwriter
  March 22 – Asako Toki,  singer and songwriter
  March 29 – Daisuke Namikawa, voice actor
  March 30 – Ayako Kawasumi, voice actress
  April 10 – Yoshino Kimura, actress
  April 17 – Taishi Mori, manga artist
  May 4 – Anza, singer and actress
  June 11 – Gran Naniwa, professional wrestler
  June 29 – Haruka Igawa, actress
  July 4 – Daijiro Kato, motorcycle racer
  August 29 – Mieko Kawakami, singer and writer
  September 20 – Yui Horie, voice actress
  October 19 – Ryuji Imada, golfer
  November 19 – Jun Shibata, singer and songwriter
  December 18 – Koyuki, actress
caption: Mieko Kawakami
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