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Hint		Answer	% Correct
Emperor of Japan from 1989 until his abdication in 2019	1933	Akihito	75%
Director, "Seven Samurai" "Rashomon" "Ikiru"	1910	Akira Kurosawa	75%
Prime Minister of Japan since 2021	1957	Fumio Kishida	75%
Director and animator, "Tales from Earthsea" "From Up on Poppy Hill" "Earwig and The Witch"	1967	Goro Miyazaki	75%
Director, animator, manga artist and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, "My Neighbor Totoro" "Spirited Away" "Princess Mononoke" "Howl's Moving Castle"	1941	Hayao Miyazaki	75%
Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989, he was the head of state during Japan's imperial expansion and involvement in World War II	1901	Hirohito	75%
Writer, "The Woman in the Dunes"	1924	Kobo Abe	75%
Emperor of Japan since 2019	1960	Naruhito	75%
British-American actress, "Gone with the Wind" "The Adventures of Robin Hood" "The Heiress"	1916	Olivia de Havilland	75%
Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020, he was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history. During a campaign speech in 2022 he was assassinated	1954	Shinzo Abe	75%
Racing driver, two time winner of the Indy 500 and first Asian driver to win this event	1977	Takuma Sato	75%
Artist, peace activist and wife of John Lennon from 1969 until his death in 1980	1933	Yoko Ono	75%
Footballer who plays for Vissel Kobe and the Japanese national team (former Newcastle and Mainz player)	1992	Yoshinori Muto	75%
Princess and only child of the Emperor and the Empress	2001	Aiko	50%
Author of children's literature, "Kiki's Delivery Service"	1935	Eiko Kadono	50%
Brother of the current Emperor and Crown Prince of Japan	1965	Fumihito	50%
Theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate	1907	Hideki Yukawa	50%
Pioneer of Japanese rocketry, known as "Dr. Rocket"	1912	Hideo Itokawa	50%
Director, "Shoplifters" "Like Father, Like Son" "Broker"	1962	Hirokazu Kore-eda	50%
Author, "All You Need Is Kill" "Modern Magic Made Simple"	1970	Hiroshi Sakurazaka	50%
British-American actress, "Rebecca" "Suspicion" "The Constant Nymph"	1917	Joan Fontaine	50%
Manga artist who is best known as the author of "Yu-Gi-Oh!"	1961	Kazuki Takahashi	50%
Director, "Ugetsu" "The Life of Oharu" "Sansho the Bailiff"	1898	Kenji Mizoguchi	50%
Former CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, "The Father of the PlayStation"	1950	Ken Kutaragi	50%
Norwegian actress and director known as the muse and frequent partner of Ingmar Bergman	1938	Liv Ullmann	50%
Former member of the Japanese imperial family and eldest child of the Crown Prince, as result of her marriage to a commoner, she gave up her imperial title	1991	Mako Komuro	50%
Empress consort of Japan since 2019	1963	Masako	50%
Lead architect of the development of the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super NES	1943	Masayuki Uemura	50%
Empress consort of Japan from 1989 to 2019	1934	Michiko	50%
Prime Minister of Japan from 1993 to 1994	1938	Morihiro Hosokawa	50%
Author, "Kokoro" "I Am a Cat" "Botchan"	1867	Natsume Soseki	50%
Composer of scores of films and games, "The Last Emperor" "The Revenant" "Babel"	1952	Ryuichi Sakamoto	50%
Sister of the current Emperor of Japan, she gave up her imperial title as a result of her marriage in 2005	1969	Sayako Kuroda	50%
Former figure skater, 2006 Olympic champion and 2004 World champion	1981	Shizuka Arakawa	50%
Contemporary artist, his work "My Lonesome Cowboy" sold for $15,2 million in 2008	1962	Takashi Murakami	50%
Host of "Takeshi's Castle" and director of films like "Hana-bi" or "Outrage Coda"	1947	Takeshi Kitano	50%
First Japanese astronaut to fly in space and first journalist to report from outer space	1942	Toyohiro Akiyama	50%
Director, "Tokyo Story" "An Autumn Afternoon" "Late Spring"	1903	Yasujiro Ozu	50%
Japanese-American physicist who received the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics	1921	Yoichiro Nambu	50%
Prime Minister of Japan from 2009 to 2010	1947	Yukio Hatoyama	50%
Author and founder of the Tatenokai, a nationalist militia, "Confesions of a Mask" "The Temple of the Golden Pavillion"	1925	Yukio Mishima	50%
Skateboarder and first person ever to win a gold medal in skateboarding at the Olympics	1999	Yuto Horigome	50%
Writer and pioneer of feminism in Japan	1886	Hiratsuka Raicho	25%