Japan's Pride

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Results of Oricon's survey (respondents: 2,000) on celebrities that Japanese can be proud of (Source: Tokyo Graph).

Male category:
1. Ichiro Suzuki (baseball player)
2. Ken Watanabe (actor)
3. Takeshi Kitano (actor/ director)
4. Takuya Kimura (actor/ SUPER JAPANESE HOTTIE)
5. Hideki Matsui (baseball player)
6. Shunsuke Nakamura (soccer player)
7. Hidetoshi Nakata (former football player)
8. Hayao Miyazaki (director)
9. Kazunari Ninomiya (actor/ singer/ ARASHI MEMBER)
10. Akira Kurosawa (director)

In the female category, I only know three: Rinko Kikuchi (tied for first place with Sayuri Yoshinaga), Hikaru Utada and Ayumi Hamasaki.