A list of video game designers and creators from Japan.
- Eiji Aonuma
- Buster
- Charon
- Deep-Sea Prisoner
- Tetsuo Hara (designer for Saturday Night Slam Masters)
- Katsuhiro Harada
- Yuji Horii
- Ikiki
- Keiji Inafune
- Daisuke Ishiwatari
- Shigesato Itoi
- Satoru Iwata
- Hideki Kamiya
- Hiroki Kikuta
- Kazutaka Kodaka
- Yoshiaki Koizumi
- Hideo Kojima
- Shiro Maekawa
- Hiroshi Matsumoto
- Yasumi Matsuno
- Hiroshi Matsuyama
- Shinji Mikami
- Miwashiba
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Hidetaka Miyazaki
- Range Murata
- Toshihiro Nagoshi
- Yuji Naka
- Takashi Nishiyama
- Tetsuya Nomura (director of the Kingdom Hearts series and character designer for the Final Fantasy series)
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- ON (creator of Grow)
- ONEONE1
- Ryukishi07
- Yoshio Sakamoto
- Masahiro Sakurai
- Osamu Sato
- Segawa
- Studio Pixel
- Suda51
- Swery65
- Satoshi Tajiri
- Shu Takumi
- Takashi Tezuka
- Akira Toriyama (character designer of Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, Blue Dragon, and the Dragon Ball games)
- Kotaro Uchikoshi
- Umami Mazu
- Uri
- Nobuhiro Watsuki
- Yoko Taro
- Gunpei Yokoi
- Naoki Yoshida
