Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Biography task force

The Biography task force is a task force of WikiProject Japan aimed at increasing the number and improving the quality of Wikipedia articles related to real people in Japan, making sure that articles on living people comply with WP:BLP.

Style guidelines
Please read these guidelines, and discuss any changes or objections on the talk page.

How can I help?
If you have some knowledge of or interest in the people of Japan, a desire to contribute, and a flair for quality, then by all means help us out. We especially need help sourcing information in biographies of living people (see the list below.)

Template
You can add   to the top of the Talk page of articles that are related to this project. This will place the following at the top of the page:

Current participants
Please keep the list alphabetical by username.
 * (emeritus as he has passed away)

Unreferenced BLPs
Please place ✅ tick by any which have been referenced, and cross by any for which you can not find references.

Once an entry is marked with a ✅, please remove the  Name  as well. Leave it if you mark the entry with the as others may be able to find sources for the subject.

Dec 2006

 * 1) ✅Alfred Birnbaum
 * 2) ✅Chisato Moritaka
 * 3) Hideyuki Ono  (currently userfied at User:AeronPeryton/Articles/Hideyuki Ono)
 * 4) ✅Hiroshi Kaneda
 * 5) Hiroshi Takeyasu  (currently at Articles for deletion/Hiroshi Takeyasu)
 * 6) Hiroyuki Togo  (currently userfied at User:AeronPeryton/Articles/Hiroyuki Togo)
 * 7) Kazuhiro Senoo
 * 8) Mutsuhiko Izumi  (currently userfied at User:AeronPeryton/Articles/Mutsuhiko Izumi)
 * 9) Osamu Migitera
 * 10) Reo Nagumo  (currently userfied at User:AeronPeryton/Articles/Reo Nagumo)
 * 11) Seiya Murai  (currently userfied at User:AeronPeryton/Articles/Seiya Murai)
 * 12) Toshiyuki Kakuta

2009
Due to the large number of unreferenced BLPs, please click here for 2009.

Jan 2010

 * 1) Atsuki Murata
 * 2) Ayaka Noda
 * 3) Ayaka Sayama
 * 4) Chisato Mishima
 * 5) Fusako Shigenobu
 * 6) Futoshi Uehara
 * 7) Hiroshi Gamō
 * 8) Inio Asano
 * 9) Isuna Hasekura
 * 10) Jane Yamamoto
 * 11) Jun Mizusawa
 * 12) Kaoru Fujimoto
 * 13) Kazuko Tadano
 * 14) Kazuyoshi Ishii
 * 15) Kazuyuki Fujita
 * 16) Ken Kadokura
 * 17) Ken Shiroyama
 * 18) Kenzo Ohashi
 * 19) Koji Sasaki
 * 20) Masa Yamaguchi
 * 21) Masami Hisamoto
 * 22) Masanobu Izumi
 * 23) Masashi Hirose
 * 24) Masatoshi Ito
 * 25) Mayu
 * 26) Miyuki Matsuda
 * 27) Musashi Mizushima
 * 28) Ruka Hirohata
 * 29) Saburo Shinosaki
 * 30) Sakura Satō
 * 31) Satoshi Yamamoto
 * 32) Satoshi Yoneyama
 * 33) Shigeo Mito
 * 34) Shigeru Kan-no
 * 35) Shigeru Omi
 * 36) Shōji Kojima
 * 37) Takamasa Anai
 * 38) Takashi Nakakura
 * 39) Takeshi Endō
 * 40) Taku Yamasaki
 * 41) Teppei Fukushima
 * 42) Yoshie Ueno
 * 43) Yoshio Nishi
 * 44) Yozo Aoki
 * 45) Yuji Tanaka
 * 46) Yuka Murayama

Feb 2010

 * 1) Akinori Nakagawa
 * 2) Atsushi Sakahara
 * 3) Aya Hirayama
 * 4) Erina Yamaguchi
 * 5) Hitomi Manaka
 * 6) Kohei Kamikawa
 * 7) Kojiro Shiraishi
 * 8) Kumiko Hayakawa
 * 9) Manami Watanabe
 * 10) Meimu
 * 11) Noriyoshi Ohba
 * 12) Ryoei Saito
 * 13) Ryūichi Hiroki
 * 14) Ryūshi Yanagisawa
 * 15) Tadamitsu Kishimoto
 * 16) Tadashi Wakabayashi
 * 17) Takeshi Tsuruno
 * 18) Ugetsu Hakua
 * 19) Yasuhiko Fukuda
 * 20) Yoshikazu Suo
 * 21) Youhei Shimizu
 * 22) Yukihiro (musician)

Others needing help

 * Watari Kakei 掛井亘 (at Articles for deletion/Watari Kakei)
 * Tetsuyasu Mitani 三谷哲康 (at Articles for deletion/Tetsuyasu Mitani)
 * Masanori Matsuyama 松山正則 (at Articles for deletion/Masanori Matsuyama)
 * ✅ Kiichiro Hurukawa
 * ✅ Kesao Takamizawa