| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| President of Nintendo from 1949 to 2002 and one of the wealthiest people in Japan until his death in 2013 | 1927 | Hiroshi Yamauchi | 100%
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| Former footballer and all-time leading goalscorer of the Japanese national team | 1944 | Kunishige Kamamoto | 100%
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| Author, "1Q84" "Norwegian Wood" "Kafka on the Shore" "Men Without Women" | 1949 | Haruki Murakami | 0%
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| Former tennis player, Wimbledon, Australian Open and French Open semifinalist | 1970 | Kimiko Date | 0%
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| Director best known for the anime series "Cowboy Behop" and "Samurai Champloo" | 1965 | Shinichiro Watanabe | 0%
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| Chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2025 | 1951 | Susumu Kitagawa | 0%
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