Database of names of Japanese and non-Japanese people

Question

I'd like to be able to determine if a person's name is likely to be a Japanese name, or likely to be a non-Japanese name.

Unless someone's compiled an exhaustive list of Japanese, and non-Japanese names, I suspect a good approach is to find a database that has a large list of Japanese people, and look at the frequency of names in it, and do the same with a database containing non-Japanese people.

The databases should contain female as well as male names, and should be in the English alphabet (romaji) or have kana spellings.

Is there any such data available?

I'd previously asked a similar question on Stack Overflow:
Determine whether a romanized name is Japanese or not, preferably in Ruby

Answer 1

Finally, Wikipedia and its sometimes tragical affection to compiling lists on everything and anything becomes handy:

• List of most common surnames in Asia#Japan (Wikipedia). Every continent and major country seems to contain a pretty extensive list, sometimes even with estimates on number of occurrences.
• Category:given names by culture looks pretty extensive: male, female and neutral names cover over 1,000 articles. If they are still incomplete, looking for categories of famous Japanese persons might be complementary.

Answer 2

An exhaustive list of non-Japanese names would be an unwieldy thing! @ojdo's answer seems like a great start for the positive matches. For the United States, the best source for last names is probably the US Census Bureau, who, from their genealogy section, have a few kinds of name data:

• 2010 and 2000: Excel file of 1000 most common surnames and ZIP with Excel and CSV of all surnames occurring more than 100 times. For both files, there are ranks, counts, and data about the racial distribution for the name.
• 1990: Text files of proportion of surnames, male first names and female first names from a sample of survey responses. No race data, no absolute counts.