Shiota (written: 塩田 or 潮田) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: , Japanese film director and screenwriter , Japanese artist , Japanese footballer , Japanese baseball player , Japanese handball player , Japanese mathematician , Japanese-American landscape architect Fictional characters , a character in the Assassination Classroom anime and manga See also Shiota, Saga, a former town in Saga Prefecture, Japan 6337 Shiota, a main-belt asteroid Japanese-language surnames