Yōji

Yōji

Yoji Muto, Japanese politician
Pronunciation	joɯdʑi (IPA)
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Japan
Meaning	Depends on the kanji used
Other names
Alternative spelling	Yozi (Kunrei-shiki) Yozi (Nihon-shiki) Yōji, Yoji, Youji (Hepburn)

Yōji, Yoji, Youji, or Yohji is a common masculine Japanese given name

Written forms

Yōji can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 洋二, "ocean, second"
• 洋次, "ocean, next"
• 洋司, "ocean, rule"
• 洋治, "ocean, govern"
• 陽二, "sunshine, second"
• 陽次, "sunshine, next"
• 陽司, "sunshine, rule"
• 陽治, "sunshine, govern"

The name can also be written in hiragana ようじ or katakana ヨウジ.

People with the given name

with the given name Yōji

• Yoji Akao (赤尾 洋二, born 1928), Japanese planning specialist
• Yoji Anjo (安生 洋二, born 1967), Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
• Yoji (DJ), a Japanese trance/hard trance DJ
• Yoji Enokido (榎戸 洋司, born 1963), Japanese screenwriter and voice actor
• Yōji Matsuda (松田 洋治, born 1967), Japanese actor
• Yoji Muto (武藤 容治, born 1955), Japanese politician
• Yoji Sakate (坂手 洋二, born 1962), Japanese playwright
• Yoji Sasaki (佐々木 陽次, born 1992), Japanese footballer
• Yoji Shinkawa (新川 洋司, born 1971), Japanese illustrator and conceptual artist
• Yoji Tanaka (田中 要次, born 1963), Japanese actor
• Yoji Totsuka (戸塚 洋二, 1942–2008), Japanese physicist
• Yoji Ueda (上田 燿司, born 1971), Japanese voice actor
• Yoji Yamada (山田 洋次, born 1931), Japanese film director

Fictional characters

• Yoji Kudou (工藤 耀爾), a character in the anime series Weiß Kreuz
• Yoji Kuramoto (倉元 洋二), a character in Battle Royale
• Yoji/Yo-Yoji (alias, true name unknown), a character from The Secret Series