Yōji

Yōji or Yoji (ようじ, ヨウジ^?) is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Possible writings

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 or katakana.

People

with the given name Yōji

• Yoji Akao (洋二, born 1928), Japanese planning specialist
• Yoji Anjo (洋二, born 1967), Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
• Yoji (DJ), a Japanese trance/hard trance DJ
• Yōji Enokido (洋司, born 1963), Japanese screenwriter
• Yoji Harada (洋二郎, born 1973), Japanese tattoo artist
• Yoji Kondo, astrophysicist
• Yōji Matsuda (born 1967), voice actor
• Yoji Muto (容治, born 1955), Japanese politician
• Yoji Shinkawa (洋司, born 1971), Japanese illustrator and conceptual artist
• Yoji Totsuka (洋二, 1942–2008), Japanese physicist
• Yōji Ueda (燿司, born 1971), Japanese voice actor
• Yoji Yamada (洋次, born 1931), Japanese film director
• Yoji Ito (1901–1950), engineer and scientist
• Yoji Mizuguchi (born 1944), Japanese football player and manager
• Yōji Kuri (born 1928), Japanese cartoonist and independent filmmaker

Characters

• Yoji Kudou (耀爾), a character in the anime series Weiß Kreuz
• Yoji Kuramoto (洋二), a character in Battle Royale