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Pages in category "Japanese masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,416 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Shin Kanazawa (born 1983), Japanese football player; Shin Kato (加藤 信, 1891–1952), Japanese Go player; Shin Koyamada (真, born 1982), Japanese and American film actor; Shin Kusaka (慎), a Japanese actor; Shin Nakamura (中村 伸, born 1974), Japanese footballer; Shin Ōnuma (心), a Japanese animation and theatre director
Seiji Nemoto (根本 誠次, born 1961), Japanese sport wrestler; Seiji Noma (1878–1938), Japanese writer and publisher; Seiji Ogawa (小川 誠二, born 1934), Japanese biologist; Seiji Oko (大古 誠司, born 1948), Japanese volleyball player; Seiji Ono, Japanese table tennis player; Seiji Osaka (逢坂 誠二, born 1959), Japanese politician
Male names occasionally end with the syllable -ko as in Mako, but very rarely using the kanji 子 (most often, if a male name ends in -ko, it ends in -hiko, using the kanji 彦 meaning "boy"). Common male name endings are -shi and -o; names ending with -shi are often adjectives, e.g., Atsushi, which might mean, for example, "(to be) faithful."
Some non-Japanese, especially American, anime and manga fans use the term to refer to any handsome male character regardless of age, or any homosexual character. [14] In the original Japanese, however, bishōnen applies only to boys under 18. For those older, the word bidanshi (美男子, literally "handsome man") is used.
The jōyō kanji list was introduced, which included seven of the original 92 jinmeiyō kanji from 1951 (mentioned above), plus one of the 28 new jinmeiyō kanji from 1976 (also mentioned above); those eight were thus removed from the jinmeiyō kanji list. 54 other characters were added for a total of 166 name characters.
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Takeshi (タケシ), a character in the Pokémon media franchise, better known as Brock in English; Takeshi, a character in the television series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Takeshi Goda (剛田 武), a character in the manga series Doraemon; Takeshi Honda (本田 武史), a character in the anime series Yuri on Ice, based on the actual ...