Kōichi, Koichi, Kouichi or Kohichi is a masculine

Japanese given name in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name, in that order. Nevertheless, when a Japanese name is written in the Roman alphabet, ever since the Meiji era, the official policy has been to cater to Western expecta ...

Possible writings

Kōichi can be written using different

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...

characters and can mean: *晃一, "clear, one" *幸一, "happiness, one" *光一, "light, one" *孝一, "filial piety, one" *弘一, "vast, one" *浩一, "abundance, one" *宏一, "wide, one" *耕一, "cultivate, one" *孝市, "filial piety, market" The name can also be written in

hiragana is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrast ...

(こういち) or

katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ...

(コウイチ).

People with the name

*, Japanese baseball player *

Koichi Chigira is a Japanese animator and director who has directed several anime series, usually working with Gonzo and formerly worked at Madhouse. Chigira is best known for directing ''Full Metal Panic!'' and ''Last Exile''. Career Chigira joined Tatsu ...

(孝一, born 1959), Japanese anime director *

Koichi Domoto is a Japanese idol, singer, actor, singer-songwriter, composer, lyricist, television personality, Voice acting in Japan, voice actor. Along with Tsuyoshi Domoto (with whom he has no blood-relation), he is a member of the duo KinKi Kids, who holds ...

(born 1979), Japanese performing artist *

Kōichi Fukaura is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is a three-time winner of the Ōi tournament, and also a former member of the Japan Shogi Association's board of directors. Early life Fukaura was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki on February 14 ...

, Japanese shogi player *

Koichi Fukuda Koichi Fukuda (born July 1, 1975) is a Japanese musician, best known as the lead guitarist, programmer, and keyboardist for the metal band Static-X; he has been a member of the band three times, initially from 1994 to 2000, again from 2005 to ...

(born 1975), Japanese musician *

Koichi Iida Koichi Iida (May 20, 1888 November 8, 1973) was a Japanese American businessman from Hawaiʻi. He is best known for founding Central Pacific Bank. Early life and education Iida was born on May 20, 1888 in Osaka, son of Matsukichi Iida, who mov ...

((飯田鴻一, 1888–1973), Japanese businessman *, Japanese golfer *

Koichi Ishii , sometimes credited as Kouichi Ishii, is a video game designer perhaps best known for creating the ''Mana (series), Mana'' series (known as ''Seiken Densetsu'' in Japan). He joined Square (video game company), Square (now Square Enix) in 1987, wh ...

(浩一, born 1964), Japanese game designer *

Koichi Kato (LDP) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who held a seat in the House of Representatives in the National Diet for 13 terms between 1972 and 2012. Kato was elected to several districts in Yamagata Prefecture and served as the ...

(born 1939), Japanese politician * Koichi Kato (DPJ) (born 1964), Japanese politician * Koichi Kawakita (born 1942), Japanese special effects artist *

Kōichi Kido Marquis (July 18, 1889 – April 6, 1977) was a Japanese statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to Emperor Hirohito throughout World War II. He was convicted of war crimes a ...

(1889–1977), Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan during World War II *, Japanese shogi player *

Kōichi Kitamura , better known by the stage name , was a Japanese voice actor born in Osaka, Japan. Kitamura was employed by the talent management agency Mausu Promotion. He is known for dubbing roles played by Peter Cushing. He died on October 2, 2007 of pneum ...

(1931–2007), Japanese voice actor *

Kōichi Mashimo (born June 21, 1952) is a Japanese anime animation director, director and the founder of the animation movie studio, studio Bee Train. Since the creation of the studio, Mashimo directed or otherwise participated in a large number of the studio's ...

(born 1952), Japanese anime director *, Japanese rower *

Koichi Mizushima is a Japanese former gymnast who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-p ...

(born 1965), Japanese gymnast *, Japanese long-distance runner *

Koichi Morita (army officer) Koichi Morita may refer to: * Koichi Morita (army officer) (1865–1929), Japanese army officer * Koichi Morita (songwriter) (born February 25, 1940), is a Japanese composer and singer who launched his recording career in the late 1960s and h ...

Koichi Morita (songwriter) (born February 25, 1940), is a Japanese composer and singer who launched his recording career in the late 1960s and had gained huge commercial success during the 1970s. He often teamed up with lyricist Yū Aku and orchestrator Junichi Makaino, ...

*, Japanese footballer *, Japanese video game designer *, former professional racing cyclist and ten-consecutive-time world champion in track cycling sprint *

Koichi Nishimura Koichi "Nishi" Nishimura (born 30 June 1973 in Kyoto, Japan) is a beach volleyball player from Japan. Nishimura began his career as an indoor volleyball player and played Libero for the Japanese National Team. In 2002 Nishimura switched to beac ...

(born 1973), Japanese volleyball player *Koichi Omura (大村皓一, born 1938), Japanese computer animator *, Japanese golfer *

Kōichi Sakaguchi is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with 81 Produce. He also had a recurring role in both the Japanese and English language ''Pokémon'' anime which saw him voicing Jessie's Arbok up until Episode 6 of the Hoenn series which saw Arbok and its c ...

(坂口　候一, born 1968), Japanese voice actor *, Japanese actor *, Japanese biathlete *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese philatelist *, Japanese ski jumper *, Japanese murderer *, Japanese bobsledder *

Koichi Sugiyama was a Japanese composer, conductor, and orchestrator. He was best known for composing the music for the '' Dragon Quest'' franchise, along with several other video games, anime, film, and television shows. Classically trained, Sugiyama was ...

(こういち; birth name 浩一, born 1931), Japanese video game composer *

Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese electrical engineer who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules with John Bennett Fenn and Kurt Wüthrich (the latter for work in NMR ...

(born 1959), Japanese Nobel Prize winner in chemistry *, Japanese footballer and manager *

Koichi Tohei (20 January 1920 – 19 May 2011) was a 10th Dan aikidoka and founder of the Ki Society and its style of aikido, officially Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido (literally "aikido with mind and body unified"), but commonly known as Ki-Aikido. Aikido Koichi ...

(born 1920), Japanese aikido practitioner *

Kōichi Tokita is a Japanese manga artist that is best known for his ''Gundam'' manga. Most of his works deal with the alternate universe Gundam series such as ''Mobile Fighter G Gundam'', and ''Mobile Suit Gundam Wing''. Before he became a manga artist, he d ...

(born 1961), Japanese manga artist *

Kōichi Tōchika is a Japanese voice actor who works for Haikyo. Notable voice roles Anime *Lance in '' 07 Ghost'' *Brindo and young Hody Jones in ''One Piece'' * Check Mate and Ilioukhine in ''Kinnikuman Nisei'' (''Ultimate Muscle'') *Arizona Governor in ''E ...

(born 1971), Japanese voice actor *

Koichi Wakata is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. Wakata is a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions, a Russian Soyuz mission, and a long-duration stay on the International Space Station. During a nearly two-decade career in spaceflight, he has ...

(born 1963), Japanese astronaut *

Kōichi Yamadera is a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and singer from Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture. He graduated from Tohoku Gakuin University's economics school and is currently affiliated with Across Entertainment. Before that, he was affiliated with th ...

(born 1961), Japanese voice actor *

Koichi Kobayashi is a Japanese Go player. He is one of the 'Six Supers' who championed Japanese Go in the last three decades of Japanese Go. Biography Koichi Kobayashi was born in Asahikawa, Japan. In 1965, he came to Tokyo to be a disciple of Minoru Kitani. ...

(born 1952), Japanese Go player * Koichi Morishita (born 1967), Japanese long-distance runner *, Japanese sumo wrestler

Fictional characters

* Kouichi Kimura, from the TV series ''

Digimon Frontier , is the fourth anime television series in the ''Digimon'' franchise, produced by Toei Animation. Unlike the previous series, the main characters can merge with ancient spirits known as "Legendary Warriors" to become Digimon themselves. The ...

'' * Koichi Shido, from manga/anime ''Highschool of the Dead'' * Kouichi Hayase, from manga/anime ''Linebarrels of Iron'' *

Koichi Zenigata , usually called and formerly Heiji Zenigata VII, is a fictional character created by Monkey Punch for his manga series ''Lupin III'', which debuted in ''Weekly Manga Action'' on August 10, 1967. He is named after the famous fictional Japanese ...

, from ''Lupin III'' * Koichi Hayama, from adult anime/game ''Moonlight Lady'' * Koichi Hiramoto, from ''

Wangan Midnight is a Japanese racing manga series written and illustrated by Michiharu Kusunoki. It was first serialized in Shogakukan's ''Big Comic Spirits'' in 1990, but was later serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Young Magazine'' from 1992 to 2008. The ...

'' * Koichi Kijima, from ''

'' * Kōichi Tanemura, a character from the anime/manga ''

Hanasaku Iroha , or ''Hanairo'' for short, is a Japanese 26-episode anime television series produced by P.A. Works and directed by Masahiro Andō. The screenplay was written by Mari Okada, with original character design by Mel Kishida. P.A. Works produced t ...

'' * Kōichi Sakakibara, the main protagonist of the series '' Another'' * Koichi Hirose, a character from the manga ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' * Koichi Kizakura, a character from the anime '' Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School'' * Koichi Haimawari, a character from the manga ''

Boku no Hero Academia is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 2014, with its chapters additionally collected into ...

'' * Koichi Adachi, a character and main party member from the videogame '' Yakuza: Like a Dragon'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Koichi Japanese masculine given names