Kōichi, Koichi, Kouichi or Kohichi is a masculine
Japanese given name.
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
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Koichi Chigira (孝一, born 1959), Japanese anime director
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Koichi Domoto (born 1979), Japanese performing artist
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Kōichi Fukaura, Japanese shogi player
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Koichi Fukuda (born 1975), Japanese musician
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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
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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
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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
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Koichi Kato (DPJ) (born 1964), Japanese politician
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Koichi Kawakita (born 1942), Japanese special effects artist
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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
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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
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Kōichi Mashimo (born 1952), Japanese anime director
*, Japanese rower
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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
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Kōichi Sakaguchi (坂口 候一, born 1968), Japanese voice actor
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese biathlete
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese philatelist
*, Japanese ski jumper
*, Japanese murderer
*, Japanese bobsledder
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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
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Koichi Tanaka (born 1959), Japanese Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
*, Japanese footballer and manager
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Koichi Tohei (born 1920), Japanese aikido practitioner
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Kōichi Tokita (born 1961), Japanese manga artist
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Kōichi Tōchika (born 1971), Japanese voice actor
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
''
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Koichi Shido, from manga/anime ''Highschool of the Dead''
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Kouichi Hayase, from manga/anime ''Linebarrels of Iron''
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Koichi Zenigata, from ''Lupin III''
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Koichi Hayama, from adult anime/game ''Moonlight Lady''
* Koichi Hiramoto, from ''
Wangan Midnight''
* Koichi Kijima, from ''
Wangan Midnight''
* Kōichi Tanemura, a character from the anime/manga ''
Hanasaku Iroha''
* Kōichi Sakakibara, the main protagonist of the series ''
Another''
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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 ...
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* Koichi Adachi, a character and main party member from the videogame ''
Yakuza: Like a Dragon''
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Japanese masculine given names