Yoshitarō, Yoshitaro or Yoshitarou 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

Yoshitarō can be written using different combinations of

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. Here are some examples: The characters used for "taro" (太郎) literally means "thick (big) son" and usually used as a suffix to a masculine name, especially for the first son. The "yoshi" part of the name can use a variety of characters, each of which will change the meaning of the name ("吉" for good luck, "義" for justice, "良" and so on). *義太郎, "justice, big son" *吉太郎, "good luck, big son" *良太郎, "good, big son" *芳太郎, "fragrant/virtuous, big son" Other combinations... *義太朗, "justice, thick, bright" *義多朗, "justice, many, bright" *義汰朗, "justice, excessive, bright" *良太朗, "good, thick, bright" *良多朗, "good, many, bright" 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 ...

よしたろう 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 ...

ヨシタロウ.

Notable people with the name

*, Japanese boxer *, Japanese yakuza boss *, Japanese film director, producer and screenwriter {{DEFAULTSORT:Yoshitaro Japanese masculine given names