Yutaka 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 ...
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Possible writings
Yutaka 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:
*豊, "bountiful"
*裕, "affluence"
*穣, "fertile"
*温, "warmth"
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 ...
ゆたか 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 ...
ユタカ.
Notable people with the name
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Yutaka Abe
was a Japanese film director and actor. He went to America along with a younger brother to visit an uncle living in Los Angeles. There he enrolled in an acting school, and upon hearing that Thomas H. Ince was looking for Japanese extras to work ...
(阿部 豊), former Japanese film director and actor
*, Japanese gymnast
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Yutaka Akita
Yutaka is a masculine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Yutaka can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
*豊, "bountiful"
*裕, "affluence"
*穣, "fertile"
*温, "warmth"
The name can also be written in hiragana ゆた ...
(秋田 豊, born 1970), Japanese former football player
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Yutaka Aoyama
is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator.
Biography
Aoyama became interested on films, while attending elementary school. He did not have the film study group in high school. He joined Bearer's group with a yearning. It has forty female m ...
(青山 穣, born 1965), Japanese vocal actor
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Yutaka Banno
is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Nagoya, Aichi he attended Nagoya Institute of Technology both as undergraduate and graduate. Upon ...
(伴野 豊, born 1961), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan
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Yutaka Demachi (出町 豊, born 1935), Japanese volleyball player
*, Japanese ice hockey player
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Yutaka Enatsu
is a former Japanese pitcher regarded as one of the best Japanese strikeout pitchers of all-time. In , he recorded 401 strikeouts, which is still the world record.
Enatsu was a bit player in the Black Mist Scandal which embroiled Japanese baseb ...
(江夏 豊, born 1948), Japanese baseball pitcher
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Rickie Fowler
Rick Yutaka Fowler (born December 13, 1988) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He was the number one ranked amateur golfer in the world for 36 weeks in 2007 and 2008. On January 24, 2016 he reached a career high fourth ...
(リッキー・ユタカ・ファウラー, born 1988), Japanese-American Professional Golf Champion, named after maternal grandfather
*, Japanese basketball player
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Yutaka Fukufuji
is a Japanese ice hockey player for the Nikko Ice Bucks of the Asia League Ice Hockey. Fukufuji was the first Japanese player to appear in a National Hockey League (NHL) game. The first Japanese draft pick, Hiroyuki Miura, was selected b ...
(福藤 豊, born 1982), the first Japanese-born player to appear in a National Hockey League game
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Yutaka Fukumoto
is a retired Japanese professional baseball player in Nippon Professional Baseball. An aggressive lead-off man and superior defensive centerfielder, he holds the Japanese career records in triples and stolen bases. He also hit more lead-off home ...
(福本 豊, born 1947), professional baseball player
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Yutaka Fukushima
is a Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He was born in Sakai, Osaka but grew up in Saitama Prefecture. A graduate of Kyoto University
, mottoeng = Freedo ...
(福島 豊, born 1958), Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party
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Yutaka Haniya
was a noted Japanese writer and critic.
Biography
Haniya was born in Taiwan, then a Japanese colony, to a samurai family named Hannya after the ''Hannya Shingyo'' ( Heart Sutra). He had a sickly childhood and suffered from tuberculosis in his ...
(埴谷 雄高, 1909–1997), Japanese author
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Yutaka Higuchi (樋口 豊, born 1949), Japanese figure skater
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Yutaka Higuchi (桶口 豊, born 1967), bassist for the Japanese rock band ''BUCK-TICK''
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Yutaka Hirose
is a Japanese actor and voice actor, widely known to international audiences for his work in the tokusatsu genre of television series, usually portraying villainous characters. His real name is , which was the name he was credited during his debu ...
(広瀬 裕, born 1962), Japanese actor and voice actor
*, Japanese footballer
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Yutaka Ishinabe
was the first French chef in the Japanese cooking show Iron Chef. He appeared from the first episode in 1993, sporting a green outfit while holding a bell pepper. Over the years, he has earned the nickname of "The Artist" for being creative wit ...
(石鍋 裕, born 1948), the first French Chef in the Japanese cooking show ''
Iron Chef
is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, was a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle bui ...
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Yutaka Izubuchi
is a Japanese anime designer, screenwriter and director. Izubuchi is credited for designing costumes, characters and creatures, but most of his designs are mechanical (both robots and other vehicles). He created and directed the ''RahXephon'' ser ...
(出渕 裕, born 1958), Japanese illustrator, anime designer and director
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Yutaka Kagaya (加賀谷 穣, born 1968), Japanese digital artist
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Yutaka Kanai
was a Japanese long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sp ...
(金井 豊, 1959–1990), Japanese long-distance runner
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Yutaka Katayama
, also known as Mr. K, was a Japanese automotive executive who was employed by Nissan and served as the first president of Nissan Motor Corporation U.S.A. Katayama expanded Nissan's focus from economy vehicles towards sportier vehicles, and is reg ...
(片山 豊, born 1909), the first president of Nissan Motor Company in U.S.A
*, Japanese ice hockey player
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Yutaka Kisenosato
is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Ibaraki. He made his professional debut in 2002, and reached the top ''makuuchi'' division in 2004 at the age of just 18. After many years in the junior ''san'yaku'' ranks, he reached the sec ...
(稀勢の里 寛, born 1986), sumo wrestler (born Yutaka Hagiwara 萩原 寛)
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Yutaka Mafune
was a Japanese playwright, novelist and director active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
Biography
Mafune was born in what is now Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture to the wealthy family of a local sake brewer and landowner. Adopted into th ...
(真船 豊, 1902–1977), playwright in Showa period Japan
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Yutaka Matsushige
is a Japanese actor.
Career
Matsushige has appeared in the films such as '' EM Embalming'', ''Adrenaline Drive'', ''Last Life in the Universe'', and ''Outrage Beyond''.
He won the award for best supporting actor at the 31st Yokohama Film Festi ...
(松重 豊, born 1963), Japanese actor
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Yutaka Minowa
is a character designer and animation director who works with Madhouse, a Japanese animation company. His work is recognised in the Yoshiaki Kawajiri movies he has designed characters for, among them '' Ninja Scroll'' and '' Vampire Hunter D: B ...
(箕輪 豊, born 1965), character designer and animation director who works with Madhouse
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Yutaka Mizutani
is a Japanese actor and singer. He was born on July 14, 1952, in Ashibetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan.
Biography
Mizutani was raised from the age of eight in Tokyo, Japan. He started acting at the age of twelve, when a neighbor introduced him to a childr ...
(水谷 豊, born 1952), Japanese actor and singer
*, Japanese animator
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Yutaka Niida
is a retired professional boxer in the minimumweight (105 lb) division and former WBA world minimumweight champion.
Professional boxing career
Niida belonged to the Yokohama Hikari Boxing Gym, his trainer was Mitsunori Seki and Hidefumi Oika ...
(新井田 豊, born 1978), professional minimumweight boxer
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Yutaka Ohno
, (born August 30, 1955) is a former Japanese baseball player of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Japan's Central League.
He was one of the most famous Japanese left-handed pitchers.
He was born in Izumo, Shimane.
He was known as the man from . ...
(大野 豊, born 1955), former Japanese baseball player
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Yutaka Ozaki
was a popular Japanese musician. He is ranked at No. 23 in a list of Japan's top 100 musicians by HMV.
Biography
He was born in Tokyo Setagaya Ward SDF Central Hospital to Kinue and Kenichi Ozaki. He has one older brother, Yasushi. Early in li ...
(尾崎 豊, 1965–1992), popular Japanese musician
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Yutaka Sado
is a Japanese conductor.
While still in school, Sado obtained a position in the Kansai Nikikai, a Japanese school of opera, where he had the opportunity to work with the New Japan Philharmonic and the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, learning operati ...
(佐渡 裕, born 1961), Japanese conductor
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Yutaka Tahara
is a former Japanese football player.
Club career
Tahara was born in Aira on April 27, 1982. After graduating from high school, he joined Yokohama F. Marinos in 2001. However he could hardly play in the match and he moved to Kyoto Purple Sanga ...
(田原 豊, born 1982), Japanese football player
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Yutaka Takanashi
is a Japanese photographer who has photographed fashion, urban design, and city life, and is best known for his depiction of Tokyo.
Life and career
Takanashi was born on 6 February 1935 in Shirogane-chō, Ushigome-ku (now Shinjuku), Tokyo."Chron ...
(高梨 豊, born 1935), Japanese photographer who photographed fashion, urban design, and city life
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Yutaka Take
(born March 15, 1969 in Kyoto, Kyoto) is a Japanese jockey.
A legend in Japan, Yutaka Take made his riding debut in 1987 and currently holds seven all-time records in his native country. Take has won at least one Grade 1 races for 23 straight ...
(武 豊, born 1969), Japanese jockey
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Yutaka Takenouchi
is a Japanese actor. His on-screen acting debut was in the drama 「ボクの就職」 (Boku no Syūshoku) in 1994, after winning a modeling contest. He regularly appears in commercials.
Filmography
TV series
* ''Boku no Shūshoku/My First Job' ...
(竹野内 豊, born 1971), Japanese actor
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Yutaka Taniyama
was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture.
Contribution
Taniyama was best known for conjecturing, in modern language, automorphic properties of L-functions of elliptic curves over any number field. A partial and r ...
(谷山 豊, 1927–1958), Japanese mathematician
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Yutaka Wada (和田 豊, born 1962), former Japanese baseball player
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Yutaka Yaguchi
Yutaka Yaguchi (born November 14, 1932) is the Chief Instructor and Chairman of the International Shotokan Karate Federation (ISKF) Mountain States Region. He was born in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1932 and began karate training in 1952. He later test ...
(矢口 豊, born 1932), Chief Instructor and Chairman of the International Shotokan Karate Federation
*, Japanese composer
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Yutaka Yamaguchi (山口 泰, born 1940), member of the Group of Thirty
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Yutaka Yamamoto
is a Japanese anime director from Osaka Prefecture. He is known for his incendiary behavior on Twitter and for being fired from Kyoto Animation and Ordet, the latter of which he helped co-found.
Biography
As a member of Kyoto Animation, Yamamo ...
(山本 寛, born 1974), Japanese animation director
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Yutaka Yokokura
is a Japanese pianist, keyboardist, kotoist, arranger and composer. He recorded three albums with GRP Records: ''Yutaka'' (1988), ''Brazasia'' (1990), and ''Another Sun'' (1993).
He previously recorded an album, ''Love Light'', in 1978 by Alfa ...
(横倉 裕, born 1956), Japanese jazz musician
*, Japanese footballer
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Yutaka Yoshie
, is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working as a freelancer in Japan, performing most notably for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he is a former World Tag Team Champion. He has previously worked for promotions such as New Japan ...
(吉江 豊, born 1974), Japanese professional wrestler
Fictional characters
*Yutaka Kobayakawa (小早川 ゆたか), character in the anime series ''
Lucky Star''
*Yutaka Kobayashi (小林 温)), ''
Megatokyo
(also stylized as ''MegaTokyo'') is an English-language webcomic created by Fred Gallagher (cartoonist), Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston. ''Megatokyo'' debuted on August 14, 2000, and has been written and illustrated solely by Gallagher since ...
'' character
*Yutaka Seto (瀬戸 豊), character in the novel, film and manga ''
Battle Royale''
*Yutaka Tamaru (多丸 裕), minor character in the ''
Suzumiya Haruhi'' franchise
*Yutaka Kazami (風見 豊), character in the ''
Gyakuten Saiban''
*Yutaka Kono (河野 豊), character in the ''
Darker than Black
, is a Japanese anime television series created and directed by Tensai Okamura and animated by studio Bones. Twenty-five episodes were broadcast on MBS, TBS and their affiliated stations from April to September 2007. The series is set ...
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See also
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Yutaka, Hiroshima was a town located in Toyota District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 2,706 and a density of 192.19 persons per km2. The total area was 14.08 km2.
On March 20, 2005, Kure, along with the tow ...
, town located in Toyota District of Hiroshima, Japan
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Fukuhoku Yutaka Line
The is the collective name for four sections of railway lines operated by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It runs between Kurosaki Station and Hakata station (66.6 km).
The sections called Fukuhoku Yutaka L ...
, four sections of railway line in Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan
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Yutaka (video game company)
''Yutaka'', founded as the Shinsei Manufacturing, was a Japanese company that operated in the field of video game publishing. It changed its name and joined the Bandai Group in January 1990. Yutaka joined Popy in 2003 after a merger and disappear ...
, the name of a Japanese-only video game company
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Japanese masculine given names