Yutaka is a masculine Japanese given name.

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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

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 i ...

(阿部豊), former Japanese film director and actor *, Japanese gymnast * Yutaka Akita (秋田豊, born 1970), Japanese former football player * Yutaka Aoyama (青山穣, born 1965), Japanese vocal actor * Yutaka Banno (伴野豊, born 1961), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan * Yutaka Demachi (出町豊, born 1935), Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese ice hockey player *

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 *

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 * Yutaka Fukufuji (福藤豊, born 1982), the first Japanese-born player to appear in a National Hockey League game *

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 * Yutaka Fukushima (福島豊, born 1958), Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party *

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 * Yutaka Higuchi (樋口豊, born 1949), Japanese figure skater * Yutaka Higuchi (桶口豊, born 1967), bassist for the Japanese rock band ''BUCK-TICK'' * Yutaka Hirose (広瀬裕, born 1962), Japanese actor and voice actor *, Japanese footballer * Yutaka Ishinabe (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 * Yutaka Kagaya (加賀谷穣, born 1968), Japanese digital artist * Yutaka Kanai (金井豊, 1959–1990), Japanese long-distance runner * Yutaka Katayama (片山豊, born 1909), the first president of Nissan Motor Company in U.S.A *, Japanese ice hockey player * Yutaka Kisenosato (稀勢の里寛, born 1986), sumo wrestler (born Yutaka Hagiwara 萩原寛) *

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 *

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 Festiv ...

(松重豊, born 1963), Japanese actor *

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: Bl ...

(箕輪豊, born 1965), character designer and animation director who works with Madhouse *

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 *

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 * Yutaka Ohno (大野豊, born 1955), former Japanese baseball player * Yutaka Ozaki (尾崎豊, 1965–1992), popular Japanese musician *

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 * Yutaka Tahara (田原豊, born 1982), Japanese football player *

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 * Yutaka Take (武豊, born 1969), Japanese jockey *

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 *

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 *

Yutaka Wada is a retired Japanese baseball player for the Hanshin Tigers. He previously worked as a hitting coach for the Hanshin Tigers prior to the 2012 season. After the team failed to make the 2011 play-offs, team manager Akinobu Mayumi is the forme ...

(和田豊, born 1962), former Japanese baseball player * Yutaka Yaguchi (矢口豊, born 1932), Chief Instructor and Chairman of the International Shotokan Karate Federation *, Japanese composer * Yutaka Yamaguchi (山口泰, born 1940), member of the Group of Thirty *

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 * Yutaka Yokokura (横倉裕, born 1956), Japanese jazz musician *, Japanese footballer * Yutaka Yoshie (吉江豊, born 1974), Japanese professional wrestler

Fictional characters

*Yutaka Kobayakawa (小早川ゆたか), character in the anime series ''

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'' *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''

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