Yōji Mutō, Arlington, March 2016

Yōji, Yoji, Youji, or Yohji is a common masculine Japanese given name

Possible writings

Yōji can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

*洋二, "ocean, second"
*洋次, "ocean, next"
*洋司, "ocean, rule"
*洋治, "ocean, govern"
*陽二, "sunshine, second"
*陽次, "sunshine, next"
*陽司, "sunshine, rule"
*陽治, "sunshine, govern"

The name can also be written in hiragana ようじ or katakana ヨウジ.

People

;with the given name Yōji
* Yoji Akao (赤尾 洋二, born 1928), Japanese planning specialist
* Yoji Anjo (安生 洋二, born 1967), Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
*Yoji (DJ), a Japanese trance/hard trance DJ
* Yoji Enokido (榎戸 洋司, born 1963), Japanese screenwriter and voice actor
*Yoji Mizuguchi (水口 洋次, born 1944), Japanese football player and manager
* Yoji Muto (武藤 容治, born 1955), Japanese politician
*, Japanese playwright
*, Japanese footballer
*Yoji Shinkawa (新川 洋司, born 1971), Japanese illustrator and conceptual artist
* Yoji Totsuka (戸塚 洋二, 1942–2008), Japanese physicist
* Yoji Ueda (上田 燿司, born 1971), Japanese voice actor
* Yoji Yamada (山田 洋次, born 1931), Japanese film director

Fictional characters

*Yoji Kudou (工藤 耀爾), a character in the anime series '' Weiß Kreuz''
*Yoji Kuramoto (倉元 洋二), a character in '' Battle Royale''
*Yoji/Yo-Yoji (alias, not known true name), a character from The Secret Series, friend of Cass and Max-Ernest.

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Japanese masculine given names