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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

Isamu 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: *勇, "courage" or "bravery" *勲, "merit" *敢, "gallantry" *武, "war" 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 ...

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 f ...

People

Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride ( GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness ...

(赤崎勇, 1929–2021), Japanese scientist *

Isamu Chō was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army known for his support of ultranationalist politics and involvement in a number of attempted coup d'états in pre-World War II Japan. Biography Chō was a native of Fukuoka prefecture. He graduated ...

(長勇, 1895–1945), Japanese general *, Japanese racewalker *

Isamu Imakake is a Japanese animator, screenwriter, television director and producer. He also worked as illustrator for some manga like ''Geobreeders''. His directorial work, ''The Mystical Laws'', was submitted for the Academy Award for Best Animated Fea ...

, director of Captain Tsubasa *, Japanese politician *, Japanese actor and film director *

Isamu Noguchi was an American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and severa ...

(野口勇, 1904–1988), Japanese-American artist and landscape architect *, Japanese skier *

Isamu Shibayama Isamu 'Art' Carlos Shibayama (イサムカルロス柴山, 1930 – July 31, 2018) was a Peruvian- American civil rights activist who fought for the rights of Latin Americans of Japanese ancestry who were illegally interned in the United States ...

(1930-2018), Peruvian-American civil rights activist *

Isamu Sonoyama was a Japanese politician. He was born in Shimane Prefecture. He served in the House of Representatives of the Empire of Japan. He was governor of Nagano Prefecture (1898-1899) and Miyazaki Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture o ...

(園山勇, 1848–1921), Japanese politician *

Isamu Takeshita was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He was also a diplomat whose accomplishments included helping end the Russo-Japanese War favorably for Japan and obtaining former German possessions in the Pacific for Japan following World War I. In ...

(1869–1949), Japanese Imperial Navy admiral *

Isamu Tanonaka was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Taitō, Tokyo. He was best known for voicing Medama Oyaji in nearly every adaptation of Shigeru Mizuki's '' GeGeGe no Kitarō'' made during his lifetime. Career During his life he had been atta ...

(田の中勇, 1932–2010), Japanese voice actor *

Yoshii Isamu Count was a Japanese ''tanka'' poet and playwright active in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. Attracted to European romanticism in his youth, his later works were more subdued. Early life Yoshii Isamu was born in the elite Takanawa district Toky ...

(吉井勇, 1886–1960), Japanese poet and playwright *Isamu Yamada or

Knock Yokoyama was a Japanese politician and comedian. Born Isamu Yamada (山田勇 ''Yamada Isamu'') in Kobe, he adopted his current stage name while directing the ''Manga Trio'' manzai troupe from 1959 to 1968. Following his comedy years, he went into the ...

(山田勇, 1932–2007), Japanese comedian and politician *

Isamu Sonoda is a retired Olympic champion Japanese judoka who competed in the middleweight (-80 kg) division. Biography Sonoda was born in Yanagawa, Fukuoka, Japan. He attended the Fukuoka Institute of Technology, and won a gold medal at the 1969 W ...

(born 1946), retired judoka who competed in the middleweight (-80 kg) division

Fictional characters

*Isamu Nakane, a character in ''

Obasan ''Obasan'' is a novel by Japanese-Canadian author Joy Kogawa. First published by Lester and Orpen Dennys in 1981, it chronicles Canada's internment and persecution of its citizens of Japanese descent during the Second World War from the perspe ...

'' *

Isamu Alva Dyson The following is a list of all the fictional characters within the ''Macross'' anime franchise. ''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross'' Humans * Hikaru Ichijyo ( Arihiro Hase and Kenji Nojima/Vic Mignogna)The Super Dimension Fortress Macros ...

, a character in ''Macross'' anime *

Isamu Ozu is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Isamu can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *勇, "courage" or "bravery" *勲, "merit" *敢, "gallantry" *武, "war" The name can also be written in hiragana or katak ...

, a character in tokusatsu show ''

Mahou Sentai Magiranger Mahou or is the Japanese word for " magic", "sorcery" or "witchcraft". Mahou may also refer to: *Mahou (beer), brewed by the Spanish brewing company Grupo Mahou-San Miguel * Mahou-San Miguel Group, a Spanish brewing company *Mahou, Mali *Magical ...

'' *Isamu Nitta, a character in '' Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne'' video game *Take Isamu, the protagonist of the manga ''Buyuden'' *Doll Isamu, a character in ''

Super Doll Licca-chan is a Japanese anime television series which ran on TV Tokyo in 1998–1999. Kodansha also serialized a manga based on the anime series in its monthly manga magazine ''Nakayoshi''. The story follows an ordinary elementary school girl named ...

'' *Isamu Akai, a character from the Pocket Monsters manga *Isamu Kurogane, a character from the

Beast King GoLion is a Japanese super robot anime television series. The animation from ''GoLion'' was edited and trimmed to create the version of the American '' Voltron: Defender of the Universe'' series, with new names and dialogue. In 2008, ''GoLion'' was ...

series *, a character from

The Kindaichi Case Files is a Japanese mystery manga series based on the crime solving adventures of a high school student, Hajime Kindaichi, the supposed grandson of the famous (fictional) private detective Kosuke Kindaichi. Written by Yōzaburō K ...

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