Raizo or Raizō is a
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
-origin
masculine given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a ...
. It is uncommon as a
surname. People with the name or its variants include:
*
Raizo Ichikawa, Japanese film and kabuki actor
*
Raizo Matsuno (松野頼三 Matsuno Raizō; 1917 - 2006), Japanese politician
*
Raizō Tanaka, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II
*
Morita Raizō
was a renowned Japanese photographer
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
Dutie ...
(守田 来蔵, Morita Raizō? もりた らいぞう, 1830 - 1889), Japanese photographer
{{given name
Japanese masculine given names