is a stand-alone

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along with " Tarō", and a common name suffix for males.

Written forms

Jirō can be written using different

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characters and can mean: * 次郎, "next, son" * 次朗, "next, melodious" * 二郎, "second, son" * 二朗, "second, melodious" * 治郎, "reign, son" The name can also be written in

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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 ...

People

* Jiro (musician) (born 1972), bassist of the Japanese rock band GLAY * Jiro Aichi (治郎, born 1969), Japanese politician * Jirō Akagawa (次郎, born 1948), Japanese novelist * Jiro Akama (二郎, born 1968), Japanese politician * Jiro Ando (慈朗), Japanese manga artist * Jirō Asada (次郎, born 1951), Japanese novelist * , Japanese engineer *

Jiro Horikoshi was a Japanese aeronautical engineer. He was the chief engineer of several Empire of Japan, Japanese Fighter aircraft, fighter aircraft designs used during World War II, most notably the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter, as well as the NAMC YS-11. E ...

(二郎, 1903–1982), chief engineer behind many Japanese fighters of WWII * , Japanese weightlifter * Jiro Kamiharako (次郎, born 1966), Japanese ski jumper * Jiro Kikkawa (1929–2016), Japanese Australian ornithologist * Jiro Manio (born 1992), Filipino actor * Jiro Nakano (二郎, 1902–2000), Japanese composer * , Japanese ice hockey player * , Japanese politician *

Jiro Ono (chef) is a Japanese retired sushi chef and owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a sushi restaurant in Ginza, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan. Ono is regarded by his contemporaries as one of the greatest living sushi craftsmen and is credited with innovating methods us ...

(born 1925), chef and owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a three-Michelin-starred restaurant * Jiro Ono (politician) (born 1953), Japanese politician of Your Party * , Japanese voice actor * , Japanese businessman * Jiro Wang (born 1981), Taiwanese actor and singer

Characters

* Jiro (''Blue Dragon'') (ジーロ), a character in the ''Blue Dragon'' video game * Jiro (''Kamen Rider'') (次狼) or Garulu (ガルル), a supporting character in the ''Kamen Rider Kiva'' tokusatsu series * Jiro (''Kikaider'') (ジロー), the main protagonist in the ''Android Kikaider'' tokusatsu series *Jiro Mochizuki, main protagonist in ''

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'' * Jiro Ueda (次郎), the main character in '' Trick'' TV series *Jiro Shirogane, fantasy persona of Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane in '' Voltron: Legendary Defender'' * Jiro Yamada (山田二郎), the second child of the team called Buster Bros!!! from '' Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle'' * , an idol from '' The Idolmaster SideM''

Other uses

* Jiro (ジロ), the famed

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Husky of the 1958 Japanese Antarctica expedition, depicted in the 1983 Japanese film Nankyoku Monogatari; see

Taro and Jiro Taro (タロ; 1955–1970) and Jiro (ジロ; 1955–1960) were two Sakhalin Husky, Sakhalin Huskies who survived for eleven months in Antarctica after being left behind by the 1958 Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition. Due to poor weather co ...

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