Shintarō is any of several Japanese male
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 f ...
s. They consist of a prefix followed by "tarō", which alone is a name common among first sons. Prefixes carry additional meaning, such as "new"; many of these can stand alone as a given name.
Written forms
Forms in
kanji
are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, 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 and are ...
can include:
新太郎, 慎太郎, 信太郎, 真太郎, 晋太郎.
Notable people
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese linguist
*, Japanese scriptwriter, director, actor, voice actor
*,
Hokkaidō Nippon Ham Fighters baseball player
*, Japanese baseball player for the
Oakland Athletics
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*, Japanese stage magician
*, Japanese admiral
*, Japanese malacologist
*, baseball player for
Yokohama Taiyō Whales and other teams
*, Japanese badminton player
*, Tokyo governor
*, Japanese politician
*,
TBS announcer
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese sprinter
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese samurai
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese musician
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese entrepreneur
*, Japanese inventor
*, Japanese model, actor and singer
*, Japanese businessman
*, Japanese painter
*, Japanese baseball player
*,
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
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baseball player
Yoshitake Shintaro baseball profile
Fictional characters
* Akikusa Shintaro, the nom de guerre
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In Ancien régime, ''ancien régime'' Kingdom of France, France it would be adopted by each n ...
of the lead character from the cult 1960s Japanese TV series '' The Samurai''
*, protagonist of the anime, light novels, manga series ''Kagerou Project
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'', also known as Mekakucity Actors
*, character from the ''Beelzebub
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'' manga and anime series
*, character from the ''Kuroko's Basketball
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'' manga and anime series
References
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Japanese masculine given names
Masculine given names