Kazuo (カズオ, かずお) is a masculine Japanese

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Possible spellings

It has several written forms, and the meaning depends on the characters used (usually

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 ...

, but sometimes

hiragana is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", ...

). Common forms include: * 一雄: first son, first in leadership/excellence * 一夫: first son * 一男: first man/male * 和夫: harmonious/peaceful man * 和男: harmonious/peaceful man * かずお (

) * カズオ (

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 with the name

*, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese politician *, Japanese government minister during the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part ...

, and into

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

*, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese aikido teacher *, Japanese novelist and poet * Kazuo Endo,

Kobe earthquake The Great Hanshin Earthquake (, ) occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region of Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum intensity of 7 o ...

survivor *, Japanese Marxist *, Japanese Enka singer *, Japanese documentary film director *, anime producer, audio director, and sound effects director *, Japanese film and stage actor *, late Japanese inventor of

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and the telephone

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, including the

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*, patriarchal head of the prominent Japanese Hatoyama political family *, Japanese actor and voice actor *, President/CEO of Sony Computer *, accounting scholar, president of Kwansei Gakuin University *, Japanese politician *, Japanese novelist and literary critic active in the

Shōwa period Shōwa most commonly refers to: * Hirohito (1901–1989), the 124th Emperor of Japan, known posthumously as Emperor Shōwa ** Shōwa era (昭和), the era of Hirohito from 1926 to 1989 * Showa Corporation, a Japanese suspension and shock manufactu ...

of Japan *, Japanese voice actor (stage name ) *, Japanese aikidoka *, Japanese film director *, Japanese businessman *, Japanese cyclist *

Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born English novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded several major literary prizes, including the 2 ...

(石黒一雄, born 1954), British author * Kazuo Iwama, multiple people *, contemporary Japanese sculptor *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese golfer *, Japanese table tennis player *, Japanese high jumper *, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Japanese Cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi *, Japanese actor *, Japanese diver *, manga artist *, Japanese film director *, Japanese astronomer *, Japanese actor, voice actor and theatre director *, Japanese film director *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese ice hockey player * , Japanese baseball player * , Japanese professional mixed martial arts fighter and former

judoka is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyc ...

* , Japanese cinematographer * , Chief of Staff of Japanese Imperial Guard during the close of World War II *, Japanese film director *, Japanese fraudster *

Kazuo Nakamura Kazuo Nakamura was a Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor (born Vancouver October 13, 1926; died Toronto April 9, 2002) and a founding member of the Toronto-based Painters Eleven group in the 1950s. Among the first major Japanese Canadian arti ...

(1926–2002), Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor *, Japanese basketball coach *, briefly the leader of the

Yamaguchi-gumi is Japan's largest ''yakuza'' organization. It is named after its founder Harukichi Yamaguchi. Its origins can be traced back to a loose labor union for longshoreman, dockworkers in Kobe before World War II. It is one of the largest organized cr ...

yakuza syndicate in the chaotic years of the Yama-Ichi War *, Japanese magazine editor and photography critic *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese art director *, Japanese dancer associated with Butoh *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese billionaire businessman, and art collector *, Japanese philologist and novelist *, Japanese-American professional wrestler *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer and manager *, Japanese racewalker *, first prisoner of war held by the US in World War II *, known as Mr. Sakurada, retired Japanese professional wrestler *

Kazuo Sato (disambiguation) Kazuo Sato may refer to: *, Japanese cross-country skier *, Japanese weightlifter {{hndis, Sato, Kazuo ...

, multiple people *, Japanese politician *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese architect *, Japanese abstract painter *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese mixed martial artist *, Godfather of the

yakuza syndicate *, Japanese TV presenter and announcer *, chairman of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese businessman *, Japanese conductor *, Japanese sociologist * Kazuo Chaed , Film Director

Fictional characters

* Kazuo Tengan, the antagonist of ''

Danganronpa is a Japanese video game franchise created by Kazutaka Kodaka and developed and owned by Spike Chunsoft (formerly Spike). The series primarily surrounds various groups of apparent high-school students who are forced into murdering each oth ...

'' * Kazuo Nakano, character in Yudetamago's manga series ''

Kinnikuman is a Japanese manga series created by the duo Yoshinori Nakai and Takashi Shimada, known as Yudetamago. It follows Suguru Kinniku, a superhero who must win a wrestling tournament to retain the title of prince of Planet Kinniku. ...

'' * Kazuo Saki, brother of the Shredder from the 1987–1996 animated TV series, ''

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' (''TMNT'') is an American media franchise created by comic book artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It follows Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Leonardo, Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), D ...

'' * Kazuo Uzuki, fictional baseball player that

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created as an April Fools' Day hoax * Kazuo Kiriyama, the primary antagonist of ''

Battle Royale Battle Royale may refer to: * Battle royale, or battle royal, a fight among many combatants ** Battle royal (professional wrestling) Fiction and literature * Battle royale genre, a narrative genre of films, manga, anime and visual novels inspire ...

'' * Kazuo Makunoichi, fictional character in ''

Hajime no Ippo is a Japanese boxing-themed manga series written and illustrated by George Morikawa. It has been serialized by Kodansha in the manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' since October 1989, with its chapters collected in 143 volum ...

Video games

* Kazuo or Go! Sudoku, is the name for the Japanese release of the

PlayStation Portable The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005, and in PA ...

puzzle game * Kazuo Sawa is the name of a video game composer. Notable works include the soundtracks for '' The Battle of Olympus'' and '' Rivercity Ransom'' * Kazuo Akuji is the leader of the Ronin in the

Saints Row 2 ''Saints Row 2'' is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by THQ. It is the sequel to 2006's '' Saints Row'' and the second installment in the ''Saints Row'' series. The game was released in October 2008 for the Pla ...

* Kazuo Hoshiro is the leader of the Investigation Team of

Sweet Home (video game) ''Sweet Home'' is a role-playing video game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Family Computer in 1989. It was developed alongside the Sweet Home (1989 film), horror film of the same name and tells the stor ...

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