Kōichi, Koichi, Kouichi or Kohichi is a masculine

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

Kōichi can be written using different

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subse ...

characters and can mean: *晃一, "clear, one" *幸一, "happiness, one" *光一, "light, one" *孝一, "filial piety, one" *弘一, "vast, one" *浩一, "abundance, one" *宏一, "wide, one" *耕一, "cultivate, one" *孝市, "filial piety, market" The name can also be written in

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'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" ori ...

(こういち) or

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 ...

(コウイチ).

People with the name

*, Japanese baseball player * Koichi Chigira (孝一, born 1959), Japanese anime director *

Koichi Domoto is a Japanese idol, singer, actor, singer-songwriter, composer, lyricist, television personality, voice actor. Along with Tsuyoshi Domoto (with whom he has no blood-relation), he is a member of the duo KinKi Kids, who holds the Guinness World Reco ...

(born 1979), Japanese performing artist * Kōichi Fukaura, Japanese shogi player * Koichi Fukuda (born 1975), Japanese musician * Koichi Iida ((飯田鴻一, 1888–1973), Japanese businessman *, Japanese golfer *

Koichi Ishii , sometimes credited as Kouichi Ishii, is a video game designer perhaps best known for creating the ''Mana'' series (known as ''Seiken Densetsu'' in Japan). He joined Square (now Square Enix) in 1987, where he has directed or produced every game r ...

(浩一, born 1964), Japanese game designer * Koichi Kato (LDP) (born 1939), Japanese politician *

Koichi Kato (DPJ) is a Japanese politician from Tokyo and a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. He represents the House of Representatives Tokyo 20 electoral district. A native of Chiyoda, Tokyo is a special ward located in central Tokyo, Japan. It i ...

(born 1964), Japanese politician * Koichi Kawakita (born 1942), Japanese special effects artist * Kōichi Kido (1889–1977), Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan during World War II *, Japanese shogi player * Kōichi Kitamura (1931–2007), Japanese voice actor *

Kōichi Mashimo (born June 21, 1952) is a Japanese anime director and the founder of the animation studio Bee Train. Since the creation of the studio, Mashimo directed or otherwise participated in a large number of the studio's works, for example, as a membe ...

(born 1952), Japanese anime director *, Japanese rower * Koichi Mizushima (born 1965), Japanese gymnast *, Japanese long-distance runner * Koichi Morita (army officer) *

Koichi Morita (songwriter) (born February 25, 1940), is a Japanese composer and singer who launched his recording career in the late 1960s and had gained huge commercial success during the 1970s. He often teamed up with lyricist Yū Aku and orchestrator Junichi Makaino, ...

*, Japanese footballer *, Japanese video game designer *, former professional racing cyclist and ten-consecutive-time world champion in track cycling sprint * Koichi Nishimura (born 1973), Japanese volleyball player *Koichi Omura (大村皓一, born 1938), Japanese computer animator *, Japanese golfer *

Kōichi Sakaguchi is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with 81 Produce. He also had a recurring role in both the Japanese and English language ''Pokémon'' anime which saw him voicing Jessie's Arbok up until Episode 6 of the Hoenn series which saw Arbok and its c ...

(坂口　候一, born 1968), Japanese voice actor *, Japanese actor *, Japanese biathlete *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese philatelist *, Japanese ski jumper *, Japanese murderer *, Japanese bobsledder * Koichi Sugiyama (こういち; birth name 浩一, born 1931), Japanese video game composer *

Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese electrical engineer who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules with John Bennett Fenn and Kurt Wüthrich (the latter for work in N ...

(born 1959), Japanese Nobel Prize winner in chemistry *, Japanese footballer and manager * Koichi Tohei (born 1920), Japanese aikido practitioner * Kōichi Tokita (born 1961), Japanese manga artist *

Kōichi Tōchika is a Japanese voice actor who works for Haikyo. Notable voice roles Anime *Lance in '' 07 Ghost'' *Brindo and young Hody Jones in '' One Piece'' * Check Mate and Ilioukhine in ''Kinnikuman Nisei'' ('' Ultimate Muscle'') *Arizona Governor in ...

(born 1971), Japanese voice actor *

Koichi Wakata is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. Wakata is a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions, a Russian Soyuz mission, and a long-duration stay on the International Space Station. During a nearly two-decade career in spaceflight, he has ...

(born 1963), Japanese astronaut *

Kōichi Yamadera is a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and singer from Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture. He graduated from Tohoku Gakuin University's economics school and is currently affiliated with Across Entertainment. Before that, he was affiliated with th ...

(born 1961), Japanese voice actor * Koichi Kobayashi (born 1952), Japanese Go player * Koichi Morishita (born 1967), Japanese long-distance runner *, Japanese sumo wrestler

Fictional characters

* Kouichi Kimura, from the TV series ''

Digimon Frontier , is the fourth anime television series in the '' Digimon'' franchise, produced by Toei Animation. Unlike the previous series, the main characters can merge with ancient spirits known as "Legendary Warriors" to become Digimon themselves. The ...

'' * Koichi Shido, from manga/anime ''Highschool of the Dead'' * Kouichi Hayase, from manga/anime ''Linebarrels of Iron'' * Koichi Zenigata, from ''Lupin III'' * Koichi Hayama, from adult anime/game ''Moonlight Lady'' * Koichi Hiramoto, from '' Wangan Midnight'' * Koichi Kijima, from '' Wangan Midnight'' * Kōichi Tanemura, a character from the anime/manga '' Hanasaku Iroha'' * Kōichi Sakakibara, the main protagonist of the series ''

Another Another or variant may refer to: * anOther or Another Magazine, culture and fashion magazine * ''Another'' (novel), a Japanese horror novel ** ''Another'' (film), a Japanese 2012 live-action film based on the novel * Another River, a river in th ...

'' * Koichi Hirose, a character from the manga ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' * Koichi Kizakura, a character from the anime '' Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School'' * Koichi Haimawari, a character from the manga ''

Boku no Hero Academia is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 2014, with its chapters additionally collected into ...

'' * Koichi Adachi, a character and main party member from the videogame '' Yakuza: Like a Dragon'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Koichi Japanese masculine given names