Yōji, Yoji, Youji, or Yohji is a common masculine Japanese given name

Written forms Yōji can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

洋二, "ocean, second" 洋次, "ocean, next" 洋司, "ocean, rule" 洋治, "ocean, govern" 陽二, "sunshine, second" 陽次, "sunshine, next" 陽司, "sunshine, rule" 陽治, "sunshine, govern"

The name can also be written in hiragana ようじ or katakana ヨウジ.

People with the given name with the given name Yōji

Yoji (DJ), a Japanese trance/hard trance DJ , Japanese planning specialist , Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter , Japanese screenwriter and novelist , Japanese tattoo artist and musician , Japanese engineer and scientist , Japanese actor , Japanese-born American astrophysicist , Japanese cartoonist and independent filmmaker , Japanese actor and voice actor , Japanese politician , Japanese politician , Japanese wheelchair curler , Japanese water polo coach , Japanese playwright , Japanese footballer , Japanese former handball player , Japanese water polo player , Japanese illustrator and conceptual artist , Japanese pedagogist and professor , Japanese actor and tarento , Japanese physicist , Japanese voice actor , Japanese film director , Japanese fashion designer

Fictional characters Yoji Kudou (工藤 耀爾), a character in the anime series Weiß Kreuz Yoji Kuramoto (倉元 洋二), a character in Battle Royale Yoji/Yo-Yoji (alias, true name unknown), a character from The Secret Series