Yōji or Yoji (ようじ, ヨウジ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.
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 or katakana.
with the given name Yōji
Yoji Akao (洋二, born 1928), Japanese planning specialist
Yoji Anjo (洋二, born 1967), Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
Yoji (DJ), a Japanese trance/hard trance DJ
Yōji Enokido (洋司, born 1963), Japanese screenwriter
Yoji Harada (洋二郎, born 1973), Japanese tattoo artist
Yoji Kondo, astrophysicist
Yōji Matsuda (born 1967), voice actor
Yoji Muto (容治, born 1955), Japanese politician
Yoji Shinkawa (洋司, born 1971), Japanese illustrator and conceptual artist
Yoji Totsuka (洋二, 1942–2008), Japanese physicist
Yōji Ueda (燿司, born 1971), Japanese voice actor
Yoji Yamada (洋次, born 1931), Japanese film director
Yoji Ito (1901–1950), engineer and scientist
Yoji Mizuguchi (born 1944), Japanese football player and manager
Yōji Kuri (born 1928), Japanese cartoonist and independent filmmaker
Yoji Kudou (耀爾), a character in the anime series Weiß Kreuz
Yoji Kuramoto (洋二), a character in Battle Royale
Yoji/Yo-Yoji (alias, not known true name), a character from The Secret Series, friend of Cass and Max-Ernest.
