Toshio

Toshio

Toshio Ogawa. Vice President of the House of Councillors of Japan.
Pronunciation	toɕio (IPA)
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	Different meanings depending on the kanji used
Region of origin	Japan
Other names
Alternative spelling	Tosio (Kunrei-shiki) Tosio (Nihon-shiki) Toshio (Hepburn)

Toshio is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Written forms

Toshio can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 敏夫, "agile, man"
• 敏男, "agile, man"
• 敏雄, "agile, male"
• 俊夫, "sagacious, man"
• 俊雄, "sagacious, male"
• 利生, "advantage, life"
• 寿雄, "long life, male"
• 登志男, "ascend, intention, man"

The name can also be written in hiragana としお or katakana トシオ.

Notable people with the name

• Toshio Fukumoto (福元 寿夫, born 1960), Japanese water polo player
• Toshio Furukawa (古川 登志夫, born 1946), Japanese voice actor
• Toshio Gotō (後藤 俊夫, born 1938), Japanese film director
• Toshio Iwai (岩井 俊雄, born 1962), Japanese interactive media and installation artist
• Toshio Iwatani (岩谷 俊夫, 1925–1970), Japanese footballer
• Toshio Jingu (神宮 敏男, born 1948), Japanese fencer
• Toshio Kakei (筧 利夫, born 1962), Japanese actor
• Toshio Kimura (木村 俊夫, 1909–1983), Japanese politician
• Toshio Maeda (前田 俊夫, born 1953), Japanese manga artist
• Toshio Masuda (舛田 利雄, born 1927), Japanese film director
• Toshio Matsumoto (松本 俊夫, 1932–2017), Japanese film director
• Toshio Matsumoto (dancer) (松本 利夫, born 1975), Japanese dancer and actor
• Toshio Motoya (元谷 外志雄, born 1943), Japanese writer, publisher and businessman
• Toshio Nakanishi, a Japanese musician and an artist
• Tosiwo Nakayama (中山 利雄, 1931–2003), first president of the Federated States of Micronesia
• Toshio Odate (トシオ・オダテ, born 1930), Japanese-born American sculptor
• Toshio Ogawa (小川 敏夫, born 1948), Japanese politician
• Toshio Shibata (柴田 敏雄, born 1949), Japanese photographer
• Toshio Shimao (島尾 敏雄, 1917–1986), Japanese novelist
• Toshio Suzuki (driver) (鈴木 利男, born 1955), Japanese racing driver
• Toshio Suzuki (producer) (鈴木 敏夫, born 1948), chief producer of the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli
• Toshio Tamogami (田母神 俊雄, born 1948), Japanese Air Self-Defense Force career military officer
• Toshio Tosanoumi (土佐ノ海 敏生, born 1972), Japanese sumo wrestler
• Toshio Ukishima (浮島 敏男, born 1949), Japanese politician
• Toshio Takahashi (高橋 敏夫, born 1949), Japanese water polo player
• Toshio Wakita (脇田 寿雄, born 1965), Japanese bobsledder
• Toshio Yamada (山田 俊男, born 1946), Japanese politician
• Toshio Yamaguchi (山口 敏夫, born 1940), Japanese politician
• Toshio Yamane (山根 敏郎, born 1953), Japanese photographer
• Toshio Narahashi (トシオ・ナラハシ, 1927–2013), Japanese-born American pharmacologist

Fictional characters

• Toshio Ozaki (尾崎 敏夫), a protagonist in the horror novel/manga/anime series Shiki.
• Toshio Saeki (Ju-on) (佐伯 俊雄), a main antagonist in the Japanese horror series Ju-on
• Toshio Utsumi (内海 俊夫), a character in the anime and manga series Cat's Eye