Osamu

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Osamu
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameJapanese
MeaningIt can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.

Osamu (おさむ, オサム) is a masculine Japanese given name.

Possible writings[]

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

  • 治 "reign"
  • 修 "discipline"
  • 理 "logic"
  • 収 "obtain"
  • 紀 "chronicle"
  • 統 "rule"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People with the name[]

  • Osamu Abe (baseball) (安部 理, born 1962), Japanese baseball player and coach
  • Osamu Abe (rower) (安部 収, born 1913), Japanese rower
  • Osamu Adachi (理, born 1987), Japanese actor and a member of the acting group D-BOYS
  • Osamu Akimoto (秋本 治, born 1952), Japanese manga artist
  • Osamu Dazai (太宰 治, 1909–1948), Japanese author
  • Osamu Dezaki (統, born 1943), Japanese anime director
  • Osamu Fukutani (修, born 1967), Japanese film director
  • Osamu Hayashi (林 修, born 1965), Japanese television personality
  • Osamu Inoue (井上 治, born 1932), Japanese long-distance runner
  • Osamu Jinguuji (治), drummer of the Japanese band Remioromen
  • Osamu Mandai (万代 治, born 1942), Japanese rower
  • Osamu Matsuda or El Samurai (納, born 1966), a Japanese professional wrestler
  • Osamu Mukai (理, born 1982), Japanese actor
  • Osamu Muramatsu (修), Japanese astronomer, and a prolific discoverer of asteroids
  • Osamu Nagayama (born 1947), Japanese CEO of Chugai Pharmaceutical and Chairman of Sony Corporation
  • Osamu Nakamura (中村 修, born 1962), Japanese shogi player
  • Osamu Ochiai (落合 治, born 1931), Japanese sport shooter
  • Osamu Saito (斎藤 修, born 1938), Japanese rower
  • Osamu Saka (阪 脩, born 1930), Japanese actor and voice actor
  • Osamu Sato (理, born 1960), Japanese artist, photographer and composer
  • Osamu Sato (boxer) (修, born 1976), Japanese boxer
  • Osamu Shimomura (下村 脩, 1928–2018), Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist
  • Osamu Shimomura (economist) (下村 治, 1910–1989), Japanese economist
  • Osamu Shitara (設楽 統, born 1973), Japanese comedian and television presenter
  • Osamu Sumida (住田 修, born 1969), Japanese cyclist
  • Osamu Tada (多田 修, born 1935), Japanese alpine skier
  • Osamu Tezuka (治虫, 1928–1989), Japanese manga artist often credited as the "Father of Manga"
  • Osamu Tsurumine (鶴峯 治, 1941–2015), Japanese swimmer
  • Osamu Ueno (上野 修, born 1983), Japanese freestyle skier
  • Osamu Yamazaki (山崎 修, born 1964), Japanese freestyle skier

Fictional characters[]

  • Osamu Kamiyama (治), a character in the anime series Kamisama Kazoku
  • Osamu Kimizuka, a character in the shōnen-ai manga Loveless
  • Osamu Mikumo (修), a character in the anime and manga World Trigger
  • Osamu Miya (宮治), a character in the manga Haikyū!! with the position of wing spiker from Inarizaki High and the twin brother of Atsumu Miya
  • Osamu Dazai (治), a character in the anime and manga Bungou Stray Dogs
  • Osamu Kashiwagi (柏木 修), a character in the video game series Yakuza

See also[]

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