Junji

For the major general of the Tang Dynasty, see Hou Junji. For the Hong Kong film, see Shamo (film).

Junji

Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Other names
Related names	Jun Jun'ichi Jun'ichirō Junko

Junji (じゅんじ, ジュンジ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Written forms

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

• 純二, "chaste, two"
• 純次, "chaste, next"
• 純治, "chaste, govern"
• 淳司, "pure, conduct"
• 淳次, "pure, next"
• 準二, "conform, two"
• 准次, "associate, next"
• 順二, "sequence, two"
• 順治, "sequence, govern"
• 潤次, "moisture, next"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• Junji Arias (born 1976), Filipino singer and songwriter
• Junji Hirata (淳嗣, born 1956), Japanese professional wrestler
• Junji Ishiwatari (born 1977), Japanese musician, and former guitarist and songwriter for the Japanese rock band Supercar
• Junji Ito (潤二, born 1963), Japanese horror manga artist
• Junji Kinoshita (順二, 1914–2006), Japanese playwright
• Junji Majima (淳司, born 1978), Japanese voice actor
• Junji Nishimura (純二, born 1955), Japanese animation director and producer
• Junji Tanigawa (,born 1965), Japanese artist and designer
• Junji Sakamoto (順治, born 1957), Japanese film director
• Junji Takada (純次, born 1947), Japanese actor and comedian
• Junji Watanabe (渡部 惇二, born 1944), Japanese boxer

Characters

• Junji Manda (じゅんじ), a character in the anime series Ojamajo Doremi
• Junji, a character in the Adventures on the Orange Islands season of the Pokémon anime series. Known in the dub as Gulzar.