Satoru
Satoru is a Japanese verb meaning "to know" or "understand". It is a common masculine Japanese given name. Satoru is the root of the Zen Buddhist word Satori.
Written forms
Satoru can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:- 悟る, "be spiritually awakened" or "attain higher perception"
- 悟, "enlightenment"
- 聡, "smart"
- 智, "wisdom"
- 知, "knowledge"
- 了, "understanding"
- 哲, "philosophy"
- 聖, "virtuous"
- 暁, "daybreak"
People with the name
- Satoru Abe, American painter and sculptor
- Satoru Akahori, Japanese scriptwriter, novelist and manga author
- Satoru Asako Japanese professional wrestler
- Satoru Higashi, Japanese boxer
- Satoru Ienishi, Japanese politician
- Satoru Inoue, Japanese sprinter
- Satoru Iwata, fourth president and CEO of Nintendo
- Satoru Kawahara, Japanese table tennis player
- Satoru Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
- Satoru Komiyama, Japanese professional baseball player
- Satoru Kōsaki, Japanese music composer
- Satoru Matsuhashi, Japanese ski jumper
- Satoru Misawa, Japanese ice hockey player
- Satoru Miyano, Japanese bioinformatician
- Satoru Miyoshi, Japanese rower
- Satoru Mizushima, Japanese film maker
- Satoru Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
- Satoru Nakano, Japanese swimmer
- Satoru Noda (artist), Japanese manga artist
- Satoru Noda (footballer), Japanese footballer
- Satoru Nomura, Japanese Yakuza leader
- Satoru Okada, general manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering
- Satoru Otomo, a Japanese astronomer
- Satoru Sakaguchi, Japanese shogi player
- Satoru Sasaki, Japanese long-distance runner
- Satoru Sayama, Japanese professional wrestler
- Satoru Shibata, president of Nintendo of Europe
- Satoru Tanigawa, Japanese hurdler
- Satoru Terao, Japanese speed skater
- Satoru Yamagishi, Japanese football player
- Satoru Yamamoto, Grand Chamberlain of Japan
- Satoru Yoshida, Japanese footballer
Fictional characters
- Satoru Gojo, one of the protagonists in Jujutsu Kaisen
- Satoru, a side character in the manga and anime series One Punch Man
- Satoru Akefu, a major antagonist in the eighth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series JoJolion
- Search Guard Successor Foundation#Satoru Akashi, the main hero of the tokusatsu series GoGo Sentai Boukenger
- Satoru Arihara, the main character in the visual novel RIDDLE JOKER
- Satoru Fujinuma, the main character in the manga, anime, and film Boku Dake ga Inai Machi
- Satoru Furuya, a character in the manga and anime series Ace of Diamond
- Satoru Hani, a character in the manga and anime series Shion no Ō
- Satoru Ikaruga, the main character in the manga series D-Live!!
- Satoru Kamio, a character in the manga and anime series Gingitsune
- Satoru Kanzaki, a character in the manga and anime series Area 88
- Satoru Mikami, a character and Rimuru Tempest's previous self in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
- Satoru Ohkura, a character in the Japanese drama Atashinchi no Danshi
- Satoru Tojo, a character in the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Ryuki
- Satoru Toyama, a character in the anime series Wonderful PreCure!
- Satoru Tsukada, a character in the web comics Randal's Friends
- Satoru Yotsumura, a character in the manga series ''Sakamoto Days''