# Shin'ichi

Shin'ichi or Shinichi (しんいち, シンイチ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Shin and ichi are separated and it is pronounced.

## Written forms

Different kanji that are pronounced "shin" (しん) are combined with the kanji for "one" (一, ichi, いち)" to give different names:
* 真一, "true, one"
* 信一, "belief, one"
* 伸一, "extend, one"
* 進一, "progress, one"
* 新一, "new, one"
* 慎一, "humility, one"
* 晋一, "advance, one"
* 紳一, "gentleman, one"
* 鎮一, "tranquilize, one"
* 愼一, "care, one"

## People with the name

* Shinichi Aoki (紳一, born 1965), Japanese professional Go player
* Shinichi Chiba (真一), also known as Sonny Chiba, a Japanese actor
* Shinichi Fujimura (新一, born 1950), Japanese amateur archaeologist
* Shin'ichi Hisamatsu (久松 真一, 1889–1980), Japanese Zen Buddhist scholar, philosopher and tea master
* Shinichi Honma (本間 信一, born 1934), Japanese ice hockey player
* Shinichi Hoshi (新一, 1926–1997), Japanese novelist and science fiction writer
* Shinichi Ikejiri (池尻 愼一, 1909–1945), Japanese physician and writer
* Shin'ichi Ishiwata (信一), Japanese scientist
* Shinichi Itoh (真一, born 1966), Japanese professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
* Shinichi Iwasaki (岩崎 伸一, born 1968), Japanese ice hockey player
* Shinichi Kitaoka (伸一, born 1948), Japanese professor of political science
* Shinichi Mori (進一, born 1947), Japanese enka singer
* Shinichi Ota (太田 真一, born 1975), Japanese cyclist
* Shinichi Sato (baseball) (佐藤 真一, born 1965), Japanese baseball player
* Shinichi Sato (footballer) (佐藤 真一, born 1975), Japanese footballer
* Shin'ichi Satō (shogi) (佐藤 慎一, born 1982), Japanese shogi player
* Shinichi Sekizawa (新一, 1921–1992), Japanese screenwriter
* Shinichi Shinohara (信一, born 1973), Japanese judoka
* Shinichi Suzuki (violinist) (鎮一, 1898–1998), Japanese violinist
* Suzuki Shin'ichi I (真一, 1835–1918), Japanese photographer
* Suzuki Shin'ichi II (真一, 1855–1912), Japanese photographer
* Shinichi Tanaka (田中 信一, born 1959), Japanese ski jumper
* Shin'ichi Tanaka (photographer) (田中 新一), Japanese photographer
* Shinichi Tomii (富井 慎一, born 1980), Japanese modern pentathlete
* Shinichi Tsutsumi (真一, born 1964), Japanese stage and screen actor
* Shinichi Watanabe (慎一, born 1964), Japanese anime director
* Wakakirin Shinichi (真一, born 1983), Japanese sumo wrestler
* Shinichi Osawa (伸一, born 1967), Japanese pop artist
* Shinichi Ishihara (born 1960), anison singer and anime voice actor
* Shinichi Morishita (born 1960), Japanese football player

## Fictional characters

* Shinichi Kudō (新一) in the US Version named Jimmy Kudo, the main protagonist of the anime and manga series Case Closed (Detective Conan)
* Shin'ichi Akiyama, the male protagonist of the manga Liar game
* Shin'ichi Chiaki, the male protagonist of the manga Nodame Cantabile
* Shinichi Izumi, the protagonist of the anime and manga series Parasyte
* Shinichi, kitsune antagonist in the trilogy of books The Vampire Diaries: The Return
* Shinichi Namura is a character in Marmalade Boy. He is Meiko's teacher and secret lover in the manga and anime series.
* Shinichi Sakurai, the male protagonist of Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!
* Shin'ichi Susuki, the protagonist of YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story
* Shinichi- The son of a chauffeur who’s kidnapped for a ransom in the 1963 Akira Kurosawa crime drama High and Low