Akemi

Akemi is a unisex Japanese given name.

Possible writings
Akemi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:


 * 明美, "bright, beauty"
 * 明実, "bright, fruit"
 * 明海, "bright, sea"
 * 明巳, "bright, sign of the snake (Chinese zodiac)"
 * 朱美, "vermilion, beauty"
 * 朱未, "vermilion, not yet"
 * 朱実, "vermilion, fruit"
 * 暁美, "dawn, beauty"
 * 曙覧, "daybreak, view"

The name can also be written in hiragana あけみ or katakana アケミ.

Notable people with the name

 * Akemi Darenogare (ダレノガレ 明美), Japanese fashion model and television personality
 * Akemi Kanda (神田 朱未), Japanese voice actress
 * Akemi Kato (加藤 明美), Japanese field hockey player
 * Akemi Masuda (増田 明美), Japanese marathon runner
 * Akemi Matsunae (松苗 あけみ), Japanese manga artist
 * Akemi Matsuno (松野 明美), Japanese marathon runner
 * Akemi Morikawa (森川 明美), Japanese fencer
 * Akemi Morimoto (森本 朱美), Japanese cyclist
 * Akemi Negishi (根岸 明美), Japanese actress
 * Akemi Niwa (丹羽 明美), Japanese curler
 * Akemi Noda (野田 朱美), Japanese football player
 * Akemi Okamura (岡村 明美), Japanese voice actress and narrator
 * Akemi Satō (singer) (佐藤 朱美), Japanese singer
 * Akemi Satō (voice actress) (佐藤 朱), Japanese voice actress
 * Akemi Sugiyama (杉山 明美), Japanese volleyball player
 * Akemi Tachibana (橘 曙覧), male Japanese poet and classical scholar
 * Akemi Takada (高田 明美), Japanese artist and illustrator
 * Akemi Taniguchi (谷口 明見), Japanese Nordic combined skier

Fictional characters

 * Akemi (朱美), a character in the manga series Vagabond
 * Akemi (明美), a character in the video game Red Ninja: End of Honor
 * Akemi (アケミ), a character in the manga series Saikano
 * Akemi Kinoshita (木下 明美), a character in the cell phone novel Ōsama Game
 * Akemi Miyano (宮野 明美), a character in the manga series Case Closed
 * Akemi Nakajima (中島 朱実), protagonist of the novel series Digital Devil Story and its video game adaption, Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei
 * Akemi Nakamura, a character in Sister Souljah's books, Midnight: A Gangster Love Story and Midnight and the Meaning of Love
 * Akemi Roppongi (六本木 朱美), a character in the manga series Maison Ikkoku
 * Akemi Sumizome (墨染 朱美), a character in the manga series Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha
 * Akemi Togawa (戸川 アケミ), a character in the 1966 film The War of the Gargantuas
 * Akemi Yajima (矢島 明美), a character in the manga series Salaryman Kintarō
 * Akemi Aizawa (相沢 あけみ), a character in the manga series Tomo-chan Is a Girl!
 * Akemi, a character in David Mack's comic book series Kabuki
 * Akemi Suzaku (朱雀 アケミ), a character in the anime series Great Pretender
 * Homura Akemi (暁美 ほむら), a character in the anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica