Kohji Haneda

Koji Haneda
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Profile
Japanese name:	羽田 浩司 (Haneda Kōji)
English name:	Koji Haneda
Age:	Unknown (deceased)
Gender:	Male
Relatives:	Shukichi Haneda (brother-in-law)
Occupation:	Shogi player
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: File 947 (In a silhouette)
Appearances:	Koji Haneda Appearances

Koji Haneda (羽田 浩司 ,Haneda Kōji) was a professional shogi player and Shukichi Haneda's brother-in-law in the manga Detective Conan.

Background

The name Koji Haneda is described in the second line from Shinichi Kudo.

Koji was a talented shogi player that his "not-related-by-blood" brother, Shukichi Haneda, deeply respected. Many had high hopes that Koji would win all seven of the major shogi titles.

He died under mysterious circumstances when in the United States participating in a chess tournament, a game he also enjoyed. Ai Haibara suggests that Koji may have been murdered with APTX 4869 since a person with the same name appeared on the list of people killed by the poison.

Personality

Koji's motto was "one should stick with one's original plan" (初志貫徹 ,shoshi kantetsu).

Plot overview

Murdered Professor Case (Manga: 179, Anime: 129)

Haibara says that APTX 4869 victims died except Shinichi.

Shukichi's Envelope Case (Manga: 945-947, Anime: TBA)

Koji was mentioned by Shukichi to Yumi Miyamoto on the phone. Shukichi says that he respected Koji, and Koji's motto was "one should stick with one's original plan".

After Shukichi and Yumi's talking, Haibara asks Conan whether does he know Koji Haneda. Conan answers her that Koji was a talented shogi player, but he died under mysterious circumstances when he went to the United States participating in a chess tournament. Haibara recognizes that there is the name Koji Haneda in the list of people killed by APTX 4869.

Appellations

Picture	Name	What they call Koji	What Koji calls them
	Shukichi Haneda	Haneda Koji	-

Picture	Name	What they call Koji	What Koji calls them
	Conan Edogawa	Taiko Meijin's brother-in-law (Taiko Meijin no giri no niisan) The shogi player (sono kishi)	-
	Ai Haibara	Haneda Koji	-

Picture	Name	What they call Koji	What Koji calls them
	Yumi Miyamoto	Haneda Koji	-

Relationship analysis

Shukichi Haneda

Shukichi is a non-blood brother of Koji, either by adoption, marriage, or some other means. Shukichi deeply respected him and likely changed one of his name characters slightly to honor Koji.

Name origin

Maybe the name Koji Haneda (羽田 浩司 ,Haneda Kōji) comes from Yoshiharu Habu (羽生 善治 ,Habu Yoshiharu) and Kōji Tanigawa (谷川 浩司 ,Tanigawa Kōji), real-life shogi players.

Shukichi Haneda (羽田 秀𠮷 ,Haneda Shūkichi) may have changed his name slightly to honor the late Koji Haneda. Koji's given name is 浩司, and the first character's radicals are (氵 ノ 土 口). 土 is earth's do. Shukichi's given name is spelled 秀𠮷, with the final "kichi" kanji also including the radical for earth's do. This 𠮷 for kichi is a very rare variant; 99% of the time kichi is written as 吉 with 士 (man/samurai's shi) instead.

Trivia

• In Episode 128, furigana (Japanese reading aid) of his surname is Hada (ハダ ).
• Gosho Aoyama mentioned there was "red herring" in Volume 18, the same volume the list of APTX 4869 victims appeared in.

In other languages

Language	Given Name	Family Name	Notes
Japanese	浩司 Kōji	羽田 Haneda/Hada
English	Koji	Haneda
Chinese	浩司 Hàosī	羽田 Yǔtián
Italian	Muneo	??-neda	Muneo (宗男) is a name of another victim in the Japanese and English versions.

See also

• Koji Haneda Appearances
• APTX 4869
• List of Black Organization related characters
• Shukichi Haneda