Kohji Haneda
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| Japanese name: | 羽田 浩司 (Haneda Kōji) |
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| English name: | Koji Haneda[1] |
| Age: | Unknown (deceased) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Relatives: | Shukichi Haneda (non-blood brother) |
| Occupation: | Shogi player |
| First appearance: | Manga: File 947 (In a silhouette) / File 948 (first full-face appearance) |
| Appearances: | Chapters: 18 Episodes: 10 Openings: 1 Closings: 1 |
Kohji Haneda (羽田 浩司 Haneda Kōji) was a professional shogi player and Shukichi Haneda's non-blood brother in the manga Detective Conan.
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Background
Kohji Haneda was a talented shogi player that his "not-related-by-blood"[2] brother, Shukichi Haneda, deeply respected. Many had high hopes that Kohji would win all seven of the major shogi titles.
Seventeen years ago, he died under mysterious circumstances when in the United States participating in a chess tournament, a game he also enjoyed. Ai Haibara suggests that Kohji may have been murdered with APTX 4869 since a person with the same name appeared on the list of people killed by the poison. It has been discovered that Rum may have been involved with his death due to the dying message missing letters that could be arranged to spell "ASACA RUM".
Personality
Kohji's motto was "one should stick with one's original plan" (初志貫徹 shoshi kantetsu)[3]. The same motto was written on a fan that Shukichi now owns.
Plot overview
Murdered Professor Case (Manga: 179, Anime: 129)
Haibara remembers a list of people that the drug APTX 4869 was used on in the past. She says that all of the other APTX 4869 victims were confirmed dead, except Shinichi. On that list was a name, Kohji Haneda (羽田 浩司 Haneda Kōji), which was not relevant to the readers at the time.
Shukichi's Envelope Case (Manga: 945-947, Anime: TBA)
Kohji was mentioned by Shukichi to Yumi Miyamoto on the phone. Shukichi says that he respected Kohji, and Kohji's motto was "one should stick with one's original plan".
After Shukichi and Yumi's talk, Haibara asks Conan whether he knows the name Kohji Haneda. Conan answers that Kohji was a talented shogi player, but he died under mysterious circumstances when he went to the United States to participate in a chess tournament. Haibara recognizes the name Kohji Haneda as one that was on the list of people killed by APTX 4869.
Kohji Haneda's Death Case (Manga: 948-950, Anime: TBA)
Conan investigates on the internet and finds that someone has been uploading information on Kohji's death. Kohji went to the United States to participate in a chess tournament seventeen years ago. The night before the tournament, he was attacked by someone and died at a hotel where he stayed. The room was ransacked, and he resisted. The cause of death is unknown. On the same day and at the same hotel as him, a wealthy person named Amanda Hughes died as well. She was a big fan of Kohji. Amanda's bodyguard, Asaka, went missing and still can't be found. Agasa reveals that a similar murder has happened recently so they put the investigation on hold. After Conan and Subaru solve that case, they decipher the meaning of the missing letters on the mirror of Kohji's room. Kohji's dying message from 17 years ago was "ASACA RUM", so Rum may be involved in their deaths.
Since the dying message was "P T O N", the answer to it must contain all of the missing letters of "U MASCARA"
PUT ON MASCARA - P T ON = U MASCARA
U MASCARA - ASACA (for Asaka) = U M R
Which can be rearranged to make RUM
making the answer "ASACA RUM"
Appellations
Relationship analysis
Shukichi Haneda
Shukichi is a non-blood brother of Kohji, either by adoption, marriage, or some other means. Shukichi deeply respected him and likely changed one of his name characters slightly to honor Kohji.
Shuichi Akai
A relationship between Kohji and Shuichi Akai is unknown, but the case of Kohji's death made Shuichi an FBI agent.[4]
Shuichi's father
Shuichi's deceased father is related to Kohji's death.[5]
Name origin
Maybe the name Kohji 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 Kohji Haneda. Kohji'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 129, furigana (Japanese reading aid) of his surname is Hada (ハダ ).
- Gosho Aoyama mentioned there was "red herring" in Volume 18[6], the same volume the list of APTX 4869 victims appeared in.
In other languages
| Language | Given Name | Family Name | Notes |
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 Japanese |
浩司 Kōji | 羽田 Haneda[3]/Hada[7] | |
 English |
Koji | Haneda | [1] |
 Chinese |
浩司 Hàosī | 羽田 Yǔtián | |
 Italian |
Muneo | ??-neda | [8] Muneo (宗男) is a name of another victim in the Japanese and English versions. |
 Danish |
Hiroshi | Haneda |
See also
References
- ^ a b Case Closed File 179 (Reference: File:English APTX list.jpg)
- ^ Shukichi was a 義理の兄 to Kohji: an adopted brother or step brother, rather than a blood brother.
- ^ a b c d e f g File 947: Motto (Volume 89)
- ^ a b c d e File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)
- ^ File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)
- ^ Let's Talk with Gosho Aoyama-sensei Day 2016
- ^ In Episode 129
- ^ Italian Volume 18, File 179 (Reference: File:Italian APTX list.jpg)
| APTX 4869 | ||
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| Developers | Atsushi Miyano • Elena Miyano • Shiho Miyano | |
| Victims | Shinichi Kudo • Kohji Haneda • Amanda Hughes • Mary Sera • Shiho Miyano | |
| Antidotes | Prototype antidote • Baijiu | |
| Related Articles | Silver Bullet • Victim list • Case from 17 years ago • Black Organization | |
