Hikari Ōta is a Japanese television comedian. He is most famous as one half of the owarai duo Bakushō Mondai along with Yūji Tanaka, where he acts as the boke.
Hikari Ōe is a Japanese composer who has autism. He is the son of Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe and Yukari Ikeuchi, the younger sister of director Juzo Itami. Hikari Ōe was born developmentally disabled. Doctors tried to convince his parents to let their son die, but they refused to do so. Even after an operation, Ōe remained visually impaired, developmentally delayed, epileptic and with limited physical coordination. He does not speak much.
Hikari Minami is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for her work in the Ice Ribbon promotion, where she spent nearly seven years, making her debut in February 2006 at the age of eleven, becoming a two-time ICE×60 Champion and a one-time IW19 Champion. She is also known for her work in DDT Pro-Wrestling, where she is a former three-time Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion. After a three-year hiatus, she returned in November 2015, and is now working for Apple Star Puroresu.
Hikari Ishida is a Japanese actress. She starred along with Megumi Odaka and Natsuki Ozawa in the TV-series Hana no Asuka-gumi!. She also released several singles and six albums and she had one minor hit with the song "Emerald no Suna". Ishida also made numerous commercials for hair products and released several photobooks and videos. Ishida has had at least one song appear on the NHK program Minna no Uta. She is the younger sister of Yuriko Ishida, also an actress.
Hikari Tachibana is a Japanese voice actress. Notably, she performs the voices of Princess Zelda and Tetra in the video game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and had a minor role in two episodes of anime series InuYasha. She has also acted in other video games, like Tokimeki Memorial 2, Power Stone and its sequel, Street Fighter EX, Grandia, La Pucelle: Tactics, and Persona 2 and its sequel.
Hikari Mitsushima is a Japanese actress and singer. She began her music career in 1997 as a teenage idol singer in the J-pop groups Folder and Folder 5. Although she made her acting debut in 1997 with Rebirth of Mothra II, she did not start acting regularly until 2005. She appeared in manga-based thriller film Death Note (2006) and the well-received drama Love Exposure (2008), directed by Sion Sono. Her performance in the latter brought her critical attention and won her several awards. Since then she has had starring roles in Kakera: A Piece of Our Life (2009) and Sawako Decides (2010), written and directed by Yuya Ishii, whom she subsequently married in late 2010. They divorced in 2016 and since then she dates her colleague, actor Kento Nagayama.
Hikari Hino is a Japanese former AV idol who performed for several prominent adult video (AV) companies and who appeared in more than 500 AVs. For the year 2009, Hino placed number 28 in the list of 100 best selling actresses at the major Japanese adult video distributor DMM, and in 2010, five years after her debut in AV, she was ranked at number 62 in sales. In 2012, when DMM held a poll of its customers to choose the 100 all-time best AV actresses to celebrate the 30th anniversary of adult videos in Japan, Hino finished in 43rd place in the overall balloting.
I like this name, but unfortunately it's an overused joke in the anime fandom. It's a favorite of otakus, and Mary Sues are often named either this or Sakura.
Hikari can also be a boy's name. I know because I personally know a man who has this name (and I'm absolutely sure he's called "Hikari" and not "Hikaru" like most boys/men would be called).
This was the Japanese name for the character Kari on the popular anime or children series "Digimon" in its seasons 1 and 2. The name is pefect for her because the crest that she bore for the show that reflected her character was the crest of light.
I really am into Japanese names, even though I am not the least bit Japanese. I personally think that Hikari goes nice with the name Rose. Hikari Rose has a nice ring to it, and seems pretty uncommon.
I absolutely adore this name! I may actually name my daughter this name, although I am Canadian. I may name her Kari instead, since it sounds a lot like Hikari, although doesn't have the same meaning. I also prefer it pronounced hi-Ko-ree even if it is pronounced hee-KOR-ee.
The English version of Utada Hikaru's song "Hikari" is called "Simple and Clean" and was used as the theme song in the PlayStation2 video game "Kingdom Hearts" by Square Enix. Likewise, the Japanese version "Hikari" was used in the original Japanese version of the game.
Though "Hikari" happens to be my Japanese name (chose it myself because I like the concept of being a light to others), it's not so common in my generation. I think most girls named Hikari are under 20. The kanji for this name can also be pronounced "Hikaru" and is much more common as a name and is used for boys OR girls.
I believe a mildly popular fanfictioner is known as "Nina Hikari." And to my belief, she's always pronounced it as "Nee-Na Hee-Kar-EE" or something like that.