What is "gentaro"

Gentarō is a Japanese male personal name, and may refer to:

• Kodama Gentarō (1852-1906), Imperial Japanese Army general and Meiji era government official
• Yamashita Gentarō (1863-1931), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral
• Gentaro Takahashi (born 1974), Japanese professional wrestler

is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Gentaro (stylized in all capital letters). Though officially affiliated with the Pro Wrestling Freedoms promotion, Gentaro also works for several other independent promotions, including DDT Pro-Wrestling, Kaientai Dojo and women's wrestling promotion Ice Ribbon, where he works mainly as the lead play-by-play announcer. Takahashi also makes sporadic appearances as the masked character Benten (also stylized in all capital letters).