Ginshiro Toyama

	Ginshiro Toyama
	Profile
Japanese name:	遠山銀司郎 ; (Tōyama Ginshirō)
English name:	Chief Thomas
Age:	Unknown
Gender:	Male
Relatives:	Wife (unnamed); Kazuha Toyama (daughter)
Occupation:	Osaka Prefecture Police Chief Criminal Investigator
	Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: File 185; Anime: Episode 118
Appearances:	Chapters: 10; Episodes: 6; Movies: 4; Openings: 2; Closings: 1;
Keyhole number:	Volume 31
	Actors
Japanese voice:	Masato Sako (Episode 118); Shinji Ogawa (Episode 263, Movies 10 & 14)
English voice:	Doug Burks

Ginshiro Toyama (遠山銀司郎 ,Tōyama Ginshirō^?), also known as Chief Thomas in the Funimation dub, is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan. Toyama is the Chief Criminal Investigator (or Chief Detective) in the Osaka police district, and is close friends with the police chief of Osaka, Heizo Hattori. It is due to their friendship that Toyama's daughter, Kazuha, met Heizo's son, Heiji. Very little is known about Detective Toyama, though his first name was finally revealed in The Lost Ship in the Sky.^[1]

Background

Little is known about Detective Toyama's past. Fans originally speculated as to whether Kazuha's parents are divorced or her mother has died, as her mother remained unmentioned until episode 573.^[2]

Appellations

Law enforcementFriends and relatives

Picture	Name	What they call Ginshiro	What Ginshiro calls them
	Heizo Hattori	Toyama	Heizo
	Goro Otaki	Old man Toyama-san	Otaki

Name	What they call Ginshiro	What Ginshiro calls them
Kazuha Toyama	Dad (Otōchan)	Kazuha
Heiji Hattori	-	Heiji-kun
Ran Mouri	Kazuha-chan's father (Kazuha-chan no otōsan)	-

Plot overview

Stabbed Wallet Case (Manga: 185, 188, Anime: 118)

Tiger Scroll Case (Manga: 317, 319-321, Anime: 263)

Toyama joked that he would prefer for Kazuha to marry Heiji Hattori than any other boy.

Heiji Hattori's Desperate Situation (Manga: 390, Anime: 323)

Yuki-Onna Murder Case (Manga: 521, Anime: 490)

Relationships analysis

Family & Friends

Heizo Hattori

Ginshiro Toyama appears to be Police Chief Heizo Hattori's closest friend.

Kazuha Toyama

Ginshiro Toyama is very protective of his daughter. Once, when Heiji dared yell at her, he glared at him until he stopped and said everything very politely.

Name origin

The name Toyama comes from Edo period "police detective" Kagetomo Toyama (遠山景元 Tooyama Kagetomo). Ginshiro is a play on Kinshiro (金四郎), the first name of the main character in the fictionalized Toyama no Kin-san stories based on the historic Toyama's life.

Quotes

In other languages

Language	Given Name	Family Name
Japanese	銀司郎 Ginshirō	遠山 Tōyama
Arabic		توياما Tōyāma
Bahasa Indonesia		Toyama
English		Thomas
French		Toyama
German		Toyama
Italian		Toyama
Korean		서원상 Seo Won Sang
Vietnamese		Toyama
Spanish		Toyama
Thai		โทยามะ

Different looks

Trivia

References

^ ^a ^b Movie 14: The Lost Ship in the Sky, credit roll
^ ^a ^b Volume 66, File 693: "The Charm Recovery Operation!", Page 4 - Kazuha's mother is mentioned for the first time.

v • d • e Main Characters
Protagonists	Shinichi Kudo • Conan Edogawa • Ran Mouri • Kogoro Mouri
Detective Boys	Ai Haibara • Ayumi Yoshida • Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya • Genta Kojima
Family & Friends	Hiroshi Agasa • Sonoko Suzuki • Eri Kisaki • Yusaku Kudo • Yukiko Kudo • Heiji Hattori • Kazuha Toyama • Yoko Okino • Sumiko Kobayashi • Tomoaki Araide • Makoto Kyogoku • Shizuka Hattori • Jirokichi Suzuki • Eisuke Hondou • Azusa Enomoto • Subaru Okiya • Masumi Sera • Shukichi Haneda • Sakurako Yonehara • Rumi Wakasa • Momiji Ooka • Muga Iori • Elena Miyano • Atsushi Miyano
Tokyo Metropolitan Police District	Juzo Megure • Wataru Takagi • Miwako Sato • Ninzaburo Shiratori • Yumi Miyamoto • Kazunobu Chiba • Naeko Miike • Kiyonaga Matsumoto • Inspector Yuminaga • Shintaro Chaki • Hyoue Kuroda • Kenji Hagiwara • Jinpei Matsuda • Wataru Date
Osaka Police District	Heizo Hattori • Ginshiro Toyama • Goro Otaki
Nagano Police District	Kansuke Yamato • Yui Uehara • Taka'aki Morofushi
Other police districts	Sango Yokomizo • Misao Yamamura • Jugo Yokomizo • Chihaya Hagiwara • Fumimaro Ayanokoji
NPA and Public Security Bureau	Rei Furuya (Bourbon) • Hiromitsu Morofushi • Yuya Kazami
FBI	Shuichi Akai • Jodie Starling • James Black • Andre Camel
CIA	Hidemi Hondou (Kir) • Ethan Hondou
MI6	Mary Sera • Tsutomu Akai
Black Organization	The Boss • Rum • Gin • Vodka • Vermouth • Chianti • Korn • Shiho Miyano • Akemi Miyano • Tequila • Pisco • Calvados • Rikumichi Kusuda • Ki'ichiro Numabuchi
Magic Kaito	Kaito Kuroba • Kaitou Kid • Aoko Nakamori • Ginzo Nakamori • Midoriko Nakamori • Toichi Kuroba • Chikage Kuroba • Konosuke Jii • Keiko Momoi • Akako Koizumi • Saguru Hakuba • Snake • Kaitou Corbeau
Others	"The Criminal" • Hideo Akagi • Ryusuke Higo • Takahiro Sanada • Scar Akai • Kohji Haneda • Kamen Yaiba • Amanda Hughes

v • d • e Police
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department	Juzo Megure • Wataru Takagi • Miwako Sato • Ninzaburo Shiratori • Yumi Miyamoto • Kazunobu Chiba • Naeko Miike • Ginzo Nakamori • Shintaro Chaki • Inspector Yuminaga • Kiyonaga Matsumoto • Hyoue Kuroda • Inspector Momose • Inspector Hatori • Chosuke Takagi (transferred) • Jinpei Matsuda (deceased) • Kenji Hagiwara (deceased) • Wataru Date (deceased) • Masayoshi Sato (deceased) • Officer Tome (aoanime-only) • Toshiro Odagiri (aoanime-only) • Hachizo Onizuka • Detective Kobayashi (aoanime-only) • Detective Yokoyama (aoanime-only) • Detective Kojima (aoanime-only) • Superintendent General Hakuba • Manabu Fujimaki • Detective Takikawa • Detective Nakamura • Detective Fukui • Detective Kawanaka • Detective Saitoh • Detective Horita • Detective Takano • Detective Sogawa • Detective Okumura • Detective Sugita • Detective Hirota (aoanime-only) • Officer Numata • Detective Terashima (aoanime-only) • Toshio Moroboshi (aoanime-only) • Female forensics member (aoanime-only) • Detective Miyazaki • Detective Tomokawa • Tadayoshi Uno (aoanime-only) • Detective Yama (aoanime-only) • Inspector Yuminaga's assistant
Osaka Prefectural Police	Heizo Hattori • Ginshiro Toyama • Goro Otaki
Nagano Prefectural Police	Kansuke Yamato • Yui Uehara • Taka'aki Morofushi (Komei)
Kanagawa Prefectural Police	Jugo Yokomizo • Chihaya Hagiwara
Hokkaido Prefectural Police	Kyohei Nishimura • Detective Tamura
Kyoto Prefectural Police	Fumimaro Ayanokoji • Detective Kurumazaki (aoanime-only)
Shizuoka Prefectural Police	Sango Yokomizo • Tomonori Ogawara (aoanime-only) • Detective Tsukumo
Other Prefectures	Misao Yamamura (Gunma) • Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno (aoanime-only, Nara) • Tamekichi Matsushiro (aoanime-only, Gifu) • Shoji Terabayashi (Chiba) • Katsuhiko Yamane (aoanime-only, Tottori) • Ryo Okamoto (aoanime-only, Tottori)
Japanese Intelligence Agencies	Rei Furuya • Yuya Kazami • Hiromitsu Morofushi (deceased)
Primary Tokyo MPD Cases	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story One • MPD Two • MPD Three • Megure's Sealed Secret • Shinkansen Transport Case • MPD Four • Serial Bomber • MPD Five • MPD Six • Jewelry Robbery • MPD Seven • Fake Wedding • MPD Eight • Hammer Man • The Scar that Evokes the Past • Inspector Shiratori, Memories of the Cherry Blossom • Kobayashi-sensei's Love • A Video Letter of First Love • Co-Investigating with a First Love • The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love • The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene • MDP Nine • Taiko Meijin's Match of Love • Chiba's Difficult UFO Case • The Marriage Registration's Password • The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department
Other Significant Police Cases	The Osaka Double Mystery (Osaka) • Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun (Tokyo-Theft) • The Red Horse within the Flames (Tokyo Arson) • Furinkazan (Nagano) • A Dangerous Party of Two & The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall (Nagano) • Heiji Hattori and the Vampire Mansion (Osaka) • The Scarlet Return (NPA) • The Darkness of the Prefectural Police (Nagano NPA) • A song named ASACA (PSB NPA) • Captured in Her Eyes (Tokyo) • Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (Kyoto) • The Raven Chaser (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Nagano, Kyoto, and Chiba)
Related Pages	Police Organization • Law Enforcement • Minor law enforcement • Unnamed law enforcers • Tokyo Metropolitan Police • PSB • FBI • CIA • MI6

[Movie14-1] Movie 14: The Lost Ship in the Sky, credit roll

[C693-2] Volume 66, File 693: "The Charm Recovery Operation!", Page 4 - Kazuha's mother is mentioned for the first time.

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