Japan: 178 people with the same first and last name have won the Guinness Book of World Records

It’s not always easy to remember the names of all the people you meet at a party. But not today in Tokyo where the 178 guests were all named Hirokazu Tanakawho gathered to break the record which had until then been owned by the 164 named Martha Stewart.

From 3-year-old Hirokazu Tanaka to 80-year-old Hirokazu Tanaka to Hirokazu Tanaka from Hanoi, everyone wore the same t-shirt with their name on it and sat in a packed theater for 5 minutes, as required by Guinness rules. At the time, an official of the awards committee made the new record official.

“I would never have expected us to break such a ridiculous record,” said Hirokazu Tanaka, 53, the organizer of this rally, which he achieved after years of trying and two failures.

Today in Tokyo, 178 people called Hirokazu Tanaka met to break the record for the largest gathering of equal people. Lo de Tanaka fue fácil? It is the most common last name in Japan. But Hirokazu is the 398th most popular number. https://t.co/wCI61l1KuQ pic.twitter.com/Jh1mu2shy5

— Thiago Ferrer Morini (@tferrerm) October 29, 2022

To distinguish the 178 Hirokazu Tanakas from each other, each was given a nickname inspired by their hobbies, profession or favorite food. Thus there was Hirokazu Tanaka “sunglasses”, Hirokazu Tanaka “gum” and Hirokazu Tanaka “triathlon”, and the founder

The world record for the “largest gathering of people with the same last name” was previously held by 164 Martha Stewarts gathered on the set of a TV show in New York in 2005.

The venture that led to the current record began in 1994, when organizer Tanaka heard in the news about a child baseball prodigy, Hirokazu Tanaka, and felt “immense joy” in sharing the name he once considered common.

Twice, the attempt to break the record failed, most notably in 2017 when only 87 of them were met.

But hope was born when the Guinness Awards clarified that as long as the given name is “Hirokazu Tanaka”, it doesn’t matter if you spell it in different ways in the Japanese language.

179th Hirokazu Tanaka “mini-van” would have been there, but he died of Covid-19 last year, his father Suzuko Tanaka told AFP. “He was always ready for the events organized by this group,” he says, “he would be very happy today.”

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