Name: World record set in Japan for largest group of people with same name - BBC News
Uploaded: 2022-08-09T18:11:09.000Z
Duration: 1 min 54 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

Now, here's a question what is in a name.

The zero and first conditional

Well, if you have the name, Hirokazu Tanaka, if I can get that right, there's actually quite a lot in Japan, a new world record has been set for the most number of people with the same 1st and 2nd name.

Introductions shouldn't be much of a problem.

Hirokazu Tanaka, meet Hirokazu Tanaka and so on.

Dozens of them of all ages gathered together in unique Hirokazu Tanaka style.

The members came from as far a field as Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the South.

I feel as if we're all related and it doesn't feel like we've met for the first time and this isn't the first time.

A whole host of namesakes have met up to break a record in 2564 Martha Stewart's were brought together by the famous American businesswoman of the same name, Drop the surname and the potential is endless.

2,325, Ivan's congregated in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2017.

Not so many Hirokazu Tanaka, but there were enough people kept speaking to him kindly and I was grateful for that.

My son just happens to have the right name, but I'm happy he could join in.

The record was set at 178 laying down a challenge to the John Smiths of the world now, they will go their separate ways.

 But if they do want to get in touch remembering each other's names should be child's play Peter Katsu Tanaka, sorry, Tim Allman BBC News. 