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Association
Tanaka Hirokazu, 53, was
at breaking the world record. His
had tried twice before, in 2011 and 2017, to break the record. These attempts were thwarted
because of the association's insistence on all
having to have the same Chinese characters (kanji) in their name. Saturday's meeting had a more lenient
. The association deemed that anyone with the name Hirokazu Tanaka was
, regardless of the kanji used to spell their name. Mr Tanaka reflected on his world-beating
. He told reporters: "I never expected we would achieve such a
record." He added that the 178 Tanakas had "set an example of
".