Tanaka
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is the fourth most common Japanese
surname
. The surname "Tanaka" refers to several different surnames written with different kanji
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Japanese name
in modern times usually consist of a family name , followed by a given name. "Middle names" are not generally used.Japanese names are usually written in kanji, which are characters of usually Chinese origin in Japanese pronunciation...
surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
. The surname "Tanaka" refers to several different surnames written with different kanji
Kanji
Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters hanzi that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet...
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People
- Asuna TanakaAsuna Tanakais a Japanese international footballer currently playing as a midfielder for L. League club INAC Kobe Leonessa. She played at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.-References:...
(footballer) - Atsuko TanakaAtsuko Tanakais a Japanese voice actress who works for Ezaki Productions. Her deep and sultry voice is often used to portray villainesses and mature female characters.-TV anime:*Angel Links *Black Cat *Berserk *Cowboy Bebop...
voice actor - Atsuko Tanaka (artist)Atsuko Tanaka (artist)Atsuko Tanaka was a pioneering Japanese avant-garde artist.-Biography:She was born in Osaka, on February 10, 1932.. She went to several local art schools where she worked in mostly figurative mode...
- Chōzaburō TanakaChōzaburō Tanakaor often Romanized as Tyôzaburô Tanaka was a Japanese botanist and mycologist. He established one of the two major taxonomic classifications system for citrus and related genera currently in use, and is now considered to be a taxonomic "splitter"...
(Japanese botanist) - Dean Tanaka (aka Dean CainDean CainDean Cain is an American actor. He is most widely known for his role as Clark Kent/Superman in the popular American television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.-Early life:...
) - Eizō TanakaEizō Tanakawas a early Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor.-Life and career:Tanaka initially trained as a stage actor in the shingeki movement under Kaoru Osanai, but eventually joined the Nikkatsu film studio in 1917...
(film director and actor) - Giichi Tanaka (former Prime Minister of Japan)
- Haruo Tanaka (actor)
- Hayuma Tanaka (footballer)
- Hidemitsu Tanaka (author)
- Hideyuki TanakaHideyuki Tanakais a Japanese voice actor. He is a graduate of the Toho Gakuen School of Music. He is most known for his roles in Dokaben , Kinnikuman , Captain Tsubasa , Touch , Saint Seiya , Metal Gear Solid and Slam Dunk .-TV Anime:*Akagi...
(voice actor) - Hirokazu TanakaHirokazu Tanakais a Japanese composer and musician, best known for his scores for various video games produced by Nintendo. He is also the current President of Creatures, Inc.-Video game soundtracks:*Radar Scope *Space Firebird...
(musician) - Hiromichi TanakaHiromichi Tanakais a Japanese video game developer, game producer, game director and game designer. He is currently Senior Vice President of Software Development at Square Enix and the head of Square Enix's Product Development Division-3. He is best known as the former lead developer of Final Fantasy XI, Square's...
(video game producer) - Hisao TanakaHisao TanakaHisao "Martin" Tanaka was a professional wrestler. He is the father of wrestler Pat Tanaka and referee Jimmy Tanaka.-Career:In the 1950s, Duke Keomuka formed a very successful tag team with Hiro Matsuda...
(wrestler) - Hisashige TanakaHisashige Tanakawas a Japanese engineer and inventor during the late Edo and Meiji period Japan. He is one of the founders of what later became Toshiba Corporation. He has been called the "Thomas Edison of Japan" or Karakuri Giemon....
(founder of Tanaka Seizosho, subsequently renamed Toshiba) - Hitomi TanakaHitomi Tanakaalso known as Hitomi is a Japanese AV idol and gravure idol. She is well known for her large breasts, Japanese size 97J -Life and career:...
(model turned pornographic actress) - Tanaka IssonTanaka Issonwas the pseudonym of a Japanese Nihonga painter from the Showa period noted for his flower-and-bird paintings of the Amami Islands. His real name was Tanaka Jun....
(Nihonga painter) - Jun TanakaJun Tanakawas a poet in Showa period Japan.Tanaka was born in Hiroshima and was a graduate of Waseda University. Together with Satomi Ton, Yoshii Isamu and Kume Masao, he helped establish the literary magazine Ningen ....
(author) - Jun Tanaka (footballer) (born 1983), footballer
- Kakuei TanakaKakuei Tanakawas a Japanese politician and the 64th and 65th Prime Minister of Japan from 7 July 1972 to 22 December 1972 and from 22 December 1972 to 9 December 1974 respectively...
(former Prime Minister of Japan) - Kinuyo TanakaKinuyo Tanakawas a Japanese actress and director.Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Yasujirō Ozu's I Graduated, But... in 1929...
(actress) - Koichi TanakaKoichi Tanakais a Japanese scientist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules with John Bennett Fenn and Kurt Wuthrich ....
(chemist) - Koki Tanaka (singer, actor)
- Kōtarō Tanaka (photographer)
- Machi TanakaMachi TanakaMachi Tanaka is a female long-distance runner from Japan, who is best known for winning the half marathon at the 2003 Summer Universiade...
(long-distance runner) - Makiko TanakaMakiko Tanakais a Japanese politician, the daughter of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.Tanaka attended high school at Germantown Friends School in the United States and graduated from Waseda University...
(politician) - Marcus Tulio TanakaMarcus Tulio Tanaka, formerly name ; Marcus Túlio Lyuji Murzani Tanaka is a Brazilian-born Japanese footballer who plays for the J. League Division 1 club Nagoya Grampus.-Career:...
(footballer) - Masahiko TanakaMasahiko Tanakais a Japanese voice actor. - Voice roles :* suicune in Pokemon 4Ever* M'Quve in Mobile Suit Gundam* Mihiramon in Digimon Tamers* Gauron in Full Metal Panic!* Fudou Takuma in Getbackers* Ryo Mashiba in Hajime no Ippo* Kyoichi Sudo in Initial D...
(voice actor) - Masahiro TanakaMasahiro Tanakais a Japanese starting pitcher for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.Tanaka led his team to a championship in the National High School Baseball tournament as a junior for Komazawa University Tomakomai High School in and a runner-up berth in the same tournament as a senior in...
(professional baseball player) - Masako Tanaka (Mineko IwasakiMineko Iwasaki, born , was Japan's number one geiko until her sudden retirement at the age of 29. Arthur Golden later used her story to write the book Memoirs of a Geisha.-Geisha:...
) (geisha) - Masato TanakaMasato TanakaMasato Tanaka is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling in Japan and in Extreme Championship Wrestling in the United States where he was a one-time world champion, having won the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once...
(professional wrestler) - Mayumi TanakaMayumi Tanakais a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo currently affiliated with Aoni Production.She is best known for the roles of Ryuunosuke Fujinami in Urusei Yatsura, Pazu in Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Monkey D. Luffy in One Piece, Krillin, Yajirobe and Uranai Baba in Dragon Ball...
(voice actor) - Miho TanakaMiho Tanakais a female badminton player from Japan.Tanaka played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, losing to Salakjit Ponsana of Thailand in the round of 32.-Link:*...
(athlete) - Minoru Tanaka (wrestler) (professional wrestler)
- Misako TanakaMisako Tanaka, née is a Japanese actress. Tanaka was born in Oki District, Shimane Prefecture, Japan.-Filmography:# ダイアモンドは傷つかない # 丑三つの村 # The Horizon # Gonza the Spearman...
(actress) - Naoki Tanaka (b. 1971), a member of the comedy duo CocoricoCocoricoCocorico may refer to:* The Brazilian TV program, Cocoricó* The French art magazine, Cocorico * The Puerto Rican soda drink, Coco Rico* A Japanese comedy act, Cocorico...
- Nobuo TanakaNobuo Tanakais the Japanese official and the former Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. He was born on 3 March 1950 in Japan. He is graduated from the University of Tokyo in the field of economics in 1972, and has an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio . In 1973 he...
(born 1950), Executive Director of the International Energy Agency - Nobuyuki TanakaNobuyuki TanakaNobuyuki Tanaka is an economic botanist at the Tokyo Metropolitan University, the Makino Botanical Garden in Kōchi prefecture, Japan and the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute , Japan....
(botanist) - Paul TanakaPaul TanakaPaul K. Tanaka. Mayor, City of Gardena. Assistant Sheriff, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.A 26 year veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Tanaka has recently been promoted to Assistant Sheriff of Los Angeles County under Sheriff Lee Baca in January 2005 and elected Mayor...
(sheriff) - Raizō TanakaRaizo Tanakawas a rear admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during most of World War II. A specialist in the heavy torpedoes that were carried by all the destroyers and cruisers of the IJN, Tanaka mainly commanded destroyer squadrons, with a cruiser or two attached, and he was the primary leader of the...
(Japanese Rear Admiral during WW2) - Reina TanakaReina Tanakais one of the sixth generation members of the J-pop group Morning Musume. Her professional first name is spelled in hiragana to distinguish her from the Japanese actress Rena Tanaka, whose name is spelled using the same kanji , who is similarly from Fukuoka Prefecture.- Biography :Tanaka auditioned...
(singer) - Rena TanakaRena Tanakais a Japanese actress and TV personality. In 1999, she won the Japanese Academy Award for 'Best Newcomer' for her performance in Give It All; in 2001 she received a 'Best Actress' nomination for Hatsukoi.-Selected filmography:* Give It All...
(actress) - Rie TanakaRie Tanakais a singer and voice actress . Notable among her numerous roles are Lacus Clyne in Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny, Chii and Freya in Chobits, Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke in Strike Witches and Suigintou in the anime adaptation of Rozen Maiden.-Personal life:As a child, Tanaka took singing classes...
(voice actor) - Sara TanakaSara TanakaSara Tanaka is an American film actress. She is best known for her roles in Rushmore, Old School, and Race The Sun....
(actress) - Shelley TanakaShelley TanakaShelley Tanaka is a Canadian editor of numerous award-winning young adult novels, an award-winning author of nonfiction for children, a translator and writing teacher.-Biography:Shelley Tanaka was born in Toronto, Canada...
(Canadian editor and author)\ - Shigeho TanakaShigeho Tanakawas a Japanese ichthyologist and professor of zoology at the Imperial University of Tokyo. He published numerous works on fishes and sharks and co-authored a book on Japanese fish with famous American scientist David Starr Jordan.Publications:...
(ichthyologist) - Shinako TanakaShinako Tanakais a female beach volleyball player from Japan, who won the silver medal in the women's team competition at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, partnering compatriot Eiko Koizumi. In the final the couple lost to the Chinese pair Xue Chen and Zhang Xi...
(beach volleyball player) - Shinobu Tanaka (video game composer)
- Shohé TanakaShohé Tanakawas a Japanese physicist, music theorist, and inventor. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1882 as a science student. On an imperial scholarship, he was sent to Germany for doctoral studies in 1884, together with Mori Ōgai...
(music theorist and physicist) - Takashi Tanaka, a.k.a. Banjō GingaBanjo Ginga, sometimes credited as his real name , is a Japanese voice actor who was born in Kofu, Yamanashi. Ginga is currently affiliated with Aoni Production...
(voice actor) - Tatsuya Tanaka (figure skater)Tatsuya Tanaka (figure skater)Tatsuya Tanaka is a Taiwanese figure skater who competes internationally for Hong Kong. Tanaka is the three time Hong Kong national silver medalist. He is a five season competitor on the Junior Grand Prix circuit.-External links:*...
(born 1988), figure skater - Tatsuya Tanaka (footballer) (born 1982), footballer
- Tia TanakaTia TanakaTia Tanaka is the professional name of an Indonesian-born pornographic actress and adult model of Vietnamese and French ancestry.-Awards:*2007 Adam Film World award – Best Asian Starlet*2007 FAME Award finalist – Favorite Female Rookie...
(Asian-American pornstar) - Tanaka TosaTanaka Tosawas a Japanese samurai of the Edo period who was a retainer of the Matsudaira clan of Aizu. He served as a karō in the Aizu administration, and fought in the Boshin War. Upon the entry of Imperial Japanese Army forces into the Aizu castle town, he led an effort to halt their advance...
(samurai) - Tommy TanakaTommy TanakaTommy Tanaka is a Republican politician from Guam, previous Speaker of the territorial Senate, and previous candidate for the position of Governor of Guam.Tanaka served as a Senator in the Guam Senate....
(Guam politician) - Professor Toru Tanaka (professional wrestler and actor)
- Toshiaki TanakaToshiaki TanakaToshiaki Tanaka is a male former table tennis player from Japan. From 1955 to 1957 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. He also won a silver medal in the team event at the World Table Tennis Championships in 1965.-References:...
(table tennis player) - Yasuo Tanaka (astronomer)Yasuo Tanaka (astronomer)is a Japanese astrophysicist. He is professor emeritus at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Kanagawa, Japan, and was guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany....
(asteroid 4387 Tanaka4387 Tanaka4387 Tanaka is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 19, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory. It is named for Japanese astrophysicist Yasuo Tanaka.- External links :...
is named for him) - Yasuo TanakaYasuo Tanakais a Japanese novelist and politician. He served as the governor of Nagano prefecture from 2000 to 2006, became president of New Party Nippon and has been elected to Japan's legislatures.- Early life :...
(author, politician) - Yoshiki TanakaYoshiki TanakaDr. Yoshiki Tanaka is a Japanese novelist. He was born in Kumamoto Prefecture and took his doctorate degree in Japanese Language and Literature in the Graduate School of Gakushūin University in Tokyo....
(author) - Yoshiko TanakaYoshiko Tanakawas a Japanese actress. She was also famous as a member of the pop group Candies. While a member of Candies, Tanaka was known by the nickname Still at the height of its popularity, the group disbanded in 1978. Tanaka was also the sister-in-law of the well-known actress Masako Natsume.Tanaka was...
(actress) - Yuji TanakaYuji Tanakais a Japanese comedian. He is best known as half of the owarai duo Bakushō Mondai along with Hikari Ōta. He also played Mike in the Japanese dub of the Pixar movie Monsters, Inc. and Br'er Fox in the Japanese dub of the Disney movie Song of the South -References:...
(comedian) - Yukio Tanaka (biwa)Yukio Tanaka (biwa)is a Japanese biwa player.He studied under the satsuma biwa master Kinshi Tsuruta, whose status he inherited as a leading figure of Japanese traditional music. His honours include First Prize at the Japanese Biwa Competition, the Minister of Education, Science and Culture Prize and the Japanese...
Fictional characters
- Isuro Tanaka, from the feature film Major League IIMajor League IIMajor League II is a 1994 sequel to the 1989 film Major League. Major League II stars most of the same cast from the original, including Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, and Corbin Bernsen. Absent from this film is Wesley Snipes, who played Willie Mays Hayes in the first film and who by 1994 had become...
- Ken Tanaka, football coach from the television series GleeGlee (TV series)Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
- Mariko Tanaka, from Wing Commander
- Mr. Tanaka, from Sonic XSonic Xis an anime series based on the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series. It was produced in Japan by TMS Entertainment with the partnership of Sega and was created by Sonic Team and Sonic Project. In the United States, 4Kids currently owns and manages copyright and branding of the series.- Series 1 ...
- Mr. Tanaka, from the anime GantzGantzis a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku. Gantz tells the story of Kei Kurono and his friend Masaru Kato who die in a train accident and become part of a semi-posthumous "game" in which they and several other recently deceased people are forced to hunt down and kill aliens...
- President Tanaka, from Persona 3Persona 3Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3, originally released in Japan as simply , is the fourth video game in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series of console role-playing games developed by Atlus, which is part of the larger Megami Tensei series of video games...
- Shinichiro Tanaka, from Battle RoyaleBattle Royalethumb|260px|Cover of the 2009 expanded edition, ISBN 978-1-4215-2772-3 is a 1999 Japanese novel written by Koushun Takami. The story tells of schoolchildren who are forced to fight each other to the death....
(film, Special Edition) - Shinji Tanaka, from Yakuza (video game)Yakuza (video game)Yakuza, originally released in Japan as is an action-adventure fighter video game developed and published by Sega in 2005 for the Sony PlayStation 2...
- Souichirou Tanaka, a character from GenshikenGenshikenis a manga series by Shimoku Kio about a college club for otaku and the lifestyle its members pursue. The title is a shortening of the club's official name, , or "The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture". The series has also been adapted into an anime directed by Tsutomu Mizushima...
- Tanaka, previous Head Butler of the Phantomhive household, a character from Black Butler
- Tanaka Kazuya, from School RumbleSchool Rumbleis a Japanese Shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Jin Kobayashi. First serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 22, 2002 to July 23, 2008, all 345 chapters were later collected in 22 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. Shōnen Magazine Special published a sequel, School Rumble Z,...
- Taro Tanaka, from Taro the Space AlienTaro the Space Alienis a manga and anime series created by Yasunari Nagatoshi. In 2000, the manga received the Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.Viz Media is the licensor of the series in the United States. The series has not had a release in English....
(Uchūjin Tanaka Tarō) - Tiger Tanaka, from the James Bond novel and film You Only Live Twice
- Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka, guitar player from BECK: Mongolian Chop SquadBECK: Mongolian Chop SquadBECK is a manga by Harold Sakuishi published by Kodansha in Monthly Shōnen Magazine. It was adapted as an anime television series with the title BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad...
- Umenomori's Butler, Tanaka Mayoi Neko Overrun
- Ichiro Tanaka, character from Medal of Honor: Rising SunMedal of Honor: Rising SunMedal of Honor: Rising Sun is the fifth installment of the Medal of Honor series, released by Electronic Arts in November 2003. Like its predecessors, Rising Sun is a first-person shooter set in World War II. Unlike predecessors,Rising Sun is set during the Pacific War. It features single-player...
- Tanaka, the Usami household butler in Junjo RomanticaJunjo Romantica, stylized as Junjo Romantica ~Pure Romance~, is a yaoi series by Shungiku Nakamura. It focuses on three storylines; the main couple, which comprises the bulk of the books, and two other male couples which provide ongoing side stories...
- Tanaka, the household servant in Full Moon o Sagashite
- Tanaka, from Kimi ni TodokeKimi ni Todokeis a romance shōjo manga by . It has been published by Shueisha in Bessatsu Margaret since 2005 and collected in 14 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011. In 2008, it won the Best Shōjo Manga award in the 32nd Annual Kodansha Manga Award. The series was also nominated for the first Manga Taisho...
Other
- The Tanaka Business SchoolTanaka Business SchoolImperial College Business School is a constituent faculty of Imperial College London located on its South Kensington campus in West London.Its high-tech building was designed by Foster and Partners and Buro Happold...
(Part of Imperial College LondonImperial College LondonImperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
) - Tanaka Power EquipmentTanaka Power EquipmentTanaka Power Equipment is a company manufacturing small internal combustion engines and associated light machinery. During the 1960s and 1970s they built the popular Bike Bug bolt-on motor for bicycles, which was also adapted for marine use as well as being sold through Sears rebadged the Sears...
, makers of small internal combustion engines and associated machinery - Tanaka Manufacturing, which became ToshibaToshibais a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...
- Tanaka MemorialTanaka MemorialThe is an alleged Japanese strategic planning document from 1927, in which Prime Minister Baron Tanaka Giichi laid out for the Emperor Hirohito a strategy to take over the world...
, an alleged Japanese war planning document