Takaaki is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Takaaki Ishibashi
is a Japanese owarai artist, singer and actor. He is best known as a member of Tunnels and Yaen with his partner Noritake Kinashi.
Early life and family
Born in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan, Ishibashi moved to Narimasu, Itabashi after his fathe ...
(石橋 貴明, born 1961) Japanese comedy artist, singer and actor
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Takaaki Kajita
is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamioka Observatory – Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald. On 1 O ...
(梶田隆章, born 1959) Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate
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Katō Takaaki
Count was a Japanese politician, diplomat, and Prime Minister of Japan from 1924 until his death on 28 January 1926, during the period which historians have called " Taishō Democracy". He was also known as Katō Kōmei.
Early life
Katō, w ...
(加藤 高明, 1860–1926) politician, 24th Prime Minister of Japan
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Takaaki Nakagami
is a Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle racer, competing for LCR Honda Idemitsu in MotoGP. He won the Japanese Road Race Championship 125cc class in 2006 and J-GP2 class in 2011.
Career Early career
Born in Chiba, Nakagami joined the Japanese Ro ...
(中上 貴晶, born 1992) Japanese motorcycle racer
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Takaaki Suzuki
is a former Japanese Association football, football player.
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1981 births
Living people
University of Tsukuba alumni
Association football people from Shizuoka Prefecture
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(鈴木 孝明, born 1981) Japanese football player
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Takaaki Tamura
is a member of the Japanese Communist Party serving in the House of Representatives
House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is t ...
(田村 貴昭), Japanese politician
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Takaaki Tokushige (徳重 隆明, born 1975) Japanese football player
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Takaaki Watanabe
, better known by his ring name Evil (stylized as EVIL), is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is currently working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).
After debuting in NJPW in 2011, Evil competed in the United States on excursion, working for ...
, (渡辺 高章) pro wrestler, member of New Japan Pro Wrestling
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Takaaki Yoshimoto
, also known as ''Ryūmei Yoshimoto'', was a Japanese poet, philosopher, and literary critic. As a philosopher, he is remembered as a founding figure in the emergence of the New Left in Japan, and as a critic, he was at the forefront of a moveme ...
(吉本 隆明, 1924–2012) also known as Ryūmei Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, literary critic, and philosopher
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Japanese masculine given names