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Tanaka Hirokazu, 53, was very
with breaking the world record. His two
attempts (in 2011 and 2017) failed because the
wanted participants to have the same Chinese
in their name. Saturday's
had a more
rule. Anyone with the name Hirokazu Tanaka was
, regardless of the Chinese characters used to spell the name. Mr Tanaka told
: "I never expected we would achieve such a
record." He added that the 178 Tanakas had "set an
of silliness".