Overview
- Organizers brought together 150 people named or read as Tanaka Hirokazu in Shibuya on October 18, drawing participants aged 6 to 83 from across Japan.
- Guinness rules allowed differing kanji if the reading matched, with identities verified by passports or health insurance cards.
- To qualify, participants needed to remain in the same place for five minutes, and an official adjudicator confirmed the challenge did not meet the record.
- The current mark of 256 was set in Serbia by a gathering of people named Milica Jovanovic in 2023, leaving Saturday’s total well short.
- Founder and organizer Tanaka Hirokazu, who once led a 178-person record in October 2022 that was surpassed 98 days later, expressed disappointment and said he intends to try again.