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Tanaka

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[tuh-nah-kuh, tah-nah-kah] / təˈnɑ kə, ˈtɑ nɑˌkɑ /

noun

  1. Baron Giichi 1863–1929, Japanese military and political leader: prime minister 1927–29.


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The pylons were first designed by Los Angeles architect Ted Tokio Tanaka in 2000.

From Los Angeles Times

“Is someone helping you?” asked Judge Gary Tanaka at a Dec. 17 hearing in his Torrance courtroom where she had been appearing with such regularity that the clerk knows her by first name.

From Los Angeles Times

“Everybody says they want nuclear power, but they are not using their political capital for restarting,” said Nobuo Tanaka, a former executive director of the International Energy Agency and Japanese government official.

From The Wall Street Journal

Tanaka says meeting the government’s 20% target will require more and faster restarts of idled plants.

From The Wall Street Journal

Soon after Wolfpack published its report on Datasection, Kunihiro Tanaka, CEO of a leading Japanese data-center operator, Sakura Internet, expressed alarm in an X exchange over “the existence of dubious companies in Japan that attempt to circumvent export regulations.”

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