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Takenaka is a Japanese surname and can refer to:

Heizo Takenaka
Heizo Takenaka
is a Japanese economist and retired politician, last serving as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications and Minister of State for Privatization of the Postal Services in the cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi...

, Japanese economist and former Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications.
Shibata Takenaka
Shibata Takenaka
was an emissary for Japan who visited France in 1865 to help prepare for the construction of the Yokosuka arsenal with French support.On behalf of the Shogunate, Shibata requested both the United Kingdom and France to send a military mission for training in Western warfare...

(1823-1877), Japanese diplomat.

The Takenaka Corporation
Takenaka Corporation
is the biggest architecture, engineering, and construction firm in Japan. Its headquarters is in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture.The company's website also claims it to be the oldest firm of that type anywhere in the world, since the demise of Kongō Gumi which was substantially older...

, dating back to a company founded by the Takenaka family in 1610.

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