title: Takaaki
text: # Takaaki
  
  Takaaki is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
  
  * Takaaki Ishibashi (石橋 貴明, born 1961) Japanese comedy artist, singer and actor
  * Takaaki Kajita (梶田隆章, born 1959) Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate
  * Takaaki Kaneiri (金入 孝明, born 1943), Japanese ice hockey player
  * Katō Takaaki (加藤 高明, 1860–1926) politician, 24th Prime Minister of Japan
  * Takaaki Nakagami (中上 貴晶, born 1992) Japanese motorcycle racer
  * Takaaki Suzuki (鈴木 孝明, born 1981) Japanese football player
  * Takaaki Tamura (田村 貴昭), Japanese politician
  * Takaaki Tokushige (徳重 隆明, born 1975) Japanese football player
  * Takaaki Watanabe, (渡辺 高章) pro wrestler, member of New Japan Pro Wrestling
  * Takaaki Yoshimoto (吉本 隆明, 1924–2012) also known as Ryūmei Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, literary critic, and philosopher
  