International Same Name Association is a platform for gathering groups of the same name from ground the world to interact with each other. It aims to promote peace activilies through people-fo-people exchange that transcend national and ethnic boundaries.
Join the Movement
Since our founding in February 2023, the International Same Name Association has fostered active exchanges between Japan and Serbia. Recently, same-name groups from Hungary has also expressed interest in joining us.
We are a grassroots NGO that believes in the power of name-based, horizontal connections across borders. Through joyful encounters among people who share the same name, we ultimately hope to contribute to a more peaceful world.
If you are part of a group of two or more people with the same name, we warmly invite you to get in touch and join this unique global network.
We are giving a major upgrade — a full model change — to the four “Hirokazu Tanaka National Conventions” we’ve held since 2010.The new name: “World Same Name Match.” Proposed by [Almost-Leader] Hirokazu Tanaka in his book “All Hirokazu Tanakas” (Shinchosha, July 2025), this event reimagines a same-name gathering as a human-centered platform for solidarity and mutual support, overcoming […]
We are truly delighted to welcome the community of same-name individuals named Kovács Balázs from Hungary to the International Same Name Association (ISNA). In March of this year, we received an email from Dr. Kovács Balázs of the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts, Institute of Design and Media Arts at the University of Pécs: […]
In January of this year, I suddenly received an email from the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia. Dear AllOn the occasion of the National Day of the Republic of SerbiaJarkko Marinovic, General Commissioner for Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai, and Alexandra Kovacu, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Serbia, cordially invite you to the […]
Roberto Coban, the organizer of the 256-member Milica Jovanovic Gathering in Belgrade, Serbia last year, which surpassed our own 178-member Hirokazu Tanakas’ Guinness World Record, uploaded a photo of cherry blossoms with Kyoto’s location information on Facebook. I contacted him, and the next day we finally met for the first time in real life at […]
On February 7, I arrived at the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Tokyo for the first time. Why Have I Come Here?Almost a year ago, on February 4, 2023, 256 Milica Jovanovics gathered in a shopping mall in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, to set a Guinness World Record for the largest gathering […]
As our kick-off event, we held Millica Jovanovics and Hirokazu Tanakas exchange meeting from 11:00 p.m. on March 31 to around midnight on April 1, Japan Standard Time.The current Guinness world record holder and the previous holder of “Largest gathering of people with the same first and last name” met via Zoom. We participated mainly […]
Today we launched our website!We are planning a zoom meeting with many Millica Jovanovics and many Hirokazu Tanakas in the near future.Will there be couples who will be renamed Milica John or Hirokazu Jovanovic?
