Kovács Balázs
Millica Jovanovics
Hirokazu Tanaka
Kovács Balázs
Kovács Balázs
Millica Jovanovics
Millica Jovanovics
Hirokazu Tanaka
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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.


Welcome, Kovács Balázs from Hungary!

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: […]

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Attended the reception for Serbia’s National Day.

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 […]

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Meeting with Roberto Coban, co-founder, in Tokyo, Japan.

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 […]

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