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Takeda Shingen (武田信玄)

Takeda Shingen (武田信玄, also Harunobu, Tiger of Kai), 1521–1573, Sengoku daimyo of Kai who fought Uesugi Kenshin at Kawanakajima, crushed Tokugawa Ieyasu at Mikatagahara in 1572, issued the 1547 Koshu ordinances, and died of illness marching on Kyoto.

Oct 22, 2026

Takedda

Takedda, also written Takadda, was a medieval Saharan copper-mining and trading town in what is now Niger, visited in 1353 by the traveler Ibn Battuta.

Takedown (song)

Takedown is an original song from Netflix's 2025 animated film KPop Demon Hunters, written by Lindgren, produced by Lindgren and Ian Eisendrath, sung in-film by EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and REI AMI as HUNTR/X, with a TWICE end-credits version.

Takefusa Kubo (久保建英)

Takefusa Kubo (Take Kubo, 久保建英), born in 2001, is a Japanese winger for Real Sociedad in LaLiga and the Japan national team, once of Barcelona's La Masia academy and Real Madrid.

Oct 15, 2026

Takehara power station

Takehara power station (竹原火力発電所) is a coal-fired power station in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, owned and operated by J-POWER. A 600 MW ultra-supercritical unit began operation in 2020.

Takeharu Nagai

Takeharu Nagai (永井健治) is a Japanese biophysicist and professor at Osaka University's SANKEN, its director since 2026, known for ATP-reporting biosensors, engineered fluorescent proteins, and Singularity Biology.

Oct 21, 2026

Takehide Nakatani

Takehide Nakatani (中谷雄英), born 1941 in Hiroshima, Japanese judoka, first ever Olympic judo champion, winning men's lightweight (≤68 kg) gold at Tokyo 1964; later 1967 world bronze medalist.

Takehiko Inoue (井上雄彦)

Takehiko Inoue (井上雄彦), born 1967 in Kagoshima, is the Japanese manga artist of SLAM DUNK (over 100 million copies), Vagabond, and Real, founder of the Slam Dunk Scholarship, and director of the 2022 film THE FIRST SLAM DUNK.

Takehiko Kitamori

Takehiko Kitamori (北森武彦) is a Japanese analytical chemist known for the thermal lens microscope and micro unit operations, running chemical processes as continuous flow on microchips.

Takehiko Sasazuki

Takehiko Sasazuki (笹月健彦) was a Japanese immunogeneticist who showed that HLA genes control human immune responses, and led Kyushu University and the National Center for Global Health and Medicine.

Takehiro Hira (平岳大)

Takehiro Hira (平岳大), born 1974 in Tokyo, is a Japanese actor, son of Mikijiro Hira and Yoshiko Sakuma. Known for Giri/Haji, Shogun's Ishido Kazunari (Emmy-nominated), Captain America: Brave New World, and Rental Family; based in Hawaii since 2020.

Oct 21, 2026

Takehiro Kashima

Takehiro Kashima (鹿島丈博) is a Japanese former artistic gymnast who won Olympic team gold in 2004 and silver in 2008, and the 2003 world pommel horse title.

Takehiro Tomiyasu (冨安健洋)

Takehiro Tomiyasu (冨安健洋), born 1998 in Fukuoka, is a versatile two-footed Japanese defender (centre-back or full-back) for Crystal Palace and Japan; ex-Avispa Fukuoka, Sint-Truiden, Bologna, Arsenal, and Ajax, with 46 Japan caps and two World Cups.

Oct 10, 2026

Takehisa Kitazawa

Takehisa Kitazawa (北沢久寿), born 1968, is a Japanese antibody researcher at Chugai Pharmaceutical who co-invented emicizumab (Hemlibra) for hemophilia A and shared the 2026 Lasker–DeBakey Award.

Takehito Koyasu (子安武人)

Takehito Koyasu (子安武人, born 1967, Kanagawa) is a Japanese voice actor and founder of T's Factory, known for DIO in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Takasugi in Gintama, Zechs in Gundam Wing, Snufkin, and creating Weiß Kreuz.

Oct 20, 2026

Takeichi, Baron Nishi

Baron Takeichi Nishi (西竹一), 1902–1945, Japanese baron, cavalry and tank officer, and equestrian champion; won individual jumping gold on Uranus at Los Angeles 1932, Japan's only Olympic equestrian medal for 92 years, and died commanding the 26th Tank Regiment at Iwo Jima.

Takeji Hashimoto

Takeji Hashimoto (橋本竹治) is a Japanese polymer materials scientist and professor emeritus of Kyoto University, known for real-time scattering studies of polymer phase separation and self-organization.

Oct 22, 2026

Takekurabe

Takekurabe (たけくらべ, "Growing Up") is a short novel by Higuchi Ichiyō, serialized from 1895 to 1896, following children growing up near the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter in Tokyo.

Takelot I

Takelot I (Takeloth I) was a poorly known pharaoh of Egypt's Libyan Twenty-second Dynasty, son and successor of Osorkon I and father of Osorkon II.

Takelot II

Takelot II, also written Takeloth II, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Libyan period who ruled in the mid-9th century BC and is remembered chiefly as the father of Prince Osorkon B.

Takelot III

Takelot III, also known as Usermaatre Takelot, was a pharaoh of the Theban Twenty-Third Dynasty who ruled Upper Egypt about 767-755 BC, succeeding his father Osorkon III.

Takema Fukatsu

Takema Fukatsu (深津武馬) is a Japanese biologist who studies insect–microbe symbiosis, a Prime Senior Researcher at AIST and professor at the University of Tokyo.

Takemitsu Takizaki (Keyence)

Takemitsu Takizaki (滝崎武光) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Keyence, the factory-automation sensor maker, in Hyogo in 1972 and led it as president until 2000.

Taken (2017 TV series)

Taken (2017 TV series), NBC action thriller prequel to the Taken films, starring Clive Standen as young Bryan Mills with Jennifer Beals; developed by Alexander Cary, two seasons 2017-2018, canceled after ratings decline.

Taken (film)

Taken is a 2008 French action thriller directed by Pierre Morel and written by Luc Besson, in which Liam Neeson plays a former spy hunting his kidnapped daughter's traffickers in Paris.

Taken (franchise)

Taken, sometimes called the Taken trilogy, is an action-thriller franchise starring Liam Neeson as retired CIA operative Bryan Mills, with three films from 2008 to 2015 and an NBC prequel series.

Taken (miniseries)

Taken is a 2002 American science-fiction miniseries created by Leslie Bohem and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, following three families across five decades of alien-abduction mythology.

Taken 2

Taken 2 (2012) is Olivier Megaton's action thriller sequel starring Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, kidnapped in Istanbul by Murad (Rade Serbedzija), father of a slain kidnapper. Grossed $376M worldwide on a $45M budget despite 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Taken 3

Taken 3 (2015) is the third and final Liam Neeson Taken film, directed by Olivier Megaton, in which Bryan Mills is framed for his ex-wife's murder; it grossed $327.7 million worldwide but scored 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.