Takaoka

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Takaoka (高岡, lit. 'tall mount' or 'high hill'), or Takaoka (鷹岡, lit. 'hawk ridge' or 'hawk hill') may refer to:

Places

• Takaoka, Toyama, a city in Toyama Prefecture, Japan
• Takaoka, Miyazaki (高岡町, Takaoka-chō), a former town in Higashimorokata District, Miyazaki, Japan
• Takaoka Dam, a dam in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan
• Takaoka District, Kōchi, a district in Kōchi, Japan
• Takaoka Domain (高岡藩, Takaoka han), a Japanese domain of the Edo period, in modern-day Chiba Prefecture, Japan
• Takaoka Freight Terminal, a railway freight terminal in Takaoka, Toyama, Japan
• Takaoka Station (disambiguation)
• Takaoka University of Law, Takaoka, Toyama, Japan

People

• Takaoka clan (高岡氏, Takaoka-shi), a historical Japanese clan
• Ai Takaoka (高岡 亜衣, born 1982), Japanese singer-songwriter
• Chishō Takaoka (高岡 智照, 1896-1994), Japanese geisha
• Takaoka Muneyasu (高岡 宗泰, 1255–1326), founder of Takaoka clan in Izumo Province, Japan
• Sousuke Takaoka (高岡 蒼甫, born 1982), Japanese former actor
• Toshinari Takaoka (高岡 寿成, born 1970), Japanese long-distance runner
• Saki Takaoka (高岡 早紀, born 1972), Japanese actress
• Michio Takaoka, the Japanese discoverer of resveratrol in 1939

Fictional characters

• Akira Takaoka (鷹岡 明), a character in the manga/anime series Assassination Classroom

See also

• Albuquerque & Takaoka, a Brazilian architecture, civil engineering and real estate development company
• Zhu–Takaoka string matching algorithm, a variant of the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm

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