Brian T. Taniguchi[2] (born November 7, 1951, in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American politician and a former Democratic member of the Hawaii Senate from January 16, 2013, to January 16, 2023, representing District 10.
Taniguchi served consecutively from 1995 until 2013 in the District 10 and District 11 seats, having served consecutively in the Hawaii State Legislature from 1981 until 1995 in the Hawaii House of Representatives.
[3][4] Taniguchi attended University of Hawaii at Manoa and earned his JD from its William S. Richardson School of Law.
In 2017 Taniguchi submitted legislation in the Hawaiʻi Senate to make Flavobacterium akiainvivens the state microbe.
[22] This continues an effort started by James Tokioka in 2013,[23] and later contested in 2014 by Senator Glenn Wakai's SB3124 bill proposing Aliivibrio fischeri instead.