Hirofumi Takinami

Honestly, Takinami is the rare politician who actually did the homework before showing up. University of Tokyo law grad, then off to the University of Chicago for a policy master's, then two decades deep inside the Ministry of Finance — this guy was not cutting corners. Most career bureaucrats stay hidden behind the curtain forever, but he looked at Fukui Prefecture — which, let's be real, is ground zero for Japan's nuclear power infrastructure — and apparently decided someone with actual energy policy chops should be representing it. He ran for the upper house in 2013 on his first try and pulled over 70 percent of the vote, which is not a fluke, that's a mandate. A Finance Ministry lifer turned elected senator with a PhD he finished in his late forties: whatever you think of LDP politics, the résumé is genuinely hard to argue with.

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Hirofumi Takinami is a Japanese politician born on October 20, 1971, in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo. He maintains an official website and is active on social media platforms including Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

Name (English)

Hirofumi Takinami

Name (Japanese)

滝波宏文

Reading

たきなみ ひろふみ

Born

October 20, 1971 (age 55)

Origin

Fukui Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Boar

University

University of Tokyo

• Official sitehttps://www.takinami.info/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hirofumitakinami/
• Xhttps://x.com/HiroTakinami
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BB%9D%E6%B3%A2%E5%AE%8F%E6%96%87
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17160669

Tags

• From Fukui Prefecture
• Politician

Last updated

October 20, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.