Mitsuhiro Takemura

Mitsuhiro Takemura is a scholar of media aesthetics, and that meeting of art and technology made me sit up straight for a second. Mitsuhiro Takemura was born in 1954 in Tokyo, came of age right as Japan's postwar economic miracle was starting to crack and get complicated, and somewhere in all that noise he decided his calling was thinking seriously about ideas — not exactly the safe career play. He went through Nihon University and built a career in media aesthetics at a time when Japan's intellectual scene was genuinely wrestling with questions about technology, culture, and identity. His path from Nihon University's art college through Kyoto and the University of Tokyo to a professorship at Sapporo City University shows someone who kept at it for decades, and that earns real respect from me. I want to actually read him.

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Mitsuhiro Takemura (born 1954) is a Japanese scholar of aesthetics and media aesthetics from Tokyo. He graduated from the College of Art at Nihon University in 1976 and completed its graduate program in 1978, and after teaching at Kyoto University of Art and Design and the University of Tokyo, he became a professor in the Faculty of Design at Sapporo City University.

Name (English)

Mitsuhiro Takemura

Name (Japanese)

武邑光裕

Reading

たけむら みつひろ

Born

1954

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Philosopher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Horse

University

Nihon University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6%E9%82%91%E5%85%89%E8%A3%95
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6883231

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Philosopher

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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