Takahiro Anno

Takahiro Anno strikes me as a genuinely new kind of public figure. Born in Tokyo in 1990, schooled at Kaisei and the University of Tokyo, he became an AI engineer, a science fiction writer, a founder, and then a member of the House of Councillors through Team Mirai. I am usually wary of people who wear too many hats, but Anno seems to treat technology, storytelling, and politics as one continuous effort to imagine and build a better future. That combination of speculative vision and practical institution-building is rare, and I am quietly optimistic that border-crossers like him are exactly what Japanese public life needs.

Name (English)

Takahiro Anno

Name (Japanese)

安野貴博

Reading

あんの たかひろ

Born

December 1, 1990 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Horse

Origin

Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

science fiction writer / entrepreneur / engineer / politician

High school

Kaisei Junior High School

University

Natural Sciences I, the University of Tokyo

• Official sitehttps://takahiroanno.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/takahiroanno/
• Xhttps://x.com/takahiroanno
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahiro%20Anno
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E9%87%8E%E8%B2%B4%E5%8D%9A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126992672

Tags

• Tokyo
• science fiction writer
• entrepreneur
• engineer

Last updated

2026-06-21

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