Tomohiko Taniguchi

Tomohiko Taniguchi is one of those rare figures who has genuinely lived on both sides of the information wall — twenty years reporting for Nikkei Business, including a London stint where the Foreign Press Association actually made him their president (the first from east of Suez, which is a great piece of trivia), and then a pivot into government where he ended up as Special Adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the man writing Japan's foreign-policy speeches for nearly a decade. A Tokyo University graduate from Kagawa, he's quietly one of the most internationally plugged-in policy communicators Japan has produced, and his current perch at Keio suits that perfectly. The kind of person whose name you don't know until you realize he was shaping the words behind headlines you absolutely did read.

Tomohiko Taniguchi is a Japanese journalist born on January 1, 1957, in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture. He graduated from the University of Tokyo. Further details of his career and personal life are not publicly disclosed.

Name (English)

Tomohiko Taniguchi

Name (Japanese)

谷口智彦

Reading

たにぐち ともひこ

Born

January 1, 1957 (age 69)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rooster (酉)

Origin

Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

Occupation

Journalist

University

University of Tokyo

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B0%B7%E5%8F%A3%E6%99%BA%E5%BD%A6

Tags

• From Kagawa Prefecture
• Journalist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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