Takahiro Anno (Japanese: 安野 貴博, Hepburn: Anno Takahiro; born 1 December 1990) is a Japanese politician, writer, AI engineer and scientist who serves in the House of Councillors and founded Team Mirai. He was elected as Team Mirai's only seat in the 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election. Anno graduated from the University of Tokyo School of Engineering with a focus on Artificial Intelligence in 2014. He joined the Boston Consulting Group after, and would go on to found several companies focusing on the use of AI for business, such as BEDORE and MNTSQ. He also became an aspiring science fiction writer, winning awards for several of his short stories, such as "Continuous Integration". He was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan in 2022 after his novel "Circuit Switcher" was published. Anno began his political activities when he ran for Governor of Tokyo in 2024. He placed fifth, and then founded Team Mirai to contest the 2025 Councillor elections. The party won a seat with an estimated 2.3% of the vote, and met the legal requirement to become a political party.
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