DD2030 DIGITAL DEMOCRACY SUMMIT 2026
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Takahiro Anno

Takahiro Anno

Member of the House of Councillors, Leader of Team Mirai, AI Engineer, and Science Fiction Writer.

Member of the House of Councillors, Leader of Team Mirai, AI Engineer, and Science Fiction Writer.

He graduated from Kaisei High School and the University of Tokyo, where he studied under Professor Yutaka Matsuo, chair of the Cabinet Office’s AI Strategy Council.

After working at the Boston Consulting Group, Anno founded BEDORE Inc. (now PKSHA Communication), an AI chatbot company, and later co-founded MNTSQ, Ltd., a legal technology startup. Both ventures focused on transforming social systems through digital technology.

In 2024, he ran for Governor of Tokyo on a platform centered on digital democracy, receiving over 150,000 votes. In May 2025, he founded the political party Team Mirai. He was elected to the House of Councillors (proportional representation) in the same year, achieving the threshold for official party status with over 2% of the national vote.

Anno continues to advance initiatives that connect policy with the realities on the ground, leveraging AI-driven civic participation and fostering two-way, interactive communication between citizens and politics.