Team Mirai
Political party in Japan
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Team Mirai (Japanese: チームみらい; lit. 'Team Future') is a political party in Japan founded by AI engineer Takahiro Anno.[5] The party supports E-democracy[4] and has been described as technocratic.[5] The party was established on 8 May 2025, evolving from "Team Anno," which supported his candidacy in the 2024 Tokyo gubernatorial election.[6] The party advocates for "Digital Democracy" and aims to implement technology to ensure "no one is left behind."[4]
Team Mirai チームみらい | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Leader | Takahiro Anno |
| Secretary-General | Satoshi Takayama |
| Founder | Takahiro Anno |
| Founded | 8 May 2025[1] |
| Headquarters | SNUG MINAMI-AZABU 303, 2-8-21 Minami-Azabu, Minato, Tokyo[2] |
| Membership (February 2026) | 2,600[3] |
| Ideology | |
| Slogan | 未来は明るいと信じられる国へ[4] Mirai wa akarui to shinjirareru kuni e ('Toward a country where we can believe the future is bright') |
| Councillors | 1 / 248 |
| Representatives | 11 / 465 |
| Prefectural assembly members | 0 / 2,675 |
| City and town assembly members | 0 / 30,490 |
| Website | |
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In the 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election, the party won its first seat in the Diet. In the subsequent 2026 Japanese general election, it made significant gains, securing 11 seats in the House of Representatives.[7]
History
Origins: 2024 Tokyo Gubernatorial Election
The party traces its roots to "Team Anno," a group of volunteers and engineers who gathered around Takahiro Anno during his independent bid for the 2024 Tokyo gubernatorial election. Anno announced his candidacy on June 6, 2024.[8] Although he finished fifth with 154,638 votes—the highest number ever for a candidate in their 30s—his campaign attracted significant attention for its use of AI and digital strategies.[9]
Formation and 2025 Upper House election
On May 8, 2025, Anno officially established Team Mirai as a political party.[6] In the 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election held in July, the party received 1,517,890 votes (2.6%) in the national proportional representation block. This result secured one seat for Anno and met the legal requirements to be recognized as a national political party under the Political Party Subsidies Act.[10]
Following the election, Anno became a member of the House of Councillors on July 29, 2025.[11] The party established the "Nagata-cho Engineer Team" using party subsidies to develop software for political transparency.[12]
In legislative affairs, the party adopted a "case-by-case" (zezehihi) approach. In October 2025, Anno and Masaaki Taira (LDP) launched a non-partisan study group on AI and Democracy, featuring Audrey Tang as a guest.[13] In December 2025, Team Mirai voted in favor of the supplementary budget proposal alongside the ruling coalition (LDP and Komeito), as well as the Democratic Party for the People (DPP) and Japan Innovation Party, after reaching a policy agreement with the LDP regarding digital transformation (DX) promotion.[14]
2026 general election
In the 2026 Japanese general election held on 8 February 2026, Team Mirai fielded 15 candidates across 8 proportional representation blocks. The party campaigned on a goal of winning 5 seats but exceeded expectations by winning 11 seats, receiving over 3.8 million proportional votes nationwide.[7] Notable elected members included former MP Noboru Usami, who returned to the Diet for the first time in 21 years via the Tokyo PR block.
However, the election was not without controversy. During the campaign period on 3 February, it was revealed that the top candidate on the Kinki PR block list had previously served as a sales manager for "alt Inc.", an AI company whose executives had been arrested for accounting fraud. The party stated it had not been informed of this history. The candidate's nomination was cancelled, and they were removed from the list on 5 February.[15][16]
Consequently, although the party won enough votes for two seats in the Kinki block, it lost those seats to other parties, the Centrist Reform Alliance and Japan Innovation Party. This occurred because the remaining candidates on the list, who were dual-listed in single-member districts, failed to secure the required 10% of the vote to be eligible for proportional reinstatement (sekihairitsu), leaving the list with no eligible candidates to take the seats.[17]
Policies and digital initiatives
Team Mirai advocates for "Digital Democracy" and draws inspiration from the "Plurality" concepts proposed by Audrey Tang and Glen Weyl.[4] A core component of their platform is the "Nagata-cho Engineer Team" (永田町エンジニアチーム), a group funded by political party subsidies to develop software that enhances political transparency and efficiency.[18]
Key projects include:
- Mirai Marumie Political Funds (みらいまる見え政治資金): An open-source tool launched in October 2025 that visualizes political funding flows using Sankey diagrams. It connects with bank accounts and credit cards to provide near real-time transparency.[19]
- Mirai Diet (みらい議会): A web service launched in October 2025 that visualizes Diet deliberations. It uses AI to translate complex bill language into plain Japanese and displays the status of bills.[20]
- AI Fact Checker: An open-source system developed by the party to verify claims on social media. It has also been adopted by Komeito for their own counter-misinformation measures.[21]
Leaders
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| Leader | Takahiro Anno |
| Secretary General | Satoshi Takayama |
List of leaders
| No. | Leader (birth–death) |
Constituency | Took office | Left office | Election results | Prime Minister (term) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Takahiro Anno (b. 1990) |
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National PR | 8 May 2025 | Incumbent | N/A | Ishiba 2024–25 | |
| Takaichi 2025–present | ||||||||
Election results
House of Representatives
| Election | Leader | Constituency | Party list | Seats | Position | Status | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Total | +/- | ||||
| 2026 | Takahiro Anno | 156,853 | 0.28% | 0 / 289 |
3,813,749 | 6.66% | 11 / 176 |
11 / 465 |
New | 6th | Opposition |
House of Councillors
| Election | Leader | Constituency | Party list | Seats | Position | Status | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Election | +/- | Total | +/- | ||||
| 2025 | Takahiro Anno | 956,674 | 1.62 | 0 / 75 |
1,517,890 | 2.6 | 1 / 50 |
1 / 125 |
New | 1 / 248 |
New | 11th | Opposition |