Takiguchi Takashi

Sports journalist. Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1967. After joining the Mainichi Shimbun in 1990, covered four Olympic Games. Became a freelance writer and lecturer at Rikkyō University in 2025. Recipient of the 2014 Mizuno Sportswriter Award for his long-running series on early Japanese Olympic competitor Ōshima Kenkichi. Works include Jōhō bakuhatsu jidai no supōtsu media: Hōdō no rekishi kara toku miraizō (The Sports Media in an Age of Information Overflow: A Vision of the Future Based on Reporting History).