Takeki Shinkawa / 新川丈暉

Kanagawa / UTokyo / Dubai / Startup

From Fujisawa, Kanagawa. Currently enrolled in humanities stream II at the University of Tokyo. I took a leave of absence in spring 2025 and worked at Dubai Research Institute for about a year. I returned to Japan in March 2026 and am now starting a company. I am often around the Shinjuku area.

Full background / Works

What I am working on now

AI product for publishing and media

I am developing an AI product for the publishing and media industry.

UTokyo student share house

I am working with a UTokyo friend from the same hometown to launch a share house in Tokyo.

Memorable books, manga, and films

I liked the Gaku Monogatari series by Makoto Shiina, which I borrowed from my mother.

I also liked Keigo Higashino's Galileo books and works by Atsuya Higashikawa, and I remember reading The Perfect Insider by Hiroshi Mori when I was still in elementary school.

For manga, I have read SLAM DUNK, Black Jack, Space Brothers, NARUTO, DEATH NOTE, Bakuman, Hikaru no Go, and Gaku.

For films, I often end up liking movies with Leonardo DiCaprio, such as Catch Me If You Can and The Wolf of Wall Street, and I also like Interstellar. On the Japanese side, I broadly like Studio Ghibli films.

People I respect

Elon Musk / Peter Thiel / Mark Zuckerberg / Shohei Ohtani / Rui Hachimura / ONE OK ROCK

Countries, cities, and regions I have visited

  • - Indonesia (Bali)
  • - Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, Malacca)
  • - Brunei
  • - South Korea (Seoul)
  • - UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ras Al Khaimah)
  • - Sri Lanka
  • - Philippines (Cebu)
  • - China (Qingdao)
  • - Saudi Arabia (Jeddah)
  • - United States (New York, San Francisco)
  • - Oman (Muscat)

Countries, cities, and regions I want to visit

  • - Central Asia
  • - South America
  • - Eastern Europe including the Balkans
  • - Russia
  • - United States (Austin)
  • - Saudi Arabia (Riyadh)
  • - United Kingdom
  • - Portugal
  • - Spain
  • - China (Shanghai, Beijing)
  • - Hong Kong
  • - Singapore