Takano Hideyuki is a Japanese nonfiction writer. A former member of the Waseda University Exploration Club, he has published many books about remote parts of the world, with the motto “go where no one goes, do what no one does, and write what no one writes.”
In 1988 he searched for Mokele-mbembe at Lake Tele in the Congo with fellow club members, and made his debut as a writer with his account of the expedition, Genju Mbembe wo Oe (Chasing the Phantom Beast Mbembe).
