Takasaki is famous as the hometown of the Daruma doll, theoretically representing the Buddhist sage Bodhidharma and in modern practice a symbol of good luck.

[2] Per Japanese census data,[5] the population of Takasaki has recently plateaued after a long period of growth.

Following the war, it continued to expand its borders by annexing the village of Rokugo on April 1, 1951, Shintakao and Nakamura as well as Yawata and Toyooka from Ushi District on January 20, 1955.

In September 1987, five-year-old Yoshiaki Ogiwara, the son of a local firefighter, was abducted and subsequently murdered in Takasaki.

On October 1, 2006, the town of Haruna (from Gunma District) was merged into the expanded city of Takasaki.

Takasaki has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 38 members.

Companies headquartered in Takasaki include CUSCO Japan, an automotive parts manufacturer, and Yamada Denki, a home appliance retailer.

Takasaki developed its own unique English curriculum and implemented it at all of the primary and middle schools in the city.

In order to achieve this, Mayor Tomioka pushed to increase the number of Assistant Language Teachers in the city.

[11] In 2014, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (also abbreviated as MEXT) acknowledged the need to increase students' English ability in order to succeed globally.

[13][12] In 2019, MEXT did a survey to see how both primary and middle school students were performing in all subjects at the prefectural level.

[15] As such, dishes that utiliize wheat flour play in important role in local food culture.