Industrial Designer
Board member; Japan design consultant association
professor; Tokyo Zokei University (industrial design & sustainable projects)
president; open house inc.
Jury of Good Design Awards since 1988
Personal History:

Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1949.
Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 1973.
After working for a housing industry and a design office, he has been an independent industrial designer since 1978.
For the first half of his career, he has worked mainly on projects for major Japanese industries, including electric and electronic home appliances, audio equipments, packages, automobiles and other products from various deferent categolies. The latter half of his career has been dedicated more to work for local SMEs as a design consultant. He also started teaching at design schools.
Since early 1990's, he has been collaborating with o2, a worldwide group of environmentally conscious designers.
Besides working on research projects on eco-design, he is always trying to apply the philosophy and the method of "design for sustainability" to his practical daily works..

Liaison (Japan), O2 Global Network