I am a double graduate and obtained undergraduate degrees from the Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Letters, and the Department of Forest Science, Faculty of Agriculture, the University of Tokyo. I completed the postgraduate course in Forest Science at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo, and was conferred PhD degree for the thesis titled 窶彜tructure and expression of the pine (Pinus thunbergii Parl.) chlorophyll a/b-binding protein gene窶.
In 1990, I was offered an assistant professor position in the Laboratory of Silviculture, Department of Forest Science of the Faculty of Agriculture, the University of Tokyo, and moved to the Asian Natural Environmental Science Center as an associate professor in 1995, and was promoted to professor in 2004.
In my laboratory, we aim at understanding the tolerance mechanisms of trees in response to environmental stress (nutrient deficiency, metal toxicity, high temperature, and strong light), and at establishing techniques for environmental reforestation of degraded lands in the tropics.