Born in 1948 in Yatomi-cho, near Nagoya-city, Japan.
1972: Graduated from Department of Chemistry, Shizuoka University
1977: Graduated from Graduate School, Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo: Doctor of Science
1977-1979: Post Doctoral Fellow at Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Canada
1979-1981: Post Doctoral Fellow at Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland
1981-1983: The University of Tokyo
1983-1994: Associate Professor at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan
1995- : Professor at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan
2003-2005: The Dean of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences