 He graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music.He was best known as composer of "Wizardry" music which was ported to NES and SNES console by Ascii at early 1990, "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross" series, "Barefoot Gen", "Ys Symphony", "Symphony Sorcerian" and "Genso Suikoden Ongaku-shu".He died of liver cancer on June 2, 2007 at the age of 58.