He dropped out of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music just prior to graduating.
[1] In 1971, he signed to Polydor Records for the release of his debut album, A Portrait of a Young Man.
Since the early 1970s he began to use synthesizers to create numerous albums such as Quark (1980), in particular using the Yamaha CS-01 breath controller technique.
In 1989, he was appointed Professor of Scooter Gakuen University Music School and founded Japan's first synthesizer major.
[citation needed] On November 22, 2010, he died of a pericardial hematoma due to aortic dissection.