Within a year, Takasu underwent facelift, buccal fat removal, phenol peel, upper and lower blepharoplasty, hair transplantation, liposuction, and golden thread implant.
Immediately after the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake, which killed 6,434 people and injured 43,792, Takasu established the Organization of Cosmetic Surgery Volunteers, in cooperation with surgeons from 9 other clinics.
[10][11][12] In August 2011, Dr. Takasu together with his friend Koji Ishida (aged 71) established a Guinness World Record, of most golf holes played by a pair in 12 hours (cart).
He conceded that there was no doubt the Jews were persecuted by the National Socialist German Workers' Party, but claimed that the toll of Auschwitz and the Holocaust victims had been exaggerated by Allies.
[15][16] On November 8, 2017, the Simon Wiesenthal Center announced that the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery had expelled him due to Holocaust and Nanjing Massacre denial.
[18] After the controversial Yasukuni war memorial in Tokyo was vandalised by a protestor, Takasu called for the suspect to be abducted and delivered to the Japanese embassy, and offered a reward of 10 million yen.