[1] Taniguchi started out in street racing with his AE86 when he was with his team 'After-Fire' and competed in the various drift competitions like Video Option's Ikaten, Battle Magazine's BM-Cup, and CarBoy's DoriCon GP.

In the inaugural season of D1 Grand Prix in 2001, Taniguchi won the championship with his team After-Fire sponsored by HKS, after winning two of the five rounds.

In 2016 he purchased a Nissan 180SX as a drift practice car with suspension and arm parts produced and being set up by fellow D1GP champion Masato Kawabata.

He regularly appeared in Formula Drift Japan event as Japanese commentator alongside announcer Tom Saeba and sometimes as judge.

Taniguchi has been heavily involved in the JGTC / Super GT racing series since 2002, winning the championship 3 times in the GT300 class.

He later went on to win a record six back-to-back class championship titles racing for the Petronas Syntium team from 2008 to 2013, driving the BMW Z4 M Coupé and Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3.

[4] He return for one off appearance with D'Station Racing for final round of 2023 season driving Aston Martin Vantage GT8R in ST-1 class.

Taniguchi beat the nearest competitor by three seconds, and set the day's fastest ¼ mile, 0-60, and road course times.

In 2006, Taniguchi drove the HKS Speed Source RX-8 in the Grand Am Cup race at Arizona's Phoenix International Raceway and set the fasted qualifying time for any Mazda RX-8.

[4][7] He won the A5 petrol class and second overall in 2010 Dubai 24 Hour with his teammates Fariqe Hairuman, Masataka Yanagida, and Johannes Stuck in the Petronas Syntium Team BMW Z4 M Coupé.

[8] He made his World Touring Car Championship debut with Proteam Motorsport at the 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, at the Okayama International Circuit.