He is a two-time Japanese men's champion, playing lead for the SC Karuizawa team, skipped by Riku Yanagisawa.

In the playoffs, they defeated Yuya Takigahira in the 3 vs. 4 game, before losing to Yusuke Morozumi in the semifinal.

[2] That season, the team played in many tour events, winning the Moosehead Fall Open in Canada, and the Keijinkai Rizing Cup back home in Japan.

This was still good enough to make it to the playoffs, but they lost the semifinal to Canada, and the bronze medal game to the United States.

[3] The team would tour Canada for over three months from August to December, and were based out of Kelowna, British Columbia,[6] where they trained with their coach Bob Ursel.