He formerly raced in the Japanese Grand Touring Championship, currently known as Super GT.

He is widely remembered for an incident that occurred at the start of the 1998 race at Fuji in which, following a serious accident that resulted in an outbreak of fire, he rushed over to the stricken car and frantically worked to extinguish the engulfing flames.

Thanks to his heroic efforts the driver, Tetsuya Ota, was able to escape with his life.

In recent years he served as the Clerk of the Course at various events such as Fuji Speedway races and the D1 Grand Prix.

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