He graduated from Waseda University's school of political science and economics, and joined the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in 1959 as a reporter.

[1] He worked for the Asahi Shimbun's political news department, Okinawa bureau, and Washington bureau, before being appointed as managing editor of the Asahi Journal magazine.

He left TBS's News 23 in May 2007 after announcing on air that he was suffering from cancer.

[1] He died of lung cancer on 7 November 2008 at a hospital in Tokyo, aged 73.

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