Hattori studied mechanical engineering and technical illustration[1] at Kagoshima National College of Technology in 1972.
Hattori continued his studies at The Art Students League of New York.
Thinking of Oriental impression, he expressed the impression mixed the cultural background that he could remember with abstractly what kind of thing is the Oriental memory in the foreign country.
Hattori's abstract forms are related to Chinese hieroglyph or the afterimage received from the style of type,[2] and have a nuance that composed those elements and some balances by his sense.
[3] At the time of his death Hattori resided in Tappan, NY, and was a dedicated faculty member at the Art Center of Northern New Jersey, teaching abstract painting and composition.