[1] "Yoshi", as he is known, began riding as a junior high school student and took up eventing at University.

Yoshi comes from a family of Olympians; his aunt was an international figure skater and is now an Olympic judge and his uncle won a silver medal in swimming at the Rome Olympic Games.

[1] After finishing top in the dressage phase of the individual competition, he was eliminated after the cross-country section.

At the 2017 Badminton Horse Trials he finished in 8th place with The Duke Of Cavan.

[5] In June 2017 he became the first Japanese rider to win a CCI*** competition outside Japan when he won the Bramham Horse Trials, in Yorkshire, England.