He arrived in France in 1966 where he then studied at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Among his teachers were André Jolivet, Henri Dutilleux and Olivier Messiaen.
He was a composition lecturer at the École Normale de Musique in Paris.
Among his best-known students at École Normale were Chien-Hui Hung, Mansoor Hosseini and Malika Kishino.
Taira's works are partially published by Éditions Musicales Transatlantiques.