After studying at the Department of Mathematics at Sophia University, he studied at the Department of Conducting at Tokyo University of the Arts with Noboru Kaneko, Akio Watanabe, and Kazuo Yamada. For two years from 1970 Japan he worked as an assistant to the Seiji Ozawa as a Philharmonic conducting researcher, and was also taught by Kazuyoshi Akiyama. He then went to Europe to study with Swarovski, Koschler, Ferrara, Celibidache and Delvaux.
In 1975, he won prizes at the Besançon International Conducting Competition, and in the same year, he began conducting activities in earnest, starting with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He has been conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor the Norwegian National Broadcasting Orchestra, and Music Director Chief the former West German Hof Symphony Orchestra. Conductor, French National de Toulouse, Principal Guest Conductor, Tokyo City Philharmonic Principal Guest Conductor, Conductor of the Bangkok Symphony Music Director Chief, He has served as a Music Director of the Nusantara Symphony Orchestra in Jakarta.
For his many years of contribution to music exchanges between Japan and France, he was awarded the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Culture in 2000 and the Order of the Officier in 2008 by the French government. In 2002, he received the ExxonMobil Music Award Encouragement Award. In 2012, he became a "Cultural Exchange Envoy" of the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
Lives and works in Paris.