Born 1956 in Tokyo. From 1976 to 1986, worked as editor for contemporary art , architecture, design and urban life at Tokyo trend magazine Popeye and Brutus. Then from 1989 to1992, compiled ArT RANDOM (Kyoto Shoin, US Cronicle Books edition, 1999) , an extended photo-documentation of how people in Tokyo really live. Followed the next five years by a serialized photo-travelogue column in SPA! magazine on strange roadside attractions around Japan, published as Roadside Japan (Aspect, winner of the 23rd Ihei Kimura Photography Award, revised Chikuma pocket book edition, 2000). From autumn 1997 to spring 2001, published Street Design File (Aspect), a new 20-volume series devoted to overlooked treasures of non-professional design from around the world. He continue to explore both Japan and abroad for newer and stranger sights to document.