Born on 3 January 1982 in Hokkaido. Gained experience in accounting and finance at his family’s coal mining business—the industry leader—from his secondary school years. Graduated from the Faculty of International Politics and Economics at Aoyama Gakuin University and completed a postgraduate programme at the Graduate School of International Information and Communication Studies at Waseda University. After graduating from university, he was sent to Africa on a United Nations mission. Whilst working on the front line of conflict resolution, he gained experience in information warfare and covert operations.
After working at DeNA and Accenture, he took Minna no Wedding public in three and a half years, achieving a market capitalisation of 20 billion yen. He raised 700 million yen in Japan’s first-ever funding round in the ‘play’ sector and launched Asobi Media PLAYLIFE, which recorded 4 million monthly users. Following a 98 per cent drop in turnover due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he pivoted towards ‘play’ combined with organisational transformation, securing 1,000 listed companies as clients and growing operating profit 300-fold.