Graduated Chiba University School of Medicine, 1975.
Trained at Chiba University under Prof. K Okuda.
Studied at Royal Free 1977-1978. Under Prof. BH Billing and Prof. S Sherlock.
Co-worked with Prof. M Omata.
Studied abroad at Fox Chase Cancer Center ( Dr . J Summers).
Appointed to Lecturer at Chiba University 1994.
Appointed to Prof. of Medicine at Chiba University 2006.
Dean at Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University (2013-2015).
President of Annual Meeting of APASL 2016.
President of Japanese Society of Hepatology 2016.
President of Funabashi Central Hospitalfrom 2016.
Main field of interest: Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, MASH, HCC, Acute Liver Failure.