Born in Kadoma, Osaka. He was passionate about his favorite sport, baseball, from elementary school onwards, and developed baseball shoulder in his second year of junior high school. He went to various hospitals and clinics but was unable to recover. He went through a difficult period of treatment. Finally, he found a clinic in Kochi Prefecture, where he made a miraculous recovery and was able to continue playing baseball until high school. This moving experience inspired him to aspire to become a therapist, and he became a physiotherapist. He worked in medicine and rehabilitation at a university hospital for 10 years, and through a connection moved to a local in-home rehabilitation centre, where he has been working for 14 years now. He now works to prevent the need for nursing care in the local area, and provides the necessary rehabilitation for those who have completed rehabilitation.
