1981 matriculated in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Tsukuba, studying Plastic Art and Mixed Media; began producing installation art that combined pre-cinema animation techniques (the phenakistoscope and the zoetrope) with modern methods of image capture and creation (photocopiers, video cameras and computer graphics) and of stroboscopic lighting (video monitors, video projectors and LEDs); has designed four computer games; involved with production of inovative 1990s children's series for Fuji TV.