| 1963 | Born
in Saitama, Japan |
| March 1987 | Received
B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Kyushu University. |
| March
1989 | Received M.S. in Applied Mechanics from
Kyushu University. |
| April
1989 to May 1992 | Worked for Japan Airlines (JAL) |
| June 1992 | Joined
NASDA |
| August 1992 | Attended
the 1992 NASA astronaut candidate training course. |
| August
1993 | Qualified as a Mission Specialist (MS). |
| January 1996 | Flew
on STS-72 as a MS (Japanese Space Flyer Unit retrieval. NASA OAST FLYER deployment
and retrieval) |
| June 1997 | Assigned
as a MS on STS-92. |
