He received his medical degree from Shimane Medical University and subsequently joined their Department of Neurology. In the next two years, he trained as an intern in internal medicine at Shimane Medical University Hospital. He then went on to obtain his PhD in Medical Science from Shimane Medical University. In 2002, he was appointed Assistant Professor. After serving a year as a visiting research fellow at Wales University Bangor in their Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, he was appointed to his current position as Associate Professor in 2007.