Born in October the 30th in 1957, left-handed. Worked for Enix on Dragon Quest 3 and 4 ages ago. Together with Yasuhiro Taguchi he was the inventor of the Shining series at Sega which they both as team Sonic developed until Shining Force 3 Scenario 3. After that game he joined his younger brother Shugo Takahashi's Camelot Software Planning where he is now the head. He is a big fan of progressive rock and jazz, and very sportive, doing golf, drilling, skiing, tennis, judo and caligraphy.