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| 1974 | Born at Uwajima City in Ehime prefecture |
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| Graduated Sumiyoshi Elementary School, Jo-hoku Junior High School, and Uwajima East High Scool | |
| 1991 | At the second grade of high school, my father (a teacher of biology) moved to the same school. |
| 1992 | My home room became next to my father's office... Oops. |
| 1993 | Entered the University of Tokyo and moved to Tokyo. |
| 1995 | Entered the Department of Physics. |
| 1996 | Joined newly created (at that time) Aihara group, by winning "Jan-ken". In retrospect, this was a big turining point in my life. |
| 1997 | Entered the guraduate school and joined Belle experiment. |
| 1999 | Assembled, tested and commissioned the Silicon Vertex Detector (SVD), wrote the Master's thesis, proceeded to Ph.D course.
In the meantime, got married. Belle expetiment started in June. |
| July 1999 | The first SVD (v1.0) was damaged by radiation from the accelerator, after taking only 1.5 month of collision data (far less than 1 fb-1). Immediately replaced it with a spare (v1.2) during the summer shutdown. |
| 2000 | Replaced the SVD again (v1.4). |
| 2001 | Had one month long 'camp' at University twice (winter and summer) in order to make the discovery of CP violation in the B meson system. Discussion was often made to determine when is the most effective to take short sleep. |
| 2002 | Got Ph.D! In November, unexpected vacuum leak happened at the interaction region. SVD was partially replaced (v1.6). |
| 2003 | Moved to Kyoto University as an assistant professor on Feb. 1 to work on K2K/T2K experiments. First son, Ukyo, was born on Aug. 26, during the construction of the K2K-SciBar detector. |
| 2004 | The data taking of K2K experiment finished in November. Gradually started R&D work for T2K. |
| 2005 | Start the discussion on SciBooNE experiment. Disassembly of SciBar electronics and fiber. |
| 2006 |
Disassemble of SciBar and shipment to FNAL.
Start staying in the US (with family) for SciBooNE experiment from Nov. 21. |
| 2007 |
SciBooNE experiment started in June.
Came back to Japan in December, after establishing the stable operation of SciBooNE. |
| 2008 |
Finished SciBooNE data taking in August.
Start "commuting" every week to Tokai/J-PARC from October for T2K startup. |
| 2009 | T2K commissioning started on Apr. 23, 2009. |