Japanese surgeon who served as FLIGHT Engineer to the International Space Station on Expedition 28/29.
He studied Medicine at the University of Tokyo and graduated in 1989.
He was an aquanaut for the NEEMO 13 project in the Aquarius underwater laboratory.
He married and had two children.
He completed FLIGHT Engineer training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, named for the first man in space.
