He attended Shirogane Elementary School[1] and
Azabu Junior and Senior High School,[1] in Tokyo, and graduated from the Department of Law at the
University of Tokyo in 1979. He claims to have graduated with "the top results ever achieved" in his department. He received an LL.M. from
UCLA Law School in 1984.
During the sale of the
Rockefeller Center in
New York City, he acted as a lawyer for the
Rockefeller family (however, he was not the head of the legal team). As a result of his efforts, he says,
Mitsubishi Estate paid approximately 1.5 times the amount it planned for the land, and he received a large sum in return (the precise amount was not revealed).
Cocorico million kazoku (Cocorico's Family of a Million)
Sekai maru mie! Terebi tokusōbu (The World Uncovered! TV's Special Investigators)
Takeshi/Itsumi no Heisei kyōiku iinkai (Takeshi and Itsumi's Board of Modern Education)
Books
"Wall gai ban - sekai to nihon no yomikata - kongo jūnenkan naniga okiru ka" (Wall Street edition: Reading Japan and the world - What will happen in ten years' time?) - published by PHP Kenkyūjo
"America ni ashita wa aru no ka" (Is there a tomorrow for America?) - published by PHP Kenkyūjo
He has written many essays and commentaries for economics texts from the
Nihon Keizai Shimbun and books related to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
Computer Data Base Protection - The Impact of Japanese Legislative Developments on United States and Japanese Copyright Laws (in English)