Takaki, Professor of Iwate University and Agri-Innovation Center, Morioka, Japan. He graduated at Kumamoto University in 1988, and joined Oita National College of Technology from 1989, Iwate University from 1996. During 2000-2001, he was a visiting researcher of McMaster University, Canada. His research interest is pulsed power technologies including agricultural applications such as promotion of mushroom. He appeared in more than thirty TV programs such as Asa-Ichi, NHK. He is authors of 32 books and 240 academic papers published on many journals. His hobby is mountain climbing including Mont Blanc, 4,807m height.