Tetsuo, one of the earliest adopters of Mind Maps in Japan, first encountered the concept in 1987.

Ever since, he has been using Mind Maps in various fields of his life, including professional architectural design and adult education. Notably, he gained certification as a first-class architect in 1992 by applying Mind Maps to a year of preparation. This experience made him convinced that people of all ages could become brilliant by learning how to learn.
Throughout his architect career until 1999, he used Mind Maps to design various buildings. Tetsuo has many other successful experiences as well, including mastering NLP through Mind Mapping. Based on his own experience, he is currently spending time and effort on teaching how everyone can improve Mental Literacy by learning Mind Maps.

Tetsuo earned a BA in Architectonics from the Department of Science and Engineering of Nihon University in 1980.