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"I realized this was the chance I had been waiting for."
I was in my third year of elementary school when I first got my hands on a camera. It was my elder brother's, and I used it to shoot anything that caught my eye. Then, when I was in junior high school, I entered a photography contest and won a prize. Naturally, I was delighted. I think this was one of the key events that inspired me to become a photographer.
When it came time for me to enter high school, I chose a school that offered evening classes, and got a job working in a photography studio during the day. I applied myself fully to becoming a skilled photographer, and managed to pick up most of the basic skills during this period. When I eventually entered university, I became interested in socially relevant subjects, and set my sights on becoming a news photographer.
I didn't really become interested in airplanes as a subject until 1970, when an acquaintance told me about a part-time job working as photographer for the public relations department at Japan Airlines. This was around the time that Boeing 747 jumbo jets had just been introduced, and I realized this was the chance I had been waiting for to work on something really big.
At the time there were no professional photographers specializing in aircraft, so I had to teach myself the necessary photographic techniques through a process of trial and error. But the workload wasn't very demanding, and I began to travel around Japan on my own taking photos of aircraft wherever I could. When I had collected quite a few, I took them to a publisher. The result was my first book, JET JET JET, a collection of black-and-white photos of aircraft such as the YS-11, Japan's first domestically manufactured airliner, the DC-8, and other well-known aircraft. That book marked the real beginning of my career as an aircraft photographer.
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