2015

The qualifying period for the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games (4 April 2015 – 3 April 2016) began.
He won bronze in the men’s épée individual event at the Asian Championships — his first individual podium at an international competition.
Competing at the World Championships, Grands Prix and World Cups, he won his first men’s épée individual title at the World Cup in Estonia in November — the first time a Japanese fencer had ever won an épée event at world level.
The fencing year closes with the individual events of the All-Japan Fencing Championships. Having challenged again and again with the sole aim of reaching the top, he won the men’s épée individual title for the first time.