is a Japanese professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Tokyo[1] who has published almost 1,000 articles, which have appeared in such journals as the Chemical Physics and Optics Letters, along with Physical Review B and many others. His most cited paper is Low-temperature synthesis of high-purity single-walled carbon nanotubes from alcohol which have over 9840 citations as of 2014.[2] He is currently the president of the Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Graphene Research Society.