Takuya is a senior research fellow and lecturer in political science at the Hochschule für Politik at the Technical University of Munich. His research is in the fields of comparative public policy and political economy in rich democracies, with particular interests in the state, regulatory politics, and health and social policies. His current work focuses on the politics of policy-making by unelected bodies, such as independent regulatory agencies and expert committees. In his book project, he studies the relations between independent regulatory agencies and democratic politics, with a focus on drug funding policies in Europe and Japan.

He obtained his PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics and has studied law and political science at the University of Tokyo. Before joining HfP, he held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at Sciences Po.