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In his childhood, Takahiro loved to watch the moon and the planets using his toy astrometric-telescope. When he was a high school student he studied the theory of relativity and longed to become a physicist. Recently he has become interested in the connection between physics and information theory. For example, there is a fundamental relationship between thermodynamics and information, as J. C. Maxwell first pointed out with his gedankenexperiment of “Maxwell’s demon” in the nineteenth century. This demon observes and controls thermodynamic systems at the single-molecule level, which bridges thermodynamics and information about the microscopic world. Due to recent developments in nanotechnology, Maxwell’s gedankenexperiment has become increasingly important in physics. Takahiro’s research aims to find new fundamental principles in the physics of information processing, and to apply them to the design and the control of nanodevices.