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Yusuke was born and grew up surrounded by beautiful nature in Imizu-city, Toyama, Japan. He entered the Dept. of Biochem. & Biophys. at the Univ. of Tokyo to study basic life science, but nonlinear science taught by Prof. M. Sano in the field of Physics was full of new insights into simplicity in complex systems. He thus embarked on an unusual transition toward the world of physics. His current interest is in transport phenomena: directed motions in a gradient of thermodynamic variables. Its focus is to understand the coupling of molecular structure and transport in information-coding DNA and RNA; results might provide a physically plausible scenario for the onset of a hypothetical RNA world as the origin of life. With an eye toward potential application, he simultaneously seeks to build a novel method to manipulate molecules and cells with fewer limitations.