Satoru Taguchi earned his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Fisheries Science, Hokkaido University in 1973. He joined the Soka University, Tokyo as a full professor of biological oceanographer in 1995. Taguchi received the annual award from the Oceanographic Society of Japan in 2006 based on his life-time achievement on the allometry of plankton. He has published more than 150 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and books and serves on several national scientific committees, for example, the National Committee for the Observation and Research of the Ozone Layer.