File:Tai Having been in a number of famous Japanese rock and metal bands, he was best known for his work with X Japan and with Loudness. While in X Japan , he co-wrote several songs, developed Toshi's "french fries" mohawk hair style, and heavily contributed otherwise toward the band's musical skill and lyrical and stylistic focus.
He left X Japan in due to musical differences and a fight with Yoshiki , and proceeded to play with Loudness , leave Loudness to form his own off-and-on band D. He slowly returned from his Creator Breakdown to play with the soon-to-be-disbanded D. Taiji was and is considered in some circles to be among the world's top rock bass players.
Especially skilled at slapping and tapping, he was credited with teaching the late X Japan and solo guitarist hide his own guitar tapping technique back when they played together.
In , he dissolved D. He had also been a model and jewelry designer for Arizona Freedom, a Japanese rock couture house, and also played with Loudness at the and memorial concerts for Munetaka Higuchi. He had planned for a return to the rock scene with Taiji and Shu Project Unfortunately, he allegedly became belligerent while being imprisoned after an incident a flight to Saipan, and allegedly committed suicide July 17, He is the second member of the original X Japan and the third formation of Loudness each to die.
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