He was raised in Chiba prefecture just outside Tokyo. Having studied architecture and anthropology at University, he began his career in 2006. He participated at the World Press Photo Joop swart masterclass in Amsterdam in 2012. Early 2013, Hajime was awarded the 2nd prize at the Vattenfall Photo Award in Berlin. In 2014 he won the 3rd prize of Kassel photobook dummy award in Germany, and the book “ Scrapbook” was published in 2015. In recent, he published 2 handmade books "In search of lost memories" and "Snowflakes Dog Man". Also, his works have been widely featured in a number of magazines including TIME, The New York Times, Le Monde magazine and Newsweek Japan. Since 2016, he has been based in Germany for his long-term project. His work centres around the examination of his own thoughts and emotions in relationship to the people and landscapes in his photography.