National Museum of Western Art
For his master's degree at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Takahashi majored in 19th century French Art History, with a particular focus on Eugène Delacroix and Édouard Manet. Takahashi held a position as a Curator at the National Museum of Western Art, Japan from 1980 to 2006. He served as a Visiting Fellow at the museum opening office of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris from 1984 to 1986, dispatched as part of the Overseas Researcher Program of the Ministry of Education, Japan. After acting as Senior Curator and Chief Curator at The National Museum of Western Art, Japan, Takahashi was appointed Director of the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo in 2006. He added the Maurice Joyant Collection, which houses over 250 lithographs and posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The museum's opening exhibition was “Manet and Modern Paris”. Takahashi received the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in October 2010.