Director of Solomon Space Station. 50-years-old.
Involved in the establishment of the SSA. Envisions a future where space travel can be enjoyed easily.

Scouting Yukari as an astronaut was a partly coincidental decision, but after that he makes the most of the advertising effect that their youth and looks bring. In the original text, he is described as wearing silver-rimmed glasses and having progressively thinning hair, but in the new edition and anime, he is not wearing glasses and is not thinning.