Producer Takayo Nagasawa originally hails from Aomori, in Northern Japan. Ms. Nagasawa has been working on "Koko-yakyu: High School Baseball" since 2002. Ms. Nagasawa started her career in the music business, and first came to New York in 1997 to construct and manage a new recording studio for the Japanese company, Oorong-Sha. She soon made the switch to television production, and has many years experience with several Japanese television companies, including Fuji-TV and Kyodo-TV in New York.