Originally from Sendai, Japan, Takahashi came to the United States to study photojournalism at the Maine Photo Workshops, the New England School of Photography in Boston and the Eddie Adams Workshop in New York.
Takahashi has covered major domestic and international events, such as the struggle of Liberians caught up in 14 years of civil war in 2003[REF] and following the poverty rates in Illinois climb by documenting intimate family dynamics [REF].