Yuji Kato received his Bachelor of Fine Arts, from Tokai University, Yokohama (Shonan), Japan. He had many considerable working experiences at several different companies in the distribution industry, and then started his own independent company as a management consultant. While giving thousands of speeches Japan wide as well as overseas, he acted as a host of a radio program, took the role of a producer on the BSTV serial drama which included 13 episodes and on 8 film works, and gave lectures on business administration as a visiting professor at a key Japanese university. For many years he has organized painting classes as a flower watercolorist, and in 2018 he began in earnest as a painter. In 2021, his solo exhibition was held at Nishiyama Art Museum. His works and philosophy of ‘Spreading the message of peace and harmony through floral paintings’ were highly praised, and he has been selected as the world's first living Japanese artist whose works will be studied as a research project at a prestigious university in New York. At the same time, one of his important works “Seventeen Morning Glories” was donated, by the first living Japanese artist since the foundation of the university. Also, his artwork is scheduled to be exhibited, as a representative of Japanese artists at the World Art Dubai in March 2023.