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He edged towards the top of the national scene at the 2011 Japanese Championships, placing second to Naoto Tobe, and cleared two metres and twenty for the first time that season, ending with a best of 2.24 m (7 ft 4 in). As consequence of this performance he was chosen to compete at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships held in Kobe and out did Tobe by having a personal best of 2.24 m (7 ft 4 in) to place fourth. Eto was beaten at national level by Hiromi Takahari at the 2012 Japan Championships and finished down in ninth place at that year's Japanese National Games. Eto and Takahari repeated their placings at the 2013 Japan Championships and he was again behind Takahari at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships, coming seventh. He had a late season resurgence, however, setting a personal best of 2.27 m (7 ft 5  ⁄4  in) to win the National Sports Festival title. This ranked him in the world top fifty in the seasonal rankings for the first time, and the fifth best Asian man.

Born in Mie Prefecture, he competed in the high jump as a teenager and began to make progress at national level in 2008, winning the national junior games and placing in the top three at the national junior championships. The year after he began attending the University of Tsukuba and continued with the sport, placing fifth at the Japan Championships in Athletics and setting a best of 2.19 m (7 ft 2 in) at the Japanese university championships. He gained his first international selection at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, but did not get past the qualifiers or improve upon his best.

Takashi Etō (Japanese: 衛藤 昂 ; born 5 February 1991) is a Japanese track and field athlete who competes in the high jump. His personal best is 2.30 m (7 ft 6  ⁄2  in), set in 2014. He won the gold medal in the event at the Asian Athletics Championships in 2015. He represented Japan at the 2014 Asian Games and was national champion that year.