Born in Kyoto, Hayakari attended Kyoto Yawata High School and later graduated from Doshisha University with a degree in business studies.
He is a professor of engineering department, knowledge engineering course of Doshisha University.
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Served as visiting Professor at the Universities of Oxford, Uppsala, Doshisha (Kyoto), Macquarie and Sydney (Australia), Stellenbosch (South Africa), Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam), University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), and the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome).
Bestor first visited Japan in 1967, when his father received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the University of Tokyo, Rikkyo University, and Doshisha University.