Suzuki was born in Tokyo in 1952 and graduated from the Department of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo in 1975.　After working as a landscape architect for 16 years at the Japan Housing Corporation, he worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo for 4 years, and then retired after 26 years of environmental design at the University of Tsukuba. Since 2009, Suzuki has been researching trees that survived the atomic bomb.