Date of Birth: 3 December, 1959
LL.B., Tokyo University
LL.M., University of Cambridge
Career positions
1982- Entered into the Foreign Service
1983- Attaché, Embassy of Japan in the UK
1985- UN Policy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
1988- Treaties Division, MOFA
1991- First Secretary, Permanent Mission to the United Nations
1994- International Convention Division, MOFA
1994- Deputy Director, Treaties Division, MOFA
1995- First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in Russia
1997- Deputy Director, First North American Division, MOFA
1998- Councilor, Cabinet Legislation Bureau
2002- Professor, Policy Management Department, Keio University
2004- Director, Consular Policy Division, MOFA
2007- Cabinet Councilor, Cabinet Secretariat
2009- Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan in Pakistan
2011- Consul-General of Japan in Houston
2013- Director General for International Affairs, Ministry of Defense
2015- Director-General, International Peace Cooperation Headquarters, Cabinet Office / Cabinet Councillor (National Security Secretariat)
2016- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Finland
2019- Representative of the Government of Japan / Ambassador in charge of Kansai
2021- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Oman
Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland
Married, with one daughter