Former Secretary-General of the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat (TCS). His latest posts include Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Austria (2010-2013) and Kenya (2007-2010), and Consul-General of Japan in Honolulu (2005-2007). He has also been Director for Abandoned Chemical Weapons Office at the Cabinet Office (2002-2004), and Minister to the Embassy of Japan in China, in charge of cultural affairs (1996-1998). He graduated from Hitotsubashi University Faculty of Law.
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