March 1977

Graduated from Hitotsubashi University

June 1980

Graduated from Oxford University (St. Catherine’s College)

April 1977

Entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA)

January 1990 -
August 1993

First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations in New York

Served as Vice Chairman, Committee on Peacekeeping Operations at UN

Feburary 1994

Director, International Peace Cooperation Division,

United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, (MOFA)

January 1996

Director, Oceania Division, Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, (MOFA)

July 1997 -
August 2000

Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva, in charge of human rights, humanitarian assistance, ILO, WHO, WIPO, ITU

1998-1999

Chairman, Budget Committee and Premises Committee,

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

July 2000 -
August 2003

Minister, Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Thailand, in-charge of political affairs

2002-2003

Permanent Representative of Japan to ESCAP

May 2003 -
October 2005

・Deputy Director General, Global Issues Department, (MOFA)
・Japanese Board Member, The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
・Head of the Delegation of Japan to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and
Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
・Head of the Japanese Delegation to the G8 Lyon Group

October 2005 -
August 2008

・Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna
・Chairman of Central Dublin Group for the drug assistance coordination (2006–2008)

September 2008

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations

Publications

“Peacekeeping cooperation,” Yuhikaku Publishing, Co-author