Born:
August 3, 1957, Kanagawa Prefecture
Education:
1982 Yokohama National University, Faculty of Education
Career:
1982 teacher, Elementary School
1999 Acting Secretary General, Kanagawa Teachers' Union
2000 Secretary General, Yokohama Teachers' Union
Secretary General, Ordinance-designated
City-Teachers' Union Council
2003 Chairman, Education Policy Committee of the Japan
Teachers' Union
2004 first elected to the House of Councillors
(Major posts in the House of Councillors)
2010 Chairman, Committee on General Affairs
2017 Chairman, Special Committee on Reconstruction after
the Great East Japan Earthquake
2018 Chairman, Committee on Environment
(Major post in the Government)
2012 Parliamentary Secretary of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology
(as of July 30,2020)