Born:
September 27, 1959, Kyoto Prefecture
Education:
1983 University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law
1992 New York University School of Law (M.C.J.)
1993 New York University School of Law (LL.M.)
Career:
1983 joined Sumitomo Corporation (trading company)
1993 registered as a lawyer in State of New York
2000 joined the office of a former Member of the
House of Representatives
2003 Secretary to a Member of the House of
Representatives
2004 Counsel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison LLP
2008 part-time lecturer, Nihon University Law School
Project Researcher, University of Tokyo Interfaculty
Initiative in Information Studies
2014 first elected to the House of Councillors
(Major posts in the Government)
2018 Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Land,
Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Cabinet Office
2020 Special Advisor to the Prime Minister
(as of January 27,2021)