(Real Name: ARAI Rui)
Born:
February 26, 1971, Oita Prefecture
Education:
1993 University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law
1997 Georgetown University, Master of Science in
Foreign Service
Career:
1993 joined Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
First Secretary, Delegation of Japan to the Conference
on Disarmament in Geneva
Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in Korea
2011 Deputy Secretary General, Japan-China-Korea
Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat in Seoul
2014 Director, Gender Mainstreaming Division, Foreign
Policy Bureau, MOFA
2016 elected to the House of Councillors
(as of July 30,2020)