<Professional Career>

- April 1977 : Entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- January 1995: Director, Second West Europe Division, European Affairs Bureau
- August 1996: Director, Legal Affairs Division, Treaties Bureau
- August 1998: Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in India
- January 2001: Minister, Embassy of Japan in the UK
- September 2002: Deputy Director-General, North American Affairs Bureau
- July 2004: Deputy Director-General, Treaties Bureau
- August 2004: Deputy Director-General, International Legal Affairs Bureau
- August 2006: Deputy Director-General, Foreign Policy Bureau
- August 2007: Consul-General of Japan in San Francisco
- August 2010: Director-General, International Legal Affairs Bureau
- September 2012: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands
- July 2013: Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs
- July 2016: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Korea