Kyoto University (LL.B.)

Entered the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (currently, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

In charge of industrial pollution prevention, macroeconomic forecast, trade and commerce, energy conservation and export control

Secretary, Embassy of Japan in Malaysia

Director, Industrial Property Legislation Office, Patent Office

Director, Commercial and Consumer Credit Office, Industrial Policy Bureau, MITI

Counsellor, the Fourth Department, the Cabinet Legislation Bureau

Director, Textile Products Division, Consumer Goods and Service Industries Bureau, MITI

Director-General, Planning Department, Japan External Trade Organization Headquarters

Director-General, Central Government Reform Legislation Office, the First Department, the Cabinet Legislation Bureau

Successively served as Director of the Fourth, the Second, the Third and the First Department for Cabinet Legislation Bureau

Concurrently worked as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo

Concurrently worked as a visiting professor at Waseda Law School

Deputy Director-General, Cabinet Legislation Bureau

Chief Director-General, Cabinet Legislation Bureau

Justice of the Supreme Court

Retired from the Justice of the Supreme Court