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Biography

Member of the Board
Chairperson of the Nominating Committee
Audit Committee Member

April 1973
Joined Ministry, International Trade and Industry of Japan
July 2002
Director-General for Commerce and Distribution Policy, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (“METI”)
July 2003
Commissioner, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, METI
July 2006
Commissioner, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI
July 2008
Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan
July 2010
Retired from METI
August 2010
Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Japan (until September 2011)
October 2010
Senior Advisor to the Board, Nippon Life Insurance Company (until April 2013)
June 2012
Outside Director, Hitachi, Ltd.
June 2013
President and CEO, Representative Director, Tokyo Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation Co., Ltd.
June 2014
Outside Auditor, ITOCHU Corporation
June 2017
Outside Director, ITOCHU Corporation (until June 2021)
June 2018
Independent Director, Chairman of the Board, Hitachi, Ltd. (until June 2022)
June 2023
Senior Adviser, Tokyo Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation Co., Ltd. (to present)
June 2023
President, Center for Information on Security Trade Control (to present)
June 2023
Outside Director, HAZAMA ANDO CORPORATION (to present)
June 2023
Member of the Board of NEC Corporation (to present)