• Career

2021 - present Deputy Senior Official，TPP Headquarters, Cabinet Secretariat

2020 - 2021 Director-General for Trade Policy, METI

2019 - 2020 Deputy Director-General for Trade Policy, Trade Policy Bureau, METI

2017 - 2019 Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

2016 - 2017 Deputy Director-General for Trade Policy, Trade Policy Bureau, METI

2014 - 2016 Deputy Director-General for Rules and Regulations, Trade Policy Bureau, METI

2014 - 2016 Senior Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)

2011 - 2014 General Manager, Beijing Office, Japan-China Economic Cooperation

2010 - 2011 Director for EPA/FTA Policy, Trade Policy Bureau, METI

2009 - 2010 Councilor for APEC, Trade Policy Bureau, METI

2009 - 2013 Senior Researcher, Policy Alternatives Research Institute, the University of Tokyo

2007 - 2009 Director (Dispute Settlement), Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau, METI

2006 - 2008 Lecturer (part-time), Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo

2006 - 2007 Visiting Professor, the University of Hong Kong

2006 - 2006 Director (Dispute Settlement), Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau, METI

2005 - present Consulting Fellow, RIETI

2003 - 2006 Legal Affairs Officer, Legal Affairs Division, WTO

2000 - 2003 Deputy Director, WTO & International Economic Policy Department, METI

1997 - 2000 First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in the United States

1997 Second Secretary, Embassy of Japan in the United States

1996 - 1997 Deputy Director, Chemical Division and WTO Japan - Film Panel Task Force, MITI

1996 - 1996 Akin, Gump, Strauss , Hauer and Feld, LLP (Washington, DC), International Fellow

1993 - 1994 Deputy Director, General Affairs Division, Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, MITI

1991 - 1993 Assistant Director (Economic Matters), Office of Domestic Affairs, Prime Minister's Office, Tokyo, Japan

1989 - 1991 General Affairs Division, Trade Administration Bureau, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)

• Selected Publications and Papers

Articles
"Extrovert Regionalism" Japan Spotlight, July/August 2007

"Japan Emerges From Its Trade Shell," Far Eastern Economic Review, May 2007.

 
"WTO System: Necessity of Recovering its Credibility and Irresistible Trend toward 'Networked Governance'" (in Japanese), Obei Kenkyu Hokokusho, Sekai Keizai no Yukue [Where is the world economy heading?], Japan Center for Economic Research, January 2004.

 
Others
"Future of Global Governance: Silver lining seen in COP21 Paris Agreement" Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2016, December 25, 2015

 
"Anti-Corruption Campaign and Economic System Reform in China: Their relationship viewed in light of the reform of state-owned enterprises" RIETI Column, August 19, 2014

• Media Expertise

Trade Policy (WTO, FTA(e.g. TPP, RCEP), APEC), Global Governance, CSR, International Political Economy, Chinese Political Economy

• Link

RIETI web page

• e-mail

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