1959 born in Sapporo, Japan 1984 got the master degree of engineering in Hokkaido University in Japan 1984 joined in the Ministry of international trade and industry (MITI) 1996 the visiting scholar at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 1998 Director, Multimedia policy office, METI 1999 Director, JETRO Dusseldorf center, Germany 2002 Present job