Education and Professional Background

1967

Graduated from Aichi Prefectural Asahigaoka Senior High School

1973

Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, Private Law Course and Public Law Course

1973

Joined the Ministry of the Environment, Japan

2008

Retired from the Ministry of the Environment, Japan

2008

Served as Special Adviser, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (till March 2012, Senior Fellow from April 2012)

2009

Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University, School of International Politics, Economics and Communication (Environmental Policy) (till March 2016)

2009

Began serving as Nagoya City Management Adviser

2011

Began serving as Aichi Prefecture Policy Adviser

2014

Joined Waseda Legal Commons, LPC

2016

Served as Special Adviser, Tokyo Metropolitan City (till September 2017)

2017

Began serving as Secretary-General of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly’s Political Affairs Research Committee, Tomin First no Kai

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