Adjunct fellow at the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA). Former Special Assistant to the Foreign Minister of Japan. Previously, he was Director-General for Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and Chief Negotiator of the Japan European Union Economic Partnership Agreement Negotiations. He also served as Ambassador of Japan to France. Formerly, he was Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Japan’s G8 Foreign Affairs Sous Sherpa, and Ambassador of Japan to Singapore. He received a law degree LL.B from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo and is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration of France (ENA).
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