Practice Areas

• Crisis Management
• Internal Investigations
• White Collar Crime & Other Criminal Defense

Background

• 1984/3

  LL.B., University of Tokyo

• 1986/4

  Legal Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan

• 1986/4-2023/7

  Public Prosecutor

• 1989/6

  LL.M., Harvard Law School

• 2001/12

  Counsellor, Office for Promotion of Justice System Reform

• 2005/1

  Counsellor, Criminal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice

• 2007/7

  Director, Legislative Affairs Division, Criminal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice

• 2010/1

  Director, General Affairs Division, Criminal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice

• 2011/4

  Director, Personnel Division, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Justice

• 2013/7

  Chief Prosecutor, Matsue District Public Prosecutors Office

• 2015/12

  Assistant Vice-Minister of Justice

• 2016/9

  Deputy Vice-Minister of Justice

• 2018/1

  Director-General, Criminal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice

• 2019/1

  Vice-Minister of Justice

• 2021/9

  Superintending Prosecutor, Sendai High Public Prosecutors Office

Memberships