March 1976 |
Graduated from The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law (LL.B.) |
April 1976 - April 1978 |
The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan |
April 1978 |
Tokyo District Court, Assistant Judge |
July 1980 - July 1981 |
Assistant Judge Overseas Special Research (dispatched to New Jersey, U.S.A.) |
April 1982 |
General Secretariat of the Supreme Court, Administrative Affairs Bureau |
September 1983 |
Ministry of Justice, Civil Affairs Bureau |
February 1988 |
Embassy of Japan in the Netherlands, First Secretary |
March 1991 |
Ministry of Justice, Civil Affairs Bureau |
July 1993 |
Ministry of Justice, Civil Affairs Bureau, Chief of Civil Division 4 |
October 1994 |
Ministry of Justice, Counselor for Civil Affairs |
April 1996 |
Ministry of Justice, Counselor for Civil Affairs and Acting Director of Civil Division 3 |
July 1996 |
Ministry of Justice, Counselor for Civil Affairs |
September 1996 |
Secretary for Minister of Justice |
June 1998 |
Tokyo High Court, Judge |
April 2000 |
Tokyo District Court, Chief Judge of Division |
August 2004 |
Yokohama District Court, Chief Judge of Division |
June 2006 |
Ministry of Justice, Director - General of the Judicial System Department |
January 2008 |
Tokyo High Court, Judge |
October 2008 |
Tokyo District Court, Acting Head Tokyo Summary Court, Judge for Judicial Administrative Affairs |
March 2010 |
Head of Tokushima District Court & Family Court |
September 2011 |
Head of Kyoto District Court |
June 2013 |
Tokyo High Court, Chief Judge of Division |
October 2017 |
Head of Hiroshima High Court |
August 2018 |
Retired |
November 2018 |
Registered as attorney-at-law (The Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association) |
November 2018 |
Momo-o, Matsuo & Namba |