| November 2003 | Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs
Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy
Minister of State for Personal Information Protection
In charge of Information Technology |
| September 2003 | Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs
Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy
Minister of State for Personal Information Protection
In charge of Information Technology |
| October 2 2002 | Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| February 2002 | Head of the sub-committee on reform of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, LDP |
| January 2002 | Acting Director, Foreign Affairs Division, LDP |
| October 1999 | State Secretary for International Trade and Industry
(Second Reshuffled Obuchi Cabinet) |
| August 1998 | Deputy Secretary General, LDP |
| October 1997 | Director, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives |
| July 1993 | Elected for the first time to the House of Representatives in the 40th general election (elected three times consecutively) |
| 1983 | Completed Master's degree at John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
Political Journalist of the Yomiuri Shimbun |
| April 1978 | Joined Marubeni Corporation |
