| 2003 | Minister of the Environment |
| 2000 | Re-elected to the House of Representatives from Hyogo Prefecture's Sixth District.
Vice-Chair, New Conservative Party Policy Planning Committee.
Member, Standing Committee on Health and Welfare of the House of Representatives.
Member, Standing Committee on Finance of the House of Representatives. |
| 1999 | State Secretary for the Economic Planning Chair of the Liberal Party.
Member, Committee on Public Relations of the Liberal Party. |
| 1998 | Director, Standing Committee on Finance of the House of Representatives.
Member, Standing Committee on Trade and Industry of the House of Representatives.
Founding Member of the Liberal Party. |
| 1997 | Chair, Standing Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives. |
| 1996 | Re-elected to the House of Representatives from Hyogo
Prefecture's Sixth District.
Director, Public Relations Bureau of the New Frontier Party. |
| 1995 | Assistant to the Secretary General of the New Frontier Party. |
| 1994 | Founding Member of the New Frontier Party.
Vice-President of the Japan New Party. |
| 1993 | Elected to the House of Representatives from Hyogo
Prefecture's Second District.
Vice-Minister, Management and Coordination Agency. |
| 1992 | Elected to the House of Councillors from the Japan New Party. |
| 1990 | Secretary General of the Japan-Arab Association |
| 1989 | Anchor, TV Tokyo's Financial and Business Programs "World
Business Satellite" and "Top Business Executives". |
| 1988 | Anchor, TV Tokyo's Financial and Business Programs
"World Business Satellite" and "Top Business Executives". |
| 1979 | Anchor, Nippon TV's Daily Program "Current Issues" |
| 1978 | Interviewer and Coordinator for the Nippon TV Special
"Colonel Qaddafi and Yasser Arafat". |
| 1977 | Interpreter and Translator of Arabic.
Secretary General of the Japan-Arab Association |
