September 2011 | Minister of Finance (Noda Cabinet) |
January 2011 | Chairman of Diet Affairs Committee, DPJ |
September 2010 | Vice-Minister of Defence (Reshuffled Kan Cabinet) |
June 2010 | Chairman of the Election Strategy Committee, DPJ |
August 2009 | Chairman of the Security Committee, DPJ |
September 2007 | Deputy Chairman of Diet Affairs Committee, DPJ |
August 2006 | Chairman of the Special Committee for the Northern Territorial Issues
in the House of Representatives |
October 1996 | Elected as a Member of the House of Representatives (1st) |
April 1985 | Joined Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) (left in 1993) |