is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party, who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
A native of Kitakyà «shà « and graduate of Hitotsubashi University, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1980, receiving a master's degree from Princeton University while in the ministry. Leaving the ministry in 1994, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996.