Career
Minister, Japan's Mission to United Nations, New York City, 1978-1979; special emissary, United Nations Japanese representative, Comm. on Human Rights, United Nations, 1982-1985; former chair, Executive Board, United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund former director Institute Foreign Rels., Sophia U., Tokyo dean faculty of foreign studies, Sophia U., Tokyo high commissioner, United Nations High Common for Refugees, Geneva, since 1991.
