سعادة السفير ياماموتو جوتا

Date of Birth: 3 December, 1959

LL.B., Tokyo University

LL.M., University of Cambridge

Career positions

1982- Entered into the Foreign Service

1983- Attaché, Embassy of Japan in the UK

1985- UN Policy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)

1988- Treaties Division, MOFA

1991- First Secretary, Permanent Mission to the United Nations

1994- International Convention Division, MOFA

1994- Deputy Director, Treaties Division, MOFA

1995- First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in Russia

1997- Deputy Director, First North American Division, MOFA

1998- Councilor, Cabinet Legislation Bureau

2002- Professor, Policy Management Department, Keio University

2004- Director, Consular Policy Division, MOFA

2007- Cabinet Councilor, Cabinet Secretariat

2009- Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan in Pakistan

2011- Consul-General of Japan in Houston

2013- Director General for International Affairs, Ministry of Defense

2015- Director-General, International Peace Cooperation Headquarters, Cabinet Office / Cabinet Councillor (National Security Secretariat)

2016- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Finland

2019- Representative of the Government of Japan / Ambassador in charge of Kansai

2021- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Oman

Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland

Married, with one daughter