Professional Employment, The Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo and Sapporo District Courts and the Personnel Bureau of General Secretariat of the Supreme Court, 1971-1984. Judicial Research Official of the Supreme Court, 1984. Counsellor of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau, 1989. Judge of the Tokyo High Court, 1994-1995. Division-head Judge of the Tokyo District Court and the Deputy Chief Judge of the Tokyo District Court (in charge of civil divisions), 1995-2002. Chief Judge of the Shizuoka District Court, 2002-2003. Division-head Judge of the Tokyo High Court, 2003-2007. Chief Judge of the Tokyo Family Court, 2007-2009. President of the Nagoya High Court (age-limit retirement: December 31, 2010), 2009-2010. Specially Appointed Professor, Meiji University, Graduate School of Law, April 2011-Present.