Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Takaaki Kojima
Born on February 19, 1947

| April 1971 | Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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| July 1984 | Served as Budget Examiner in charge of postal affairs at the Budget Bureau, Ministry of Finance |
| July 1987 | Director, International Agreements Division, Treaties Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| July 1989 | Counselor, Embassy of Japan in the People's Republic of China |
| July 1992 | Counselor, Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom |
| January 1995 | Minister, Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom |
| April 1995 | Counselor, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (concurrently serving in the Consular Affairs and Migration Division) |
| July 1997 | Senior Counselor, Secretariat, Japan Fair Trade Commission |
| July 1999 | Consul-General of Japan in São Paulo, Federal Republic of Brazil |
| July 2001 | Minister, Embassy of Japan in the United States of America |
| April 2002 | Director-General, Intelligence and Analysis Service, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| July 2004 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the Republic of Singapore |
| September 2007 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the Commonwealth of Australia |
| July 2010 | Ambassador in charge of International Counter-Terrorism Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| October 2011 | Visiting Senior Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Republic of Singapore |
| April 2013 | Advisor, Libera Corporation |
| April 2015 | Adjunct Professor, National University of Singapore (incumbent) |
| June 2015 | Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, J Trust Co., Ltd. (incumbent) |