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He had received Ph.D from Faculty of Engineering of the University of Tokyo and joined in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) in 1987. He started his career as Chief Engineer for rendezvous and docking system of Engineering Satellite-VII (ETS-VII) and H-IIB Transfer Vehicle (HTV) in Kamakura Works. His main field is Navigation, Guidance and Control of spacecraft. Since then, he related various space programs including Earth Observation Satellite Programs. From 2008, he was appointed General Manager of Office for Space Utilization and Strategy Planning at MELCO Head Quarters. He was responsible for extending utilization of space systems in various fields such as Navigation, Earth Observation and Communication. He is currently Executive Chief Engineer of Electronic Systems Group of MELCO and promoting utilization of high precision navigation using Quasi Zenith Satellite (QZS) for various application fields such as automatic driving, IT agriculture, personal navigation and etc.
He is corresponding member of International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and member of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on Aerospace.

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