Education 1985 – 1989 Student, Department of Agriculture, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan. 1989 – 1991 Master course student, Department of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. 1994 – 1996 Doctor course student, Department of Lifescience, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Shizuoka, Japan. Employment 1991 – 1994 Researcher, Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Physiology, The Yamanashi Agricultural Research Center, Japan. 1996 – 1999 Research Scientist, Laboratory of Gene Structure 2, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Chiba, Japan. 1999 – 2001 Research Scientist, The First Laboratory for Plant Gene Research (The name of the laboratory was changed.) 2001 – 2006 Senior Research Scientist 2006 – 2008 Head, Laboratory of Plant Genome Informatics, Department of Plant Genome Research 2009 – present Professor, The Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka, Japan.