Ms. Yoriko Kawaguchi is fellow at Musashino Institute for Global Affairs, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan. She also is Distinguished Fellow of Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research. Prior to this, Ms. Kawaguchi was Professor at Meiji University and the Institute for Global Aff airs, Meiji University from 2013 to 2018; Member of the House of Councilors (Upper House, elected) for the Liberal Democratic Party from 2005 to 2013; Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Japan on foreign affairs from 2004 to 2005; Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2004 and Minister of the Environment from 2000 to 2002. Ms. Kawaguchi was awarded the Order of the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun in May 2017, Star of Jerusalem by Palestinian National Authority in October 2010 and Wilbur Cross Medal by Yale University in October 2008.