Toshihiko Suzuki — Former Administrative Vice-Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare

1983 — Graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo
1983 — Joined the Ministry of Health and Welfare; assigned to the Personnel Division, Minister’s Secretariat
2012 — Senior Vice-Minister (Parliamentary Secretary), Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (responsible for equal employment, child and family affairs, and measures against declining birthrate)
2014 — Director-General, Social Welfare and War Victims’ Relief Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
2015 — Director-General, Pension Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
2017 — Director-General, Insurance Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; oversaw medical fee schedule revisions
2018 — Administrative Vice-Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
2020 — Retired from public service
2022 — Appointed Vice President, Japanese Red Cross Society

Kenichiro Saito — Attorney at Law

1998 — Graduated from the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
2003 — Completed Legal Training (56th class); appointed as Public Prosecutor
2010 — Visiting Researcher, George Washington University Law School
2011 — Special Investigation Department, Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office; attached to the Office of the Chief Inspector, Defense Inspection Headquarters, Ministry of Defense
2013 — Criminal Affairs Division, Criminal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice
2014 — Vice President, Compliance Division, Citibank Japan
2016 — Partner, Atsumi & Sakai (law firm and foreign law joint enterprise), and other roles
2021 — Founded Shisei Law Office (Bengoshi Hojin Shisei Horitsu Jimusho)

2018 — Advisor to the Cabinet Office (Regional Revitalization Promotion Office / National Strategic Special Zones)
2018 — Member, Examination Committee, Japanese Anti-Aging Medicine Society
2018 — Member, Third-Party Committee investigating the dangerous tackle incident involving a Nihon University American football player