H.E. Mr. Hideto Mitamura
Ambassador to New Zealand
Ambassador to the Independant State of Samoa
Date of Birth: 15 November, 1948
Education:
March 1971 Graduated from Hitotsubashi University, Faculty of Commerce
Professional Career:
| April 1971 | Entered Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
July 1987 |
Director, Developing Economies Division, Economic Affairs Bureau |
| August 1987 | Director, Energy Resources Division, Economic Affairs Bureau |
| July 1989 | Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in the United Arab Emirates |
| September 1991 | Special Adviser to the High Commissioner, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva |
| August 1994 | Director, Communications Division |
| August 1996 | Minister, Embassy of Japan in the U.S.A. (Fellow, Harvard University) |
| July 1997 | Minister, Embassy of Japan in Austria |
| August 2000 | Consul-General of Japan at New Orleans |
| September 2002 | Deputy Executive Director, The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO) (New York) |
| July 2004 | Director-General International Affairs Department, Secretariat of the House of Representatives |
| September 2005 | Director General, Research Office on Security, Research Bureau, Secretariat of the House of Representatives |
| July 2007 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Zambia |
| August 2010 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to New Zealand (Presented credentials on 28 October 2010) |