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可部 哲生 Tetsuo KABE

可部 哲生
可部 哲生

Tetsuo KABE

  • Of Counsel
  • Tokyo

At the Ministry of Finance, I accumulated extensive experience in policy formulation, legislation and treaty revisions, and international negotiations in a wide range of fields, including taxation and financial regulations, and served as Deputy Vice-Minister for Policy Planning and Coordination, Director-General of the Financial Bureau and Commissioner of the National Tax Agency.

Having passed the Bar Examination and the National Examination for Senior Government Officials during my senior year at the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, I joined the Ministry of Finance in 1985. I also graduated from Harvard Law School (LL.M.) in 1988, worked at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and am admitted as an attorney-at-law in New York and certified as a USCPA in Delaware. At the Ministry of Finance, I accumulated extensive experience in policy formulation, legislation and treaty revisions, and international negotiations in a wide range of fields, including taxation and financial regulations, as the District Director of the Tax Office, and while working for the Prime Minister's Office, Securities Bureau, Banking Bureau, Regional Taxation Bureau, Budget Bureau, International Bureau, etc. Then, when I was Counselor at the Embassy of Japan in the United States, I was engaged in diplomatic negotiations regarding the application of SOX laws to Japanese corporations. When I served as Deputy Director-General of the Minister’s Secretariat in charge of in the International Bureau, I was engaged in mutual evaluation of AML/CFT measures at FATF. I also accelerated social security and tax reform, as Deputy Director-General of the Budget Bureau, and policy measures for economic growth, as Deputy Vice-Minister for Policy Planning and Coordination. Further, I was in charge of the JGB market, government-owned-stocks and policy finance, as Director-General of the Financial Bureau, and led tax administration, as Commissioner of the National Tax Agency. After I left the Ministry of Finance in July 2021, I was admitted as an attorney-at-law in Japan in February 2022.

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Education

1988
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law (Visiting Scholar)
1988
Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
1985
The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)

Professional Experience

Member of the Defense Personnel Review Board, Ministry of Defense
Auditor of the International University of Health and Welfare
Outside Director of OAG Consulting Group Co., Ltd.
Visiting Professor of Business Law Center, Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
President of the Foundation for the Advancement of Life & Insurance Around the world (FALIA)
Senior Advisor to the Dai-ichi Life Research Institute
Special Adviser to the Minister of Finance 
Commissioner of the National Tax Agency 
Director-General of the Financial Bureau, Ministry of Finance 
Deputy Vice-Minister for Policy Planning and Coordination 
Deputy Director-General of the Budget Bureau 
Deputy Director-General of the Minister’s Secretariat in charge of the International Bureau 
Director of the Policy Planning and Research Division, Minister’s Secretariat 
Director of the Planning and Administration Division, Budget Bureau 
Director for Budget, Budget Bureau 
Director for Management, Administrative Management Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications 
Counselor, Embassy of Japan in the United States of America 
Director of Office of Balance of Payments and International Capital Markets, Foreign Exchange Markets Division, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance 
Deputy Director for Budget, Budget Bureau 
Deputy Director of the Planning and Administration Division, Budget Bureau 
Director of the Administration and Legal Division, Planning and Administration Department, Regional Taxation Bureau in Osaka 
Deputy Director of the Planning and Administration Division, Banking Bureau 
Attached to the Minister's Secretariat and Cabinet Councilors' Office on Internal Affairs, Cabinet Secretariat 
District Director of the Kishiwada Tax Office 
Secondary Market Division, Securities Bureau, Ministry of Finance 
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York 
Administration and Legal Division, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Finance