Toshiaki Morioka

Education:

M.Sc. - Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea): March 1996 - February 1999, MSc degree in politics/education.

Thesis: Changes in the relations between North Korea's Workers' Party and Japan's Communist Party and Socialist Party, from 1948 to 1989 (1999, in Korean)

Specialization: Dongguk University (Kyungjyu, Korea): March 1993 - February 1994, as a Exchange student of Ryukoku University.

B.Sc. - Ryukoku University (Kyoto, Japan): April 1989 - March 1993, BA degree in Philosophy.

Thesis: A study on philosophical principle of the Juche ideology (1993, in Japanese)

Employment history:

April 2010 - March 2011 : teaching Korean at Seven Culture Club, Musashisakai School (Tokyo, Japan)

* I was seriously injured by the traffic accident on my business trip to Jilin province as my duty of Japanese Embassy. I was under rehabilitation from April 2007 to March 2010.

April 2004 - April 2007 : Embassy of Japan in Beijing, China, Diplomat (Worked as a specialist of North Korean Politics, the duties included translation and interpretation, intelligence, and research Sino-North Korea relations.)

June 2003 – October 2003 : Interpret