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Hideaki KOBAYASHI
Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the Kingdom of Thailand
| Dec. | 1945 | Born in Nagano Prefecture |
| Aug. | 1967 | Passed Higher Diplomatic Service Examination |
| Mar. | 1968 | Graduated from Second Department (Public Law), Faculty of Law, Tokyo University |
| Apr. | 1968 | Entered Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| Aug. | 1984 | Director, Second Southeast Asia Division, Asian Affairs Bureau |
| Jul. | 1986 | Director, Regional Policy Division, Asian Affairs Bureau |
| Jul. | 1988 | Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in Australia |
| Oct. | 1990 | Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in Poland |
| Jan. | 1992 | Minister, the same Embassy |
| Nov. | 1993 | Deputy Director-General, Minister's Secretariat & Consular and Migration Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| Jan. | 1995 | Assistant Vice-Minister, Minister's Secretariat & Consular and Migration Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| Apr. | 1995 | Deputy Secretary General (External Affairs), Secretariat of the Fair Trade Commission |
| Aug. | 1997 | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Japan in the United States of America |
| Feb. | 2000 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations |
| Apr. | 2001 | Chief of Protocol |
| Oct. | 2002 | Chief Chamberlain to H.I.H. Crown Prince |
| Nov. | 2005 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Thailand |