Outside Director
Akemi Ishiwata
(Aug. 23, 1960)

Apr. 1983

Entered Bristol-Myers Company

Dec. 1985

Entered Kao Corporation (“Kao”), assigned to Kao Life Science Laboratory

Mar. 2003

Product Development Manager, Household Business Division, Kao

Dec. 2005

Section Chief, Consumer Reserch Center, Kao

Mar. 2010

General Manager, Consumer Reserch Center, Kao

Mar. 2015

Executive Officer, Supervisor of Corporate Communications Division, Kao

Jan. 2021

Executive Fellow, Kao

Jan. 2022

Special Mission Fellow, Kao 

Jun. 2022

Director, the Company (present)