Kazuo NUKAZAWA is the Japanese ambassador to Hungary, Budapest. From 1995 to 1997, Ambassador Nukazawa was the senior managing director of Keidanren, the Japanese Federation of Economic Organizations, and the president of Mutsu-Ogawara Development Inc., where the Japanese National Oil Reserves Base, the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facility, and the Environmental Science and Technology Research Laboratory are located. Ambassador Nukazawa has also taught at Sophia University in Tokyo, and has been teaching at the Institute for Developing Economies in Chiba, Japan, since 1991. Ambassador Nukazawa received a United Nations fellowship on anti-trust policies in North European countries from 1964 to 1965, and was an economic research consultant for the US-Japan Trade Council in Washington, DC, from 1968 to 1971. Ambassador Nukazawa joined Keidanren in 1959 and served as deputy director of the Economic Cooperation Department from 1979 to 1982, the director of the Financial and Fiscal Affairs Department from 1982 to 1985, the director of the International Economic Affairs Department from 1985 to 1988, and from 1988 to 1995 he held the post of managing director in charge of international affairs. Ambassador Nukazawa graduated from Hitotsubashi University with a degree in economics.