Shigeru Yotoriyama is a retired Senior Commissioner of the National Police Agency (NPA) of Japan. He joined the NPA in 1986 and retired from the Agency in 2021 after 35 challenging and rewarding years of service. During the period, he held a number of senior positions, including Director General of NPA’s Tohoku Regional Police Bureau, Director of the NPA’s Second Investigative Division (Fraud/Scams, White-Collar Crime and Public Corruption), Director of the Fourth Investigative Division (Japanese Organized Crimes) of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Director of Ibaraki Prefectural Police, where he supervised numerous criminal investigations, international operations and countermeasures against crimes.

After leaving the NPA, he got invited to Waseda Institute of the Policy of Social Safety, Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) as Research Fellow, where he has been doing research, focusing primarily on countermeasures against transnational organized crimes including fraud/scams, money laundering and Japanese organized crimes.

He is a graduate of Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo ’86 (LL.B.) and John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University ’92 (Master in Public Administration).