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, Yotoriyama 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 and Director of Ibaraki Prefectural Police, where he supervised numerous criminal investigations, international operations and countermeasures against crimes.
After leaving the NPA, Yotoriyama 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 transnational organized fraud/scams, Japanese organized crimes, money laundering, international extradition and mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. He speaks on these topics at universities in Japan and international conferences.
Yotoriyama 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).