Mr. Araki is the Director, Head of the Financial Database Group and the XBRL Group Financial Data Division, Financial System and Bank Examination Department at the Bank of Japan since June 2013.  Spanning 1992-2013 he served as Chief Representative in the Asahikawa Office, Director of the Risk Assessment Group in the Financial System and Bank Examination Department, as well as the Associate Director in Information Systems services.

Mr. Araki earned his BA in Law at Osaka University in 1983 and his MA in International Developing Economics at Yale Universitey 1989.