Mr. Imafuku is former Director-General of the Rehabilitation Bureau, Ministry of Justice in Japan. In Japanese bureaucracy, Worked as a probation officer and as professor at the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI). At present,

  •  A volunteer probation officer (hogoshi)
  •  Executive Director of Japan Hogoshi Federation
  •  President of National Association of Offender Rehabilitation Services
  •  President of Japan Federation of Big Brothers and Sisters
  •  A Visiting Professor at Chuo University Law School (Tokyo).