Kentaro Mizuuchi has been serving as the Deputy Consul General (Consul) at the Consulate General of Japan in Miami since December 2025.

After earning a Master’s degree in Physics (Nuclear Physics), he worked for consulting firms in Tokyo before joining the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in 2002, where he spent approximately three years working in Japan’s development cooperation. He was primarily involved in planning and promoting projects that utilized Information and Communication Technology (ICT), which included a two-year posting at the JICA Jordan Office as a Project Formulation Advisor.

Subsequently, he worked again in the private sector at a consulting firm (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Group), served in the International Affairs Division of the Cabinet Office, and worked as an Economic Cooperation Coordinator at the Embassy of Japan in Ghana, after which he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA). At MOFA, he continued to focus on international cooperation, with overseas postings in Zimbabwe and the Federated States of Micronesia. At the MOFA headquarters in Tokyo, he was engaged in Japan’s bilateral aid and ODA (Official Development Assistance) policies, as well as multilateral cooperation frameworks in the environmental sector.

Immediately prior to his assignment in Miami, he served as the Chargé d’Affaires ad interim at the Embassy of Japan in Sudan, where he was responsible for directing assistance to the war-torn country and promoting international cooperation.