New Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Yasumasa Nagamine said Thursday he strongly believes bilateral relations will improve. After arriving at Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, Nagamine told reporters that the relationship between Japan and South Korea is important not only for the region, but ...
Education is key to Bangladesh flourishing in the future, the country’s ambassador to Japan said as she called for Tokyo and Dhaka to strengthen student exchange programs. “I intend . . . in the coming days to see if we could have good exchange ...
The Foreign Ministry on Friday tapped “China school” diplomat Yutaka Yokoi as Japan’s new ambassador to China, underscoring its resolve to move bilateral relations forward at a time when tensions are building over territorial issues. Yokoi, 61, will replace Ambassador Masato Kitera within 30 ...
The Abe administration is considering appointing Etsuro Honda, a special adviser to the Cabinet, as an ambassador, probably to a European country, according to government sources. The appointment won’t be officially made until next month at the soonest, the sources said Sunday. Honda has ...
North Korea will pursue its “defensive” nuclear program as long as it feels threatened by the United States, its U.N. disarmament envoy in Geneva told Reuters on Thursday. In a rare interview, Ambassador So Se Pyong also denounced the latest joint U.S.-South Korean military ...
Viorel Isticioaia-Budura, the European Union’s ambassador to Japan, expressed hope that the government of Shinzo Abe will keep playing an active role in the international arena, but cautioned that new policies should be adopted “with full transparency and in good communication with neighbors.” The ...
France summoned the Indonesian ambassador on Tuesday to voice its “extreme concern” over a French citizen sentenced to death on drug charges in Indonesia. “The minister expressed France’s firm opposition to the death penalty in all locations and all circumstances,” the office of Foreign ...
Newly appointed Spanish Ambassador Gonzalo de Benito Secades said Thursday he hopes to enhance existing partnerships between Spain and Japan and build new ones. “We can contribute by putting together the different knowledge our two countries have,” de Benito said. De Benito became Ambassador ...
The Canadian sergeant-at-arms hailed as a hero for killing the gunman who stormed Canada’s Parliament last year will become the country’s ambassador to Ireland, the prime minister announced Thursday. Kevin Vickers, an Irish-Canadian, has been feted by world leaders ever since the Oct. 22 ...
South Korea’s new ambassador to Japan, Yoo Heung-soo, is optimistic about improving diplomatic relations with Japan and said he was looking forward to using his contacts to patch up ties when he takes his post over the weekend. “As the Korean saying goes, ‘Land ...
Bruce Miller, Australia’s ambassador to Japan since August 2011, has been interested in Japan since he was a boy of 11. At an early age, Miller said, his father, though an accountant who rarely traveled abroad, advised him to learn an Asian language instead ...
Hisham El-Zimaity, the Egyptian ambassador to Japan since 2011, expressed hope in changing Japanese people’s “negative” view of his country into a much more “forthcoming” one, now that Egypt is striving to restore economic and social stability following the recent turmoil. Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, the ...
