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 ...
Japan and China should “freeze” their differences over the Senkaku Islands and focus on economic matters to improve strained relations, former Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa said. “Neither of us can compromise on those uninhabited islands even by 1 millimeter,” Niwa said in ...
Philippine Ambassador Manuel Lopez says his nation should bolster maritime cooperation with Japan and the United States as it seeks to deter China’s growing assertiveness at sea. In an interview Friday in Tokyo, Lopez said the Philippines is “not a military power” and is ...
Although it was his childhood dream to become his country’s ambassador to Japan, actually doing so was not an easy task for Abdulaziz Turkistani. “It’s a dream come true,” said the 56-year-old, who became Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Japan in 2009. Turkistani first came ...
Police in Tokyo have arrested 10 people on charges of running an illegal gambling business in a room leased in Shibuya Ward under the name of the Ghanaian ambassador to Japan, it was learned Wednesday. Nine of the 10 suspects — who are all ...
Japan’s ambassador to South Korea has made comments taken as a step forward on the issue of South Korean women who were forced to provide sex for Japanese soldiers before and during World War II, according to a recent report by a South Korean ...
British Ambassador to Japan Tim Hitchens has warned against moves that damage stability in Asia, apparently concerned about tensions between Japan and neighboring nations such as China. The British government “would be worried by actions which heightened regional instability,” Hitchens said in a conference ...
Model Kurara Chibana said she felt devastated when she saw children dying of hunger in Zambia, Tanzania and other impoverished countries. To help tackle the issue, Chibana became the U.N. World Food Program’s ambassador against hunger for Japan in December after having served as ...
Nenad Glisic, charge d’affaires at the Serbian Embassy since September, expressed hope of strengthening his nation’s relations with Japan, whose ties started with diplomatic contacts more than 130 years ago. “Back in 1882, the first formal correspondence between Serbia and Japan was exchanged between ...
