Japanese Ambassador to Kazakstan Kenji Tanaka died early Monday morning from cardiac arrest at a hospital in Almaty, the capital of the central Asian country, the Foreign Ministry said. He was 56.
A native of Gifu Prefecture, Tanaka took his new post in Kazakstan last May after serving in the Japanese consulate in Duesseldorf, Germany.
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