Hatsuhisa Takashima, newly appointed as the first press secretary for the Foreign Ministry to come out of the private sector, vowed Friday to be a new breed of government spokesman.
Takashima, 61, a former NHK journalist, said at his first news conference he wants to break out of the traditional bureaucratic mold of reading out prepared statements and answering questions in accordance with these statements.
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