Appointed Yomiuri Shimbun Group President as Swiss Ambassador on August 30 at 20:44
Mr. Kojiro Shiraishi, the president of the Yomiuri Shimbun Group and the president of the Japan Newspaper Association, will be appointed as the new Swiss ambassador.
Mr. Shiraishi, who will become the new Swiss ambassador, is 72 years old.
He joined the Yomiuri Shimbun in 1969, and after assuming the post of Deputy Director of the Political Department and Editor-in-Chief of the Yomiuri Shimbun, he took office as the president of the Yomiuri Shimbun Group in 2016.
Until June, I was also the president of the Japan Newspaper Association.
In addition, Mr. Hiroki Tokunaga, counselor of the Belarusian embassy will be appointed as the first ambassador of the Belarusian embassy newly established in January.
▽ For the Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan, Mr. Shigeki Maeda, Director of JETRO and Japan External Trade Organization,
▽ For Ambassador of Zambia, Ryuta Mizuuchi, who served as the German minister,
▽ Mr. Naoki Ito, Consul General of Chicago in the United States, will be appointed as Ambassadors of Bangladesh.
further,
▽ ASEAN = Ambassador of the Southeast Asian Union Japanese Government, Mr. Akira Chiba, Consul General of Los Angeles,
▽ Danish Ambassador Manabu Miyagawa who served as the Council of International Cultural Exchange,
▽ Ambassador of Micronesia will be appointed by Ambassador Zambia, Mr. Hidenobu Sidejima.
▽ The Ambassador of Seychelles and Somalia is concurrently appointed by Kenichi Ambassador Ryoichi Horie.
These personnel will be issued on the 30th and the 2nd of next month.
"All personnel are in the right place"
In response to a press conference after the cabinet meeting, the secretary of the secretary asked the purpose of HR recruiting media representatives as ambassadors. Said.